Cinema 4D Room
I had taken some still pictures before making a animated video as i thought it would show the room better.
Making a wine glass and bottle (Cinema 4D)
I’m going to tell you how to make a wine glass in cinema 4D. Firstly you have to find an image of a wine glass on google, or whichever search engine you prefer, once you have found the image go to your desktop and create a new folder, call it wine glass, return back to your image and save the picture in the folder which you have just created. Open up Cinema4D, press F3 it will take you to the right side. Click edit in the box not at the very top, you will see a small drawing pin, click edit then click configure…. A box will open up on the right hand side in the tabs you will see display, filter, view, back.. click on Back just underneath it you will see a box with the word image next to it. Click the box on the other side of it and it will pop up with a new window, locate your folder and open your image, You will now see the image on your screen.
Now find the bezier tool and draw around the wine glass dragging your mouse along so the edges are smooth continue going to the top but don’t do the whole of the top, stop at the rim and go back down leaving a small gap between the other line which you have just done. Finish off and then find add LATHE NURBS and then add your outline into it. Press F1 and you will now see you have a grey wine glass!
Now, adding some colour to make it look nice, click the file again, the outline and press file, load materials locate the basic materials in a file called Maxon, locate a texture that looks like glass grab the glass and add it to the file, click render and you will see your wine glass! if there are any sharp edges go back to the bezier tool and smooth it out by dragging your mouse.
If you want to make a wine bottle, follow the same process.
Evaluation – Chocolate Starbucks
Evaluation – Chocolate Starbucks
For my fourth project I had to create three chocolate with a box, and an advert/poster to help advertise and to sell my chocolates. My target audience are “ladies what lunch”, mums who get together to meet with their babies for a chat over a coffee, or women taking a break from the busy office life. My aims of this project was to understand how form relates to function, being able to use appropriate materials, I have learned over the past few projects about which materials I should use, and that has been to work with jelutong, I had tried others like clay but it didn’t work out very well. I have had plenty of time to do this project, and I planned it out well I used a time planner which was created in class to help me decide what I should do each week, I also created a project log which I used to note down things I did each day, which is good to look back on to see what I have done and seen how long it has taken me to do.
I started off this project by researching into who my target audience are I already knew they were “ladies who lunch” so I decided to create a questionnaire and I headed of to Starbucks I asked questions like what their age was, what type of chocolate they like (milk, white or dark) and a few more various questions which I could use to help me create chocolates which are for my target audience. Apart from doing a questionnaire I had asked some people on Facebook for their thoughts. Once I had finished gathering my information and everything I needed to know about these women who lunch I started to crack on with some initial ideas, I started off slow and by this point I was told to go find some inspiration as I had jumped straight into the initial ideas without doing my research, so after finding things that inspired me I was soon able to create some more initial ideas page after page I had some great ideas and I then had to narrow it down to three, which I chose a truffle shape and 2 square designs which I used the square shape from one of them and the pattern from the other, and combined it together and my last one was a pyramid which I chose because it was different. I soon got to a point where I needed criticism so I had uploaded one of my half developed ideas onto Facebook where I got a numerous amount of responses, one of them was “why don’t you use that pattern on all of your chocolates rather than doing three different patterns, or it would look off. Do it as more of a theme” so I had, I split my design into three parts, butterfly, flower and swirls each chocolate getting one, by doing this I found making the pattern much easier.
To help me design my pattern, I looked at inspirational ideas although stated before. I looked into abstract patterns, vector and also graphic art this is what interests me so I found this useful when applying them to my designs. While doing my developments I did do a lot of experimental design, pretty much every time I had changed my design I made experimental designs vacuum forming them each time, most of them if not all did not vacuum form properly that is mainly the reason I kept developing, most of the experimental work was destroyed during the process (crumbled away) as I had worked with clay I soon later changed to jelutong which I found so much easier to use. When I finally came to my final three chocolate ideas I had to vacuum form them properly, so I bought myself some plastic (Clear) and instead of pulling the heater off I left it in place so the cool air from the door beside the vacuum former does not cool the plastic down, I found by doing this it worked amazingly, so well it picked up every little detail on the jelutong, I did also have a tough time taking it out, once I did I made some plaster to test it out, it was extremely hard to release, with even with a lot of force and pressure on the pattern it remained in tact.
I then had to start thinking about my packaging and the graphics that needed to go on it, I first started off with the box I flicked through the book of nets and soon spotted one which caught my eye and looked perfect for the chocolates which I had made, with a little bit of alterations and developments I made it work, however I did not manage to print this box off at home as I needed an a3 printer so I changed my box design to something else, I had designed this so my three chocolates would fit perfectly, I do think I spent far too much time developing my first box as it was very complicating to fix together and to find card long enough to make it work. As for my A2 poster I had created one initial idea before this, but I knew exactly what I wanted to include, the main points: it had to be a cartoon drawing, had to include women sitting down at a table, and it must include text, the Starbucks logo and most importantly my box of chocolates and some of them on a plate.
I myself personally would not buy these chocolates only because they are not targeted towards myself (men) I had designed them so it would appeal to women but I’m sure if the chocolates where shared, and I was offered one I mentally wouldn’t be able to say no!
My designs in white chocolate
so i was told by someone i have to make it with white chocolate, so i did and this is how it turned out, it was much easier to work with maybe because cadbury’s is a much richer chocolate than milky bar. 
My final three chocolates
Here is the picture of my chocolates, i had melted some cadbury’s chocolate and poured it into my mould’s i then put it in the fridge to cool before removing them.
Some great advertisements!
A pretty cool site where they have gathered up and categorized some advertisements
