[WIP] A Witcher 2 Sword

redhonour

Trying to model a sword I found in the art book of mein favorite game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Iz my sculpt. I'm also trying to practice different presentation render techniques at the same time!

Software used so far:
Zbrush, 3DS Max, Photoshop

Supplements:
Dutch apple pie, vodka







I've since moved on to the low poly and texturing, but I will gladly take any critique on my sculpt.

redhonour

I thought it projected decently... but I noticed some errors once I started to texture. Yeesh. Back to the drawing board.

garriola83

The blade isnt reading as metal, is it supposed to?

BARDLER

I think it is suppose to be silver, if I remember the game correctly.

JoshVanZuylen

The boble of the handle looks flat, the handle is also missing a leather spot and the blade needs a more defined edge also a more silver colour.

ErichWK

Are your normals reversed? They look so.. If so, flip the Green Channel

redhonour

Hey all, thanks for the feedback.

As for the blade, I truly don't know what the material is. I don't believe it's a Witcher's silver sword... It's a concept I found in CDP's artbook, but I don't really remember the sword from the game. However, I do want it to look like metal (not silver) so I'll damn sure try to fix it.

Josh: Hey thanks, I must've been up late to have missed the leather thing. And when you say "more defined edge" you saying it needs to look sharper?

Erich: I don't think they're reversed... Everything that I want to be popping out/sinking in is doing that. I'll post up the normals when I get home though just in case

Edit: Normals



Edit2: *smacks self* Flipping the green totally helped a metric fook-ton. Right on, Erich!

redhonour

Ok... so update time.

• I flipped the green which fixed the normal issues I was too dumb to spot.
  
• Tried to make the blade read more as metal by simplifying the colors, adding some contrast with the edge of the blade, and some scratchiness around carved portions of the metal.
  
• I added the missing leather to the grip of the sword (which I was too dumb to spot).
  
• I altered the hue of the hilt to be more of a brassy metal and threw a photo overlay over it to preview how it could look. Will definitely not leave it like that.
  
• I also watched a few videos on how to make and sharpen swords. Hopefully I gleaned something useful from that...

Next up, I wanna work more on the brass parts.

Grubber

I like where its going, and the texturing looks good. But the blade still does not look sharp enough for me

Hurley

Looking great man!

I do agree that the bronze isn't quite there yet, it's still reading like wood or a light tan leather.

For the few areas of the blade with chunks missing, could I recommend adding in some stress fractures/scratches? Those areas feel to clean to me.

redhonour

Thanks Grubber :poly121:

A little more work done:

• Yellowed up the brass a bit more
• Painted out a lot of that scratchy photo overlay and added in some gunk
• Made the edges SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARPERRRRRRRRRRRR OH YEAH
• Lotsa spec work. A little bit of noise overlayed on the metal spec
• Just a bit of blood traces for fun

redhonour

My bad, I totally missed your reply Hurley!

I kinda put this aside cos I thought that was all the feedback I was gonna get.

Now that I have some... back to it!