BBQ

Tools

• Substance Designer (For material).
• Marmoset Toolbag 4 (For rendering).

I was thinking of a good idea to implement in Substance Designer. As a lover of cooking and baking, I was watching a cinnamon rolls video and I liked the idea and I found that it works as a material.

I decided to make that by collecting different references and creating the whole material with the presentation of course.

After I did the cinnamon roll material. I decided to make a BBQ material, the idea was kind of complex to achieve, because I can’t have a void between the charcoal and the grill, then I did the charcoal material first.

The charcoal was challenging really, I could do it in ZBrush and simulate that and make it tileable, but I wanted to create everything procedural from scratch.

I did this quick breakdown of the charcoal material, the goal was to have different main shapes of charcoal then, I splatter them using the Shape Splatter node and extract the data from the splatters to have more control over the shapes.

The biggest challenge in making these works is always nailing the correct main shape, which leads you to the right process, because while looking at a reference, it means you’re looking at the final result of what you’re working on.

Reading the reference and figuring out the main shapes from the final result/real version is challenging; what’s more difficult than that is trying to translate that idea into the language of Substance Designer/Nodes and which nodes to use to get the main shapes.

This affects to I use to get the desired details, I try what my mind thinks is a good choice. If it’s not, I’ll try different methods to nail the main shape, then I’ll start thinking about creating masks and details for everything.

After finishing the charcoal material, the good work began, I started collecting references from google, I created a simple grill then I did the blockout of the sausages.

I didn’t like the sausage shape at first, also the grill, Special thanks to, Anfal Bellil, Khayyam Naghiyev, Nikolay Marinov, Kejti Balla, they helped me a lot with visual guidance, sharing ideas with me too, their feedback was helpful really. I realized that sausages looked like plastic and needed more work.

I pushed myself more to give it more realism and details by looking at different references to see what works well for a tasty look.

After few attempts I got this:

It was looking a lot better and of course, I kept polishing it, then it felt like it needed something else. I decided to keep it simple and at the same time, gorgeous.

I added juicy burger steaks on top and added some chopped herbs.

And this one for the color & roughness:

Thank you for reading my breakdown!