The bean texture is great and makes for a nice organic-technical contrast!
Is this a greeting card from Monsanto?
Nice, you even got all the cystolith hairs.
Here's both blades, one was started as an extrusion and the other as a plane. The hardest thing for me is getting the lighting angle and output level correct, so the light reflection off of the flat surface doesn't blow out the image.Would like to know how you modeled the blade. Looks nice! I do a lot of daggers and stuff in Cheetah but can't seem to get the blades right. Have to model them elsewhere and bring them in.
Thanks unc. I'm Glad you found it useful. It's actually the "Make Editable" step that does it. But you must be talking about the annoying fact that trying to delete edges with some meshes, polygons are eliminated. So I found surrounding them with polygons solves this problem.Zoo Thanks very useful and informative. The part where you changed it to polys by use of the cover tool was enlightening.