Sword and shield

Blah11 · 5 Jul 2009, 18:03

I didn't expect this to come out as exceptional well as it did, everything just kept going right with this build also I tried to keep it low poly though its still pretty detailed and the curves are pretty good as well.

Heres some images

Total build time is about 7 hours. I will render it later gotta go to sleep for work tomorrow. I know its not the most detailed thing I modeled but I am happy with it.

vieucaillou · 5 Jul 2009, 18:34

Aren't your pictures a little too big ?

Macker · 5 Jul 2009, 19:57

This is going to sound so bitchy... Why did that take you 7 hours?

HFM · 5 Jul 2009, 21:56

I think the handle is a little bit too small.
Or the blade and shield are too big, take a pick

But, besides that, the model is pretty decent!

And a tip: if this really took you 7 hours, you should look in the ruby section on this forum. There are some great scripts there that will probably get your modeling time for this under an hour

VolcolUK · 5 Jul 2009, 22:49

Its ok, yeah there some issues with the scale but the colours are nice

Blah11 · 6 Jul 2009, 01:10

@macker said:

This is going to sound so bitchy... Why did that take you 7 hours?

I altered the sides of the shield to that they would be kinda odd but in a good way, they aren't round but kinda weird. its kinda hard to notice but this shield is a great shape its not straight. I doubt anyone could have done it faster then I did and I am a fast sketchup artist.

As you can see in the pics I didn't just use the push/pull tool but I refined the mesh afterwards so that it could remain the basic shape. Kinda like the edge of a nice new car by the wheel well.

BTM · 6 Jul 2009, 02:33

@blah11 said:

@macker said:

This is going to sound so bitchy... Why did that take you 7 hours?

I altered the sides of the shield to that they would be kinda odd but in a good way, they aren't round but kinda weird. its kinda hard to notice but this shield is a great shape its not straight.

Still, 7 hours?? go check out the Speed Modeling Competitions at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewforum.php?f=291 , you might be able to spot some techniques for speeding up the modeling process. 7 hours seems quite a lot of time for a sword and shield

… Don't get me wrong though; you DID do a good job

@unknownuser said:

I doubt anyone could have done it faster then I did and I am a fast sketchup artist.

As I mentioned above, the Speed Modeling Competition can give you great ideas for techniques to speed up the process, maybe you could join too . It would be nice to have more entries, and if you win you get your username displayed in bright orange for everyone to see

Blah11 · 6 Jul 2009, 11:56

well I was also watching the new naruto episodes I missed =X it did take me 7 hours to make but this took me 2 days to make

So I would guess I am pretty quick.