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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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.