Name: Mark Andrew Buhay Country: Philippines I have read the terms and conditions and am eligible for prizes

Finished Polishing, Now will work on other parts of the dagger[upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-08/1717832296-987742-4.jpg]

Started the high poly pass on the other parts of the dagger [upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-08/1717874204-609896-5.jpg]

Finished the handle Highpoly Pass, Sculpted the details, and wear and tear of the dagger [upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-09/1717905322-949190-6.jpg]

I finished another part for the high poly pass [upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-09/1717914768-819648-7.jpg]

I finished The High poly pass and will do the low poly pass now [upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-09/1717922005-176432-8.jpg] [upl-image-preview url=https://community.sierradivision.com/assets/files/2024-06-09/1717922012-661389-9.jpg]

Himalayan Treasures: Phurba - Mark Andrew Buhay

andrew_walker12

When I saw this during my research time, I knew it was for me. I know it's a little ambitious for me, But still doing it to challenge myself and so that I can Improve more as an artist

andrew_walker12

After Gathering the references, The first step is to create the basemesh, Used Zbrush for this step, used the spotlight tool to draw the reference picture on a plane and then trace the silhoutte using Zmodeller, making sure that the basemesh Silhoutte is accurate with the reference.

andrew_walker12

Have my rest day Yesterday and Decided to watch videos about Phurba's dagger and its history to make sure that the asset is historically accurate in some way. and found out that my main blocking and silhouette were wrong, So today decided to correct that and also fix the blocking of the serpent head so that when I proceeded to do the high poly and sculpt it, I would have no problems

andrew_walker12

It's been a while, I apologize. I have Been Busy these past few days, So I just started the high poly pass and started sculpting. I also decided to change the snake to a dragon to challenge myself more.

andrew_walker12

Finished Polishing, Now will work on other parts of the dagger

andrew_walker12

Started the high poly pass on the other parts of the dagger

andrew_walker12

Finished the handle Highpoly Pass, Sculpted the details, and wear and tear of the dagger

andrew_walker12

I finished another part for the high poly pass

andrew_walker12

I finished The High poly pass and will do the low poly pass now

dagm_tsegaye

andrew_walker12 This looks really good. I like how the end of the handle looks, the idea is really cool. But there are still few things that could help improve the details. If you want, I can comment on some of them. Since there is a lot of time to get them adjusted before competition ends.

andrew_walker12

Started the low poly pass and baking test with the dragon head of the dagger, duplicating the sculpted dragon head and ZRemesh it to create a quick lower poly version and cleaning it up using Zmodeller and tested the bake at substance painter, everything is good and clean, No artifacts, will proceed to make the low poly of other parts

dagm_tsegaye

dagm_tsegaye Here are some notes:

andrew_walker12

Thank you for the feedback @dagm_tsegaye

andrew_walker12

So I am dumb, and I thought the competition ended last June 10th. Here I am making a comeback after almost a month on this project; I recreated the high poly and made sure that every detail was readable.

andrew_walker12

Finally Done with the pommel High poly pass

andrew_walker12

These past few days, there have been a lot of hindrances going on, like electricity going out for a few days etc. but finally today I finished the new high poly pass for this project, next step is low poly pass of retopology

andrew_walker12

Quick update on the retopology process: I'm cramming this, but still, I want my model to be clean. The dragon head is done, now for the three remaining

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For the bake test, there were no artifacts and no issues, So we will continue with the following three pieces.