Starting this project I needed to seek out reference images and create a moldboard to influence my own shield/sword design.
I then needed to create some hand drawn concepts which could be used as reference images within an image plane on Maya when modelling.
Unfortunately I have had an issue with my had drawings being scanned in and they were all formatted as pdf files. This means I will have to link them all instead of being able to have images in place here as i uploaded them to word press without realising and I am currently blogging from home.
After picking my final design I needed to model them withing Maya, at first I started with my shield as I thought this would have been the easier one of the two and once the models were finished I then needed to export them as an fbx file so they could be imported into substance painter to be textured.
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