Everything was done in blender. Followed a very helpful Youtube tutorial to help me learn the tool. Just morphing a cylinder around was a great way for me to learn what I was doing. May go back one day to make the texture more realistic or maybe do something cooler with the background.
Rendered.
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I wanted to cut grooves into the lightsaber, but had issues with the smoothness of the surrounding area. Still happy with end result.
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The other side to see the buttons.
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Closeup
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