[WIP] Hammer (Critique is welcomed)

alex_kim

Hello, people. I am working on the hammer for texturing practice. My goal is to make this one as the junior position portfolio quality.

This is not done yet. However, I really wish to listen the opinion of you.

Thanks

MarcoAntonio

After combine some meshes clean up topology and set some edge support and turbosmooth modifier (if you use 3dsmax).

alex_kim

MarcoAntonio 

Hello, Marco Antonio. Thanks for your advice.

You are right. The points that you are suggesting is something I must fix! I will post updated one asap.

alex_kim

I fixed as you suggested :-)

MarcoAntonio

Yes. It is better right now. Still, there are a few things that you need to work more:

Brian "Panda" Choi

The silver metal on the sides of the head are still separate geo.  It's not contributing to the silhouette, just place it in as a normal map relief.

Also, the intersections between the head of the hammer as well as the hammer head body is still sharp.  Soften it with a smoothing operation in Zbrush or something.

alex_kim

Hello Marco Antonio. 

Thanks for your help and support. But I decided to drop the hammer project. My plan was to make something simple but great quality especially texture part. However, looks like this hammer is a lot complicated then I imagined. 

Thanks for your help again. I will post my new project soon. 

MarcoAntonio

No problem Alex_kim. Try to understand how to make High poly first. Once you have that, make a low poly and try to understand how baking works. Remember: First the high poly needs to look good and then is just making an approximation (low poly mesh) and a projection (baking).
I recommend you to look into Arrimus3D youtube videos. He has a list of videos teaching the basics, which helped me a lot to understand it all back when I started.