Cozy Cafe

Project info

• CategoryInterior & Furniture
• LevelAdvanced
• ToolBlender 5.2.3 · Cycles
• TypeStill image
• Price (one price)US$109

In the scene: Marble-walnut bar, 5 bar stools, espresso machine, grinder, 2 cake domes, register, flower vase, shelves of bottles/cups/jars, chalk menu board, 4 round marble tables with 8 wooden chairs, upholstered banquette, book shelf, hanging and floor plants, brass pendants, Edison bulbs, sconces, candles, shopfront window, street view

Techniques used

• Light shafts: homogeneous Principled Volume box + a low sun through Transparent/Glossy glass, light portal on the window
• Array modifiers for the bar-front wood slats and ceiling beams
• Lathe objects (Screw + Solidify + Subsurf) for cups, bottles, jars, glass domes, lamp shades
• Procedural subway tiles and plank floor from Brick Texture with separate roughness and bump for joints
• Coloured transmission glass for bottles, clear glass for cake domes and bulbs
• Mixed lighting: sun, Multiple Scattering sky, point lights in bulbs, emissive LED strips, emissive candle flames
• Hanging plants and trailing vines from linked leaf meshes along curves
• 30 mm camera with f/3.5 DOF, AgX tone mapping

How it was made

1. 1Build the room: plank floor, plaster walls, tile panel, wainscot, ceiling beams
2. 2Cut the shopfront window, add wooden frame, glass, portal and street view
3. 3Model the bar, arrayed slats, brass footrail, bar stools
4. 4Add espresso machine, grinder, cake domes, register, flower vase
5. 5Fill wall shelves with bottles, cups, jars; build the seating, banquette and hanging plants
6. 6Place pendants, sconces, LEDs, candles; scatter dust and volume haze
7. 7Set the evening sun, DOF camera, render in Cycles

Scene statistics

• Polygons (triangles)1,523,932
• Objects1,111
• Materials269
• Lights15
• Render engineCycles
• Samples384
• Render time2 min 12 s

Modifiers in the scene

• Array
• Bevel
• Boolean
• Screw
• Solidify
• Subdivision Surface
• Weighted Normal

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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