Buck, Apex, Folding Knife

Lawrence Preston

It's been a while since I've posted here, so I'm kinda far along in the process, but figured I'd post my backlog from Facebook, and keep up to date, going forward. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome, and thanks for checking it out, Cheers!

Personal project I'm working on in my free time for practice and learning
reference can be found here: http://www.buckknives.com/product/apex-knife/0818FAM01/

Oct 8th: started the highpoly.
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Oct 9th:
A: "sometimes I wonder if these small details are worth the difficulty of making them. Then, I say to myself... Hey, how'bout you just shut up and make'me. Cuz... yes, yes they are"

B: "Just need to get a blade on there... Anyone have experience with this? I'm thinking of taking it into zBrush and carving it out. Any ideas"?

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Oct 11th:
A: "Couldn't get the topology I wanted with the fuller hole already in it. I think it will work out better doing it this way"

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Oct 15th:
A: "Okay, so I redid the blade one last time. Some things were still not quite correct, and I just had to get it right. I feel much better now"

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Oct 16th: "Started the lowpoly process. It's been a while since I've done any sort of texture baking, so I did a test piece, with some texturing in Substance Painter". Not the final topology.


Oct 23rd: "Got the low-poly done, for the most part. Got a couple normal errors that need to be fixed. But... just had to play with the textures first, before I trash them, and fix the cage errors for bakes. So this is just Substance Painter practice run".

ZombieDawgs

You've got some really nicely presented models but your final texture/render is letting you down a fair amount. For one, remove the JJ Abrams lens flare, it's kinda gaudy.

Your grunge map seems to be fairly similar across the whole object though, being similar on the blade as well as the blue handle, looking at the reference it looks more noisy and anodized than the rest of the mesh.

Push it a little bit further and it'd be a really sweet asset.

Lawrence Preston

For sure ZombieDawgs. Thanks for taking a look, and the feedback, though the images are not of a final texture/render. I'll post more progress soon. Cheers!

Lawrence Preston

Oh man, It's been a while. I've managed to do quite a bit more work on it, but it's been sporadic, so I haven't been keeping up with my Polycount posts. Here is the current iteration.  Working working with Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag 3.

Lawrence Preston

Calling it done, so I can start this vacation with a fresh project. There are things I'd like to have done better, but I learned a ton and will carry over to my next project. Cheers!
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