I like the idea and the sketch, but not the practicality of the skull placement. The amount of contact and the force of swinging the sword would shatter that skull reall quick, if it didn't fall off first. What if you removed the skull and reshaped the top of the blade into a shape that resembles a skull? It should still…
Thanks Sylver, are you doing a realistic skull model or a stylized one? Luckily, i was able to skip a lot (most) of the difficult technicalities of a skull just because its supposed to look cartoony and not completely realistic ^_^ The big challenge of modeling this skull, unlike modeling a realistic skull, is making it so…
STOP!...hammertime! Don't do anything else until you make that skull the best looking warhammer skull ever. You must realize the importance of the skull before you can give the same quality to the rest of the piece.
I came across this last night and it seems like it'll come in REALLY handy for my ZBrush study coming next month. http://www.touchpress.com/titles/skulls/ Basically, the app has hundreds of skulls from different creatures and sources, all with 360 turn tables. Beautiful!