Chinese Food Cart – 3D Asset Design

Client

College Project

Year

2018

Duration

1 Week

Tools Used

Maya, Arnold, AfterEffects

This project was a fast-paced design challenge to model a stylized Chinese food cart within one week. Inspired by traditional wooden street vendors, I focused on capturing the essence of hand-built charm and cultural details—like hanging lanterns, arched windows, and circular roof shapes. The result is a compact yet visually engaging asset that could easily fit into a stylized game environment or animation short. I kept the texturing subtle to highlight the geometry and silhouette, using warm wood tones and a clean render pass to tell the story of a cozy, nostalgic street-side eatery.

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Process Notes:

  • Started with sketch-based blockout to plan proportions and shape language

  • Modeled clean topology with attention to edge flow, especially around the curved roof

  • Applied procedural shaders and soft directional lighting to emulate sunlight

  • Rendered beauty, clay, and wireframe passes for documentation

  • Kept optimization in mind to ensure game/animation pipeline compatibility

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