Captaincook, thank you very much, your method of correcting a photo to make a 3D model out of it is a very promising idea. More promising than trying to use just a photo. I also tried to make your Ludovic chest of drawers, yes, it's working great. I made a printscreen from the screen, so the quality of the render was not very high (I need a high-quality source image). So I'll tell you again what you can do with a photo. We need to divide it into fragments. Even such a curved chest of drawers can be successfully applied to a rectangular box. I cut the photo in a vertical line along the right golden leg. Then I stretched each half in the program so that the image turned out to be in the rectangular shape of the frame. The legs should be in a horizontal line, and the top should also be horizontal. The left and right sides are stretched according to this principle. Now we need to clean the background around the furniture. It turned out like this. Two separate stretched images with a transparent background around need to be saved as PNG.
Now you need to create a box and place these PNG images on two sides, making the other sides invisible. From above, I made a tabletop of rooms (two parts with different heights and dimensions, combined into one group, assigned a marble texture on a scale of 900). Lighting using three hemispheres. Everything turns out to be very realistic, you can put the camera from different angles. The weak point of this method is the legs, they come in different thicknesses, I tried to attach additional images of the legs to them, sometimes it turns out well. Such a box does not need to be suspended in the air, it can be placed directly on the floor, the shadows from the legs and chest of drawers are very dense, like from real legs.
