Plenty of designs

Using the mood board for ideas, I was able to design my own swords. The aim was to keep the design simple enough so it'll be easy to model & animate but also to show its emotions and sympathy clearly. As I was drawing designs, one reoccurring design was the round face which I particularly liked. It was perfect for showing off its feelings as faces are round and it also looked cute. However, I did not like drawing the actual textures and patterns on the sword itself as I thought it looked distracting. The final model will have textures but for now, I shall leave it out.


After drawing many designs, I've picked the one that I've liked the best for my final design:

My animation idea is for the sword to be left alone, abandoned by its owner, showing its emotions as time goes by. The environment and the emotions will change with the seasons. Starting in spring, the sword will be feeling anxious, wondering where its owner is. There will be some greenly like grass and trees surrounding the area. In summer, the sword will be experiencing anger. Fire will appear to help emphasize the emotion. Rain will fall in autumn as the sword feels sad. Finally in a snowy winter, the sword having accepting its fate, falls into a deep slumber.

I hope I will be able to model and animate this by the coming weeks. However I properly should look up pictures of emotions and look up how to model eyes in order to help with my ideas.