I wanted some practice with high-poly hard surfaces and a PBR workflow, so I decided I'd try my hand at making a personalized lightsaber. About 200 hours later, here it is.
I'll start with the final presentation render. It's 4k and 16:9, so it might make a good wallpaper for some of you.
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I call this one "Moment of Ignition".
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Now for some less presentable images of the floor scene, which reveal everything to be floating in the void.
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This is where I would put a spoiler box if there was one. I wrote a fairly substantial dev log explaining everything I did, and why. However, it's too large to include in the post (23,000 characters + ~40 images) without some sort of show/hide feature.
So, I'll just link you to an album
HERE, so you can at least see the progress images.