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Hello everyone,
this is my first personal project using Octane. The goal was to recreate an archeological artifact in CG: a sword from the viking age. I wanted it to be photorealistic, but I have to say that at some point it shifted to a "gamy-looking" work.
I enjoyed very much using Octane for this work, I'm a big fan of this fantastic software

More images, infos and breakdown:
http://davidedigiannantonio.weebly.com/ ... sword.html

Jaw droppin': insane textures, nice lighting - beautiful execution!

p.s. welcome to Octane forums =)

glimpse wrote:Jaw droppin': insane textures, nice lighting - beautiful execution!

p.s. welcome to Octane forums =)

Thank you very much!
I think there's room for improvement, but I enjoyed very much texturing

Is this rust/dirt to the right made with a use of a normal map?

Awesome work.

Wonderful work!!
Im pretty sure you are using a very dense mesh with diplacement? Looks to good to be a normal map.

Thank you very much, I appreciate.

No displacement was used (I hope this feature will be added Octane in the near future!), no high-res mesh, just 4K resolution bump maps, painted in MARI. In fact bump maps in Octane here seem to work quite well!

Amazing work man. I really enjoy it.

Wow! Very solid texture work. Impressive.

MORE!

You level of detail is uncanny. This is very fine work and shows a high level of craftsmanship both in 3D and presentation.
Thanks for sharing this awesome project.
For those who have not visited his site to observe the outstanding work you are missing this great treat.

Only the silvery pattern is not really looking old ... but I absolutly love the iron material ... that looks just great. Cool work