Doing a building project like the SOMBC could not been done without some 3D modelling and prewiz. On this page you will see what was needed to get a pretty clear picture of how things would look before the construction and design took place.

The modelling was done in Lightwave 8.5 in real scale down to the millimeter. As you can see the 3D model is not 100% similar to the physical briefcase. This because I was too busy doing the actual work physically instead of doing all in a 3D environment. It was used as a pretty helpful guideline, and there was no need to keep updating the 3D model when I saw what to do and how to fit the physical components in the real world anyway.

The 3D model design phase took about 1 week.

Screenshot from the 3D modelling in Lightwave. For the animations you need Macromedia Flash installed.
Final render animation 20th Novemeber 2005.	First render animation November 2005.