Raiden's high frequency blade

Maxilator

Hey, wanted to practice some hard surface, found this design I like from metal gear rising revengeance called the high frequency blade. 

http://img.wallpaperfolder.com/f/4FDF797FEB65/raiden-metal-gear-rising-revengeance.jpg
http://http//www.swordsaxe.com/images/products/detail/Metal_Gear_Rising_HF_Blade_Raiden_Carbon_Steel_Functional_Sword_2_eb.jpg

I just played the game a little bit but I really like the style of their hard surface stuff, here is some progress I've made so far:



As you can see I take a few liberties with the design, partly because I think it looks better and partly because the references I find are mostly obscured or adaptations themselves. Still a bit more to do for the hp like screws and stuff, I think I'll make the sheath as well when the sword is done, it looks like this (https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/larger/public/field/image/2016/06/metal-gear-rising-raiden.jpg?itok=8GEKN_HP ).

Cheers!

Maxilator

Update, Inserted some screws and adjusted some geo.

pmiller001

Lookin sharp!. No pun intended. I'll have to take a closer lo@Maxilator er work. But it's lookin good to me @maxilator

Maxilator

@pmiller001 Thanks!


Made some edges a bit softer and surely adjusted some minor geo, also put a bend modifier on it now but its pretty slight, it reads to me as a pretty straight blade even though it's a katana. I think the hp is pretty much done but I might make some adjustments later, I'll move on to the sheath now!

Syncopnix

That looks really nice!  Are you planning on texturing it?  I'm a Game Production Student, and texturing is something I'm really trying to perfect, I would to see your workflow for texturing this object if you plan on doing so.  Otherwise really nice design, I'm interested to see what the sheath will look like for it!

Maxilator

Syncopnix said:

That looks really nice!  Are you planning on texturing it?  I'm a Game Production Student, and texturing is something I'm really trying to perfect, I would to see your workflow for texturing this object if you plan on doing so.  Otherwise really nice design, I'm interested to see what the sheath will look like for it!

Thanks! I'm going to texture it so look out for updates if you're interested in that, It generally goes pretty fast for me but I can post some intermediate updates if that is something you'd like to see. The design is from metal gear rising and the sheath looks like this (https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/larger/public/field/image/2016/06/metal-gear-rising-raiden.jpg?itok=8GEKN_HP)

I popped the blade into keyshot for the heck of it, here is what that looks like  there:

Syncopnix

That is really nice, I'll continue to follow along for the updates, no need to rush I know it takes time to get things perfected!

Thanks for the Info!

Maxilator

Update, started with the sheath.

Maxilator

Did some more on this.

Maxilator

Didn't have time to work in this for a while, but I had some free hours today so I went ahead and made the low poly, uv's, and baked the normal.

Maxilator

Started working on the mats, pretty straight forward so far, for now it's just a metal base with a roughness layer on top with an edge generator on the ones i've started on.

Maxilator

Some more progress on the mat