After coming up with a finalized design, I was finally able to move on and start modelling my weapon. I decided to make a wand type weapon which i started to model today.
Maya has a variety of different tools to use, however i mainly focused on using this set of tool which include the scale, move and rotate tools. i also used the extrude and bevel tools, just to a much lesser degree. After adding in different shapes and manipulating them with these tools, i ended on this design.
While looking similar to my drawing, there are certain aspects i added in or left out of my design. The main changes would be the rings I included around the top of the weapon, the pummel of the weapon looking different and how I left out the vines that wrap around the weapon. Most of these changes happened after seeing what i could do in Maya, such as including the rings and changing the pummel design, while i left out the vines as i wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue to use that theme anymore.
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