As I am specialising in Lighting/LookDev, I knew that I wanted to include a CG integration project in my demo reel. When looking for a concept, I really wanted to find something that would look appealing. Something reminiscent of still life photography. Because of that I focused my research on modern still life photography.
The Assets are from turbosquid and Quixel except for the nutcracker, which I modelled and textured myself. Lighting and LookDev was done in Maya using Arnold as the main renderer.
Compositing Breakdown
Nutcracker LookDev