What exactly am I making???

Okay - Some of you may be wondering as to what exactly I'm modeling for my personal project in the first place. Whelp... Here's a few concept drawings that I did about - let's say 5 months ago. The design had been finalized back then so not much has changed for the current time.

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What you're looking at here is the subject of my project at hand. Partly inspired by the Dynasty Warriors and the Otogi video game series, I designed this character to be some sort of a oriental medieval fantasy swordsman. Apart for the corset, thigh armour and armoured leggings that are inspired by fantasy and Japanese/Chinese/Japanese-Designed-Chinese armour, the feature of this design is the armour that is worn on this character's left arm.

The above picture shows how the armour is supposed to be "constructed". This will give me an indication of how I should model the armour once I get up to that point.

 

Showing the helm design... Actually, I might alter this design since I'm not 100% happy with how this guy looks. Again I'll save the redesigning until I get around to modeling the armours.

... And what's a swordsman without even a sword? Presenting 2 sword designs, the coloured one being the selected choice. I might also create one other weapon type for the swordsman, but would depend on my progress of animating him.

PS: Sorry for missing out on updating this blog last week; other plans got in the way. Same thing with this week too - not much modeling is done so showing my concepts should suffice for this week.

Until next time.

- D.T.