This started out as work towards CNC-ing this same sculpture out of a block of wood, but I ended up making a render along the way. The topographical data is downloaded from the National Elevation Dataset (I used the 0.3 arc-second data), which is cropped & exported as an image in QGIS, then used as a displacement map in Blender. The […]
This was a quick thing mostly to play around with micropolygon displacement & grunge materials in Blender – but I ended up fiddling with it for a while, and learned a bit more about Cycles materials for particle systems. The sword itself was modeled after a few images of German 14th-century longswords. I’m leaning fairly heavily on the subsurf modifier […]