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Kat Yu - 3D Artist

Leera's Blade Sculpt

10/15/2014

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Today I worked on the sculpt of Leera's blade (on stream, too!).  I already had the base mesh created from earlier (extremely simple), so I sculpted start to finish.


I was mainly inspired by LoTR elven daggers and swords, sleek, simple, and particularly curved.  Legolas fighting knives were my strongest inspiration, and I started my base mesh with their exact silhouette.  Upon studying some more knives, inclusive of Skyrim daggers, real-life weapons, and other concepts, I only tweaked the handle and curve angle to be a little more angled; aggressive.  I stayed away from any crazy dagger shapes (as cool as they looked), as Leera is very simple and clean in design, as well.  I want the dagger to reflect her.



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I'm not sure if the engravings are too heavy handed - I just drew them in with a Dam Standard brush with 0 focal shift.  I'm considering redoing it, but with a -100 focal shift and less intensity so that the engravings don't taper at the point, but I kind of like how this looks, too.  I will show this for critique tomorrow and see what the consensus is.

Yay for finishing this!  

My next project will be Karnys, so I'll be doing character sculpting for a WHILE (approx 6 weeks?).  First thing will be his concept, though, so that may be one of my next entries.  
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