This is a cinematic logo animation I made for Cunningham Clan Entertainment, now CCE13. The metal these blades are made out of went though several iterations as well as several "metal alloys" before this final form. The lack of good, useable distressed blade reference imagery made this project harder to finish. In the end I decided to give it a nice, roughly sharpened ancient iron texture mostly using my imagination due to the lack of good references.
All these textures were made in 2500 pixels, so rather than using bump maps and normal maps together along with diffuse maps and specular, I just made a huge, layered normal map with all the small detail and the large detail on different layers of the PSD file, which made larger PSD files but less files handled by the project, which I guess made it render faster.
The sound was accomplished with a sharp, large kitchen knife I used with an aluminum pot lid with a wooden handle, which had these gorgeous resonant sounds when hit or brushed with the knife (I even cut myself accidentally while handling the knife a couple of times in the process but it well worth it when I heard the end result).
The programs and hardware used for this logo were:
-Blender 3D for the modeling & animation.
-Adobe After Effects CS3. for the post-production and refinement.
-Adobe Photoshop CS3 for the textures.
-Adobe Premiere CS4 for the final cut.
-Fruity Loops & Goldwave for the sound effects and score.
-Behringer C-1U condenser mic.
Thanks for watching (and reading) and If you have any questions please ask them in the comment section down below and I will add them to this part so everybody can read them!
