MattWBradbury

That was actually me. My brother didn't log out of his name. Drives me nuts sometimes

It's looking really good. Care to share a wire frame? Maybe the left view and the front?

I had noticed your Avatar, just didn't say it. The sward looks pretty good to the reference in shape. The inside of the sward is rounded inlay, not flat. You should add the cloth to the handel. You could either model it or make it a cylendrical projection map. Also, add some metal scratches with decaling just to give it a bit more detail.

Get ad-aware. It's free, and it has free updates almost every day. Oh, and A:M is really easy to use. You can take a ball and form it into anything you like. Or you can go patch by patch adding splines and connecting them. It's very user friendly, and I know pros use it for their own personal animations for that reason.

Did the same thing myself. The only thing is, it looks more like a flower than the sun.

I think this is one of those dead threads. Well, if he does answer, he'll probably have to dig out the file, and try to remember how. By the way, that link doesn't seem to work, the original one... up there ^