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Paula Reboleiro
Spain
Credits
The project was developed entirely by me. I would like to thank butic The New School for all their support during the process.
Notes
I designed a space years ago that has been in my mind ever since.
I have to admit that I found many challenges on the road. The first one was modelling the wooden staircase, the main asset in the scene. The geometry it's pretty complex and the steps must end exactly where the different panels begin to avoid lighting and optimization problems later on.
The next challenge was the lighting. The space just had two natural light entries that didn't meet the lighting needs so the main illumination source had to be artificial light. I didn't use RTX so I had to work really hard on the light baking. The balance had to be perfect, creating a different atmosphere inside the staircase where the light had to be softer and more dramatic.
The light evolved with the project and I had to work on it until the same last day, but I think the result was worth it.
With a solid lighting base the texturing work started. But it wasn't until all the assets were put in place when the space came to life.
Lapera is in fact a food store so all the displays had to be full of products but I had to avoid visual repetition at the same time. I wanted to use real products so I searched among hundreds of packaging designs for those that spoke the same language as the space. After this research work I modeled and textured the assets.
If you want to walk through Lapera for yourself just download the app for Windows with the link below and double click on the "lapera.exe" file. Sneek a peak inside!
Download Lapera APP: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15j0lr-aUKJrRDD5LC2mF0Gpi6xNH0WbL?usp=sharing