Mushroom House
This is a personal project that I did in order to better understand Blender and try modelling assets in different styles. My initial attempt was to recreate a style that looks like the Smurfs house, but while working on the project I wanted to try a more game-like style. So I looked around for reference and found Oliver Strom's work and decided to try recreating one of his projects. I found the style really cute and it was the kind of look I wanted to try out. Afterwards, I added my own personal touch to it by making iterations and alternate versions. Here's the process I went through for this project.
Final render in Eevee
Used Oliver Strom's design as reference
A previous iteration I did for this project
Modeling the house using references from Smurfs
Made a few other assets such as barrels, a wagon, stones and some trees to populate the scene
Worked on a nice camera angle and tried to make this version look the best it can be. However, I felt that I wanted to try for another style
Started working on the second version of the mushroom house after finding a great reference from Oliver Strom's work which I really adore.
Populating the scene with props that match this style
Fixing the camera angle and bringing up the orthographic view to continue working on the project
Populating the scene even more with my own touch of little mushrooms!
Started working on the shaders. Created a small fire with shaders
Attempted recreating the lighting in my reference and experimented with the specular, roughness and other material properties
Attempted my own version with gradient maps which I find really appealing
Working with the lighting to match the different look for this version
Alternate versions of this scene that I tried out