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Dwarf Great Hammer

Project: Self-Motivated Creation

3D Information:

Vertices	296
Triangles	556
Texture Maps	Diffuse, Specular and Normal 1024x1024

This 3D model was a self-motivated work to sharpen modelling skills and to explore specular and normal mapping.

Particular care was taken to minimise the polygon count on the model. I wanted to make an octagonal handle, to fit with the dwarf theme I was trying to achieve. If the weapon was going to have a round handle, I might have opted for a hexagonal handle with softened normals instead.

The gold texture and the leather handle texture were both created from scratch. I built the rest of the diffuse texture by modifying rock and concrete textures found on CGTextures.com, a free textures website.

The specular and normal maps were generated using a trial version of CrazyBump. Whilst I could have built the normals from a high-detail mesh, I found CrazyBump saved a lot of time and achieved an outstanding result.