--- title: Making Magical Hand-Painted Crystal Sword in 3D | daily.dev description: A game art student shares a detailed breakdown of creating a hand-painted crystal sword in 3D, inspired by League of Legends. The workflow covers sculpting in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-magical-hand-painted-crystal-sword-in-3d-1bkbkl2cq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making Magical Hand-Painted Crystal Sword in 3D | daily.dev og:description: A game art student shares a detailed breakdown of creating a hand-painted crystal sword in 3D, inspired by League of Legends. The workflow covers sculpting in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-magical-hand-painted-crystal-sword-in-3d-1bkbkl2cq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1bkbKL2cq.png og:image:alt: Making Magical Hand-Painted Crystal Sword in 3D og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making Magical Hand-Painted Crystal Sword in 3D **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A game art student shares a detailed breakdown of creating a hand-painted crystal sword in 3D, inspired by League of Legends. The workflow covers sculpting in ZBrush using Move, hPolish, and Pinch brushes, retopology and UV unwacking in Maya targeting 3K tris, texturing gold and crystals in Substance 3D Painter, and final rendering in Unreal Engine 5 using a four-light setup with Lumen and post-process color grading. Key tips include planning retopology before modeling, managing texel density in UV packing, and using a Cube brush in Substance Painter to simulate crystal facets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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