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.

Description:
This Art Deco style fridge is based on photos of a Crosley ‘Shelvador’ refrigerator from the 1930s that can be seen at the South Kensington Science Museum website.

This is part of an ongoing project of mine to mesh a set of 1930s kitchen appliances for a furniture set for use in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3.

Created With: 3DS Max 2009, Photoshop CS4, MilkShape, SimPE
Count: 3,016 polys

Additional Views:

Textures:
The following are scaled down from their in-game dimensions:
In TS2 – UV Unwrap, diffuse

Additional Credits:
Rendered view uses several material shaders from MR Materials

Description:
This retro blender was designed as part of a small set of 1950s kitchen appliances. Most of them were created based on existing meshes by another artist, but this blender was meshed from scratch. The base is modelled after an Osterizer “bee hive” blender, while the glass jar is based on the Waring blender’s clover-leaf cross-section.

It has been set up as a functional object in both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, where it works as a food processor.

Created With: 3DS Max 2009, Photoshop CS4, MilkShape, SimPE, TSR Workshop
Count: 1,822 polys

Additional Views:

Textures:
In TS2 – diffuse
In TS3 – UV Unwrap, multiplier

Additional Credits:
Rendered view uses several material shaders from MR Materials