HandPainted Dagger

DorianVann44

Today I started work on another handpainted dagger from a concept by Vavilov Konstantin.
I am currently working on the texturing process! Let me know what ya think!

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Still WIP, If you notice anything that could be done better/more efficient, or any feedback on it whatsoever, I'm all ears! Thanks

Jonas Ronnegard

hehe many people really like that one dagger I dig it myself nice choice.

as for feedback I think it's still to early need to see what you do next.

modeling wise I myself would probably be thinking about the bolts if I should put them in the mesh or not, they are quite big, and especially with a non normal mapped model I would be afraid of them looking a bit dull.

Uberren

I feel like the pommel might be a bit too wide. In the reference it seems to hug the grip a bit more.

DorianVann44

Thanks Jonas and Uberren for the feedback. I didn't realize so many people like to do this dagger. lol.

This is an updated version of what i have done so far. i was having a little trouble with the darker metal on the blade, but I'm pretty happy with what I've come up with.

seandxyz

Little high poly don't you think? unless that isn't a low poly model. but assuming its for a game along the lines of wow, they have super low poly stuff



Some of the things that need doing^

DorianVann44

Hello again, here is an update of the work on the knife. i restarted the texturing process to define more of the shape of the blade and to give more differentiation between each section.Thanks seandxyz for the feedback on the poly situation! I have also reworked some of the geo to make it more low poly. I am still in the process of fixing the lighting.

Here is how it looks so far:


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seandxyz

Much better geometry wise, but again there is still room for improvement in geometry, general rule, go through your mesh deleting edge loops, if it makes almost no change to the overall silhouette get rid of it, else look at other options repositioning of edge loops, or re-topologise, for this style I believe most the detail comes from the textures rather than the model anyhow, if your not great at drawing you can always create a high resolution model, and bake an occlusion map form it, works as a great template to work with while hand painting your textures.

DorianVann44

Hey Polycount Community! I finally have an update to my dagger asset! This is my final presentation of my dagger so far. If you notice anything that could use some tweaking I'm all ears! Thanks!
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Sketchfab:
[sketchfab]0ce6a7e8e80444f0b65fc03030b22399[/sketchfab]
Hand Painted Dagger by dorianv4 on Sketchfab

DorianVann44

This is an image of my progression on this dagger. I feel I have come a long way on this piece.

Jonas Ronnegard

last pic looks a lot better, gradients?

DorianVann44

What do you mean Jonas if i may ask?

Kid.in.the.Dark

This looks much better... Just to push this a bit further maybe consider the colour blends between surfaces... like the reflections from bounce lights should be considered to take the texturing to the next level so the golds should receive a little bit of red/dark silver etc from the parts surrounding it and vice versa on the silvers etc. very nice start though (Y)

Jonas Ronnegard

sorry, wasn't 100% sure what made it look better, but felt like you added some slight color gradients to the texture

DorianVann44

Yeah the gradients definitely helped as well as the understanding of the lighting.