It’s been a while, been practicing my hard-surface sculpting skills, working on projects and having come back from a recent NJ trip with family, wanted to finally showcase my attempt at a Air Pod Container, in industrial-futuristic looking fashion.

Started with a simple container design and adding details from there. Heavily inspired by Metal Gear Solid V resource containers and Death Stranding containers, I made a Air Pod size container.

Picking a overall final design, I made some possible colorways that can come out of it.

I had a bit of a monkey-wrench thrown in… when I built my first iteration using ZBrush version 2024 and had to go back to my personal version 2023 license. Unfortunately trying to open a ZBrush project file in a earlier version made it crash every time making my first design file unusable unless I upgraded…

So I decided to start from scratch with a new iteration. Which wasn’t too hard as its just a simple cube with extrusion and hard-surface details. Went with a different take with this second-version:

From here I was reaching the two-week cycle, I promised myself to finish this project out here because as a designer you can always iterate and improve on your previous designs. And rather be stuck on a infinite loop, I have been keeping myself accountable to work in two-week sprints. If I decide to revisit this and spend more time I would add a lot more details, such as a key ring, handle, screws, panel-lines, etc.

I printed a models of various sizes, smaller ones first as test prints to ensure design looked good and resolve any faulty printer issues (there’s always something awry when printing the first time). And afterwards printed a couple working models, primed, painted, decaled and top-coated.

It was a fun project, definitely a good learning experience and exciting to further see new possibilities from here on. I was also amazed how the ZBrush model details were kept in the final print even to the surface etchings, a good sign for panel lines and even adding my signature.