Sonic's eyes

Been wondering what kind of texture to use for the sword's eyes. Turns out that the answer was right in front of me.

Last month on the 30th was my 21st birthday and a friend of mine gave me a Sonic bobble head as a present.
He now sits at my desk and whenever I get stressed or bored, I just tap Sonic's head. Funny enough, Sonic has recently celebrated his birthday too with Sonic Generations which revisits past levels throughout the 20 years of Sonic.

Anyway, I've decided to use bits of the Sonic bobble head to use as the sword eye's textures. The eyeballs were taken from Sonic's own white eyeball. As you can guess next, the pupils were taken from Sonic's black pupils. But what about the eyelids? They were actually taken from Sonic's mouth. Here is the result:
They look quite natural for eyes and I believe the sword is fully textured. Animating the scene and adding environments shall be the next step.

Second thoughts

You know, something has been bothering me about the texture sword. I've recently figured out why. If you look at other swords, the handle and face parts of the swords are normally consistent. But because I've applied different colours to my sword, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Also, wooden handles are not really common in swords. So I've fixed this by applying the same texture from the sword's outer face to the handles and I must say that the design looks a lot better:

I've also added a new texture, this time to the inner face. I've used the bin texture but turned the colour white instead. Now only the eyes remain.

Texture Preview

I've decided to add some textures and here's what it looks like so far:

I must admit, it's looking a bit odd so far. Probably because the realistic textures takes away the cute look I'm aiming for. Here are the textures I've used for the sword.

The blade part needed a metal texture to make it look sharp. I've used a regular kitchen knife, chopping off the background so they would not interfere with the texture.
I've envisioned the handles to be wooden so I've used my wardrobe. Because of the lighting from my camera, I had to turn up the brightness in Photoshop making it look better.

Since I was using different kind of materials, I thought I might use plastic for the outer face part. I've used my own bin for the texture.
The face, eyes and eyebrows has not been textured yet. I was thinking of using organic textures for them but I'm not sure what to use yet.

Presenting the Eyelids

Today (after a false start with the computer taking ages to load and then for no reason at all, decides to restart itself) I've managed to model the eyelid.

Firstly, I've decided to reshape the actual eyes making them more round. This is so I can model the eyelids easier using the previous tutorial I've found. This time I've managed to create a smoother shape. Last time, I was moving the shape's vertex in perspective view. The process works but the end result was that the eyelid looked messy. This time, I was using the Top and Side view instead which makes the eyelid a bit more professional as you can see below where the wireframes look natural.
I've tested the eyelids in different potions using the rotate tool. Pleased to report that they are working well so far. Admittedly, they don't make the sword look as cute anymore but that may change if I add textures...

Very first sword preview

Today I've got on modeling the sword. Here are previews of what I've done so far (without textures).



I've first started to model the face, consisting of two spheres. The front face is basically a duplicate of the back face only reduced in size. The handles were made using cylinders with the top part had their vertexes extended to make them more handle like. The blade itself is made from a cone (this may subject to change as it looks a bit too rigid at the moment, reminding me of an ice pick). The eyes were made last but I have not created the eyelids yet. I was mainly seeing if they would fit on the sword's face first and adjusting their size accordantly.

The progress was quick and I'm so far satisfied with the model so far. I shall be adding the eyelids next in addition on making the eyes move using the tutorial I've previously found.