[Fin] Stylized Sword Project

atunnard

Decided to start a project to create a stylized sword. Gathering reference, block out, sculpt, texture and take into unreal is my planned workflow.

I've got a reference/inspiration sheet with a terrible drawing of the general idea in my head.

Following the work on blocking out the design, I think I'm going to have to take another go at it. The spikes and diamond-shaped tubes look a mess and the scale feels very off. Going to try making the centre of the hilt smaller but make the spikes chunkier. All I see when looking at the hilt and pommel is a stick man with his arms up.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!

atunnard

Looked around for more designs and ditched my original one. Much happier with this block out, on to sculpting.

atunnard

Been a long time since I last sculpted took me a while to set up and get tools working how I wanted. Made some progress on the centre part of the blade. Still going to go back over and add more details and rework some areas.

atunnard

Slowly progressing, think I need to take more attention to the scale of the details im sculpting and not waste time detailing areas that will be really small and hard to see.

atunnard

Took me a while to get the bakes how I liked. Low poly currently 23k tris half from the blade, in hindsight I should have aimed lower but while decimating in ZBrush I was starting losing too much of the silhouette.

Im doing the bakes in two phases because substance was baking separate objects onto each other and was going to be a lot of clean up. So I decided to split texturing into two phases to save time.

atunnard

Going to touch up a couple of things like the metal on the handle. Think I've gone too far with some details and doesn't feel very stylised to me.

atunnard