From the course: Making 3D Presentation Materials and Mockups

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- If you're putting together a spice jar or a beverage mockup or something that requires plastic or a glass vessel to apply your label design to, you're going to need to be part designer and part researcher. Let's say, for instance, I didn't like the size of this spice jar or its shape, maybe I want it to be glass with a metal top. Whatever I choose for my design is my choice. But if I'm going to make a 3D mockup of it, I'd better go out and find an existing product that has the vessel design that I like. Whether I go to the grocery store, the drugstore, or find something online, I have to settle on something that I'm happy with that I can use for my mockup. Now you may be thinking, hey, Todd, what if you dream up a structure design that doesn't exist? Well, I'll tell you, there's a couple of ways to go about this and some of them can be expensive, and others just require some good research. As consumers, we see hundreds, if not thousands, of products and most of the time we think…

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