Hammer Critique Please

Kainkun

I would like critique on my modeling, polygon reduction, and UV for this hammer I made. I didn't spend much time on texturing so I don't really need critique on that. I modeled on Cinema 4D, UV on Maya, and textured in substance painter.
Thanks

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Hammer 2.0
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Ashervisalis

My biggest critique is the section where the metal meets the wood. The metal doesn't match up to the wood, which is usually the case with hammers. I guess google image some hammer references to see what I mean. For the UV's and poly count, I'd need to see a wireframe and a UV map.

Kainkun

are you talking about how it's not seamless enough where the wood and metal meet? also you can click the model inspector on the bottom right to see the wireframe and UV

Brian "Panda" Choi

Looks fine.   It's just a hammer.  I know you said to  somewhat  ignore  the texturing, but that's what's  hampering the right now.

Kainkun

thanks

Brian "Panda" Choi

I really hope you polish this to a finish.  This is the most well designed think you've made since the Cyberpunk Gadget and VR Gun

Kainkun

Thanks, Brian. it's probably because its a simple object with easy to find references though. I tried making the weathering less homogeneous and added some paint and stuff. I'm pretty happy with it but I'm not sure where to go from here if it needs more work.

here's the new model

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Brian "Panda" Choi

You could dramatically light it.  Use product photography as inspiration.

The wood handle could use cracks.  Doesn't look like it has any, it's just a lot of roughness break up that doesn't obey much of the wood grainage.

You're not done yet.  You've got a good base though.

Did you make a high poly of this?

Kainkun

well i think sketchfab should show off the entire model. Are you talking about having a separate image or lighting within sketchfab?

Brian "Panda" Choi

A still image render.  

LIke Ben Bolton's.

Use him as a render target.

Sketchfab, for now, has crap for lighting solutions compared to offline ones like Toolbag or Unreal.
https://www.artstation.com/benbolton

It's a hammer, but make something simple look interesting.  Flex for quality.

Cglewis

did you use concept ?
if so could you please share so we have something to compare it to.
Also it looks like you could optimize the mesh better look for places to kill edges if you do not need them for the duration of the mesh 

Kainkun

Thanks for the advice Lewis. I don't have the references anymore and there wasn't a single hammer that I based it off of. I did work on killing edges, it used to be worse but I'm not sure how to do it effectively without degrading quality too much. Do you have any advice or know of any good tutorials for reducing polycount?

Kainkun

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Kainkun

Not too sure what I was doing but I tried to make it more stylized. I just used Unity because I made the textures for unity.