Still Life

I’ve been playing around with cycles and texture node. The results are better than I thought I could do but a way off from my aspiration. Need a stem on the apple & some variation to the texture with a bit of green on the top and white streaks in the texture. Any tips would be appreciated.

All textures are procedural rendered at 100 samples.


Added a bowl for the fruit and applied smooth the bottle & apple. looking better, I think. I plan on putting in a wine glass, cork screw, kitchen towel and a cork. Perhaps using the physics engine to drop the fruit into the bowl better. Will try to use the new volume lighting to get some sunbeams coming in from the off camera window and a light particle effect for a little bit of dust motes in the sun beam.


Added a knife & reposition fruits. I also changed the overhead light to a low poly lamp with 3 bulbs and dropped it closer to the scene. rendered at 250 passes & still have fireflies.