I participated in 32nd CG Boost Challenge with the topic “World in a Bottle” in November 2021. This was my entry.
I like to bake in my free time, but especially around Christmas time. When I read the description of this challenge all I could think of was a gingerbread village.
I started with modeling the gingerbread man, then moved on to the house, the trees, the gingerbread woman, and the rest of the environment. While I was setting up my scene, I felt like something was missing. I then came up with the idea of having one cookie on a plate reaching for help from the cookies in the jar.
This is the first big project I worked on with this many elements without following a tutorial. Working on this almost every night for the 3 weeks of the challenge has helped me familiarize myself with the tools and become quicker when adding or editing elements in the scene.
These are the steps I took to create the final addition.
The jar is far from the camera with no lid, and the gingerbread house is missing a lot of detail. There is a gingerbread man and gingerbread woman in the jar with the house.
The gingerbread house has two windows on the front. There are cookie trees of various sizes around the gingerbread house
The jar has a lid and a few more trees have been added.
The camera is closer to the jar. The gingerbread man and woman have switched places.
The gingerbread house has roof details and the front door added to it.
Peppermint candies have been added to the walkway in front of the gingerbread house and one is added to the front of the gingerbread house.
The peppermint candy on the house was changed to a wreath and a plate with a gingerbread man was added to the left of the jar.
The plate is red on the inside with a gold trim.
The camera is closer the the jar, the plate is in the background, the plate has less gold around the trim , the gingerbread man on the plate is bigger, and the render aspect ratio has been changed to 1:1
The gingerbread man on the plate is laying on his stomach reaching for the jar with a leg detached
The jar lid was made smaller to look more like a bottle shape. This was the final image that was submitted.
When I submitted the final I also had to include a clay version of the scene with wireframes to prove I created this scene.
