Create a Fantasy Sword: 3D Model in Maya 2020 (1/6)

Hi Creators,
Let's 3d model a fantasy sword! In this video tutorial, we go over how to build a base mesh of a sword before we move on into details. Tools we'll be using include extruding, image planes, scale and more!
We start off by breaking down the large pieces and then details.
It's a jammed packed tutorial, so let's get started!
Software used: Maya 2020
Reference image here: www.academicphoenixplus.com/d...
Original concept by Matthew "Alki" Alcantara mattalki408.wixsite.com/alki/...
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[@liamheffernan2006]

I am really enjoying this lesson so far. Thank you

[@AtharvaShekatkar]

Thanks for the tutorial! I tried modeling the Blade of Olympus from God of War because I couldn't find an image of your blade, and this was something that I was almost independently modeling for the first time. It turned out really good thanks to the tips in this video! I did make mistakes that'll give me huge problems in texturing if you're gonna do texturing tutorials for this blade lol, but considering it was my first time modeling something so big and crazy, I think I did okay. Thanks again! Edit: Fixed the mistakes.

[@alanpierce6317]

These help me so much, I hope someday I am closed to as good as you are!

[@krowwithakay]

I love your tutorials! So helpful!

[@renatoblack9270]

Very good!!! 👍👍👍❤

[@justshorts7780]

the most underrated channel on youtube

[@basil9903]

Hey I love your videos, they help out a lot! I was wondering if you'd be up for doing a tutorial on modelling a stylized head like Pixar (I know you have tutorials for modelling heads in general but when I try to look for anything about making a stylized head specifically, it's all tutorials in ZBrush and sculpting, or using Blender with modifiers) it would be awesome if you could! Once again, love your stuff!

[@theroyalinspiration]

So nice, It helps. Looking forward to ur video's next part Monica. .... 😌

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you! 😃

[@stubblestudios9446]

Hi. Your tutorials are really awesome. Is there any chance of renderman tutorials?

[@ievaposkute8]

Very nice! Thank You for video ;) Nice work

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. :)

[@nicholaspaul4095]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make these. I really like your teaching style and I learn a lot here that I don't feel I get from other tutorials...

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching, Nicholas :)

[@spk4426]

Thank you so much... I got a lot yo learn 🙏

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

My pleasure 😊 I hope you picked up a tip or two :)

[@arstudiocoo]

I love your tutorial ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you so much!!

[@MrGuardian1993]

Thank you for the clip, i love it xD

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are so kind!! Thank you for watching :D

[@ZaundZ]

hi, thanks for the tutorial. I have a question. Can you tell me, How do you translate poly (cube, sphere, and so on) from the middle (0 point) to your position? I always have to bring manually to the right position

[@ankitaggarwal384]

Nice sword ❄️👍

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks 👍!!!

[@himaloysakib3336]

Thank you monica!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You are very welcome!

[@xtheplug1986]

Just simply put the code, it works! thanks!

[@MugandNugFamily]

love it

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you!!

[@masterability1385]

Please update reference image links they seem to be dead, Unable to create model without the reference

[@abcdeeeeff]

Please do video on modelling buildings with real world dimensions

[@user-tx6pd5id8z]

讲的挺好的，nice

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you!

[@jackeye5368]

Hi how did u make the shapes transparent when your modeling

[@alanpierce6317]

I could use all the help I can get, do you do any tutoring?

[@franklittlefield6927]

Is there anyway that you could provide the source image you used instead of the low quality images from the place it came from? The quality is extremely poor, but great tutorial

[@Akshaykumar-wh9fn]

Can u make turntable for assest with lighting ....

[@avraneelsengupta1367]

Do you have a slow motion car modeling tutorial like this one?

[@morningdrums]

Really liking this so far. Are you making a new sword tutorial?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I think I should. It would be fun!

[@user-kw6fy8bg7d]

Cannot straighten the sharp edge of the blade so its smooth and when I scale z -1 it only changes the size of the model instead of mirroring like yours did?

[@madgamer2876]

Hello i am not able to download that reference image

[@s.s.k9474]

Can you plz make for us calico in maya 2020❤️

[@MA-xb6db]

brilliant

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thank you so much, MAA!

[@MA-xb6db]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus I have followed your instructions on another sword model, waiting for part 2 and 3 as I am excited to become a pro , thanks

[@ishakgamingspider8743]

Hello, can you give the picture used in this video, please

[@pravinkumarpandey9849]

I like your video mam

[@liamheffernan2006]

Also the tip always needs love XD

[@akshaykumarrajukonduru8550]

Can I get a hd reference image...?

[@PawanKumar-sp9ot]

love from INDIA ❤️

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

[@mariago8304]

Hey! thank you for the video!! could you send a good quality reference image? under this video, I see a link to the site, but there I can not download a picture in good quality

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Here you go! I hope this helps! academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@antarasengupta9000]

wow amazing. can you do a stylized machine bow and arrow?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

That's a cool idea. Are you thinking like Horizon Zero Dawn, or some other genre?

[@antarasengupta9000]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus Actually, I would prefer a less realistic one, maybe anime style...

[@iftikharhusain2212]

Mam i am in problem to make sharpness of blade.

[@escate8825]

how did you get such a high resolution of the image to work with?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Took a few steps, but I uploaded the reference image here for you. I hope this helps! academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@DamianYamamoto]

Hey! The ref image at the source image is terrible. Its resolution is just 649x584. Could someone please share an image of higher resolution?

[@pravinkumarpandey9849]

Mam the image was not downloaded don't know why

[@parthpanchal6287]

hey! can you please send me your reference image as the portfolio guy's image is really poor... it woud be great HELP!!!! thank you.

[@susanastorga8822]

It sucks it looks like a great tutorial. Problem being the reference has a bad quality so you can't follow the process as accurate as you. Will have to find another one.

[@nicholaspaul4095]

@@susanastorga8822 This technique would work with any resource weapon pic you could find on pinterest. I agree that the artists portfolio pic is much lower quality than I expected it to be but it's not unusable. Just not pristine either🙁🙁

[@FuTulzisM]

Great tutorial Monica!! However, is it me or the provided image on the link hasn't enough resolution? I can barely see the detail when I'm modeling and yours look so crisp and sharp.

[@dustinjakes6786]

It could be that your Veiwport textures option is at a low setting, this would make your images pixelated.

[@grandmagus9274]

@@dustinjakes6786 How to fix that? i have the same problem as Cesar, but cant find a option to fix it.

[@Christian-jw9lv]

at 22:36 did you edit the edges of the sword so that they'll look like that? it seems the vid was cut

[@mech_Denis]

I think she did a merge vert

[@XiTrOnEexe]

@@mech_Denisi guess we all did a mistake there, she didn't mentioned what she was doing with the vertices at 23:24 she kinda moved them together. I now have the problem that my ``blade`` is between the 2 closest vertice lines like a plane (its just thin as a paper if you get what I mean) also it gives me these black grey overlapping views when looking at in 3d, I guess they are somehow overlapping. I tried to move them but their like fixed. I don't know how to fix this. couldn't find anything similar on youtube. Any suggestions?

[@tejasj1778]

@@XiTrOnEexe I have the same problem m8. Not sure what to do!!

[@XiTrOnEexe]

@@tejasj1778 i completly undid the whole part and got back before the extrusion. then I moved the vertices in like an ``volumetric`` shape and then extruded, hopefully that makes sense idk how to explain that.

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Sorry for the confusion. I accidently extruded, which made it look black, and then I clicked on Ctrl+Z (Undo). Then I duplicated it Ctrl+D. I hope that helps!

[@mocit835]

how can I get high resolution Reference image ?

[@dimagi7864]

Either draw it or pay an artist to draw you one

[@ievaposkute8]

How or where can we get this sword picture? :) Im interested to do first similar one :) Thank U ;)

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

You can find the original artist's website in the description. The sword is there. :)

[@aligreenwood]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus but the resolution is very bad, when you zoom into the photo you can barely see it to use it as a reference

[@louislacrima8667]

nice

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Thanks!

[@davitaghekyan5466]

when i put the Reference it not work!!!

[@imnoki96]

Where do you get the concept art for swords and weapons like this?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I uploaded it onto my Gumroad page. I hope this helps! academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@shaiksaleemtravel8438]

i whant this Image

[@ganeshmahale5624]

please, tell me what unit size want to for this model

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I just keep it at default, I wasn't worried about scale since I wasn't planning on 3D Printing nor exporting to a different engine. Hope that helps!

[@XiTrOnEexe]

hey, i got a question. like on 23:22 you did something with the vertices like draged the yellow arrow together or something like that. I think I missed that detail while making it, and now I have the problem that my blade on the sharp site (like between 2 lines of vertices, ) is just thin like paper, and I cant really move them to get them bigger. I tried some stuff now but I don't know how to fix that. can someone help me?

[@XiTrOnEexe]

i foudn a solution, its a bit weird, but i feel like you cut out a whole part of editing in the video. after we extruded the plane and kinda rotated it we still had a group of faces which were just a plane, but we also need them to get an angle to the next mesh, otherwise it will just stay a plane. you kinda cut that part out of the video but after analyzing it, when you duplicate the blade there is already this angle to the other mesh.

[@renatozaki]

@@XiTrOnEexe hey man, idk if you're still here on yt but what was your solution to it? i found it odd that only 2-ish people pointed this out. ill be glad to receive a reply from you soon. cheers!

[@galr5839]

@@XiTrOnEexe how did you rotated it? Im stuck with the same issue and tried what you said but when I rotate those faces it gets wierd

[@XiTrOnEexe]

@@galr5839 i would like to help, but its been a year I'm not sure how I did it. The way I make blades now is to not really have them sharp sharp, its more like a face really close together so I still have a good edge flow. idk if that makes sense

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Hi all, this is a bit late of a response but I hope this helps. What I did was select the center vertices and I used 'scale'. On the side view, I selected the left handle so that it scales in one direction which will create a straight line. This will make the vertices merge easier! I hope that helps!

[@abdullahbutt1009]

Hi can you please tell me name of software which you are using

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I'm using Autodesk Maya :)

[@amritpalhh9836]

Looks like neros sword from dmc

[@aftabahmed1992]

I didn't understand someone explain me play video at 22:35

[@bhupalshelke6199]

which software is this?? plz tell if anyonw knows

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I'm using Autodesk Maya. :)

[@Omkar3324]

Where can I find the image reference?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I finally uploaded it! You can find it here. :) academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@rushikulkarni4372]

is the geometry connected ?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Good question, Rushi. No, they are all separate pieces.

[@hard1264]

Image download like high quality

[@bloodimpactgaming7319]

Please give a software name😭😭😭😭

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

It's in the title! Maya 2020 (Autodesk)

[@farzanirani5429]

I also didnt get this reference image

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Here it is! I hope this helps: academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@tuhocmaya427]

Can someone have a sharp picture of this sword

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Here you go! academicphoenix.gumroad.com/l/FantasySword

[@iftikharhusain2212]

Mam please help

[@akshaykumarrajukonduru8550]

Can I get hd reference image ..?

[@iftikharhusain2212]

I have no hd reference image

[@virenparth]

u r so rude.. never answered whyur texture size it good..atleast u have to provide good picture before modeling.. u wasted my time..

[@Mobbin-nnn]

she has no obligation to