Digital Tape - caprine.company
Published: September 9, 2025

These little cassettes are a fascinating late-term tape technology, and they're a lot smaller than you'd expect.


3d render of 3 NT format tapes in a row.
Grid lines are spaced 1cm.

The model is based on Sony's NT cassette format introduced in 1992. My model omits the Sony and NT logos, although otherwise this model should be fairly accurate to a real copy of this tape. There's just one major problem with the model; I severely miscalculated the thickness of the tapes, which I only realized once the project was completely finished. I could fix this, but I don't want to do all that.

Wireframe is a mess, but it works. No point wasting time on perfection.

This project was heavy on modeling and texturing. Turned out well despite its flaws, and the result is pretty satisfying. I originally finished this project in late May this year, but never ended up posting it.