Latest rendering

Here is my latest rendering....its of the censer that gave me such grief..but it looks better!!...will now work on different versions for the goldsmith competition.

New Ring Render

Here is the lastest render..just to stop the blog becoming to wordy.....on the subject of words...

Dissertation = 4651 words written!!!

Todays New Maxwell Render

Here is the latest render from Maxwell & Rhino

well that didn't last long or even the tech can't solder

Well the latest update on the soldering is even the tech's can't get the solder to flow...Kevin thinks that there must be dirt or something under the wire to stop the solder flowing. He even tryed and above are the results of his effort!!...So now for the big clean up. Spoke to Brian the course leader and we spoke of the problems I'm having with the piece. We have come to the conclusion that its best for me to clean the piece up for the assessment on Thursday. He really likes the design and has suggested that I should develop it for the Goldsmith competition. To this end I will try and reverse engineer it into Rhino and then render it in Maxwell. So not all is lost.

Wow I can solder!! & CAD Day

Today was the final CAD with Leon, hopefully only until next September so as always was shown a lot of tips and how to render a two pound coin...just brilliant. As a bonus Leon give us some tutorials video on a memory stick to down load and use. So after yesterday where I could not solder the censer....I brought it home to clean up for another try tomorrow at Uni..but I thought well lets have a go at home...and well I got the solder to flow at long last...not sure why I can get it to work in my workshop and not at Uni..maybe its to do with the flame? as I'm more used to the one in my workshop.... well I'm just happy it going better.

Cooling ring Render

Rendering of Cooling ring for Unit 204. It shows the top of a gold ring with 60 1mm sq diamonds which it also repeated on the other end of the ring. The other ring is made from Silver and has the same diamond setting on both ends. Model from Rhino and rendered in Maxwell.

Render Image

Here is the render of the wire ring...still need to work on the rhino file, but its a good start

Design Day

Today was a design day. got in at 9.00am..put my name on Jen's List and went to the computer room to use Rhino and Maxwell. At 11.00am had my design tutorial with Jen which went very well. But I feel I need to do a bit more in the sketch book drawing wise for this project. Jen thinks the research material i.e the maps and the text of the random post cards is good. The direction I think I will take is to do with landmarks....its about how we find our way with the use of visual images etc. The work with rhino and maxwell is coming on and I'm very pleased with what i have produced so far.....images to come soon