Mackinley Farmer: Week 6 Ring

For the design of my ring I wanted to recreate a version of Jay Gatsby's ring from The Great Gatsby but using my initials. After seeing the movie I wanted to buy one but could never find the right ring. This was the perfect opportunity to design just what I wanted. Jay Gatsby Ring

The modeling techniques I used were the typical extrude curve, sweep2, boolean union and difference. The command I found the most useful would be Curve from 2 views to match the sides of the ring. I also used the text tool for the first time to make solids and boolean differenced them out of the main stone. For the details around the initials I created a circle and then used Array along curve.

For the materials I wanted to keep it similar to my design inspiration so I used a polish silver for the main part of the ring. The middle stone is a rough black plastic and the details are a hard shiny plastic to make them pop more. I went with a simple lighting environment and just bumped up the contrast a bit and darkened the background some.