Nick Tourville- Week 6 Ring

 

   The ring I designed, entitled, "Melody", functions both as a ring to be worn and as a the notes for a music box. The studs on the ring provide texture when worn and pluck the keys the in the box. Ridges on either side of the ring create a smooth surface between fingers so the wearer doesn't have to worry about discomfort from the studs. Finally, a colored curve was place through the center of the ring for accent. The wavy shape of the curve compliments the song this particular ring is meant to play, "Beyond the Sea".

    After taking some finger measurements, I began work on the modeling process. I started by making a tube, took its outer surface, and created a flat UV curve. I turned the curve into a surface and placed spheres in a particular pattern across the new surface. I then drew the curve, extruded it, and trimmed (and then capped) any part of the spheres and extruded curve below the surface. Using the Flow along Surface command, I was able to wrap my decorated surface around my tube. I create a slightly thicker tube at one end of the ring, mirrored it, and those became my ridges. After some fillet, the ring was complete.

   Seeing as this model was jewelry, I used precious metals like gold and platinum for the ring. When sapphire didn't work quite how I expected, I substituted it with blue glass for the center curve. The two Keyshot images were rendered in passes, consisting of a beauty pass, a mask pass, a diffuse pass, and a specular pass. These passes were they layered over each other in Photoshop.

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