Client: Guerlain — personal reinterpretation
Year: 2025
CATEGORY: CGI · Skincare
Role: Concept · Modeling · Shading · Lighting
Software: Blender 4.2 · Photoshop · Lightroom

— Project

Abeille Royale is heritage in liquid form — Guerlain's royal jelly serum, a product whose story stretches back through 200 years of French perfumery.

I rebuilt the bottle in Blender as a museum object: gold lit from within, glass faceted like a gem, framed in the chiaroscuro of a vault.

— Concept

"A jewel, not a jar."

Abeille Royale is heritage in liquid form. I built the visual not as cosmetics but as a museum artifact — golden, lit from within, framed in chiaroscuro. The bottle is precious. The honey is its proof.

— References Mood / direction / tone

Caravaggio, Boy with a Basket — single warm light source

Vermeer, Pearl Earring — luminous detail in darkness

Tom Ford Beauty — chiaroscuro discipline

Clains campaign — tactile material focus

Honey macro — viscosity, slow flow

Guerlain heritage 1962 — typographic brand DNA

Hermès leather — restrained material study

Museum amber photography — artifact reverence

Honeycomb structure — geometric warmth

— Composition studies Pre-vis / framing / lighting plan

Hero framing · key light direction

Macro detail composition

Top-down lighting plan

— Modeling [N] polygons · clean quad topology

Wireframe

Solid

Material Preview

Rendered

— Shading Five core materials · physically based

01 / GLASS

IOR 1.52 · dispersion enabled · micro-roughness 0.05

02 / METALLIC

Anisotropic brushed · roughness 0.3 · metallic 1.0

03 / FABRIC

Cotton texture · roughness 0.85 · subsurface scattering enabled

04 / ROCK

Granite texture · roughness 0.95 · ambient occlusion baked

05 / LIQUID

Volume absorption · density 2.4 · color attenuation enabled

— Render/Final visualisation Hero Full Bleed · final render

Hero Full Bleed

— 45° PREMIUM SHOT

Three-quarter view

— FRONT PACK SHOT

Front pack

— MACRO DETAIL SERIES Macro shots

Golden Liquid & Sparkles (interior focus)

Gradient Glass Edge & Vertical Lines (material focus)

Cap, Bee Emblem & Pipette Bulb (detail focus)

— LABEL & TYPE DETAIL

Label & Type Detail (Wide)

div class="cs-module-header"> — MATERIAL CLOSE-UPS Work with materials

Gradient Glass & Liquid Interior

Gold Cap

Gold Typography on Glass Surface

— ADVERTISING FRAME

LIFESTYLE / IN-CONTEXT (Paris Building Facade)

— LIFESTYLE CONTEXT

LIFESTYLE / IN-CONTEXT (Paris Metro Station)

— Motion Sequence concept ·

Process of Modeling (Blender)

— Technical Project specifications

Software: Blender 5.0 · Cycles
Resolution: 3840 × 2160 px
Samples: 4096 per pixel · OptiX denoising
Polycount: Hero asset: 21300 · Scene: 121000
Textures: 4K PBR maps · custom normals on label & cap
Render time: 18 minutes per frame on NVIDIA RTX 4090
Color pipeline: ACES · Filmic Log Encoding
Post: Photoshop · color grading · atmospheric pass
Hours: 84 from concept to delivery

""A jewel, not a jar."

Studio: Davidova.Studio
Art direction: Alexandra Davidova
CGI: Alexandra Davidova
Year: 2025
Location: Warsaw · Worldwide
Software: Blender 4.2 · Cycles