Create Photorealistic Foods in Blender: Macaron time!

[@CanosieLabs]

Hi, Here is a sample model which I used for the tutorial. Only one side has the bubbles punched out but that's more than enough to get good renders. Hope that helps everyone. canosielabs.gumroad.com/l/spsif

[@kaspera.daviesthegastromed9431]

Thanks again man, really appreciate it.

[@artekal3d]

I really love the way break things down and explain how each part is, this is how I aspire to make videos too, loved it!

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!

[@veronikas4885]

Thank you for the elaborate Tutorial! To eliminate the manual work I made a collection of different sized hole punchers and used thad collection to create hair particles on the feet. Then I also randomized the hair sizes. After making the particle instances real and put them into a collection I used that collection with the boolean modifier.

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks! It's great to know the video helped. Also your improvement is a great way to speed up the process! thanks for sharing.

[@mefx5744]

did the same thing!

[@CatalinPascaru]

I'm actually amazed at how well the macarons look! Really great work! But now I'm sad because I want macarons :(

[@CanosieLabs]

Haha, thanks! Yeah, I'm pretty happy how it turned out too.

[@RyanKingArt]

Wow, great tutorial and great result! Good work!

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks!

[@make_the_world_better_place]

Thanks for the article. It's very detailed.

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks!

[@deadcloud2450]

Very useful! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@CanosieLabs]

Hope it gives you ideas!

[@BriefBeeStudio]

love this, also thumbs up for the nice preview of the shader, the worst part of tutorials is not showing the shader with all the nodes together zoomed as they should be. thanks!!!

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks, i'm glad you find it useful!

[@code5600]

Great tutorial

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!

[@ivanipangstudio6669]

standing applause by me... thank you so much

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!, glad you found it useful

[@copperrose]

Cant wait to try this!

[@CanosieLabs]

If you do make one, post it online, I'd love to see it!

[@copperrose]

@@CanosieLabs Will do ;)

[@gilvanrocha5487]

Nice!

[@zaeriuz]

Great detail. I really love it Thank you

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!

[@saurabhambarkar6900]

hey, it's a great tutorial. Make another tutorial on the cake.

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks! hmm, cake sounds like a great idea.

[@apocaeclipsetora3438]

Ooo , good tutorial (from a french person :) )

[@CanosieLabs]

Glad you liked it!

[@aleevadh]

This tutorial is great, thank you very much!

[@aruharu]

Exactly what I needed! Thanks!

[@CanosieLabs]

glad you found it helpful!

[@art-byfayleif3938]

I like the way you did the feet I don’t want the texture to be photo realistic for the project I’m working on but I do like the idea of modeling it to look like a macaroon. Thanks for the insight ❤

[@CanosieLabs]

no problem, glad you found it helpful!

[@korejoons]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! It's amazing!

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks! glad you find it useful.

[@erick-mugishabwakea7056]

This just made my day

[@dannyranno]

This is great!

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks, glad you found it useful

[@justjules5831]

So good! I really like these Blender tuts. Been looking for food tuts for some time, and so glad I found yours. If you ever consider other types of tuts, I’d love to find out how to do procedural abalone shell and also opal materials.

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks! hmm abalone shell sounds like an interesting idea..

[@daniellapardo8487]

THIS IS SO USEFUL THANK U SO MUCH

[@CanosieLabs]

no problem. I'm glad you find it useful!

[@anthonytieu1914]

Looks amazing, great tutorial!

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks, glad you like it!

[@mariacepeda5082]

Love it :)!

[@CanosieLabs]

Thanks!

[@od1367]

wow this was fanatsics!

[@squishybluecat]

Great stuff!

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!

[@Tinuviel788]

Thanks so much for the tutorial, can't wait to try it out! Seconding the cake tutorial idea, that would be so cool if you could make one... :-)))

[@CanosieLabs]

glad you found it useful!

[@puru-nekor3562]

Thanks for your tutorial! It helped a lot on my work.

[@travelvidscom]

legend

[@fikranlukman1391]

wow great work, can you make wafer turtorial i really need that

[@CanosieLabs]

hmm yeah. I think a wafer would be interesting to do.

[@ranska_x9965]

Bravo c'est très jolie! I think some manual parts (like boolean) can be automated with geometry nodes and can help you to create groups that have divers imperfections.

[@CanosieLabs]

Yeah, I think you can as well. You can scatter random shapes across the surface of the feet. Another option is use the volume cube node, but I have not yet gotten good results yet.

[@mtraceur14]

Love it

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks!

[@user-mb6rm1dv8t]

ありがとう！

[@bamblasl1548]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[@nguyenlinhtrang7185]

Thank u for this great tutorial. By the way I get some trouble with the size of macaron when switching to shading. It seems that I can't zoom in the macaron, the object is relatively small. I have applied scale and rotation before but it still not works.

[@GeorgeNacpil]

how do you manage the camera in a small object? it cuts off whats in front of it

[@CanosieLabs]

hi, that's a great question. There's two things you can do. First you can change the "clip start" in the view menu (press n). and change the value to something really small. Sometimes that's not enough and you can change the focal length to something like 100+mm. That will 'zoom' you in without clipping.

[@GeorgeNacpil]

@@CanosieLabs thank you sir! this makes sense!

[@notbones1664]

What were your light settings, mine macaroon is coming along alright but the light is throwing off the photorealism

[@CanosieLabs]

hi, I used point lights, usually two. One above and to the side and another one to the side but only slightly above the z-axis of the macaroon (to provide some shadows). They both have 10w but the overhead light has a large radius, around .35m. I moved them around till I found something I liked. Hope that helps...

[@benjaminherrera3309]

somehow worked better for me if I only added one loop seam for uv unwrapping

[@loserhub9867]

How do I import Feet and Filling material? unlike the shell material, The feet material is in .blend file, I had no Idea how to import it.

[@CanosieLabs]

Hi, the shell material are basically 4k maps. The feet and shell materials are made within Blender so there is nothing to import. When you open the file, you should see the two materials you can simply import into your own Blend file. I just noticed the .blend file provided was corrupted so I've uploaded a fixed one.

[@suskadse1601]

@@CanosieLabs can you maybe tell how to do this for absolute dummies? Can't figure out how to do that step :( what means "simply import"? :D

[@miloskaluznik48]

A question. Whet it comes to the crunchy holes, would it not be possible to just use a torus with the same displacement and use that for our boolean?

[@CanosieLabs]

haha, great minds think alike! It does seem like you can do that. I tried that to see if it would be a faster way of creating those holes but unfortunately, it just didn't work out.

[@emotional.filters9285]

On the cap part, black lines appear just along the perimeter of the outer marked seam in render view. Im guessing there's a problem with the direction of the normals but i just cant find a solution.

[@CanosieLabs]

hmm interesting. I've never seen that before, I just tested it out with a new file as well. When you uv unwrap, do you see a image similar to 4:10. There needs to be 3 distinct islands. You can check the direction of the normal faces in bender see if they are all blue (ie facing outward).

[@lera9807]

@@CanosieLabs I have the same problem, the bottom of the object is black. The normals are blue. No light source helps. I don’t understand what to do, I’ve already tried everything

[@TotedeleonF]

This is by far the best video of blender-macarons I´ve ever seen, I just have 1 question, How can I change the color of the shell???

[@CanosieLabs]

thanks! To change the color of the shell, you will have use a different color map which I've provided here for free some other colors. www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/food/miscellaneous/pink-macaron-shell-material-texture

[@kaspera.daviesthegastromed9431]

Anychance of buying the blender file?

[@CanosieLabs]

hi. hmm, that's a good question. I think I might just a sample file to download for free. I've since changed computers so I have to actually find the file ... Once I have a free min and put the file up, I'll reply in this comment the url.

[@kaspera.daviesthegastromed9431]

@@CanosieLabs that's really kind of you man, thanks

[@CanosieLabs]

hi @@kaspera.daviesthegastromed9431 The file can be download for free here: canosielabs.gumroad.com/l/spsif It is a sample model which I used for the tutorial. Only one side has the bubbles punched out but that's more than enough to get good renders. Give it a good rating if you think it's useful :P Hope that helps.

[@randomshagz]

How do you load the shell, feet, and filling? Once it’s downloaded? It was completely skipped.

[@CanosieLabs]

Hi, The materials are provided as a download so you don't have to create the material shader setup yourself. You can see around 3:44 in the video where I assign those materials to the macaron model. You have to create the macaron yourself though, since I didn't put that into the file.

[@RedditChronicles022]

How do I change the colour of the macarons? Pls help

[@CanosieLabs]

You have to change the base color of both the shell and feet. The shell is a color map so you need to create your own map if you want your own color. The link on the description goes to my blog where I provide some additional shell colors.

[@Evri500]

Instead of booleans I would sculpt some holes by hand.

[@CanosieLabs]

I tried that, it takes too long doing it by sculpting. It doesn't look right because the holes are not depressions but rather air pockets. You can't get that effect by sculpting easily because you have to create a overhang for each hole. Using the gives you this effect automatically.

[@mailysbjeamrattanasakul760]

Macarons not macaroons. Pleaseeeeee

[@CanosieLabs]

Macarons indeed. Hope I didn't make a typo somewhere and use macaroons....

[@sb-wg3mt]

nice tutorial and blog. thank you. but I couldn't download ”Shell material”.　I was able to download "Feet and filling material", but I couldn't open the file（missing link）.

[@CanosieLabs]

oh, ops. There was something corrupted in the blend file. I had updated it recently. Try downloading it again.