Originally Posted by
wiirus
Proportions of guard/handle don't seem right to me. Is it one-handed? Or 2-handed?
Grip could use more detail/structure in comparison to the guard anyway
It's meant to be a wakizashi, so yes one handed. I make my blades roughly to scale in blender (1 BU=1 inch), but scaling gets all fudged up when I toss them in c4d, where I usually make the handles (boole ftw XD). I'll likely do some more complicated swords in the future, but these are meant as fanart in a way for an anime, so complexity isn't a big deal. also, the guard is just a star with some fancy inwards extrusion :P.
To make handles (most recently anyways, the way I made the handles for both swords above) is to make 2 cylinders via extrude nurbs at the base of the guard and set them as roughly to scale as possible. I make one larger radially and give it a black leather material (unless asked otherwise, though I have yet to need to use a different mat). I then take a cube, scale it down to a decent size, rotate it 45 degrees relative to the blade, and stretch 4 vertices so it is more of a diamond shape. Then I simply copy and place it along the handle before tossing it into a boole with the larger handle cylinder. I make sure to give the "core" of the handle a nice material too :P. For the purple sword above, I gave the core the same slightly reflective slightly luminant material you see on the guard (which is different from the center of the blade, which has a gradient to affect its brightness, it's brighter in luminancy towards the tip, which makes it a bit closer to a pink than the original color, (153/50/255).
TL;DR=fuck you