This is an attempt at a realistic knife + surrounding. I don’t say it’s photorealistic because of the reflections.
Anyway here’s the link
http://users.pandora.be/willem.packet1/mes.html
comments? suggestions?
-hans-
WOW
looks great
only problem is reflection
dorty up the metal, and less blue!
looks amazing
Hey! this is very good, the only thing I regret is that you’re a little too lazy to assign the same texture to the ground and to the (shit, I don’t know the word in english) anyway: the part where you hold the knife! 
Congratulations, the work is good!
YAYA
Hey! this is very good, the only thing I regret is that you’re a little too lazy to assign the same texture to the ground and to the (shit, I don’t know the word in english) anyway: the part where you hold the knife!
Yeah I know, but that way, you can more easily stick to a colour scheme, and I think the result turned out quite good.
That’s true, Respectable reason! 8)
very very nice
MAMA MIA! sweet man. VERY GOOD.
whoa, way cool
Very nice!
With a different texture for the handle and a additional specmap on the blade it will be great!
For the SpecMap, I mean, blades can be thery shiny far from the cutting edge, but where they are sharp they are so because they are passed over a rapidly rotating abrasive wheeel, this makes the nighbouring of the edge satinated rather than smooth.
Just an opinion,
Stefano
With a different texture for the handle and a additional specmap on the blade it will be great!
For the SpecMap, I mean, blades can be thery shiny far from the cutting edge, but where they are sharp they are so because they are passed over a rapidly rotating abrasive wheeel, this makes the nighbouring of the edge satinated rather than smooth.
That’s a very good suggestion thanks. I’ll try to update as soon as possible.
blade is too shiny
looks like a letter opener not a propper sharpened blade
Awesome work!
Keep it up! 
I updated the pic (the original can still be found on the page)
I adjusted the lighting a bit and worked some on the blade.
http://users.pandora.be/willem.packet1/mes.html
Is it better this way?
-hans-
um, here’s the problem:
the reflections arent real, so i suggest seperating each face and giving a different env map to make real reflections, and in the texture buttons, lower the contrast to about .700
the handle is really sweet, but you could work on it a bit more, add more noise
the floor just looks like a plain old texture. i suggest you add a bit nor to it
the new dull blade makes it so much better! that looks great…
great scene, hmm, could u make more of a surrounding for it?? just a floor is kind of plain and would be accented alot better with a whole scene, say, with walls, and maybe next to a steaming coffee cup =)
an entire scene makes pics look sooo much better
And, maybe, (but this is not my pic, after all!) sticking the knife in the wood ground or on a door, would be interesting, no?
Anyway, it’s a pic with a lot of work, and I like that!
Are you talking about the first image or the update. Because the reflections in the update are way more subtile and more accurate.
Well it has a colour texture, a bumbmap, and a spec map. I agree though that the ground is to clean, and that it need some dirt etc.
working on it 
-hans-
Perhaps sticking it through a note on a door, that always looks nice
The area where the blade joins the handle looks a bit round and thick. If you’ve modelled this after an actual knife, then that’s the way it is 
, but I think it looks a little strange.
- pofo
Naaaa,
why would you waste a so nice knife that way? First thing message’s recipient would do is to unplug the knife from the door and keep it for himself.
Well…
if that were a self destructing knife with a blade sensor making it to explode when pulled out from the door, that would make sense 8)
Stefano