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Tru Cool Pillow - Behind the Scenes

After creating 3 super successful 30-second video advertisements for Carpenter’s Tru Cool pillow, my company put together a short behind the scenes video to take a look at some of the different aspects of our production process. With a tight schedule of only 2 weeks to produce 3 videos, we used some clever methods to cut down on work and keep the end product looking spiffy.
Using captured HDRI photography for a realistic pillow render

This spot for Carpenter Company features a 3D animated pillow in a live-action environment. I was able to take advantage of the on-set lighting by capturing it with 360° bracketed photos. Those photos were turned into a 32-bit photosphere which was used to cast photographic lighting into my 3D render. Below is one example of a stitched 360 panorama.

trucool HDRI panorama preview
unwrapped 360 panorama capture shown as flat image

3D Modeling a Pillow

Believe it or not making the pillow model was actually relatively simple. There’s a handy little feature inside Cinema 4D that “shrink wraps” cloth. It’s usually used to fit clothing onto a 3D character, but in this case I was able to shrink wrap a cubes sides in on themselves. The result is a crumpled edge and a bulbous center just like the Tru-Cool pillow! Here’s a great video by MonkeySee explaining the process:

Download the Free Cinema 4D Scene File

Care to see how my project is set up? Feel free to download the Cinema 4D file and have a look around.
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