Isaac Toonkel: Week 6 Ring

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Render 2 

Key Shot Prep 

Ghosted

3D Print

3D Print

On Hand

There is no replacement for displacement so get rid of your other jewelry and pick up a v8 inspired "Horse Power" ring. This ring was inspired by a variety of v8 engines. The intake manifold is styled from a LS1 engine made by GM which powers the corvette. I also took inspiration from late 60's engines made by Shelby. I thought it would be interesting to create the ring form by having the exhaust connect underneath the engine.

To create this ring I employed a variety of modeling techniques. To create the form I used a variety of Boolean commands to join polysurfaces. To create small details I used the wire cut command and the polar array command. To create the ring part, I piped curves that I transformed by adjusting their control points. To create the orthographic and isometric views I used the make2d command. 

The materials of this ring stay true to what real engines are made of. Aluminum is used in engines because it is light weight and dissipates heat effectively. The filter, timing belt pulleys, and intake manifold are made of black anodized aluminum. The engine block is made of regular aluminum and the exhaust is polished steel. To create the renderings, I rendered in passes. Starting with the normal rendering, then rendering a mask pass, occlusion pass, diffuse pass, specular pass, and reflection pass. I then took the multitude of renders and combined them in photoshop.