Hint Coin

Idea

This is a small render I made for fun to experiment with Blender. I really love Professor Layton and thought it would be fun to replicate the classic Hint Coin.

About the Art

Made in Blender
Textured in Blender
Rendered using the Cycles engine
Created in January 2024

I didn't make this with the intention of game implementation, unlike my other models. I thought it would be neat to make a model out of it and play around with Blender and its texturing system.

I based the coin itself on the official real life hint-coin pin I got for my birthday and the logo and just started modeling.

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I imported the image of the logo of Professor Layton into Blender as a reference and started modelling on top of it to try and get the truest form of the coin. Eventually I realised I wanted the coin to be displayed on a stand of some sort, though I didn't found anything online that really suited my taste or style of the model I was going for. Eventually I came up with an idea: the stand specifically was inspired by my Grandfather's coin stand who always had his jubilee coins displayed on it.

I was feeling invigorated and went on to texturing the model, giving the stand a wooden look and give the coin a gold and silver look. I didn't like the original pin's look with the rough texture, so I gave it my own twist and with a few tweaks I found a look that I liked.

Already having set my mind on turning it into a render, I added a spotlight, camera and some backgrounds and exported it out. Though getting the lightning right was a little tricky, I eventually found one that I like and exported it and BAM! donezo!