Rebuilding the model the second time wasn't nearly as difficult as I was imagining it would be. Considering I had the first bottle mostly finished, it was really a matter of matching up the important sections and tweaking some parts that I didn't think looked realistic enough. I fixed the cap in certain areas to make it look less rounded and strange, and the bottom of the bottle didn't give me any issues on the second go, which I appreciate. I'm almost glad I redid it, because I think it look a lot better now.

Setting up lights was a bit strange. the spotlights kept hitting in weird directions and getting black spots in strange places. Although the final animation looks decent, the program itself didn't seem to like my lights very much. It worked as much as it needed to though. Maybe next time the shadows will actually want to act like shadows.

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