NIce job!!! apply a shaprener on the "sphere"

Really fantastic

nice work.....still waiting for SBS.........

I love it, great job (and very clever!)

Nicest light saber I've seen in a while!

Nice colors and sharp image. Pretty fingerlicking, in fact . Tiny nitpick is maybe the reflection, maybe a tiny little itypity too strong and too much noise instead of blur, but I could understand that's because of the render settings (if not, then forget what this noob said). Good luck!

beautifully rendered

Congrats!

Congrats for your first place!

Congratulations for 1st, excellent

congrats

Congrats!

thx all... for congr.....and nice comm!!!!

Very nice! It looks great!

Yes, I like it ! Wait impatient the Mudbox steps.

Nice modeling! With a background, it would look even better. The only suggestion I can come up with is that the bump texture should bee less appearing on the blade (only seen in high res) and more on the on the rest of the parts. But thats just my opinion. Good joob!

Haha..yes. I was just looking at the hi-res and thinking...that bump is too strong. The texture on the handle isn't quite as nice as the blade imo (I got tired and impatient). I'll put it in a scene as well...I just wanted to get something up here before I went to bed.

Oh no, sorry, with the new angle you lost 90% from the beauty of this sword.The bump map from the blade which look like an unfinished metal in previous version look now like a stone. And the fangs look made from plastic now. Just an opinion.

I actually agree with you somewhat. I'm not quite as happy with the way the sword looks in this as compared to my previous upload but I feel this is more of a finished piece and unfortunately I can't put any more time into this at the moment. I appreciate the critiques as always and hopefully my next attempt will turn out better.

Swordswoman wearing red nail polish. Cool.

Looks great

Congrats for your second place, nudanke!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Thanks!

i like it a lot

I like the way you played with the gray materials, shapes are very clean, render is OK.. but you can kill me with your sword...dont understand your concept .. looks more like a tin opener..just my humble opinion.. good luck.

either the handle is way too short or the blade is way too big. Interesting concept but im not sure how well it would work because to absorb the shock it means less force is going into the person getting stabbed. However this is an art competition not science, so its very nice sword

great job

this is very detailed and well done- high marks

Congrats for your third place, LKY!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

congrats LKY

Nice, maybe a bit other background (lighter/darker or other color) so that the sword itself will stand out more? Good luck!

EDIT: way better with new background

The sword is in...what? And what's the stuff in the background? This is too monochromatic....

nice work on modelling .....though I agree with others .......final render can be much better......GL

nice!!

Much, much better with the new background. Maybe the bricks are too glossy for an old stone castel ?

Looks good too me!

looks great.

neat--I like the whole picture's mood

not bad, shadows are lacking and it looks grainy in HIRES

Thanks for your comment, but I disagree about the shadows. It's has a wide Area Light that makes the sword cast soft shadows (similar to a dusky ambient outside scene). The self shadowing of the objects should therefore be correct to.

The grain comes with Radiosity. Radiosity calculates realistic bouncing rays for shadows on the cost of grain. I have however used some options to reduce and don't think it's that appearing compared to other entries that uses Radiosity or similar.

Please post a reply if I misunderstood your comment and/or there's something that I actually can improve.