IP Design - Homemade Food
7 months, 2018-2025

Introduction
This is a self-directed project called "Homemade food". This project documents three different kinds of food (baozi, roubing, and zaozong) made by my grandmother during my childhood, shown in cartoonized 3D model form. The stories that occurred between the food and me are depicted in the design of the food characters' expressions and movements, which are further elaborated through the text descriptions on the posters. This project expresses my love and emotions of missing toward my family and hometown food while I was studying abroad. I also aim to promote Chinese traditional food through my creative design and cute style of cartoon characters.
3D model presentation
"Homemade food" (baozi & roubing & zaozong)

"Homemade food" - baozi

"Homemade food" - roubing

"Homemade food" - zaozong

Poster design
"Homemade food" (baozi & roubing & zaozong)



Process work
Since I missed my hometown so much when I just started studying abroad, I drew some cartoons of my hometown food and the food made by my family (only showed nine of them).

markers and colored pencils, Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
After I self-learned digital drawing by Photoshop and Illustrator during my college, I modified three of those hand-drawn cartoons by redrawing them in digital cartoon form.











Photoshop & Illustrator, Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Although the form of digital drawing is much better than hand drawing, I think the most suitable form to present 3D cartoons is 3D modeling. So I started self-learning Blender for a couple of months after my 2023 college graduation. I chose the food of baozi, roubing, and zaozong to create 3D models. After several editions, I finished my "Homemade food" 3D cartoon series.











Blender & Photoshop, Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
Finally, I rendered several photos of different perspectives of these 3D models for designing food posters with the adding of some text descriptions in Photoshop.

Photoshop, Nov 2025 - Dec 2025