Variations on a HAF Emblem

[hermes2015]

So as not to dwell too much on my impending hip replacement, I have found a way to distract myself. I've started playing with ways to use the HAF fish emblem or logo to make objects. Here are some examples:

Earring in gold. Could perhaps be a bit smaller for daytime wear.



With diamond eye



Pin in silver.

[jumbojak]

Would you use a cage on the backing pun to maintain the dicontinuous appearance?

[hermes2015]

Would you use a cage on the backing pun to maintain the dicontinuous appearance?

This is usually the first, concept stage when I design stuff, just to get the look right. Then after that I would work out the practical construction details. This is just me playing around - not really a serious attempt to design anything practical. The eye would present a major challenge to maintain the "floating" look if I had to make a real pin.

[Dave]

Would you use a cage on the backing pun to maintain the dicontinuous appearance?

This is usually the first, concept stage when I design stuff, just to get the look right. Then after that I would work out the practical construction details. This is just me playing around - not really a serious attempt to design anything practical. The eye would present a major challenge to maintain the "floating" look if I had to make a real pin.

Yeah, things like that eye are a real pain! I have resorted to fine, slightly random, wires from a "pupil" to an "orbit" as supports. Can look weird though!

Won't work here anyway, no orbit.

[hermes2015]

Would you use a cage on the backing pun to maintain the dicontinuous appearance?

This is usually the first, concept stage when I design stuff, just to get the look right. Then after that I would work out the practical construction details. This is just me playing around - not really a serious attempt to design anything practical. The eye would present a major challenge to maintain the "floating" look if I had to make a real pin.

Yeah, things like that eye are a real pain! I have resorted to fine, slightly random, wires from a "pupil" to an "orbit" as supports. Can look weird though!

Won't work here anyway, no orbit.

If I were to actually make this as a piece of jewellery, I would consider a backing of a thin sheet of ruby sapphire. I played with rods of this amazing stuff when I was making jewellery as a hobby. It looks like colourless glass, but I could heat it to white hot in a torch without melting it.

[Bad Penny II]

Would the fishy earring look better dangling on some links?

[Bad Penny II]

These are the voyages of the web forum HAF

[hermes2015]

Would the fishy earring look better dangling on some links?

Yes, that would be a possibility. That's the beauty of using a program like Cinema 4D to design things. It is so easy to try out ideas and then render them photo-realistically. Like this bit of surreal craziness:

[Bad Penny II]

Would the fishy earring look better dangling on some links?

Yes, that would be a possibility. That's the beauty of using a program like Cinema 4D to design things. It is so easy to try out ideas and then render them photo-realistically. Like this bit of surreal craziness:

The shadows are a bit free range.

[Dave]

Would the fishy earring look better dangling on some links?

Yes, that would be a possibility. That's the beauty of using a program like Cinema 4D to design things. It is so easy to try out ideas and then render them photo-realistically. Like this bit of surreal craziness:

The shadows are a bit free range.

All part of the surreality!

Excellent, Hermes!

Going back one, can't find "ruby ssphire" as a material on Google - liads of Pokermon stuff though.

[Arturo]

Is it just me or did anyone else notice that there are floating parts of the logo that wouldn't be practical in real life?

[hermes2015]

Would the fishy earring look better dangling on some links?

Yes, that would be a possibility. That's the beauty of using a program like Cinema 4D to design things. It is so easy to try out ideas and then render them photo-realistically. Like this bit of surreal craziness:

The shadows are a bit free range.

Yes, the reason is that I was using a single light source, not global illumination, to save render time. I usually do that when I am trying out different things and want a fast result. Render times with global illumination are much longer. I will do one to show the difference.

[Dave]

Is it just me or did anyone else notice that there are floating parts of the logo that wouldn't be practical in real life?

Er, Artuto, "surreal" sort of means "bizarre" - it needs no connection to reality, that is the very essence of that school of art. Look up Salvador Dali!

[Bad Penny II]

Is it just me or did anyone else notice that there are floating parts of the logo that wouldn't be practical in real life?

The HAF logo evolved to have a free floating eye.
Give it another million years and most logos will probably have one.
There's no doubt that logos with a floating eye have evolved revolving around other stars .

[hermes2015]

I am planning to make some more bizarre variations that will be even further disconnected from reality.