ZacD: Right you are! I was strictly talking about displacement, I'd never heard of them called Displacement maps (only height maps) in regards to parallax.
As ZacD said, your design should be fine Sean. It's a pity it had to be so heavily altered to be submission ready in the first place. Loved the initial design of yours.
Thanks for the answer ZacD, the thing is in Quebec most studios and companies have a french and english site. I think i am gonna stick with bilingual resum
Going to work in an office in yfronts...seriously WTF. I used the love the Thundercats, now its all ruined. This is almost as bad as that picture of ZacD dressed up as a rent boy.
Thank you for feedback, @ZacD. Grooves were modeled as in a reference object, and for the graphics I thought of something that will hint zombies in a fun way. Like, if this is a machete, there should be zombies somewhere. :)
Stargate has some secretly very good designs in it i think. Nice... i'd echo zacD and say that the engraving be easy as larry in zbrush with some alpha masks etc
@ZacD good feedback. I added a little emissive to make the shadows not quite so black. By splashes of color do you mean the things that look like flowers?