[WIP] Magical Staff

cudowa

Hello polycount, this is my very first post in polycount. I want to add some work to my porfolio. Since my old works were most about environmental props and buildings, I would like to creat a weapon with hand-painted texture.

Here is my crow staff. It is hold on a evil wizard. The crow can talking and flap its wings, but can't fly away. It specially like to mock people, especially its master. I hope I could bring some its personality to the design.

I would appreciate some feedback to improve it.

quick block out in Zbrush.

cudowa

And these are color studies.

I'm thinking about the material for the crow. the crow might not a real animal, It would be kind of statue, but it has soul which make it alive. or should I go with animal like?

any suggestions?

cudowa

I spent 3 days to finished zbrush sculpting and used maya 2014 to created low poly modeling-->(3104 tris not sure it's low enough)

I 'm still working on texturing.

Puffs

Hy,
I'm not a bird specialist nor a very good modeler but here's my opinion:
i like the idea, seems fun and could help build up a nice story around the wizard holding it.
About the staff, the crow's proportions seem a bit off to me. The beak is too long for a crow, looks more like a stork's beak. I'd also fluff up a bit the chest area, seems a bit too flat and long.
I'm also not a big fan on how the staff embraces the crow, maybe because it just has one leg?
All in all, good idea, just needs some more attention on proportions

cudowa

Thanks for your feedback, puffs.
I used crow as a referene, and make a lone beak just my person prefer and also because it could attak people easily (I might stop calling it's a crow just some kind of bird?)
I totally agree for the chest area, the body seems a bit too long, I will fix it. Thanks for notice me that, I really need some fresh eyes.

cudowa

I finished textureing, and just realize the bird seems too big for the staff. I'll fixed it later.