Professional Projects: Products, Games and Prints

Three professional pipelines

Product visualisation Model from client measurements or CAD → realistic materials → studio lighting → stills and turntables → web viewer (GLB) and AR (USDZ).

Game assets Block out → high-poly sculpt/model → low-poly retopology → UVs → baked maps → textures → GLB/FBX with LODs and correct scale and pivots.

Printable products Model or sculpt → voxel remesh to a solid → wall thickness and tolerance checks → split into parts with keys → STL/3MF → test print → iterate.

Working with clients

• Get references, dimensions and brand colours up front.
• Agree deliverables: resolutions, formats, number of angles, revision rounds.
• Show progress at blockout, material and lighting stages; changes are cheap early.
• Deliver organised files and a short readme.

Pricing

Estimate by stage (modelling, texturing, lighting, rendering, revisions) and multiply by your rate; offer packages (e.g. 5 product renders + turntable + web GLB). Render time on your hardware is a real cost.

A strong Blender portfolio

• 6–10 finished pieces in your chosen direction, quality over quantity.
• Breakdowns and wireframes.
• Turntables and interactive viewers.
• A short description of your role and tools for each.

Final project

Complete one end-to-end client-style project in your chosen pipeline: a brief, references, progress milestones, final deliverables in all required formats, a breakdown image and a turntable, plus a written quote for a similar project.

Check yourself

• What are the stages of the game asset pipeline?
• Why show work at the blockout stage?
• What should accompany delivered files?