Looks pretty dang sweet, Max! Great job. Can't wait for Vigil to toss that one in

Kick. ass. I wonder if you could use those 180 tris to make some areas pop more (the bottom area looks really low for example. Just nitpicking though, I'm more excited to see the angel axe instead! :-D

Man sometimes I wonder why I bother going up against people like you. This looks really good. I love how the colours turned out, you are a great painter

I do however think that the highlights on the skull are too strong and are coming out really white, and I would bring some more blue back into the mouth emissive texture for the same reason. Bobo mentioned in the livestream not to have black in your diff just in the off chance it bleeds.In the middle and left view i looks like your normal is smeered. The right side blade has a natural shadow going on there.

Oh shit, you're totally right Skyerzz. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll update the textures ASAP.

Dude you have a lot of cool stuff here, the mace looks great and the last angelic concept have a lot os potential, can`t wait to see it in 3D

Love the concepts. The glow really adds a nice touch to both.

Wow man...congratz! This mace looks awesome!

Looks great! Please create one of the others as well. This turned out great but I think the hammer and axe are stronger designs.

- BoBo

Very nice entry. Congratulation!

Looks great sub, remmember everyting in DS is really old and battleworn so those blades might need some extra wear and tear if ya know what i mean

it looks like an axe, like, a lot.

I didn't know about meshbin until today when I saw the other submissions. If you want to twirl it through 3d space, be my guest.

http://meshbin.com/m.php?id=4f6275a2b8ddb

by looking at it in 3d space I also noticed a strange line on a handle, is it supose to be there?

whoops, that's probably my normals. *fixing*

Oh man that angel axe on the right, beautiful! I really hope you have time to create that as well!

Alrighty, I got a nice start on the new weapon. Found a fun trick using Dynamesh and Morph targets that really helps retain some shapes. More to come!

Looks good for a start, but I think the details in the center of the head looked better in the concept, broader essentially (or narrower, if you look at the valleys)...also the hilt regions lost a lot of their curvature...

Yea, I would say a lot of this particular design should ultimately be poly-modeled, rather than sculpted, especially the art deco trim-type stuff. The geometric forms are part of what make this visually interesting, and you would definitively have an easier time accomplishing those nice, clean plane-breaks in a traditional modeling app. I mean, by all means hash it all out in zbrush, but I would suggest some clean up afterwords - primarily for baking purposes, but also just in terms of saving urself the trouble of obsessing over polishing the hell out of everything.

edit: Also, just a quick critique of the concept: the ovular spiraling protrusions originating from just below the wings seem to defy the angular rules you have implemented throughout the design of rest of it. If you could introduce some corners or something into them, it might help them not stick out as much, but at the moment they are also in this awkward directional middle ground between the wings and base. I hope that was clear, but I'm just trying to convey how that particular element seems out of place.

I would also suggest tweeking the emblem in the crest of the angel's breastplate a bit. Just because right now it strongly resembles an inverted mass effect relay, so perhaps adding some bulk to one end of the emblem or something to that effect, will prevent that association. I'm not sure if it was apparent to other ppl as it was to me, and really, it doesn't appear that way in the model thus far anyway, so it may be fine. But I just wanted to point out that others may also make that correlation especially if it is presented as a focal point.

Wow, thanks for the crit guys. I was kind of battling between just sticking with 3DS Max for the majority of it or if I should try some new stuff in Zbrush, but I guess you're right and I should just model it traditionally. Thanks for pointing out the design flaws in the spiraling section and the emblem. Honestly, that emblem was referenced from concept art of angels from the first DS game, so I don't know. I'll do my best to make it look more like a sword (or just actually put a sword in there).

I've got a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in.

According to Bobo, people only need a weekend to make a weapon XD

Your design is really good and I'm certain you'll still get enough Zbrush experience to improve your skills. I'm saying that cause it sounds like you wanted to learn more about Zbrush rather than stick with the norm of 3DS.

I agree, zbrush can make awsome hard surface stuff, i think your screens from zbrush look really good, it`s work in progress, a couple more hours of work and it will be exactly as the concept.

Originally Posted by Habboi

According to Bobo, people only need a weekend to make a weapon XD

Your design is really good and I'm certain you'll still get enough Zbrush experience to improve your skills. I'm saying that cause it sounds like you wanted to learn more about Zbrush rather than stick with the norm of 3DS.

I am pretty sure about this. You need to improve your zbrush skill more.
It should not be finish everything in Zbrush.

Your mace looks gorgeous! I'm excited to see where the axe goes next.

High poly is done. I did a test retopo and I still had like 400 tris left so I'll make it all purty before I post any updates. Thanks for the encouragement guys.

Also, I'm not really sure what the status is on this Zbrush argument. I used 3DS Max and Zbrush pretty equally in creating the axe. Updates tomorrow.

Dude the Dragon/Serpent Hammer is Siiiccck. The others are aswell for sure all the best for getting all three done!