[looking for critique] Sword Modeling

Asminae

Hello everyone, I recently finished a 3D modeling, meant to be a skin mod for Monster Hunter World. I wanted to focus on detail and "visual fluff"

I'm now looking for critique in order to improve. Here is the sketchfab

https://skfb.ly/6IGBw

Here are some screenshots


Any feedback is appreciated, have a great day !

electronic-fox

I'll say right off the bat, the design is super noisy. Its kinda hard to tell which end is which, or that its actually a sword.

You really gotta tone down them engravings and silver patterns as a first step. 

Alex_J

some things I've been learning recently doing similar work:

I think paying more attention to the edges will bump this up a notch. Any nice texturing work is ruined if we see perfect CG edges.

Even on a "clean" weapon some subtle layers of color noise in the crevices and edge will go a long way to make it feel mroe real.

RoseC

I like how busy it is; it's like objet d'art. Only thing I would maybe change is softening up the corners  and edges a bit and make sure they are consistent with their neighboring side, pattern wise.

Stanley3DArt

Lacking a defined point of interest, like others have said some reduce noise and more centrepiece focus would really pull this together,  along with edge detail with smoothed / bevelled sides

Asminae

Hey, thanks to everyone for the feedback. I rearranged the texturing, i think it should be some kind of improvement. You can see it here.

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/wealthy-sword-386d90ee66864b74bb968fc2609a8187

Right now, i'm kinda burnt out by this model, but I'm still willing to listen to your advice, have a great day everyone !