Melissa Shuford: Week 5 Sunglasses

 Drawings

 Drawings

 Drawings

 Ghosted Image

 Ghosted Image

Rendered Image

Rendered Image

For this project I was inspired by my favorite pair of sunglasses that I have owned for years and got for free. I like the more bulky style and decided to make these more of a feminine style in comparison to my racing style sunglasses. I really did struggle with this design in the modeling as all of the edges presented new problems when trying to round them using fillet or pipe and eventually I just had to do it by hand.

To create these sunglasses I uploaded the images then created Lines that matched my drawings. I then extruded them into planes then into polysurfaces before booleandifferencing them to create the details. I then created the glass for them before going and working on the fillets. To do the fillets I used fillet, pipe with a booleandifference then network surface, and also had to hand create some edges by creating a curve and then split the plane in which it sat upon before networking the curve in. I created the gem then booleandifferenced it into the frame before then going back and creating pipes on the outward edge to then create a filleted edge.

For materials I chose a dark glass for the glass part. I then chose a clear blue plastic for the gem then edited the material to get the proper refraction needed. I then chose a shiny blue plastic for the frame and edited the refraction and colors to make it see-through with a green tint to the plastic to accent the blue and make sure the color was not one solid boring color.