Modelling Progress: A Step Back to Understand the Structure

Since the extension we have kept working on the pendant’s structure and 3D model, and made one important change: we stopped building on our earlier approach and went back to the original 2D design to work out its structure from scratch.

In the concept art, the stone is wrapped by several layers. They are not parallel decorative lines; they are bands that pass in front of, beside and behind the stone.

Modelling is not about matching a silhouette. We need to understand how each band wraps the stone, where it crosses over and under, and whether the result can exist as a real object. We would rather step back than let a wrong structure into the final model.

We will keep sharing the structural checks, the rebuilt base model and sampling. Images in this update document the process and are not the final model or product.