Blake Stephenson: Week 6 Ring

   The ring that I designed was inspired by my love of the water and my love of fishing.  I put on there a slogan that really drives me as well as many other to fish as hard as you can.  There are also two boats and two sets of over lapping fish hooks on the ring.

     I mainly built my ring in 2D by using the extract surface and UV Curves to get a flat surface from the face of the ring to work on.  I also made lots of curves and used mirrors, copy, move, scale and a few others.  I used the Text Object function to create the 3D lettering on the ring and I used ExtrudeCRV to extrude the boats and the hooks.  The bars on the back are simply rectangles that I alt-tapped to create an exact copy of the first one.

     I rendered these views with a few passes.  I used a diffuse pass, an occlusion pass, and specular pass and then a pass that really brought out the reflections on the ring.  The materials that I used were for the ring itself black chrome.  Then for the lettering and bars on the back I chose a 24K Matte Gold to give it a different look from almost anything else that is available in terms of jewelry today.  For the boats and hooks I used a hard gray plastic because I wanted to differentiate between them and the ring but also not give it to much of a pop.