Splicer’s 3D Development Thread

Hello everyone, wanted to start a thread here to document my progress in creating 3D game assets. I'll start with my most recent asset. I created it for a contest over at Sketchfab. The challenge was to create a battle axe.

I started by drawing a few concepts.

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I asked some friends which one would be best to model for the contest and C was the one.

I then started by blocking out the base shape in Maya.

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I then took that and turned it into a initial high poly and into Zbrush for detailing.

Here it is fully detailed and finished high poly sculpt.

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Then it was onto retopology. I use 3D coat for this. Here is the final topology.

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After that UVs, which were done in 3D coat and Maya.

And last into Substance Painter where I do my bakes and texturing.

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And link to the Sketchfab viewer.
https://sketchfab.com/models/f3acbdfb77dc449fb2d08bc3524a4e79

Thanks for looking. Love to hear your thoughts and opinions.

Thank you for the compliments and feedback Malcom, I see what you mean about adding the scratches and damage to tell a story. I will apply it to my next one.

I am already working on it, here is the final low poly and initial high poly which I'll detail. This one is more of a barbaric style, crudely made with low end materials.

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Will be making the other 2 once this one is finished. Trying to get my work flow down!

Updating to show my finished high poly. @malcom how are the details? Maybe I went a little over board, never gone this dense on the mesh resolution. The wood I didn't want to overdo as I found a nice Substance Material I already tested which will work, and don't want the wood grain to conflict. I'm anxious to finish this. Looking forward to getting more feedback from you.

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Malcom thanks for the feedback. I see all the points you've made, all makes sense. On the transition of the top blade, I'm thinking maybe try some primitive looking welds between the blades and how they attach to the center piece. Or maybe like the bottom, make it look like it's cast out of one piece and hammered into shape. Also I think there needs to be some gap and definition where the wood sticks into the metal piece on the top blade. I'll redo the scratches to create the balance you're talking about. And for the rust, I'm going to add that in when I texture in substance, the micro detail is for the normal map anyway, and substance does a great job creating that and having it match with the metalness and rough maps.

Here's an example of what I mean about the rust.

This sword I made, the high poly base I used for the initial bakes.

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And the final finished real time assets.

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Link to the sketchfab viewer. Is there a way to embed that here?
https://sketchfab.com/models/bb06dc56fdba4894a201a81497bf2ad1

Thanks Malcom! I'll be finished within the week and I'll post!

Some progress update. Retopology finished, as well as UVs.

Bakes are done, have a little cleaning to do on them, then onto the texture.

Here is the high poly baked onto the low poly as well as topology.

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Finished with the texture. All that's left is to set up my lighting and final render in Sketchfab 3D viewer.

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