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Here's part two of my memorial jewellery piece, the final renders and explanations for my decisions on this project.  The functionality of the ear cuff is still iffy to me. I tried to create a hinge for the bottom curve so that it would make sense as a piece that uses the earring hole, instead of just being a metal that hangs on the ear. But overall I feel like it is still lacking in that portion of the design because it doesn't fully make sense. I would assume that you'd have to wear the bottom part through the earring hole before clipping the back end together and hooking it over the top of the ear. And because I created it as a hinge-based opening, I had to pair it with a snap post closure instead of the screw back I had initially chosen.  Theoretically, this ear cuff curvature would have to be adjusted from person to person because it's more personalized to fit an individual's ear shape. Plus it's designed to be aligned to the outer earlobe piercing so it wo...

Hello! It is technically the "summer" and I have an assignment to create a death artifact for a deceased character. I've dug deep into my childhood to find Ember McLain from the Nickelodeon animated series 'Danny Phantom'. She passed away as a teenage aspiring musician in the early 1970s in Amity Park America. So I thought it'd be cool to mash up the American 1970's early punk era with the formal memorial diamond/jewellery death artifact.  I came up with some sketches after researching the different types of diamond cuttings and earring designs I could go with. Since Ember wore a purple dual earlobe set throughout the show, I thought I'd also create a memorial earring set that follows that theme. Following her colour palette of blue, purple, black, and grey, I ended up choosing the blue memorial diamond option since it was better than the black synthetic gem for a family memorial piece. Then I paired it with silver for the rest of the earring design si...

  Hello again! Guess who's ring just arrived in the mail before Christmas?  The vial ring came with both the printed cork and ring bottle. But in these photos, I just showed the mini cork I cut out. It came back a little frosty as it is shown in my shop but it is 100% functional which is very shocking to me. Hollowed out inside, and seen with water inside for some of the photos (that little curved line on the sides of the rings) because I wanted it to be able to stand up on its own with gravity's help. I got bored during winter break so I did a mini photoshoot with the ring. These photos came out with a bit of a summer vibe to them because of the "sand", shells, and lighting.  Anyway hope you enjoy these photos, order the ring if you'd like and if it's not in your size feel free to message me. Happy Holidays to everyone who sees this!

  1. Castle     For this project, I was refreshing my memory on how to use Rhino so it became a very symmetrical design as I was trying to reuse the commands I learned last year. I had no plan as to what I wanted my castle to look like, I just wanted to keep building on from smaller bits and pieces. I actually went into designing the interior more than the exterior since I was building out of it. I had two to three rooms on each side with a desk and doors with extremely tiny doorknobs. Though you can't really see them now that I put a ceiling over the rooms. That's on me for not fully planning out what I needed before I started creating the castle.  2. Surface Design Study     For this design, I had two inspirations that I wanted to draw from, which were quite different. A geometric bag design along with a Chinese embroidery throw pillow. This was the pattern I created, again it's leaning towards a lot of detail as to a united design that looks like a patte...

  My final decision for the ring is the vial one (To view the other concepts, please visit older blog posts). From the proof sheet, I only made the band a solid shape instead of a hollowed-out ring that works like a bottle. I hollowed out the neck area but the measurement of the cork vs the neck wasn't properly aligned after skewing it. So I only had the outlines to work with and restart building the shape. I ended up creating a thicker ring design to make sure printing could work.  I thought I knew how I was going to approach this with the skills I had until I realized I'm using the wrong Boolean command. I struggled with getting an offset version of the ring's band to be deleted on the inside so the model will be hollowed out, I was working with Boolean split, thinking that should work, but it split into 6 copies of the ring in the same place. After a bit of troubleshooting, I realized that BooleanDifference was the command I was supposed to be using this whole time. For ...

    From last week's concepts, I had received great feedback about my ideas. Even though I thought my concepts weren't exaggerated enough and that I had only designed all of them as one ring. The concepts were well thought out and drawn in three angles to give my partners enough of an idea to see how I would design my ring in Rhino later. There was repetition in some choices, one that stood out was the waves, but it was a tie between the two versions of the concept (#3 and #15), even though they were cool, they were lacking something to push it further.      In a tie for second-most liked, was the Vial (#12), body wraparound (#5), and Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory" inspired (#4). Personally, I preferred the vial as my first choice, if it is functional like hollowing the ring out and having the bottle top is cut in a way that could hold a cork. When it's made I would want to try and add something inside like an actual vial. However, this depends on the mate...

     These are my concepts that I've come up with. I only did 16 initial ones because I felt like I had a set of very different idea's just playing around with different concepts.     Currently, I'm leaning towards 4, 9, 10, 12, and 14. Though #4 might be lacking some originality and stability in the design. #9 really depends on how it will look in 3D, could look very awkward when I throw it into Rhino. #10 seems a little basic, but I think it might look cool as a design that's exaggerated enough to not be an "everyday" ring, but not too crazy so it's still wearable. #12 I think would be pretty cool, I haven't seen anything like this design yet. Even though it's inspired by the wood and resin style of rings that create a night sky or flames inside the resin. I think that might be a cool design however, the materials that need to be used in that might not work since there's a variety of colour, transparency, and material. It would look unique re...