Fruit Cart
This project was created as a real-time low-poly modeling exercise, with the goal of producing a detailed and visually appealing fruit cart under 10,000 triangles. Modeled in Maya and textured in Substance 3D Painter, the scene focuses on efficient geometry, clean topology, and texture optimization while preserving a high level of realism. The fruit crates share the same texture maps to reduce memory usage and improve performance, allowing for consistent visual quality with minimal resources. The challenge was to balance performance and detail — using baked normal and ambient occlusion maps to bring depth and material variation to the wooden cart, metal parts, and fruit surfaces. Lighting and rendering were done with a cinematic approach to emphasize natural colors, soft shadows, and warm tones.
2020
