DECLARATION! Second Project of Semester 3

  For this project I'll be putting a heavy focus on texturing. When we first it was made known that this would be our research project where we explore a program outside of our curriculum, I took the opportunity to come up with an idea that would allow me to explore Substance Designer and creating various tilable material types, but be applied to a single asset. After some research, I found what is called a "Tibetan Kartika Ritual Axe Dagger" which is this neat little guy --

   So for this project, I'll be breaking it up like this --

• Week 1 - Low and High Poly

• First Pass at Low Poly, exported to ZBrush for High Poly, sculpt complete or close to completion

• Week 2 - Silver Texture

• High Poly completed
• Low Poly completed and exported to Substance Painter for the bake
• The tilable texture for the silver material should be started and close to completion
• Low Poly of box for kartika completed. Potentially exported to ZBrush to have ready for High Poly sculpt detailing

• Week 3 - Gold Texture

• Finish Silver material and texturing job. Create a weathered gold tilable texture in Substance Designer. Paint job should reflect an ancient look
• High Poly of box completed. Exported to ZBrush for bake. Start texturing and get as much done as possible, or complete
• If possible, get started on the Bronze tilable texture

• Week 4 - Bronze Texture

• Create a weathered bronze tilable texture. Paint job should reflect an ancient, dirtied look
• All three paint jobs should be exported to Marmoset for final renders
• Finish texture for box if not already done. Export that as well to Marmoset for final renders

   Here I have my reference board of the dagger and the different materials I'll be taking inspiration from --

Super excited to get to work!