ASSIGNMENT: Pick an object with an outer casing and do an exploded view of it.Who doesn't love exploding chicken? This is what the inside of an egg timer looks like. More parts than it seems from the outside.
BEST: Breaking it apart was pretty fun, and modelling it was great once I got into the rhythm of things. This was definitely a great learning experience for figuring out how winding, time keeping mechanisms work.
WORST: Measuring everything accurately down to the last thousandth of an inch. Also, I very cleverly [sarcasm] decided to model this in sketchup and import it as a pdf into illustrator. Stuupid move. There was a lot of fixing that had to go on in illustrator as sketchup does not like curved surfaces and insists on creating jagged edges. I absolutely had the time of my life fixing those springs in illustrator.
Any chance you'd share that illustration in a larger format? I just pulled an egg timer apart and all of those gears flew everywhere. Your illustration would be super helpful!
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