You can replace it yourself, easily.

I've noticed a distinct lack of copper ladle in this thread.



There we go, this thread now contains at least one copper ladle. I know the handle is pretty balls, wouldn't mind a few pointers there. It's supposed to be concave, dunno if that's clear enough.

Hey looks pretty good. Anyways if you're using MSPaint, the curve line tool is pretty good.

If you're using graphicsgale, the curvy line tool is even better.

If you're using paint you ground out from berries, there is no curved line tool, therefore it can't be better.

Well i'm using GraphicsGale, but i did consider fingerpainting it on the walls with ground berries. Would've made sense, right? :U
Anyways, that curve tool is a funny little thing. I'll have to ♥♥♥♥ around with it, making curves by hand is... Amazingly tedious.

Made in 3DS Max, 10 or so hours total work, 4 minutes to render.

I may upload the animation to youtube later...

Surely you don't need a real lighting model for that -> rendering should take ~3ms?

@Shook: with regards to curves it helps to do ~3 hours of studying them every few months and then just eyeballing them the rest of the time. Paint the handle initially with a thick brush, add light, add outline, then tweak. Flip often and you'll pick up on any derps pretty quick.

Well actually i was referring to the shading on the handle (but i guess i did decently since people didn't notice it ), it's supposed to have a bend on the middle like that. That's a great bit of advice though, thanks! Rather different from my usual modus operandi (draw outline, fill with colors, shade and detail), but definitely worth trying out.

@Joe: Oh lawd, is dat sum FUTURE CHESS? Nice, i like the designs of the pawns.

I thought it looked better with the higher quality lighting model (more like Tron Legacy than original tron)

Also, you must understand that the laptop I rendered this on is a school laptop, and is therefore bogged down with numerous antivirus programs that don't really do their job but I can't disable them during a render.

Merry Christmas!

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Animation finished rendering, 14 hours in total
Watch in 480p plox

Sure, but I've been doing 3D work on a laptop without a graphics card and still getting short render times You can cut out a lot of hassle by just baking everything and rendering fullbright if you still want it to look like it's using a 32bit lighting model.
Note that I was referring to the handle too

My first non-Cortex Command wallpaper.

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That's a lot better than the first you posted a page back.
The lights are a bit too bright and cluttered for me around the center but otherwise it's great.