Snack Scans

Icestorm · May 19, 2020, 5:38pm

Hey guys!
The past few months me and Colin Behrens tried out photoscanning food. We wanted to have some realistic food assets to use in our scenes. Making realistic food in 3D is really difficult and there aren’t really many realistic food assets available online that we could afford. So we made our own. We’ve already scanned, retopologized and optimized over 70 assets, but there are so many more types of food we want to have in 3D So we plan on making even more assets.
Our plan is to make an addon with our food called Snack Scans and make that available to everyone on blendermarket.com. We plan to make it affordable, so everyone can have a large variety of 3D food to use in all kinds of scenes.

We really want to get this as good as possible, so we’d be really grateful for suggestions and feedback

Here are some renders of our already finished assets:
We used some textures and hdrs from Poliigon.com for the ground and lighting in these images

Here are some delicious looking chocolate chip cookies

Some pralines for you: (I ate all of them )

Update:
Here’s a sneak peakbof our avocado:

Here’s a render of our burger:

Here are some cereal bars, that were really yummy

We also didn’t forget to scan healthy food

Update: Here are some more renders:

Here is a wireframe view of the ice cream:

Update:
Snack Scans version 1.2.0 is finally here!
We added even more assets and fixed some bugs!

These coconuts are one of the new assets available in the 1.2 version:

Update:
There are now several mini assets packs available for a fraction of the entire collection’s price!
These are available at the moment:
3D Praline Pack
3D Apple Pack
Photoscanned Cookie Asset Pack
Photoscanned Burger

There are more to come very soon

Halloween Update:
Snack Scans version 1.4.0 now available! We added 5 new assets and fixed some bugs! Snack Scans now consists of 87 assets!

Update:
Snack Scans 2.0 is now available! We added a free test version and support for Blender’s built in Asset Browser!

I’ll post more renders here as we continue to create more 3D food, if you want more updates, you can follow Vertex Wizards on Instagram. We’re more active there.

Jellie · May 19, 2020, 9:02pm

Wow these assets look really amazing
I can’t even believe these are 3d models. I would really love to see a wireframe or clay render of these! I’m definitely going to be following the development of this asset pack, it will make my life so much easier. I was wondering, will you offer assets with different resolutions? Because if the model is in the background, it would be a waste for them to have really highres textures and a lot of polys.

Icestorm · May 20, 2020, 2:58pm

Thank you very much! I will post more renders of the food we scanned here in the future, including wireframe and clay renders. Yes we will offer different resolutions of our assets, so you can save ram if you only need to use the models in the background. Thank you very much for your feedback

skuax · May 20, 2020, 3:10pm

Be carefully. Don’t eat too much.

RobWu · May 20, 2020, 5:05pm

I gained weight just by looking at these

Awesome work!! Kudos!

csimeon · May 20, 2020, 5:55pm

Yum yum, pralines please

pmoreira · May 21, 2020, 4:09am

Awesome work @Icestorm congrats!

Just out of interest what was your assetization process?
Was it purely photogrammetry, running the photography through RealityCapture or Agisoft Photoscan?

Thanks for the share!

Icestorm · May 21, 2020, 7:16am

Thank you very much @skuax, @RobWu, @csimeon and @pmoreira
@pmoreira this was our work flow:

Photoscan the object with 3D Zephyr
Import the object in Blender and retopologize it by hand to drastically reduce the vertex count
Cleanly UV unwrap the asset
Bake the textures onto the mesh
Fix errors in the textures and add more pbr textures
Work on a realistic looking material for the asset in Blender

It took quite a long time to do all this for every single asset, and was quite frustrating in a lot of cases, for example retopologizing the burger we scanned was pretty difficult

Here is a render of a chocolate chip cookie we scanned:

AO pass on the right side:

Jellie · May 21, 2020, 4:49pm

That cookie looks really damn realistic as well I’d love to eat it!

pmoreira · May 22, 2020, 4:39am

@Icestorm ah yes 3D Zephyr!.. I’ve used the software before and found it to do a very decent job! I love the fact that you did this (apart from the photogrammetry) in Blender. Spectacular job and kudos to you and your team - thank you once again for sharing!

side note: I eagerly await the day that someone kind and smart enough can create a photogrammetry module in Blender!

bartv · May 22, 2020, 6:18pm

I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

Icestorm · May 22, 2020, 9:27pm

Thank you very much for the feature @bartv!
@pmoreira A photogrammetry module in Blender would be epic indeed! Thank you again for your kind words

Jellie · May 23, 2020, 1:35pm

@Icestorm Congrats on the feature!
I wanted to ask how long it took you from start to finish to complete a single asset
The creation process you previously described sounds pretty long
And I would still really like to see some wireframes

LucasDM · May 23, 2020, 3:05pm

All of it looks delicious, but that cookie is above all of the other models. Congratulations!

Icestorm · May 24, 2020, 8:39am

@Jellie, @LucasDM Thank you very much!
It took us about 5h to comple every asset, but of course it veries, because some assets were a lot easier to retopologize and optimize in Blender than others.

Here is some ice cream for you guys :

And here is the wireframe you wanted @Jellie:

Jellie · May 25, 2020, 8:16am

Wow that icecream really looks delicious!
And 5h per asset really is pretty long, isn’t it? The do look really awesome though and also seem to be even more low poly than I had expected. I’m really impressed and want to see more renders, even though they make me really hungry

Icestorm · May 26, 2020, 8:17am

Thank you very much
Yes, 5h is a pretty long time. But as I said it really depends on the asset, for example completing assets like potatoes didn’t take that long. On the other hand some assets like the burger we scanned were very hard to retopologize and make materials for. Assets like that were very hard to scan and we had to piece them together out of multiple scans by hand, which was really annoying

Here is another render of an asset we’ve completed

senteria · May 26, 2020, 11:58am

This looks fantastic! I really like this high realism. The best thing is, that this is blend native file. How do you think, when will it be available on Blender market? Do you know prices?

Icestorm · May 26, 2020, 7:23pm

Thank you very much
It will be available on blendermarket.com in about 2 weeks. We’re working on the finishing touches at the moment and will post the release date on Instagram and here as soon as we’ve decided on it. The asset pack will be on sale the first week for about 30$. It includes about 60 assets, which means that each one costs about 50ct. After the first week we’ll raise the price, but haven’t decided how much yet.

FrankFirsching · May 27, 2020, 11:21am

Very nice models

I don’t see a delighting step in your workflow. I recently started photogrammetry myself (using Meshroom instead of 3D Zephyr). After retopo and rebaking the textures, I process the textures using agisoft’s texture delighter:

It really removes the ambient occlusion very effectively with just a few clicks.