[DS2] Axe, KennyMcB

KennyMcB

Hello Polypeeps!

I loved Darksiders and beat the shiznid out of that game. Also weapons are way cool...I'm in.

Here are two ideas I came up with as of now. I really like the left one, but felt I should attempt another idea so I could choose. I played around a lot with various shapes and such and ended with these two as rough ideas. I'll probably do a rough color pass after some critiques on what I've got before I jump into 3D. The current colors are just to help distinguish shapes.

EDIT: LOW MESH and INITIAL BAKES


EDIT: LATEST SCULPT


EDIT: MOST RECENT CONCEPT


ORIGIONAL: INITIAL CONCEPT

Skyerzz

Gotta say I'm thinking A but with the left side of the blade from B.

Dan!

awwwwwwwwwwwww shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit:D

i dig A but the pummel of B

jmt

These are great. I can't decide which I like more. Maybe it's just me, but the blades of A look a little squished horizontally compared to the swooping form of B.

KennyMcB

Thanks for the input everyone. I decided to meld the two ideas together since I too liked bits from both.

I kind of loose the silhouette that I wanted from the front in this concept, but ill work that out in 3D.

The colors are a rough idea and can change when I get to texturing. Suggestions would be awesome!

Ziggy

looking sweet! Keep it up!

Spug

Do it up brotha! Im stoked to see how you attack this : )

BoBo_the_seal

very nice!

Coridium

nice concept, like the colours and the design.

KennyMcB

Almost done blocking out my zbrush mesh. Its getting late, so here is a progress shot. I'm tweaking out the horn shapes as I model it, so it looks good from multiple angles. Should be up and sculpting tomorrow night.

KennyMcB

Posting tonight's progress.

Started roughing out the general shapes with claybuildup and damstandard for the bone and horns. I've the general feel, I just want to tweak it a bit, get some sharper shapes and more sharp bone-like surfaces. Might do more elaborate ribbing on the horns. Well see...

Spug

Hell yeah! Loving it so far! Keep going!

Daven

It's looking super clean so far. Keep this up!

abitterfarewell

this looks really good. very clean and i really like how the blade comes down a bit further than usual. detail is looking really good too. keep up the good work

LeoJr

Looking awesome! I WANT ONE

KennyMcB

Thanks everyone.

I'm a little stressed for time. I'l be out of town starting this Friday, so I'm seeing if I have enough time to finish before then. Kind of a tight squeeze....

Anyways, here is tonight's update. I'm kind of concerned about polycount due to all the external shapes, but I'll make it work.

Ged

great update, I hope the bake catches all those neat little details!

KennyMcB

Tonight's update...

Got the low mesh made. Its exactly 1500 tris. So far this is just a simple AO and normal bake thrown on.

jeebs

very good bakes

Ged

is there something odd going on with the phong shading on those normals? the edges of the blades have like gradient shadows in places.