Oliver Filley: Week 6 Ring

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For my ring I set out to create a simplistic, clean looking, unisex ring. I wanted to create a very simple and minimalistic band with a little bit of styling. I drew inspiration from a start-up I have been working on for the past year called Salt Sports. Salt Sports is a watersports company so I wanted to create a ring that would have a nice slow to it. The Band of the ring was created from parts of the logo of Salt Sports.

To create the ring I started by taking the Salt Sports logo and doing a trace in illustrator. From there I imported the trace and did a curve 2 view of the lines. I then patched and offset the patch. After that I filleted the edges and created a solid text. For the text I attempted to fillet the edges but this led to many naked edges even with a very low fillet setting(.001). I also tried a pipe and blend but that also led to a number of naked edges. As a result the letters are not filleted.

In keyshot I chose a stainless steel for the ring band and a painted stainless steel for the lettering since that is an available material that shapeways offers. To render the image I used a materials 2k lighting and played with the HDR file then worked in render passes in photoshop making several different layers to create the image.


OliverFilley Fall2013 elds205 ring