Audrey III - Floral Sword

Concept art by Ron Broyde: https://x.com/kyrin21/status/1830699729552056675 / https://www.artstation.com/ronbroyde

I wanted to join in on the #swordtember2024 trend and found Ron Broyde's awesome concept art of a floral themed sword on Twitter/X. Thank you for kindly letting me recreate your sword, I really enjoyed working on it! :D

The vast majority of the modelling was done in Maya through subD modelling, prioritizing the exaggerated shapes as seen in Ron's concept. The smaller details like the ridges in the mouth were added with ZBrush and/or Substance Painter with height adjustment layers.

As for the texturing, I created a custom gradient map (using Maya) for a more precise and systematic approach to stylized PBR textures. Running the gradient map in both directions by inverting the levels and applying various textures and colors created a very interesting effect. The "light" highlights and shadows were hand painted along with other details.

Thank you for checking out my work, and please check out Ron's page too!