[DS2] Axe, Giimonster

Giimonster

Howdy Polycount! Like many others I stumbled upon this contest and HAD to give it a shot.

This is the first time I've made something in 3D based on my own concept as well as my first Polycount contest, and I'm very excited to see all the weapons that come out of this.


Introductions aside, here is what I have so far:



My 2D isn't that strong but is the concept I started out with






The current progress for the base mesh. I messed around with some placement and swapped out certain pieces I wasn't too fond off in the original concept.






Finally the current scale of the axe. I am currently tweaking the axe head to better fit inside of the bounding box without it looking to awkward.






Critiques and criticism are greatly appreciated.

Good luck everyone, and thanks in advance!

Daven

Holy crap man, that's probably a bit too big haha. I think this still needs some more focus. I can't really get a vibe of what theme you're using for the weapon right now, it just looks like an extraordinarily large axe. Before you continue with this, I think you should take a step back and examine some other options.

Impala88

have a look at what this looks like in scale to the character, theres a pic of it floating around ou can use as a reference to your weapon's scale. You will likely find that reducing the size of the axehead by around 40-50% ish will still look fine.

Also the character is probably around the same height as the proxy scale object.

Maph

^ This! There is also a thread of Bobo I think where he shows an example of the max proportions you can use for each part of the weapon.

BoBo_the_seal

haha yeah waaaayyyy too big

chemotoledo

I think a little implement of some dark side in the concept will be give more to the mod gam art...

chemotoledo

I mean, looks like a medieval weapon.