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These USB pen drives were modeled in Rhino and rendered in 3d Max (vray), I used my pen drive as reference, took some pictures, aligned them in photoshop and loaded as background reference in Rhino. It’s always good to work with a reference in order to keep the right proportions. The model was quite simple, basically a bunch of boxes, fillets and extruded lines.

Very simple materials were used, a medium gray with glossy reflections for the body, glossy reflections and refractions for the plastic cap and a subtle bump map for the sticker.

I’m amaze how pen drives became so popular among people that actually don’t really need them, I guess they make them feel more up-to-date and geeky. Honestly I like these little solid state memories, I have to admit that 128 MB is kinda small (now upgraded to a 4 GB ), considering that I found it on the ground along a road with cars running all over it I can’t complain. They are strong too, I was surprised it worked without a hitch, it even end up a couple of time in the washer and came out nice and tidy, once dry I plugged in and all my data was still there, now is loaded with Damn Small Linux, this way I have a portable operating system, it comes handy whenever XP decides that it’s time to give up on life and you need to rescue your data before a new install, and let me tell ya, you’ll impress girls with it.

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