Meat Cleaver
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Started this a couple of hours ago, got the rough shape but now it needs some detail.
Decided to go with a wooden handle and a metal end cap some big appealing screws, that sort of thing. Here's the ref I used for the general shape...
Decided to go with a wooden handle and a metal end cap some big appealing screws, that sort of thing. Here's the ref I used for the general shape...
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Made a bit of progress but it's still kind of boring atm...
Another update, fixed the engraving - had to flatten the blade and delete all poly's to a flat plane then extrude borders and create loads of control edges etc. Should be able to load up the original blade shape and follow that with the improved edge flow...tomorrow!
Redone the blade, it's one solid piece now and as smooth as a babies bottom - thank god. Need to symmetry the other side yet, reshape the handle a bit and other tweaks.
Setting up the other system tomorrow as it's back from the repair clinic but will finish this soon
All these shortcuts you guys mentioned did cross my mind while running into problems and I understand that this may well be viewed as time wasting but it wouldn't have been done this way had I not wanted to display the high poly model.
Alternatively, you can actually apply a bump map (or even normal map) to your high poly, and in Max (not sure about other 3D packages) when you bake the high poly to the low poly, not only will it bake the high res geometry detail, it will bake the normal/bump map applied to your high poly as well. I find this to be very useful for small details like text and other engravings if I don't want to spend the time with geometry or zbrush details. AO even works too.
If I was a serial killer I would n't want to chafe my delicate hands:)
@Rhinokey sounds like you use mudbox? was thinking of taking it into zbrush for a few scratches here and there but not really sure if it's necessary as textures could provide all that sweetness.
@ThatDon thanks man
@Jimmies_the_squirrel *chop *chop
@GugloPWN aye this will be Freddy's cleaver, covered in feathers and chickens blood!
@Ruz lol funny you should say that, psychos are always portrayed as being clean and fragile aren't they, consider it altered and thanks
Zbrush handle grip
980 tri's so far
Sorry, but I cant believe u modeled all that detail in top. Im sure it was good practice, but shit, would have been so quick and clean in projection master with Zbrush.
Nice bake, its coming along but needs some more lovin.
beartraps - there was no specular until now, thanks for the encouragement :thumbup:
Orgoth02 - fixed and cheers
It looks like stains on fabric and not on metal as it shows a darker color where is more dense, then a flat transition zone like red wine on tablecloth. That flat transition seems wrong to me, cause blood don't dilute, but curdle, even more if there's just a thin layer. Its color should be darker with less variation.
Its placement on the blade isn't too consistent. It is a cleaver, so it's meant to chop really hard meat pieces. Blood should be all over the blade, even encrusted around the juncture between blade and wooden handle. There should be blood in the engravings too. If you want to keep it a little less gory, I think it should show a sort of deeper blood stripes suggesting cuts, and not a sort of little splash like now. It seems it has been just tapped on a blood stain.
Maybe wooden handle should be less polished, and worn where fingers hold it, playing with specular in those zones too. The cutting part of the blade could be a little more shiny.
Anyway, great work!
SyncViewS - thanks, wasn't really going for the totally grungy, bloody look but just an indication that some chickens have been at the mercy of this thing! Will work on darkening the blade blood as suggested
**Rooster, updated thanks!
edit: also with the base colour tweaked to avoid any blown out lighting, just so it's dead clear