3D Blender: Chocolate Mint Drink Sachet Packaging Design
Tool: 3D Blender, Indesign & Photoshop
KIOSK
11/10/20263 min read
3D Chocolate Mint Drink Sachet
Overview
If you asked me, one of the biggest challenges of being a multimedia designer is what field to focus on. You can be a graphic designer, a web designer, video editor, animator or 3d artist. For my case, I built my profession in graphic design. Working as a graphic designer is one of the coolest jobs ever created but the irony is that it is horrible to work with a marketing department. It’s like living your life in a nightmare. Good thing I was able to discover that there is a practical side to 3D arts. 3D can be used for practical designs like product modeling, floorplans and packaging to name a few. I just thought that if I’ll be focusing on 3D arts, I will have the chance to work with product managers who happen to be engineers. Actually I was able to learn this when an ECE product manager worked with me to create vector mechanical renderings of network switches and wifi radios. There are packaging designs too and 3D product models. I was so amazed that it inspired me more to pursue 3D arts.
I just thought of creating a whole industry kit from packaging design, kiosk and floorplan. I started with a coffee then a chocolate mint drink sachet packaging design. Things to consider when creating packaging design for instant beverages on a sachet are the following:
Front
Product Name
Flavor
Weight
Images - Background, Middleground & Foreground
Back
Nutritional Facts
Ingrediens
Procedures on how to prepare
Name of manufacturing company
Contacts
Website
Manufacturing and expiration dates
Design Process
Photoshop
Prepare all the assets needed. You need your logo and the images. For the case of the mint leaves and chocolate drink, you need to remove the background and you need to clean them in Photoshop. Export the images to PNG files so they will have a transparent background.
Indesign
Once you prepare all the images, information and sizing specifications, you will use Indesign to create the layout of your packaging design. Indesign is the industry’s standard for all types of layout. You can create multiple pages or spread inside the Indesign file without making the file heavy since graphic assets are linked and not embedded inside the pages.Once you created the layout, export them as JPEG or PNG files. For the back design, flipped it horizontally.
Blender > Shading > UV Editor
Create a model of the sachet. To apply the packaging design, do the following:
Go to Material > Base Color > Image texture > Select file.
Go to Shading. On the Window below, select UV Editor > Faces.
Select Scale and adjust the Faces accordingly with the design.
To add the back design, do the following:
Add Material Slot and import the file.
Select the back area and choose the Material with the back design.
Adjust accordingly.
Creating basic sachet packaging design is fun and at the same time very challenging. The challenge there is the adjustment of the faces with the design. I find UV wrap hard at first but once you get to learn it, it is very useful in the food and beverage industry, specifically packaging and kiosk design.
One thing I love the most about packaging design is that I don’t need to choose between 2D and 3D graphics because here, I need to do them both. It also reminds me of my father (may he rest in peace) who worked in Reynolds Philippines, an aluminum manufacturing company that supplies foils for aluminum packaging of different products.
