This is the Blender Collaboration 2025, week 07 challenge. Don’t be afraid to join, a lot of us are beginners. This is all to practice, have fun, learn, and get together.
This week’s subject is “Swords and Knives”.
Swords and Knives - Sharp, mean, blunt, effective, long, pointy, shiny, used, heavy, practical, not so practical …
The rules are simple. 1 subject, 1 entry, 1 week.
You create whatever object or scene or whatever you can think of that has something to do with the subject. It can be as simple or complicated as you want, all entries are welcome!
Post your picture here in this thread. At the end of the week, we start to vote. And if you are the winner, you may choose the next subject and win a unique badge.
It has been awhile since I’ve done one of these. Annoying how life gets in the way of doing some of the fun things. This is my survival knife, stuck into a log.
Working on my blade - no clue what this sword is. It’s kind of taking on a life of its own. Not sure how much more I’ll get done on it before the end of day Saturday.
I love the idea and the looks, but I don’t see the handle. Is it the final size? It looks a bit like something that would be still stuck into a handle.
I agree with the two previous comments on the handle/grip. It does seem short for the length of the blade. Also it gets wider as you move towards the blade. This will make holding it a major pain.
Nice spice! :D. Looks really great. What if you took the ambient light out and only had an overhead spot or area light focused on the dart board. So there was only that light and the soft, reddish glow of the knife? Talk about spicey .
I thought about doing a Katana, Wakizashi, Tanto set. To display them I was going to build a 3 sword rack and make a pedistal to put it on with nice artwork behind. I like the detailed artwork on the tsuba. I would suggest reducing the roughness and increasing the metalic on the habaki to give it more of a copper metal appearance.
We @BlenderCollab have a few days to vote. You can vote fast but also think slowly about design, colors, technique, difficulty, subject, realism, etc. Choose consciously and not on your entry.
The new subject week 8 “Carnival” has already started. The winner of this week’s “Swords and Knives” challenge may select a subject for next week 9 and win a badge.
Nice thought, I see it would work very well. Lightning is my weak spot overall, usually, it takes me a long time to decide on it. I need to work on theory more I guess.
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