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The finished product. I added in a background and plane to set the scene. I also added in the two rocks that poke out from the ground when the sword hits the ground, giving the idea that it dug into the ground when it landed.

This project was differently better then my last one and regardless if I get the same mark or maybe more, I don’t mind. I enjoyed making this one.

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So I started on animating the model. I wanted to cheat a little and add physics to the chain part of the sword so I didn’t have to animate it. I tried getting add-ons or scripts from the internet.

One always crashed the program and the other...well. It fell apart as the video shows. So I went with adding bones, defeating the purpose of the whole attempt which was to prevent me animating each individual link, but I but the bones though two links per bone so it wasn’t too bad. 

I had to scrap the orginal idea of how the blade first falls, flying though the air spinning like they have it in anime or even how I’ve seen it in DC animated movies. So now it just lands into the ground, impaling itself into the dirt before it shifts back slightly. 

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Yut’s Blades 3

Now that the making of the model is done, I finally started on making the texture for the sword, using the drawing as reference. I started on making the texture with making the whole texture the same colour as the blades first and started on them. Giving the edge a highlight and a darker colour line to separate the highlight and normal colour, giving it a toony look. I then traced the drawing’s markings on the blades and put that onto the blades on both sides.

After that I started with the handle’s texture, making a painted stripped texture to look like leather wrappings. The rest was simply coloured with simple shading. 

Now that the blade was done, I can get started on the chain and later the animation on the sword itself that I will duplicate into two since the weapon is two blades connected by a long chain. Of course I can’t animate that, so it’ll be separated for the animation.

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Yut’s Blades 2

So I started on making the blade in 3ds Max starting with the handle. I started with a simple cylinder and stretched out the top and bottom, I later added some rings onto the tops and bottoms to give some details.After that, I made a sphere and made that into the connected piece for the rest of the handle.

After the making of the handle, I started on the blades themselves. The first one was very simple since it was basically a combat knife with the open piece on the bottom half. The second blade was a little harder since the blade is awkwardly shaped compared to the first blade, but it works well against the simple blade in an odd asymmetrical way.

Now the construction of the sword is complete, the UV unwarp and Texture can be started on.

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Yut’s Blades

So, for our last assignment for this class is to make an object and animate it. I decided to go with redesigning an old character’s weapon since he, himself is going to be redesigned. 

So first I started by getting some inspiration from the net, while keeping in mind the original idea of Yut’s weapon. Eventually I came up with this.

I kept to his original blade, even adding his tattoos to his blades as a visual idea and it gives the blades more of a unique look. I started on the model, but thats for another day.

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Pirate’s Gold Chest

Week 4 (which is totally the week I did it.)

With the chest done, the only thing left to do was the animation. We were given a textured scene with an already animated book and camera, but I didn’t use it since I didn’t know how to work the camera and also it was too fast for the animation I had in mind. 

There were props with the scene, so I decided to use them when the book opens, popping out of the book. Although like my last one, I just had the chest fall from the sky. Adding a slight bouncing motion when it landed on the book. I was originally going to add the crab that was with the scene and make him other fall on the chest or fly out of when the coins fly out, but I did something to it and it started to glitch uncontrollably. So I was forced to delete the crab. 

There wasn’t much left to do, I heard there were extra props like shells and starfish, but I didn’t know where they were. Overall it was an okay attempt, but I could have done more to it. Maybe if I knew where to get the props and had the time I might have made it look better. Maybe make it repeating like one of my friend’s animation, but the assignment if over now and this was good enough for me.

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Pirate’s Gold Chest

Week 3 (I guess.)

Now the chest was completed in conduction, it was time to make the texture. After I did the UV Unwrap, I settled the pieces into a way that I can easily tell which piece is which. Knowing with is a wood part and which is a metal part for the chest. After that I got a toon wood texture off the internet and slightly edited the colours. I did the same to the metal texture, but I used multiplier on it and it became a dark grey colour. 

I was soon left with this.

After applying it to the model, the chest looked like...a chest. Since the chest was fully complete, it was time to start on the animation which was relatively easy.