I have been out of office for three weeks and got back yesterday, right before I left I wanted to upload this but I didn’t have enough time for that and I wasn’t able to reply during this three weeks, therefore I upload this now with happiness!
I have been working on this project for 1 week, I recorded the first days when I did most of the work. This is a remake of a sword I modeled 8 months ago, you can see it here:
now it has gone a year since I started with blender! I thought it was gonna be fun to see how much better I have gotten during this time!
After I had modeled the sword, I started making a room for it because it would be nice if the sharp ends could reflect something, it would look more realistic and it would be more fun! I hope you like the results as much as I do!
I loved watching the timelapse, but it was too bad you didn’t reveal the paper lantern materials / or compositing :p.
Overall the sword looks good but, like Zackaggs said, the first picture is REALLY dark. I liked the room more when it was brighter like in the timelapse video.
For a sword the size of a bamboo plant, though, I’d expect the hilt to be longer to hold with two hands (unless this is Final Fantasy 7 / fantasy oriented).
The lamp shades node trees are almost identical for the two materials used on the shades, it just got different colors and the inner mat isn’t really transparent.
On the next project I will focus more on the light and scale in the scene.
If you have any more questions, just ask.
I was recently visited in York in the UK. There was a shop there called the Armory, which did swords and stuff. The had a full size version (almost my height) of a sword just like that. Normally when you see these with cos players I imagine they are foam for the weight, but this one was metal. It was very heavy, and clearly very impractical, but at the same time very cool looking.
