3D Modelling food can be an exciting and rewarding experience. Due to the complexities in the organic form and texture of foods, it can look intimidating to render a realistic food.

Today we are going to apply my best approaches to render realistic chips from scratch. The lessons are aimed to be short and beginner friendly and so you can get the best results as fast as possible.

CGI food renders are used in many applications such as food product packaging, advertising, product launch, key visuals etc. Through CGI we get a very fine control over the key parameters for good imagery like lighting, shadows, camera angles, textures and styling. We can create desired variations in food. Blender being an open source and free software has all the required tools to produce appetizing and mouth watering food visuals. All the steps required for creating CGI food can easily be completed seamlessly inside of blender.

We will be using blender throughout the course, with lessons involving the core concepts of creating CGI food like displacement maps, geometry nodes, procedural texturing and shader creation, finally easy lighting and rendering. Lets learn these concepts in the easiest and quickest way!