For our class activity, I chose a portable hand sanitiser to present as an interesting 3D Object and learnt important 3D fundamentals just from analysing it!

3 interesting views: 

Let’s start off talking about the colours. The dominant colour is a bright shade of green, a visual cue that we usually relate to hygiene/health products and that is what the hand sanitiser is for: to clean and kill bacteria. Sub-dominantly, it has a translucent, colourless cap that contrasts the main body of green, to bring alternative focus upon it. Lastly, it has a splash of pinks and white on the print itself that brings attention to itself, which makes that a subordinate feature.

From first glance, the hand sanitiser might seem like a fairly simple small-sized object until you try to dissect it mentally into even simpler parts and pieces. As we’ve learnt, everything’s constructed by shapes, be it similar or differing shapes.

The cap is a cylinder. The bottle’s a trapezoidal prism. The strap is made up of a triangle and an elongated cylinder with spherical bumps running along its length.

The hand sanitiser is actually both symmetrical and asymmetrical. The outlying factor causing asymmetry being the strap and the varying widths of the trapezoidal prism, both affecting the symmetry on the same plane.

The overall shape is pretty much static, the only exception being the strap extending from the main (heaviest volume) body of the hand sanitiser. The oddly shaped extension becomes the dynamic aspect that ‘pops out’ of the regular shape.

As for proportion, it’s made up of a cluster of contrasting volumes. The main bottle being around the L sized, the cap’s about S sized, the strap would be M sized and finally the small bulges along the strap will each be XS sized.