Coffee, Black – Art Shot

By: Sonya Roberts

Sep 09 2011

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Category: Rendered Scene

Description:
This image was crated as a fanart piece as a surprise gift for the author of a Dragon Age 2 fanfiction story. The story featured DA2 characters in a modern setting, with Garrett Hawke working as a barista, and Fenris as a regular customer at the coffee shop. In Chapter 6 of the story Fenris took a photo of a foam art leaf in a cafe breva, and this was a render made to look like it was that photo.

The mug and saucer are lathes, and the mug handle is a loft. Poly counts are quite high as the goal here was to make a reasonably photo-realistic image.

The final image was rendered in two passes, the first one for the overall diffuse image render (including lighting, shadows, reflections, etc.), and then a second ambient occlusion render. The two were composited into one image in Photoshop.

Created With: 3DS Max 2009, Photoshop CS4
Count: 17.6k polys

Additional Credits:
Rendered using several standard Mental Ray materials.

Coffee, Black:
The original fanfic on which this is based can be read on AO3 here. Warning: Contains adult situations.