Strawberry Shortcake Teapot, Look Dev
A charming teapot texture, heavily inspired by classic Strawberry Shortcake art. I'd like to think she owns this piece. Though the teapot is CGI, I wanted it to reflect many 2D qualities, like a hand painted look and sketch lines. Responsible for textures!
For this project, I was tasked to create a unique style for a teapot. Of course, I wanted to go painterly. I was inspired to modernize old Strawberry Shortcake art, by trying to emulate modern 3D texturing techniques.
The original teapot, model from the 2017 Pixar Renderman Challenge. I added the strawberries and flower.
A big part of this style has to do with the sketchy construction lines in the reference art. This sort of floating line style can be found in the new TMNT Mutant Mayhem movie.
How I approached the floating lines was to duplicate the base teapot mesh and "inflate" it by moving the vertices out along the normals. This mesh would mostly be transparent, except for where the sketch lines would be painted.
This creates a floating effect that adds a much more tangible quality to something CGI.
The rest of the texture is handpainted, with a layering of blur slope filters to add even more variation in the colors. Making strokes imperfect, blurring edges, layering colors all contributes to the charming homemade quality.
The teapot and strawberries are painted with lighting from above kept in mind. The brush stroke style was inspired by the French game, Dordogne.
Original call out inspirations
Original concept
Additional Iray renders.
