The goal for this project was to make a sword built from dragon parts. The entire weapon didn’t need to be dragon parts, but it needed to have obvious dragon elements. I took my design through each step from concepting to the final rendered images, keeping to a schedule I set for myself.
Shots of sword rendered using Marmoset Toolbag
Screenshot of pre-textured model in Substance Painter
UV maps
Maps created by baking the high-poly model to the low-poly model in Substance Painter
High-Poly model sculpted in Zbrush
Low-Poly model
Modeling reference
Texture reference
The sword idea I ended up going forward with
A moodboard as well as several sword ideas: starting from a lot of different ideas, narrowing down to the features I liked best, and creating different variations on those.
