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I duplicated faces from the handle then extruded the faces to give them thickness, but you can also use the "sweep" function in Maya.

Yeah I find modelling in Maya easier, but it's just a use case thing. Anything organic I will always sculpt first, but for these more hard edged surfaces I find it easier to model a base first. Good thing about modelling in Zbrush first though is that you can have your low poly done at the same time, and also export displacement maps without having to project it all back.

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can you let me know if this link works? drive.google.com/file/d/1XTx9J2HDs8ZzMdTdVs-614fv6yo41jf6/view?usp=sharing

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Very punny ;) I guess you could get similar results in free apps like Blender and xNormal, although I don't use them myself.

You can yeah, but baking issues can still exist on separate meshes. Vid is really just to show how to approach fixing these issues if they occur.

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Frank you legend! 😍 Thanks so much! 👏Haha yeah sample libraries are crazy nowdays!!! But of course could never replicate Amy's amazing vocals and performance :) Never heard of this cake, but I want to eat it... send cake 🍰

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Hey! Thank you :) Seeing as you already know the important concepts of modeling, you would pick it up very fast, one week would be enough time for sure. Maya would be easier for you to transition because Blender's shortcuts 's are very far away from most 3d software. It does have a way to switch to industry standard mode, which behaves more like Maya, however it actually makes it harder to learn because most tutorials etc always teach the standard Blender shortcuts. Maya has some easy accessible modeling tools in the "modeling toolkit" menu, and a "shift + right click" menu. It also has one of my fave features, which is "D + Ctrl" to quickly align your pivot to any face or edge, really handy while modeling! It's UV'ing is also very nice. I come from a 3ds Max background and I wish it has a lot of Maya's functions. Maya doesn't really have a "modifier stack" though, it has more of a "history" workflow, which might take some getting used to.

@@StuLloyd Thanks, your channel is going to be really helpful to me in this journey of learning maya 🙏

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Thank you for the kind words, really appreciated :) and I'm so glad it was helpful! I will try to make more as soon as I can :)

No worries, yeah, it's a bit fiddly, but I guess it makes sense to not have these work like this by default, but it's a way to do it if you want to solely work in SP. I still export maps and just fix them in Photoshop a lot of the time

@@StuLloyd Thanks for the feedback, I don’t have a lot of experience with SP and texturing so I was wondering why my baked normal maps had some artefacts (naively I thought baked maps would be more clean or I would be easier to clean them in directly in SP). I’ll try doing it on Photoshop as well 💪

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As far as I know you can't preview, you need to bake to see the results, then rebake if they're not to your liking, so sounds like you're doing it correct

@@StuLloyd Ok I missexpressed, what I really mean't is that when you adjust the cases to match as much as possile you can see the changes while adjusting. My substance doesn't do that, It wasn't as complicated since it's a relatively simple model but still... It's also my very first time using substance so that doesn't help either 😂. Also another issue I have is that when I blur my colour mask the line where the UVs join get's visible.

@@Sagegabs Hmm that's a strange one, you're definitely using 2 meshes yeah? Loading the low poly and projecting with the high? For the blur issue, you might need to manually paint your mask going a bit further past the UV seam so when it blurs it doesn't cross the seam

​@@StuLloyd Yes, lol it's funny cuz I was able to just add one fire icon alpha in the blade. But yeah, I am doing the exact same steps.

@@StuLloyd The only thing I'm not liking this far is that your model looks way better, more natural. The way you sculpted the wood looks way better than mine but it's ok, I'll just practice much more my scultping 👍

Haha cheers! Clearly you have never tried eating a whole pack of tim tams with your pants off 😁