really like your concept. clean and easy to read

Thanks for all the positive comments, it's really motivating.

Added some color to the axe:

You've done a crackin' job on the concept mate. Looking forward to see this in 3D.

Damn man, this is looking incredible. I'd love to see some different color schemes, maybe pulling more from the KOTD or demon palette, but it's looking amazing so far.

Amazing work so far, but yeah; introduce some new colors and gradients. Keep going man!

yes! Love this!

Chunkier!

Otherwise this is pretty nice.

Soo much disgusting fun. Maybe some more colors/variation and a little brighter.

I'll definitely play with the colors, I want to get some purple in there to replace the greys I have now.

Heres a work in progress on the basemeshl:


I don't have much experience with high poly modeling and sculpting, I did do some basic sculpt doodles for fun though. Baking normals and doing retopo are going to be major learning experiences.

This. This looks fantastic. Really nice rendering on the concepts too. Will be monitoring the progress on this one

Looking good so far! You did a great job capturing the organic look of Demon weapons.

Keeping an eye on this thread

Great Design, can't wait to see the 3D!!

T.

Looking real good man.

Did a quick blob-out:


I'll start refining and doing details later this day.

Some progress:

simple and effective, I like it

Very nice Rilem, this is really coming along

Thanks guys.

Some more progress:


Sitting at 1408 triangles now, including the spikes.

Normal map on there:


It needs some work.

protip : harden the normals on the edge of the blade, and triangulate your mesh before baking. That'll get rid of 90% of your black errors on your normal map. Also make sure your green channel is correct. For maya, the green channel should look like your model is lit from ABOVE. For other things (udk, for instance) your green channel should look like your model is lit from BELOW.

Thanks for the tips man, you might have just saved me some time browsing the polycount wiki.
I'll give it a go tommorow

Just curious- was that your final sculpt? Seems like it could use a little more work- in particular, there doesnt seem to be any damage on the weapon.... also, did you change a few things? Some of the spikes look like they've been dulled down, as well as the notches on the handle.

You're right about the sculpt. I plan on reducing some of the blobbyness and making some more wear on the blade.

One quick question about the normal baking, ive heard that the model should be triangulated before baking but the part i dont get is if one should triangulate the highres model , or the lowres model? or both? .. i would appreciate a quick explanation on this , Thx

From the polycount wiki

Before baking, it is usually best to triangulate the low-poly model, converting it from polygons into pure triangles. This prevents the vertex normals from being changed later on, which can create specular artifacts.

http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap