Portfolio 1 week 4

 Project Sign-Off 

Working on both the katanas for the first month. I plan to restart the retopology to get a more game-ready topology and texture it.

Gather All References and Research

Material callout 

Reference

Research 

   
Ribbon texture - 

This video gave an idea on how to block out and talked to industry people about the poly count, textures, etc.

Schedule 

Week 1 - Make the sculpt perfect on the katana 

Week 2 - try retopologizing both katanas.

Week 3 - Complete the topology and attempt to create LODs for high-poly models. Make the cloth texture and the Damascus steel textures.

Week 4 - complete texturing for both katanas and get beauty shots for ArtStation 

Wireframe

Poly count - 8.7k tris

poly count - 15k tris

poly count - 42k tris

poly count - 29k tris

Unreal Engine - 

UV map -