Entry 9 - Final Entry

The final render of my Chainaxe model.
Tris: 1486.

Entry 8

In this entry i will show all the textures, references and maps i used to create my asset.

Ambient Occlusion map

Texture map

Specular Map

Normal Map

Texture used for the leather handle grip. (from cgtextures - http://www.cgtextures.com/login.php?&texid=15488&destination=texview.php?id=15488&PHPSESSID=06e7543d31479be6601a5ae3977e744a)

My reference image for the Chainaxe. Taken from the Chaos Space Marine codex, by Games Workshop

Entry 7

In this i started using a base checker texture to see whether my UV's distorted anywhere or not. Other than that i changed the teeth on the axe to be pointed and look more lethal.

Entry 6

In this image you can see that there is a character model in the scene. The purpose for this is to help me measure scale, in a recent lesson i was informed that UDK operates in meter scales. So i changed the grid metrics to meters and scaled my chainaxe model, to look to fit the character model.

Entry 5

At this stage i believed that i had finished modelling the chainaxe, and started thinking about moving onto UV'ing.

Entry 4

In this image you see the first 3D image of my axe head. I finished off modelling the teeth, and will start on the handle when i next get around to it.

Entry 3

At this stage i had completed the main head model of the axe, and moved onto the handle and the axe teeth. I didn't follow the reference image exactly with the teeth, i that larger teeth but in fewer numbers would look more intimidating.

Entry 2

Later on in that week i continued modelling my Chainaxe. This stage i was concerned about how to model the skull in the side of the axe, i have some of the models this weapon is based on at home, so i know that the skull on either side sticks out a bit, like a skull is attatched to either side of the axe.

Entry 1

For this assignment we had to come up with an idea for an asset that could be used in a game, with a limit of 10k tris to work with.
My artwork and modelling interests mainly revolve around the warhammer 40k universe, so i decided to go with the chosen weapon of the khorne beserkers, the Chainaxe. The reference image i used is from the Chaos Space Marine codex, by Games Workshop. This is how i got on to start: -

I had spent some time trying to get the model right, i started again once or twice because it started to look disorganised or messy, or because there were unecessary details.