For our first 3D assignment, I decided to sculpt a war hammer from a piece of Darksiders 2 concept art that I found while searching for references. I initially went into this assignment thinking that we would be allowed to pull from multiple references and create something completely new. Coming from a concept art background, I was more than ready to design some overly elaborate gothic-punk war hammer with chains and spikes and everything. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't. I think I learned a lot more from this than I would have if I concepted my own piece, and I definitely understand the relationship between concept artists and 3D modelers better after all this.
I started off with a blocked out model in Maya, where I separated the hammer into several small pieces. This part took the longest and looking back, I would have definitely done things a bit differently. There were a couple of pieces that I could have broken down further, and some steps that I could have skipped entirely, but hey, it was a learning experience.
I then brought the blocked out model into ZBrush, and began whittling away at the details. It took a bit of time getting re-familiarized with ZBrush, but I think for the scope of this project, I'm pretty happy with the results. Woohoo!
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