Doomhammer

ViTaR

Hello everyone. I am making the gaming model of the Doomhammer for practice and learning of something new. Why Doomhammer? Because I like it. 

Here is some refs. Main ref is the first one. Also I will make fur on the handle. Handle tape I want make like on second right ref.

 

And here is my blockout (in Maya). Next step is sculpt in ZBrush. I will be glad for any suggestions or advices.

ViTaR

Hi polycounters, 

Here is ZBrush sculpt.  I will be glad for any suggestions or advices.

ViTaR

Hello everyone.

I decided to make some changes in scale, because hammer seemed not massive.

Also I made more damages to the hammer's head (this hammer was in many battles) and remade handle tape.

I will make fur, when I will make textures.

Next step is lowpoly.

ViTaR

Hello everyone.

So, here is low poly test. 7260 triangles in total. I baked normal map in substance painter 2 by using the mesh name method (cool feature). AO baked using Knald.

Next step is texturing in Quixel, I decided to use 4k textures. 

Any critiques, advices and suggestions are welcome.

ViTaR

Hi guys.

So, here is a version with textures.

This is my first textures ever, so I will appreciate for any feedback/tips/suggestions etc.
Also, I will make fur after texturing.

ViTaR

Hi people.

I am back. So, here is my recent update. I made fur by using neo fur for unreal engine 4. This method works perfect for me. I did not set up materials and lights yet.

If you have any suggestions for how best to present it, you can write it. I thought about the stone pedestal, but I do not know what's best.

pmiller001

OH some moss, like in one of your references, would be KILLER on this thing. Is it too late for that? 

Wendy de Boer

ViTaR said:

If you have any suggestions for how best to present it, you can write it. I thought about the stone pedestal, but I do not know what's best.

Ofcourse, the best way to present it would be to model Thrall to go with it! Or Orgrim, if you prefer.

ViTaR

pmiller001 said:

OH some moss, like in one of your references, would be KILLER on this thing. Is it too late for that? 

Hmm, I do not think that moss may form on the warhammer. Except that it will lie without work for a long time.

Wendy de Boer said:

Ofcourse, the best way to present it would be to model Thrall to go with it! Or Orgrim, if you prefer.

Yup, but unfortunately I am not a character artist.

RaptorCWS

ViTaR said:

Wendy de Boer said:

Ofcourse, the best way to present it would be to model Thrall to go with it! Or Orgrim, if you prefer.

Yup, but unfortunately I am not a character artist.

but next to the throne in orgrimar would be cool

ViTaR

RaptorCWS said:

but next to the throne in orgrimar would be cool

Nice idea. But I'm not so fast yet to make throne just for present the hammer. For hammer I will make the stone pedestal, but throne can be as the next separate asset, where I will combine them. I will think about it.

mickeyvpn

Nice progress man!
I think hummer head looks more like rock than metal in actual stage and it's not right. Maybe you should make it look more like metal? Actually I like concept versions of the Doomhammer more than movie version. If we take a look into lore it's a relic weapon and it should look more decent than shabby hummer that appear in the movie. You can see this difference in your reference here:

What looks more epic? I think concept on the left, and not only because of lightning

ViTaR

As for me, movie hammer looks more epic. I don't like metal head, it looks strange. As I know from warcraft history (that I read on wiki ), the head of this hammer made from solid massive stone, he was in a many battles, so I made it like you can see here. But this is only my personal preference.

Crazy_pixel

I like it

AlexUnderWTF

AWESOME!

ViTaR

Hi polycount. So, I finished this project. 

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

More images here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Qg1WZ

Poinball

Nice ! I really like it

lotet

Looking really nice! any chance for a marmoset viewer?

ViTaR

Thanks guys.

Unfortunately I can't export fur from UE4 into marmoset (If I'm wrong, please correct). And I don't want show it in marmoset without fur. Sorry.

< ASH >

A really good looking piece, well done ViTar !

the only thing that I "don't like" is the carved emblem in the middle of the hammer head: wold have been more interesting to have an extruded symbol (as shown in the left concept art drawing). But that's ofc comes down to personal preference.

Unfortunately I have no hints about how to translate the UE4 fur into Marmoset: have you considered to model some planes to try to simulate the same effect with an alpha?

ViTaR

Thanks <ASH>. 
For me the carved emblem was more interesting, so it was my preference.
What about fur with alpha. Yes, I tried to make it at first like this, but I didn't get what I want. And then I found UE4 workflow, it was much faster and easy, so I decided to stop on it.

tda

Caught this one on artstation, it turned out great dude. The textures are spot on and i love that carved motif, awesome stuff!