Retro - Living Room - Low Poly - Furniture Pack

The Retro Low Poly Furniture Pack is a collection of 15 pieces of mid-century, 60s and 70s style retro living room furniture that I created for the Sketchfab Store Modelling Challenge: Low Poly Furniture & Home. The brief was to "create a low poly 3D model or pack of models for the Home & Furniture category and upload it to the Sketchfab Store, set the price, category, and tag it #StoreFurnitureChallenge."

I was thrilled to be chosen as the winner of this challenge, and was also asked to write a Seller Spotlight article for Sketchfab's blog, which provided more information on the production of these models.

The pack includes:

2 sofas
2 armchairs
A coffee table
Set of 3 nesting tables
3 Floor Lamps
3 Table Lamps
A bookshelf
A sideboard
And a TV

All models are low poly, with the largest item having just under 2000 triangles and the average of around 1000 triangles. They are fully textured with game-ready PBR textures, either in 2048x2048 or 1024x1024, depending on the item size. The full list of poly counts can be found in the annotations on the interactive 3D Model at the top of the page.

I modeled everything in Blender and textured in Substance Painter. I only had a few days to complete the project, so I spent the first day researching the furniture I wanted to model.

I then created the models and gave them a unique color material before unwrapping them and moving on to the next model. After completing all the models, I linked them together and placed them on a circular path to try out a unique way of displaying them.

Trying out different ways of displaying the models

In the end, I came to the conclusion that the best way to show off the furniture for selling the pack would be to place it in a room, similar to how you might find it in a furniture shop like IKEA. However, when you download the pack, you will receive everything neatly laid out and facing the same direction with all the lights attached to the objects, ready to use in a scene.