Warhammer Axe WIP

redPower

Hello polycount! This is my first time posting here, and I am excited to finally be joining the community. This is the first piece of art I have worked on in a few months, and I look forward to hearing what you all think. I chose the following Axe design from:
http://www.warhammeronline.com/conceptart/index.php

My aim for this project is to take this design into current-gen standards and retain the forms as much as possible. I am not attempting a low-poly diffuse only hand-paint. I will be hand-painting the diffuse/spec maps and use only subtle normals.

At this point, I have the normal/AO/Cavity bakes done and the diffuse is in progress. Current Tri count is 3,900.

But for now, I will be working solely on UC as a part of team Söta Pojkar.
Good luck to everyone working on UC!

A.Kincade

Nice man. I think it turned out pretty legit. That skull area turned out nice. Great start. Can't wait to see it all finished. Good luck with UC.

slipsius

the blades look soft. might wanna model it instead of zBrushing. though, i heard the new zbrush (3.5) is getting better for hard surface. still, looks soft

natetheartist

yeah, i agree with slipsius, Your blades are starting to look gooey. I would also suggest hard surface modeling.
Also, you have quite a lot of polys on your model. the polycount could probably be halved without loosing your silhouette.

redPower

Hey thanks for the replies!

A.Kincade: Thanks a lot man!

slipsius: I can definitely see what you are saying. I just recently got 3.5 and I cannot wait to apply the new tools to this model. This was my last 3.1 sculpt.

natetheartist: Again I completely agree with the 'gooey' observation. I have faith in 3.5, hard surface in zbrush exists now nate! Embrace it! The polycount is too high, but this is what I use for baking. I will cut the mesh down once the bake is up to polycount standards

kinesis

That's very nice. Never get to see too much from the old Tomb Kings. There isn't much more to really say as the others have touched upon the blade and the polycount. I look forward to see what you do with it next.

torontoanimator

can we see a closeup of the axehead?

Wayfa

Like the top point..
Agreed on the blade.. you may want to use hard polygroups over there.. looks too soft and have artifacts given by a +90 degrees smoothing.