Layered Burger

Project info

• CategoryFood & Drink
• LevelIntermediate
• ToolBlender 5.2.3 · Cycles
• TypeStill image
• Price (one price)US$73

In the scene: Top/bottom bun + sesame, patty, cheese, two tomato slices, two pickles, onion ring, two lettuce leaves, 42 fries, wooden board, bokeh

Techniques used

• Buns from surfaces of revolution (Screw) + Subdivision with noise colour, coat and subsurface; sesame seeds placed by ray casting onto the bun dome
• Patty: cylinder + Simple Subdivision + Clouds Displace + Bevel for uneven edges, strong bump and a thin coat
• Cheese: a grid bent mathematically so corners droop, Solidify + Subdivision, yellow-orange subsurface shader
• Ruffled lettuce built from wavy polar coordinates (mesh from code) + Solidify
• Tomato, pickles, onion, fries: bevelled primitives with subsurface/coat materials and per-object colour variation
• Three area lights (key + two rims) + fill, f/3.2 70mm DOF, emissive-sphere bokeh, Cycles + OIDN

How it was made

1. 1Set up the table, wooden board and dark backdrop
2. 2Build bottom/top buns and scatter sesame
3. 3Shape the patty, melting cheese and drips
4. 4Add tomato, pickles, onion and ruffled lettuce
5. 5Arrange fries and background bokeh
6. 6Place lights, a 70mm f/3.2 camera and render with Cycles

Scene statistics

• Polygons (triangles)219,092
• Objects188
• Materials34
• Lights4
• Render engineCycles
• Samples384
• Render time1 min 3 s

Modifiers in the scene

• Bevel
• Displace
• Screw
• Solidify
• Subdivision Surface

Figures are read from the scene by Blender 5.2.3 LTS; the render time is for the final 1920x1080 image on one RTX 4060 GPU.

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