Harry Alisavakis is a technical and VFX artist working within the online game enterprise. He’s additionally the creator of one of the crucial delicious-looking items of 3D artwork I’ve ever seen.
As a part of #TechnicallyAChallenge, a technical artist group problem that grew out of a discord that was truly began by Alisavakis, he determined to take a shot on the newest theme, which was “meals”.
In only one night time, totalling round 5-6 hours work, Alisavakis was in a position to construct this scene in Unity, crafting all of the fashions from scratch. He tells me most of his time was spent “tweaking and shifting lights round”, and that whereas many of the shaders used have been already on-hand, the one he made only for this mission—a “bespoke soup shader”—has been blowing up on Twitter over the weekend, and with good motive:
The steam, the glistening broth, the glint on the eggs, gah, I’m getting hungry simply taking a look at this. For those who’re questioning how the entire thing appears to be like so “anime”, Alisavakis says “it was a mix of determining how meals appears to be like in anime and how you can cease issues from trying 3D”.
“I used a shallow area of view to make the scene look virtually orthographic, trigger perspective distortion can betray {that a} scene is 3D, and I didn’t use any of unity’s default shaders as they’re too mushy on the shading and lighting”, he says. “A cheat I additionally do with these results is decreasing the body price of some animations to make them look as in the event that they’re hand drawn.”
For those who’re extra technically-minded, Alisavakis has written a thread the place he will get into the finer particulars of how he put the piece collectively. Right here, for instance, is a gif displaying all the person parts he needed to mannequin:
If you wish to see extra of Alisavakis’ work, you may test it out at his private web site, ArtStation web page and Twitter account.
