This week I wanted to create some concept art for my sword. This will help me visualise the creative aspects of my model, as this project for me is primarily about creativity and applylying this to a VFX model and animation.
First, I started with designing the orb. I wanted this to be illuninous and bright to stand out from within the sword.
I then started looking at more images to inspire my sword design. I put three elements from three different swords I had seen for inspiration, and added them together, tweaking some design aspects to create my first design possibility.
I added annotations for the animation techniques I will be using.
I then made another design using the same method.
This design has two blade design possibilities, one thicker and one more slender.
These are all at concept level and aren’t certain to be my final designs, Some challenges I might face with these designs are:
- Difficulty level; these designs are very complex and might need to be simplified. There are a lot of sharp edges and detailed components which may be easier to draw than to model. I am striving for a sucessful model and if this amount of detail is posssible then that is a bonus.
- Origonality; seeing as these are taken from inspiration I may need to tweak them even more to eleborate that this project is about my own design and creative input, and what I can make from this.
- Texturing; these models, especially the first, seem to have complex topology and geometry, equalling is typically dense and hard UV mapping and texturing, another thing to consider about how complex the detail is on these.