Throwing Knife WIP

Croftyness

Hey guys, thought it would be cool to make a couple of throwing knives that attached to ribbons to be used for a kinda martial arts weapon.

This is the basic idea so far. Any more suggestions?
I feel some of it is a bit boring.. But I want to make it simple.

(I'll be putting a rough diamond surface in the normals for part of the centre handle. Not textured.)

JoshWilkinson

The only real suggestion I can give is to be careful at 3/4 shots. I assume this is in maya? Most renderers default their camera FOV to something very high, allowing you to see a lot when working but they foreshorten the crap out of individual assets. Whatever your final render is in; maya, marmoset, UDK, just be aware of the foreshortening. I see it ruin too many knives.

Croftyness

Is it acceptable to resize smaller objects just to fill missing spaces that can't be filled otherwise?

SaferDan

How about just making the texture 512 x 1024? The UVs would probably fit better that way!