A Work in Progress: merry christmas

This guide was made for entry:
merry christmas
In Contest:
christmas modeling

step 1 of 25

started with a cube

step 2 of 25

revolved

step 3 of 25

duplicate special, and the first twig

step 4 of 25

created an instance of the twig.. the polycount will become very high and to keep things running smoothly we need to keep that in check

step 5 of 25

step 6 of 25

first branch.. used a lattice to give it a better form

step 7 of 25

step 8 of 25

and so on.. untill u get the tree

step 9 of 25

hid the tree so my video card would not render in the viewport the high poly tree ( even if it's instanced.. when i composed the final image, used a render instance to my poly instance.. get it ? :) otherwise my computer would crash

step 10 of 25

some decorations

step 11 of 25

made some lowpoly candles

step 12 of 25

aded presents

step 13 of 25

started to build the scene

step 14 of 25

the pillows, i deleted all the unnecessary faces that would not show so i keep the polycount low

step 15 of 25

step 16 of 25

made the socks from a cube

step 17 of 25

mugs made from cylinders

step 18 of 25

step 19 of 25

established the render instances so that my render wouldn't crash

step 20 of 25

instanced tree for

step 21 of 25

scene ready for rendering.. maybe some fire in the chimney

step 22 of 25

simulated a fire in the chimney.. but ended up using maya fluids .. looked much better.. I used maya software to render the flames and i composed them separately in PS

step 23 of 25

got a light?

step 24 of 25

composing the image in PS.. i realised i forgot to make the windows.. and i tought that would be nice to have some snow on the window.. i used pen tool and aded noise

step 25 of 25

lighting setup.. all textures where simple stripes or patterns made in PS

Final result

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