Kirsten Warkow: Week 6 Ring

Wolf Pup Drawing from Adobe Illustrator

Ghosted View

Ghosted View

Ghosted View for Keyshot

Keyshot Rendering in Passes

Keyshot Rendering in Passes

Keyshot Rendering in Passes (Back View)

3D printed ring (side view)

3D printed ring (front view)

3D printed ring (back view)

UPDATE: Added images of the 3D printed ring. While it is big enough to fit on my fingers, the ring itself is smaller than I imagined it to be and the design is very faint and hard to see. Had it been a bigger ring, I think the design would have been more visible!

 For my ring design, I was inspired by the design of my favorite ring. The design features a fox head, and I wanted to create my own unique version of the ring using a wolf pup.
 In Photoshop, I drew a wolf pup head using a Cintiq computer and then brought the drawing into illustrator to image trace and rasterize it for modeling in rhino. When modeling in rhino, I used the create arc, Boolean difference, and sweep2 to create my ring body and then used hatch, extrude solid, and split for the top portion. Putting the drawing into Rhino and hatching it was my favorite part of the process!
 For Keyshot, I chose Anodized metal for the ring body, hard plastic for the wolf face and ring top, and used basic metal for the moon and spherical stars. My ring was designed not as a fancy or expensive product, but something rather to be mass produced and sold at a cheaper price, hence the plastic and metal material choices. For my lighting and rendering, I decided to render in passes which created lots of different reflections and values on the ring. I kept the metal shiner than the ring top purposefully to emphasize the difference in materials.
Inspiration: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Brand-New-Francescas-Fox-Ring-/00/s/NjgyWDEwMjQ=/z/8RAAAOxydkZRlqd~/$%28KGrHqRHJE0FGWmoq,mPBRlqd-t1jw~~60_35.JPG