Fantasy Sword

billymcguffin

-EDIT- Final shots!








v Original Post v

Hey guys,

I've been working on this sword for a little while now. It's somewhat inspired by some swords from Lord of the Rings, but it's mostly my own design.

Here's sort of an overview of the materials and some reference that I threw together (this shot of the model is a bit old at this point):
http://i.imgur.com/9bleJu0.jpg

And here's the most recent version of the model.
http://i.imgur.com/NDWutdn.png

I'm not sure about the weird groove thingies in the fuller of the blade at the moment, so input would be appreciated.

Critique would be nice!

billymcguffin

Here's an update, added a sheath:

billymcguffin

Another update, made the grip sort of a leather weave kinda thing:

Tobbo

Looks good so far. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

billymcguffin

Thanks Tobbo! Here's some work I've done on the harness that connects the sheath to the sword belt:

billymcguffin

Some updates!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Billy, how'd you get them there leather weave grips on the handle there?

billymcguffin

I wrote up a little tutorial:

PyrZern

Saw your WIP of this in the hangout the other day. Looks pretty cooool now !!

Also, glad you put name on the mini-tutorial. I pinned it to my board

billymcguffin

Thanks Pyr! Hope someone finds it useful!

Scote

Thnaks for the tuto. Can be useful

billymcguffin

Hey guys, I haven't updated this much recently but I've been working on the lowpoly and bakes and textures.

Here's the state of the textures at the moment:


The leather definitely needs work; it's mostly just base colors at the moment.

I'd really love to get some crits on this!

Thanks!

moleman

I think the blade looks to much like it's made of gold, or is at least to yellow, which gives it the appearance of an artefact rather than a weapon, if this is your intention then by all means do keep it this way, but giving it a colder appearance like in your concept might be better. just my 2 cents.

other than that awesome sword!

Shrike

looks good, i expected some weird fantasy thing with crazy edges , i prefer the old groove tho, the new ones don't make so much sense and they add a lot of noise

Dethling

Awesome work.
Only critic I would have is that the gem looks more like wax then a gem.

Tobbo

This turned out quite nice! What's the triangle count on the low poly?

billymcguffin

Thanks guys!

@moleman: I think that's just the environment I put it in. In the texture it's completely desaturated. In my next shot I'll try out some other environments.

@Shrike: Thanks for the crit. At this point I think it's a bit too late to return to the old fuller, however I will try to reduce the noisyness on the blade.

@Dethling: Yeah, it's really hard to get a gem like appearance in toolbag.

@Shinigami, by cage do you mean the wires of the highpoly without subdivision, or the lowpoly?

@Tobbo: The blade is about 4000, the sheath is about 2700, and the straps and belt are about 7000 atm. I'll probably continue to optimize those bits because there are a lot of parts of those which are never seen.

Thanks again for the comments!

billymcguffin

Here's an update on the textures:



Also I did some work on the polycount for the straps and they're at about 6000 now instead of 7000.

billymcguffin

Here's the high poly wires. (link because it's a big image)

moleman

looking good! will you make a low poly as well, or is this just highpoly practice?

billymcguffin

Thanks moleman. The textured shots are the lowpoly. Here's the wires for that.

billymcguffin

Thanks Tidal!

Here's the final shots for this one!





and the final texture flats!



Thanks everyone who gave suggestions and criticism!

3dReaper

Looks excellent. Very nice piece.