Organic Weapon - Mantis Blade

Created through laboratory experiments to create the perfect organic weapon.
Inspired by horror games, and artwork, as well as insect anatomy. Modeled from scratch in Blender (2.92), materials created with Substance Painter and Photoshop. The bone material of the handle/spine was borrowed from substance share; old horn/bone by ibi.lab. Still images are rendered with Cycles and iRay. Video rendered with EEVEE. Most of the images are rendered at 512 samples.