Old Spaghetti
Well, the Old Spaghetti Factory that is. This is a freelance job I did recently. It’s a menu cover for the Old Spaghetti Factory chain of restaurants. Click on “more” for a little making of info.
I actually didn’t design this menu, my friend and designer Mark Frankel did. I just did the illustration. I started by modeling the leading. I started with a simple cube primitive and extruded the faces. Woo Hoo!
then in Painter, I painted the color map for the glass.
Then I lit and rendered the leading.
and finally I mapped the color map onto a plane in Maya, created a transluscent material and a glassy bump map, turned on some caustics, created a reflection map, turned on visible lighting, turned on some glow, added some soft shadows, and rendered the whole thing out. And there you have it.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am
All I can say is: Woah! Cool!!!
March 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
This looks great! I love this man.
March 24th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Oh man, this is beautiful stuff. I’m betting the Old Spagetti Factory is very pleased.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
oh, that is so cool. And I used to go to Old Spaghetti Factory in Ohio. We used to eat in the trolly in the middle of the restaurant. I love the trolly you did.
db
March 26th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
thanks you all.
Doug, I remember going to the OSF in Columbus!
April 10th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
i really dig this ! the design is strong and i like your “painter pass” very much.
the whole thing looks warm and is a terrific combination of 2d and 3d working together.
very well done.
dany
April 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Hey thank Dany. I took a look at your site, very nice drawings, love your cartoony style.