IN3D Project 1 PART ONE

1. Story
The story is about a rat racing around a track on a mousetrap car. The car reaches the end of the track where there is a height difference. It is going too fast and is unable to stop. Luckily, the car lands on the bottle, rides on it and continues on another track.

Storyline

2. Shape
The bottle model consists of 6 parts (bottle body, 2 neck collars, the strap that links both neck collars, the bottle cap and the connector on top of the cap). The technical aspects learned in IN3D so far which will most likely be used in developing the model are 'Revolve' and 'Extrude'. 'Revolve' is used when making the bottle body, the cap and the cap connector by revolving the surface made through using 'CV Curve Tool'. 'Extrude' is used to make the strap by extruding the surface (created using 'CV Curve Tool') while following along a path (also created using 'CV Curve Tool').

3. Design

Side

Front

Top

Bottom

Back

4. Research
I used the bucket-modelling lab exercise done in Week 3 as a reference to model the bottle for my project. It is a good reference to use as it makes use of IN3D technical aspects such as 'Revolve' and 'Extrude' which I need to know in order to model the bottle. Just like the lab exercise which uses 'Revolve' for the bucket body and connectors and 'Extrude' for the bucket handle, I used 'Revolve' for the bottle body, the bottle cap and the cap connector and 'Extrude' for the strap which connects the 2 neck collars together.

5. Self-Critique
The final model of the bottle I made is quite successful in terms of the shape, size and color. However, there are some parts of the model that do not match the original object. For example, there is suppose to be a jagged teeth-like texture on the sides of the bottle cap but it is shown with a smooth texture on the model. The logo and water-level measurement on the original bottle are also missing on the model because I do not know how to place it on my model. Another thing that I failed to do is to connect the strap to the 2 neck collars by joining their vertices because the outcome looks different than the original. So instead, I just placed them close to each other such that they look 'joined together'.

Real Bottle

Final Bottle Model