Reed Herne: Week 6 Varsity Ring

 Inspired by the game of lacrosse given to us by the creator, the varsity ring can serve as a trophy, award or accessory. This piece of memorabilia can be customized to your team colors for personalization. Simple yet elegant the Varsity ring is a wearable reminder of wearer's experiences with their team playing the great sport.

In modeling the head of the stick I used the draw curve command as well as sweep1. For the shaft of the stick I used the helix command to create the initial curve, then a sweep1 command to create the shape. The butt of the stick was modeled using the tapered cylinder and the cylinder commands. To refine my model I used the boolean union and fillet command, creating one unified model and softening edges. 

The passes I used for my first keyshot image are as follows: flat colors, ambient occlusion, reflection and wireframe (with layer mask). For my second image I used the same passes with the exception of the wierframe pass which I replaced with a transparency mask (xray). To create my ambient occlusion pass I painted the ring white, set the material to diffuse and removed ground reflections and shadows. In Rhino I used the make2d command to create isometric and orthographic views of my design. After cleaning up my views in rhino I exported the line drawings to illustrator and from there I pasted them to my photoshop file.