Thermal Katana WIP

This is a 3D model of the thermal katana from the Cyberpunk 2077 game that is soon to be released. I wanted to get better as modelling weapons so I can try to get an internship at Riot Games. I extruded a lot of the parts of the model such as the blade and started to add color to it. The next part is to texture and bake the normal map from the high poly version onto the low poly one. Later, I will bring this into Unreal Engine to add some effects such as the lighting for the blade of the katana. The sword model will take about two weeks to complete.

The top sword is the high poly model with the basic materials as well as some sculpted details, and for the bottom sword it has a normal map baked on the mesh.

This is the reference I'm using.