The idea for this project came up during a walk with a friend along the Spree in Berlin. We were talking about past and future projects and he asked me if it would be possible to create a high-resolution photorealistic image of his personalized turntable.
He wanted to use that image as a background for his DJ performance. For this purpose, the image should be printed on a large cloth, fixed on a frame and illuminated from the back.
I replied that the project would be feasible with Blender and that I could recreate almost everything with the appropriate reference material.
He then sent me pictures of his turntable and we looked up and bought a similar model online as good a starting point. That model tho was far from identical and so I started to change and add more & more details over the course of a few evenings to make the renderings look as close to the original as possible.
The major work that needed to be done consisted of
- Unwrapping and retexturing the entire model
- Exchanging the and retexturing the pickup
- Adding missing features such as the reset button
- Creating a custom record
The result is the following image, which was finally rendered at a 24k resolution:
The original turntable looks like this:
And the starting point we bought online looked like this:
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