Homework Submission – Week 2 – Vase B
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The fine details like cracks and the horizontal bands are still to come, but I’m fairly satisfied with the initial effect produced by the sculpting process:

The result is fairly subtle at present, especially in the second picture, but I’m hesitant to overdo it before I start working on the material and the finer details that will provide – I suspect it’s going to be a case of going back and forth between the various methods to find a good balance. The spice mesh is currently unmodified as I plan to handle that entirely within the material (I envision it being fairly evenly piled like this, or perhaps this).
As a bonus, I added a procedural bump map to the high-poly mesh as a demonstration of what the vase might look like once the fine details are in place:
