Shinto Katana by Malligar
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This was extremely difficult as Bryce Booleans make it rather hard to make a curved blade. Getting the
Comments (9)
amy_williams
Very nice and elegant. You have done an amazing job, it was well worth the time you put into it.
kyle_soule
beautiful! this is an excellent picture. the blade looks perfect:)
iceblademush
all created in bryce? brilliant!
redinard
good work !
liquidshadow
I know exactly what you mean about the difficulty of the booleans in creating the tip of the blade. I have tried many times without success. You have inspired me to accomplish my own creation of the katana. Like the samuri who spends countless hours folding their own swords til perfection.
nitsualien
It looks really good -- the light washes out the blade a bit, but the handle is perfect.
QuasiMode
No.1 Katana in Renderosity. Thats just my opinion, but I really mean it. Here's my vote for such a briliant work.
dsoger
First things fist, the yakaba which you called the temper line, is actually a hammon (SP?) its is caused by the diferentation of heat treating causing denser metal to be at the blade front, and the softer metal at the blades back, allowing for the blade to be springy as far as steel goes, as well as being rigid and holding that famous razor sharp edge. Now then, the hammon in this case is just too deep into the baldes surface. It isnt supposed to go into the body of the blade, it only went along the edge surface, about 1/3rd of the width of the blade. Any furth than that and the blade would break on impact due to the ammount of rigid steel. If you Question my information, research it, I have for quite a bit. On another note, the hammon was created by a clay tempering process, and the blade curved naturally when it was dipped into the cooling bath. they were traditionaly made as strait blades, then in the final cooling the smith would carefully dip it into the cooling bath to create the arch for the spacific sword weilder's size and arm length. So in this last refrence, you could actually make a katana which is strait if you so chose, or slightly curved, or curved almsot to the degree of a shimitar. It would be to the artists descression... As all things generaly are to the artists descression, but in this case, if one is going to accurate, then knowing the right way they should look is important.
Angelus_CHaoS
... seems to me dsoger is bent on kicking down every sword design there is ? give people a break sometimes, man - it's not like it's of much use beeing so mean ^_^ Not like i can find any sword designs in his gallery. Or even any design... Go ahead, dsamon - flame my designs. I'm happy just getting them to look good.