Loft : Making a bottle and a banana

Loft is a technique in the modifier panel that allows a spline to mirror the shape of any 2D shape such as a rectangle, circle, star, etc.

You simply draw your spline and the relevant 2D shapes.

Next you select the spline and select Loft, click get shape and select the relevant shape. The spline then takes on these properties.

By altering the path percentage parameter, we can create various shapes as the spline takes on the form of the shape up to that point in it's mesh.

Here I've used it to create a bottle!

I did so by lofting along the spline with 2 circles of different sizes to create the smooth ridges of a water bottle, then extruded and scaled to reach the point where I could add a simple cap onto the model.

ANALYSIS: This was only meant to be a short task so there isn't too much to consider but it is inspiring to see that a simple technique can allow you to create something that would normally take a lot longer to create and in a really simple way.