This project was for my Digital Design Methods class. I was tasked with creating a pepper grinder and accompanying salt shaker. It was an exercise involving 3D modeling, rendering, and animation skills.

It always starts with a sketch, then a 3D model. I made some revision from my original idea, and refined the form to my liking.

From there, I rendered my model and experimented with a material exploration.

The pepper grinder is modeled to be fully functional, and I designed the interior mechanism and external body myself, I used no other assets besides hardware such as the base screws and driveshaft retaining nut.

I storyboarded my animations, then used Keyshot to animate them and edited it together in AfterEffects.