Modo Product Visualization: Shoe Rendering

Learn the process of modeling and rendering a shoe in Modo, a powerful 3D platform for modeling, rendering, texturing, and animating.

Introduction

• Render a shoe model in Modo

1. Setting Up the Lighting

• Setting up the Viewport
• Area lights
• Image-based lighting
• Studio lighting setup
• Working with Preview
• Ray GL

2. Sole Material

• Defining a latex material
• Defining a rubber material
• Bump map
• Roughness map

3. Suede Material

• Defining the basic suede
• Bump map
• Roughness map
• Adding fur

4. Fabric

• Defining the basic fabric
• Bump map
• Occlusion map

5. Additional Materials

• Defining the laces material
• Laces bump map
• Tongue fabric
• Lace holder material
• Latex panels
• Anodised aluminium
• Grips
• Stitching

6. Rendering

• Tweaking the lights
• Preview rendering
• Creating render passes
• Setting up the camera
• Which engine?
• Render settings
• Material variations
• Lighting and POV variations for marketing

Conclusion

• Next steps