SMC M#01 - Pables - Legendary Weapon - Ancient Moon's Staff

[pables]

Yesterday finally an idea broke into my mind. I'm still doing sketches, will post them this afternoon.

"The sages, the eldest masters of our Druids village, used to tell stories about a legendary Staff, carried by the greatest beast lord of all, the greatest king of the Forest, Orion.

It is said, that that staff was made by the spirit of the Forest itself, and to have the power to give life or death...

When Orion died, his spirit melted with the staff, and this land, which had ever been a desert, became the deepest forest"

Hope you liked that mini intro(inspired by a mixture of stories I like, haha). More updates this afternoon. Thanks for watching. Good luck to all mates!

[pables]

Well, I couldn't connect to the forum during some hours. But finally here is my sketch, still need to finish the "foot" of the staff.

If you have any suggestion on something I may change on the design, please feel free to tell me.

Hope you like it. I'll try to start modelling as soon as I can.

[bgen]

look great, i bet the 3d version looks even better.
u gonna use modo ?

[pables]

Thanks mate! Yes Iam going to use Modo, really love to use it, with 4 o 5 shortcuts you have all you need to model, and makes modelling so intuitive. But now I discovered a problem (well, is not a problem actually) but I have to solve how the half moon (the blade) goes trhough the staff xD... maybe doing a twin blade?, a twisted staff ...mmm, have to thought it seriously.

[bgen]

break the blade and connect the 2nd piece with a piece like the main blade.

edit: quick sketch

[SR_6274]

Design looks great. This should look really nice in 3D.

I would say either break the blade like bgen said, or make a hole in the handle for the moon to go through.

[pables]

Yeah the three solutions seem nice to me.

1. As Bgen said, broke the blade
2. AS SR said, pass the blade through a hole.
3. ...make twin blades, each at one side of the staff... but this seem less elegant to me.

The thing is I don't want the concept of the blade- moon to get lost.

well, bed time, tomorrow I'll do some sketches and we will see if you like them.

Thanks for your opinions!

[pables]

Damn spam bots

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

All gone

[pables]

Thanks CG

[phoelix]

cool concept, one thing that i suggest is that the handle seems weak, looks that it can be easily broken in the first battle.

[pables]

Thanks phoelix. yeah maybe, Ill try to give ir a more solid look.

Here is what I have atm (70 minutes). Tried to model it with a few polys, Im happy with the progress. Now only have to do the hilt, the hand protector (that thingy that looks like a leaf XD) and the feathers, if I still had time(I hope so), Ill try to do the gems.

Hope you like it. Coments and critics are wellcome, time is running out though, so if you have anything to say, better say it now :P

[bgen]

looks really good pables. u really kept truly to the design.
keep it up.

[czacen]

hi pables, thanks for your support on the zabimaru thread. Keep going with this. I love the witchdoctor look and the topology looks very nice and clean so far. Have you thought of any particular colours for this yet?

[SR_6274]

Looking good man. The only suggestion I would have now is maybe make the bottom part of the moon a little smaller, so it fits through the hole cleaner. What I mean by that is it isn't really centered in the hole, but by making it a little thinner at the bottom it should fit better.