Debagger

A full 3D model and animated cycle of a debagging machine: the station that frees sterile tubs from their protective bags before filling.

Role: Modelling, lighting, animation
Discipline: 3D · Motion
Built with: Blender
Used for: Pre-visualization, training

The project

See the whole cycle before the machine is in front of you.

A debagger takes bagged tubs off the infeed, cuts the bag open, strips it away and pushes the clean tub on towards filling. On the real machine most of that happens behind guarding, where it’s hard to see.

I modelled the machine and animated its cycle step by step, so each stage can be slowed down, framed and explained: useful for pre-visualization, and for training people who will run it.

The debagger from above: frame, conveyors and transfer stations in blue light

Close view inside the debagger with a white tub on the transfer

Side view through the guarding of the debagger’s transfer area

A tub through the cutting and transfer stations

Clay pass: the cycle without materials, to check motion and timing

The whole debagger in a blue studio, seen from the front corner

Close render of the debagger interior with a tub on the conveyor

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