Cozy Cottage

‍Link to the Video (currently unable to embed into this website)

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This project was done as part of an advertisement for a book written by an acquaintance. My task was to render a short Video depicting a cozy cottage scene in a cottage-core style with a boiling cauldron and a window into the garden. After a few seconds the scene should switch to night time with lightning in the background.

In the end, I managed to create the video under high time pressure of around one week and for the most part with only my Laptop available.

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Due to the limited time window, I mostly used free assets to decorate the scene. To reduce the render time, I used Blender's Eevee and set up the scene into layers. This let me render all the static objects into an image once and then composit the moving parts over it. It also facilitated color correction and re-rendering of only specific parts of the image.

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Some smaller tricks I used in this project include combining PBR materials to get a more realistic look and using a shader to fake the steam coming of the water.

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