Spice bomb
april 2025
Product lighting with fire as an emotional element.
In this assignment, the goal was to light a product while using fire as a tool to evoke a specific mood or feeling.
I found a grenade-shaped perfume bottle from Viktor and Rolf on Sketchfab, imported it into Blender, and began lighting the scene. It took quite a few light sources to bring out the highlights and properly define the shape.
Simulating fire in Blender was definitely a challenge, but through some trial and error (and a happy accident), I ended up creating a fairly abstract yet visually satisfying fireball. It added a contrasting harmony to the otherwise intense visual of the fire and the product.
Spice bomb
april 2025
Product lighting with fire as an emotional element.
In this assignment, the goal was to light a product while using fire as a tool to evoke a specific mood or feeling.
I found a grenade-shaped perfume bottle from Viktor and Rolf on Sketchfab, imported it into Blender, and began lighting the scene. It took quite a few light sources to bring out the highlights and properly define the shape.
Simulating fire in Blender was definitely a challenge, but through some trial and error (and a happy accident), I ended up creating a fairly abstract yet visually satisfying fireball. It added a contrasting harmony to the otherwise intense visual of the fire and the product.
Post production
With a bit of polygon tweaking, I made the parfume bottle appear to fall into the flames, and added some extra movement to it with a motion blur mask in Photoshop. Some more work in Photoshop to touch up weaknesses in both the fire simulation and the 3D model - resulting in a final image that I’m really proud of.
As a bit of a perfectionist, I loved going all-in on the post-production in Photoshop for this project. I think the difference between these before and after pictures is huge.
SPICEBOMB
SPICEBOMB
Spice bomb
april 2025
Product lighting with fire as an emotional element.
In this assignment, the goal was to light a product while using fire as a tool to evoke a specific mood or feeling.
I found a grenade-shaped perfume bottle from Viktor and Rolf on Sketchfab, imported it into Blender, and began lighting the scene. It took quite a few light sources to bring out the highlights and properly define the shape.
Simulating fire in Blender was definitely a challenge, but through some trial and error (and a happy accident), I ended up creating a fairly abstract yet visually satisfying fireball. It added a contrasting harmony to the otherwise intense visual of the fire and the product.
Post production
With a bit of polygon tweaking, I made the parfume bottle appear to fall into the flames, and added some extra movement to it with a motion blur mask in Photoshop. Some more work in Photoshop to touch up weaknesses in both the fire simulation and the 3D model - resulting in a final image that I’m really proud of.
As a bit of a perfectionist, I loved going all-in on the post-production in Photoshop for this project. I think the difference between these before and after pictures is huge.
SPICEBOMB
