Chris Venable and Kristine Dickson: Week 14-15 Pepakura Chess Piece - "Queen"

For our Pepakura, we decided to make the chess Queen. Chris designed and modeled it in 3ds Max first. I handled unfolding and laying it out in Pepakura and Illustrator, before pulling it into Rhino. 

Ghosted:

Keyshot:

In Keyshot, I gave the Queen the Granite stone material. I increased the scale of the texture so that it repeated more often and the veins in the stone were finer. I darkened the overall color by blending in a charcoal black with the texture. Overall, I really liked how glossy it turned out. Chris gave the model a nice, sharp silhouette so the reflective material gave it a faceted look.

David Billings week 15 : Chess Piece

My design intent for this piece was to create something both elegant and harsh in nature, I believe I accomplished this with the subtle curve given to its form while being composed only of sharp angles and edges. Inspirations and influences for this design includes combining the form of a orchid flower with that of a crystal while retaining a shape and proportion recognizable as a chess piece.

I created this model in Maya and did so by first creating the base and extruding upwards, adding variations and extrusions as I saw fit to better express my design.

The material I chose to render in keyshot was a high polished black metal. I chose this because I felt it added to the refined nature and elegant styling I was hoping to achieve.