~Cardboard Box Modeling~

Cardboard Box Modeling

Reflection

I am starting of with reflection mainly because of the fact that I had difficulty doing this assignment the first time round. I realise that the work is getting slightly more tougher and more difficult to understand.

Later, you will be able to see the difference in my first attempt and my second attempt. Although the outcome still does not look perfect, I know I did improve and am happy about it.

However, I feel that being in this course, I have to perfect every assignment thrown at me as it will provide me with skills that can assist me in the future. Being so, I am making a point to mention here that the work document or PDF file seems to be slightly outdated and at times very confusing. I am not blaming my failure on the files given to us, but rather, I wish that clearer instructions can be made on these files to help slower and not as skilled people like me to have a better chance of excelling in this subject.

Here are the screen-shots.

BEFORE

AFTER

Process

Seeing that there are lots of steps and teachers, you have lots of students to grade, I shall list the steps taken in point form, in order.

1) Create a cube with 3 subdivisions.

2) Make it look like an empty box by extruding the top face and bringing to downwards.

3) Give the box four flaps by extruding the top four side faces and bring them upwards.

For this part of the assignment, I did cheat a little, instead of extruding and scaling it one by one, I selected the two opposite ends and scaled them outwards which gives the same effect. The only difference is that the two ends will have the same angle unlike when you do it individually.

4) bevel the sides of the box to make it more realistic.

5) Using the "move to face" obtained by double clicking the move button, I "crumpled" the box by selecting a pair of vertices, followed by a face, preferably in the opposite direction, I pulled it in different direction, giving it a crumpled look. I repeat this steps several times.

Ultimately, this is the steps taken to achieve the box shown above. To obtain the torn box, the following steps are added on.

6) Select the faces of the flaps properly and extract. After which, remove it by pressing the delete button, or rotate it accordingly to make it look like it is hanging.

Technique

In my opinion, this assignment is focused on extruding and I must say, it is a very useful tool.

I now know how to make a cube into an empty box with no top. Jokes aside, it is really a good tool to use and can actually quicken certain actions, for example, if I wanted to create a square nose from a squared-faced robot, I could select the right faces, extrude and make it look like the face grew a nose. Fine, it is a bad example but I am sure my point is made. Extruding makes things faster.