The finished piece. Finally.
I had problems with just about everything.. but since this is my first finished 3D project I think I getting hang of it. Amazing how different the results were when using the Kerkythea, instead of the internal render engine of Blender I’ve used before. Only that the blade seemed to be way too low poly, there are some serious glitches in the kerkythea renders.
featured
every angle
Work in process
Almost ready. Only UV-textures and some small thingies left.
Update:
encountered some difficulties with textures.. somehow the Blender happens to crash whenever I import a texture with a resolution of over 1200×1200. Anyhows.. blade is finished and only thing left is the guard. I quickly added this neat background photo. Supposed to be sunset but looks more like fire when I accidentally rendered it heavily squeezed.. think I leave it like this :D
Fantasy sword design for a friend. Celtic knots.. ARRGH… who doesn’t love them :D
To speak the truth, I wouldn’t pick this one for a battle, it would snap after couple a hits and that’s it.. but that’s allowed for fantasy swords.. magic and stuff you know… :D
I sketched a background music today.. melancholic doom metal something… have to program drums still.
About 1/10 of the backgrounds ready now. I guess you should be able to see the setting of the “story” from this piece. It’s one helluva gif so this might be my last update until it’s ready. It seems this wordpress doesn’t support .swf.
//Actually.. I could update this file here from time to time: and now you’re a million miles away
it might lag because there’s no preloader yet..
I’m doing a little animation work so I don’t have time to make any additional sketches. Instead I might upload these progress pics. Now I have the character mostly animated, without the ending scene though. I think I got the walking quite correct.. being my second try ever.
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I tried different technique than usually. I first painted grayscale picture with all the shadings and stuff. Then I made an overlay layer and painted the colours. This has several advantages, you only need two layers for whole pic, because it’s easier to fix mistakes when needing only one colour.. though technically not a colour but still. And also it’s easier to colour because you don’t need to stress about shadings anymore, and making variations and even changin the colours totally is much easier. But this takes more time, unless it’s just my lack of experience.. might be..
Chobits fanart commission. Happy with the clothes and all but those faces are so off.. looked too different, dunno why I inked them as they were.. -__- oh well.. it was 1 am after all..
I MacGyvered myself a functional light table out of some glass, tape, and christmas lights, so I got to get little lazy with poses and just draw the another one through, mirrored 
I have to use my fabulously amazing extraordinarily wonderful carpentry skills some day and make a real light-table. NP: Franz Ferdinand – Fabulously Lazy
chii and freya
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