Marcus Van Gorden- Week 2 Flashlight Holder

     I have been a huge fan of the Star Wars films since before I can remember, so naturally when I started to brainstorm about what type of flashlight handle I wanted to design and print I instantly thought of my desire to have my own lightsaber. I wanted it to have the cut hilt like the sabers from the films. And I also wanted to put the energy crystals that power the magical device on display. 

     With our design constraints requiring us to work small I started by making the flashlight as a curve that fit around the flashlight snugly, after having determined it's dimensions with a pair of digital calipers. I proceeded to rotate the curve and then I added in the surface details. I constructed a sphere and rotated it around in two layers to address the differences in diameter along the handle. I copied those and moved them to all the layers and used Boolean difference tool to take the spheres out. Next I added in the power crystals along the top ring and finally I used a curve to split the hilt along a line so that it would have the open face that many of the sabers have. 

     Finally when I went to render it I decided that if I were designing this for me on Earth I would want it to be made of titanium. Next I used the ruby rendering material for the Crystals along the top as well as the insides of the circles in the hand grip. Then along the raised ridges in the handle I made out of a soft touch material so it wouldn't slip out of the hand. Finally I made the top of the original flashlight core into a 10 Watt light so it would light up the inside of the hilt in the renders.