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Den Sidste Flaske · Weinhof 519

Photoreal bottles without a photo shoot

AI productionforDen Sidste Flaske · Weinhof 519

How I turned one label file into a photoreal bottle, a 360° spin and a full banner set, with no photoshoot.

Role
3D artist and art director
Timeline
2026
Tools
Meshy AI, Blender, Figma
The 3D Alte Reben Riesling bottle turning from a white wireframe into real glass on sage green

The problem

New wines arrive faster than photography. For Weinhof 519 Alte Reben, a dry Rheingau Riesling, I had a label file and a flat packshot. The launch still needed hero visuals, motion and every banner format.


What I decided

Treat the bottle as a reusable 3D asset. I generated a base mesh with AI from 2D reference, then rebuilt what AI gets wrong in Blender: glass thickness, the liquid, the screw cap and a label that wraps without stretching.

Render once, use everywhere. 4K stills for heroes, and a 180-frame turntable rendered with alpha, so the spin drops onto any background. The renders then feed straight into the campaign drop system.


The build

Label to AI mesh to Blender look development, more than twenty test renders to dial in glass and light, final 4K stills, a portrait turntable exported as ProRes 4444 with alpha, and the banners, paid social and editable label template it powered.

The label file, the AI base mesh and the finished bottle rebuilt in Blender
From a flat label to an AI base mesh to the finished bottle
The 180-frame turntable, rendered with alpha
The hero film: wireframe to white sculpture to real glass, all in Blender
Final render of the bottle standing in dappled light
Final render of the bottle floating at an angle
Final 4K stills from one scene
“En Riesling der er værd at nyde” ad with the 3D bottle
Second version of the Riesling ad
Paid social built on the renders
Weinhof 519 special offer banner and two story banners
Launch banners

The full case study

The full case study covers more than twenty look development renders, the label wrap and glass setup, and the reusable launch template.

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Results

180

Frame turntable with alpha, reusable on any background

4K

Stills rendered from one scene

0

Photoshoots needed for launch


What’s next

Turn the scene into a template: drop in a new label and render a full launch kit in an afternoon.