Charles Person Midterm Free Model

My main inspiration was a previous art project I had made freshman year in highschool, where we had to hand model a piece, and my chosen piece was a sword embedded in a stone.  The imagery itself is of course common place, though my particular inspiration back then was the game Fable. For this revisit I went for a more enshrined image, more befitting the Legend of Zelda series.

For modelling I primarily worked with booleans, difference in particular to make the lines of the components line up better in the model, even if it won't be especially noticeable on the print. I also did some array work to create the grip on the hilt and the base. The spiral part of the base is a spiral pipe, sized to give it a particular coil I wanted.

For the materials on the render I ran with the idea of the sword being enshrined in place and went with an overall light color scheme. I chose to make the spiral a glass to give it an ethereal effect, especially working with the metallics around it. The rest of the base is composed of marble and gold, again to convey a sense of wealth, power, honor etc, the kind of things you'd see around a prized artifact.