The task for this one was to create the main shape of my space ship or enigmatic object to start with my final piece. I made a few sketches, but wasn’t sure about how to approach this task. So I made the first sketch which was heavily influenced by the BB-8 droid from Star Wars. The shape is hard to recreate in 3D though, because of the flattened top and bottom, as well as the panelled surface. So the second object came into existence, a pyramid flipped upside down, which I imagined to be slowly rotating. This shape was surely more doable, but also probably too easy, and despite that not interesting enough. I still built it in 3D to see if it might look better than what I imagined it. So the way I built it was, I used the start up cube and scaled the bottom face down to create the main diamond shape. I then used extruding out and inwards, scaling and the loop cut function to create the shape below. I also cut the shape in half with box selection and then used a mirror modifier to make sure that the mesh’s symmetry is ensured.

This model was discarded in the end, because it isn’t interesting enough visually and didn’t fit into the main idea of a steampunk-y space ship. The style this shape gives the viewer is quite sci-fi one, because of the harsh edges and corners.