Editor’s observe: This submit is a part of our weekly Within the NVIDIA Studio collection, which celebrates featured artists, affords artistic ideas and tips, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio know-how improves artistic workflows. 

It’s the season of gratitude: that point of 12 months to present thanks for the individuals and small moments that make life so particular.

This week’s featured Within the NVIDIA Studio artist, Ravissen Carpenen, is serving up a feast of mouthwateringly photorealistic 3D meals renders to the dinner desk.

His delectable time-lapse movies are featured on his YouTube channel, CG Realism — introduced with a aspect of upbeat music and a pinch of fashion.

Carpenen was considered one of a number of contributors to the food-themed Studio Standout video contest, alongside Roger Roque (@rogerroqueid), Nicole Morena (@nicky.blender), Heloise Cart (@isoheell) and Kris Theroin (@kristheorin).

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All About That Baste

Carpenen’s spouse, a pastry chef, impressed his photorealistic, food-centered works.

“My intention, in the future, is to have the ability to create ultra-realistic renders that will likely be utilized in movie and films,” he mentioned.

His initiatives start with on-line analysis and reference gathering, primarily on Pinterest and Behance, which he then compiles into temper boards utilizing the stand-alone picture monitoring program PureRef.

Earlier than any modeling takes place, Carpenen lights the scene — however with out textures.

“That is to inform the story of the art work, as gentle intends to present art work an emotional move, alongside in addition to colour and supplies,” he mentioned.

Carpenen initially sculpts his fashions in ZBrush utilizing customizable brushes to form, texture and paint his digital clay in a real-time atmosphere with immediate suggestions.

He then browses the Quixel Megascans library for fashions that may additional add realism, comparable to garlic cloves and rosemary garnishes for his turkey challenge.

Uncommon-in for Extra

Carpenen makes use of Marmoset Toolbag’s ambient occlusion, curvature, regular and thickness options to bake the ZBrush meshes from high-poly to low-poly fashions as 32-bit textures.

The method saves reminiscence area, minimizing lag time whereas permitting better flexibility within the modeling stage.

Carpenen’s GeForce RTX 3070 GPU-powered system with RTX acceleration immediately optimized his meshes. RTX-accelerated ray tracing and OptiX AI-powered denoising additionally enabled smoother viewport motion.

Baking a Berry Good Pie

As soon as the renders are prepared, Carpenen imports them into Adobe Substance 3D Painter to use customized colours and textures.

There, Carpenen makes use of RTX-accelerated gentle and ambient occlusion baking — although not within the oven — to optimize his property, comparable to this berry pie, in mere seconds.

He additionally had the choice to arrange a stay hyperlink connection between 3D Painter and NVIDIA Omniverse, a growth platform for connecting and constructing Common Scene Description (OpenUSD)-based instruments and functions, by way of the USD Composer basis app.

The connection would enable Carpenen’s texture work in Substance 3D Painter to straight translate to USD Composer — eliminating the necessity for quite a few file imports, exports and reformatting.

Donut Gap in One

Carpenen makes use of Blender to carry his scenes along with superior mannequin sculpting, animations and additional lighting refinement.

RTX GPUs enable smoother motion within the viewport because of Blender Cycles’ RTX-accelerated OptiX ray tracing.

And for exporting ultimate recordsdata, RTX-accelerated OptiX ray tracing in Blender Cycles delivers the quickest final-frame render.

Because of AI, This Work Is Toast

Carpenen makes use of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to place the ending touches on his meals scenes.

GPU-accelerated picture processing allows dramatically extra responsive changes on his 4K-resolution show.

Carpenen had much more RTX-accelerated AI instruments at his disposal in Lightroom. The “Uncooked Particulars” characteristic refines the high-quality colour particulars of high-resolution RAW photos. And “Tremendous Decision” makes use of AI to upscale photos with greater high quality than conventional strategies.

In keeping with Carpenen, placing within the work is vital.

“It’s equal to practising soccer — should you don’t get sufficient time day by day to apply, you may’t hone abilities,” he mentioned. “It’s necessary to know the right way to sort out obstacles — and that information can solely be gained by expertise.”

Try Carpenen’s YouTube channel, CG Realism, and ArtStation to take a look at extra meals initiatives.

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