Making the bottles and boxes

After taking a break from the chair I decided to do some simpler things. I decided to make the beer bottles and crates that would fill out the scene. First I made the bottles.

In the photo it is hard to tell what types of bottles are on the table. I had to make a judgement call on the bottle shapes. I went with a regular long-necked beer bottle and an old fashioned bottle. The sort you would see with three Xs on in cartoons.

I started with the big bottle. I made this to double check that what I was thinking was the correct way to go. I took a cylinder and modified it, I extruded it into the shape I wanted. This was relatively simple.

After this I moved on to the thin-necked bottle. this was also relatively simple. I found a picture of a long necked bottle, put it to the side-view and copied the shape. After this I needed to find a texture. A bottle is, obviously, transparent. After consulting with tutors etc I found a blend texture; in this texture I put the transparency down and changed it to brown. I didn't add any gleam or sparkle to it as the scene will be dark.

After making a texture for the surface of the bottle I needed a label, but before I could make this i needed to make up a good beer or whisky name. I came up with the following:

'Lucky Johns Irish Cider'
'Bugsy's Wine'
'Montana Lite'
'Goodfella Whiskey'
'Rich's Righteous Whiskey' - hard to say
'Capone's Untouchable Whiskey'
'Al's Sicilian Beer'
'Convict Beer 12091983'
'Joke's Whiskey'
'Las Vegas Special'

I went with Al's Sicilian Beer because it fit better than all the others. It fit the bill. Personal taste I guess.

Initially I planned to base the label design on the design for JD, but this idea changed later.
I wanted something unique - that fitted the scene and didn't look everyday. I also wanted to be quite simple, with no glitz or glamour as the scene is set in the Prohibition era.