How to do this...

[Soquili]

Truespace 7 can create images similar to those. There is a learning curve with any application. There are video tutorials for Truespace that help speed up the learning process.

The attached image was created 5 years ago when I was taking a class using Cinema 4D.

[Gilles C]

Cool... that's the kind of things I had in mind...

I'll think I'll give that free program a try. And as it is only for a hobby, I don't want to spend any more $$$ on another drawing program.

Solid Works has a free or trial version but only 2D if I remember well.

Thanks guys.

[Soquili]

Glad to hear you will give Truespace a try.

Attached is a little practice to keep myself up to date with C4D. Leaving tools out and not using them can lead to a little rust.

[Gilles C]

You are making me jealous... I wish I could do such graphics...

I began my 3D experiments, trying to learn from the free Blender and Truespace tutorials and videos. That's a lot to learn, but I have plenty of time.

It's more work than I thought, but I'll see what I can do.

Thanks for the motivation.

Gilles

[Mike Bailey]

I produced a quick model for the fun of it, please excuse the imperfections. This is how I did it.
I made the blade from a sweep profile, then I flattened the point with boolean operations. Next I made the bezel or what ever you call it from a cone primative, next came the handle, I used a cylinder primative, then the button on the end, a sphere primative. I used a boolean operation on the sphere to get rid of about two thirds of it, then I scaled it to flatten it out a bit. I used 3 shaders for the color, a dull silver and a dull gold for metal materials, a shinny black for the handle. I rendered the model with global illumination and an environment map for reflections.

I exchanged the black handle for a nice wooden one.

[ginger44]

If you can still get 3D World June it has a free copy of Realsoft 3D ver 5 and

PC Advisor June has Carrara 6 Pro free, need to register, no restrictions.

Yvonne

[jvila]

ginger,
Here I leave a 15 minutes xara drawing to you, may be you can take some ideas.
I'll try true space to see what happends.
Anyway doing it in xara is a really cool challenge and you'll learn a lot doing it
Best regards