GOW Axe in Substance Designer

siver · Sep 2018

Hey,

For the next personal project I'm going to make a God of War Axe in 100% Substance Designer. I was inspired by projects were everything is done in Designer. I like the idea of creating a model with a height map.
The goal is to learn more about Designer and I'm curious to see what challenges I will face.
Of course this project is inspired by The Viking Axe of Javier Perez.

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Photo of the axe in Marmoset.

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Photo of what the graph looks like now.

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I decided to breakdown the axe in different graph. The first part separate graph is the blade of the axe.

siver · Sep 2018

Here is an update. Mainly I added details to the top part of the axe. First I will add some overall shapes and details before starting with the texturing.
Feel free to give feedback.

Substance Designer screenshots

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Marmoset screenshot

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MarcoAntonio · Sep 2018

nice but the blade is too thick (since it is a WIP I suppose you already have that in mind)

siver · Sep 2018

@MarcoAntonio Thanks for the feedback! It was indeed a bit too thick.

Overall I feel that I need to balance the height map more. This is a bit more challenging then I thought.

Here is an update, The main shapes are add and there is some detail added too.
For the coming day I'm going to balance the height map, refine shapes and add some more detail.

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siver · Sep 2018

Update, where I refined the heightmap and recently begun with materials. The wood and the metal are a base. Feel free to share what you think.

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siver · Sep 2018

Some progress that I made. Making the texturing better and also made a decent presentation in Marmoset.

Things that I think that could still use some work
-More detail in the wood / localisation of damage or signs of usage
-Some tessellation artifacts
-The back of the blade with the details are dark and not that readable
-In marmoset the bottom metal part of the axe is a bit too dark.

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Photo of the axe in Substance designer

siver · Oct 2018

Here is more progress on the project.
These are more subtle details on the photo here

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I also had the idea to take the project a bit further by making it into one procedural node. That can be used to quickly get different types of axes.

The photo below shows different types of axes that is generate by the node. (Renders from Substance Designer)

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Photo below is the Axe node with as input custom materials and patterns

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siver · Oct 2018

It has been a couple a days since the last update and here is a new one. If focused more on making the material better and adding material definition.