[DS2] Axe, Kaiser D

Kaiser D

I was debating whether I should try for this one because I thought it was already too late, but what the hell. I'll give it a shot. I've been thinking of doing an Angelic style ax. These are some silhouettes that I've been playing with.



I'm leaning towards the middle one, what do you think?

Allbrotnar

The middle one does seem the sturdiest, and it seems like the most interesting silhouette, too.

Ged

the middle is probably best, I do like the one on the right but its more generic I guess

Kaiser D

OK so I started dicking around with the middle shape and I think I'll definitely go for that one. So, on to the sketch!



I beefed up the ax blade and the haft a little bit, they were feeling too flimsy. And this game does NOT do flimsy. I wish the restriction gave a little more space to make the ax blade bigger and more intimidating.

Skyerzz

Love the design. You can go outside the bounding box by a little. There is a thread by Bobo that has an axe example and it goes outside the box of the template.

Ged

looks cool you could use more materials eg goldish metal in some parts?

Kaiser D

Oh don't worry about the previous sketch, that was just a grayscale test, I don't mean to make it all monochromatic, that would be incredibly boring. I instead plan to use the color palette from the supplied example, with all its golds, grays and browns.

Skyerzz wrote: »

Love the design. You can go outside the bounding box by a little. There is a thread by Bobo that has an axe example and it goes outside the box of the template.

OMG THANK YOU FOR LEADING ME TO THIS. I reworked the scale of the axe according to Bobo's example. Massive improvement!
Also, some color:

Kaiser D

I know I'm way behind, but I'm still pushing forward. Here's the initial model I'm gonna sculpt over:



Any critiques before I throw it in ZBrush?