Work Life

"Work Life" is a spare time art project and the 2nd still life of mine.

Again inspired by the old masters Vermeer, Pieter Calesz, Caravaggio etc. I stared on a longer then expected journey to create a second still life for my presentation at Industry Workshops 2018.

This work represents the disparity between work as engineering, science, craftsmanship (to the left) and life with mainly the joys of food and freedom / lightness, symbolized by the feathers (to the right). The goblet in the middle symbolizes the rewards you (hopefully) get for your hard and sometimes painful work.

This time I used a mix between Substance Designer and more "traditional" shading techniques with generic and baked textures that I tweaked the shaders with to get the look that I imagined.

In contrast to the last Still Life I did, the Octane material system has grown significantly and bringing in Substance PBR textures was relatively easy this time around.