This was a passion project focused on helping me speed up my 3D to After Effects workflow.

I created the base of the Zippo lighter, then sat down and did a few painters to make a beautiful, if arcane-looking design.

Once that was done I focused on creating realistic materials in Substance Designer and Painter before importing them into Blender and exporting the resulting animation to After Effects, where I then added the graphic components.

While not my largest project or the most ambitious one, this remains one of my favourites because of just how much it helped me learn.