My own take on the Graal Kingdoms Blood Saber
 

3D as is per usual.. This is a quick working concept concieved in an hour, I will be adding betetr materials to it and the handle is not satisfying and also add a better tip! anyway here it is

Pretty cool, but I think a better shade of red could be found. It almost looks maroon right now.

most definitely (: I was initially thinking blood, so i went and slapped a reflective blood but yes i will get a better red, you will soon see (:

inserted image (:

What's the original blood sabre look like?

Watch the first picture.. Its there

looks like a staff :o

You need to play GK more often and know that most weapons don't have handles :P

By the way, Nice job on the BS :O

yeah ok, get me a none-graal-laggy-laptop.
:)

I really like the liberties you took in the design. Making the sword as simply a magnified version copied over directly would make for a very dull 3d model. Well... what you did was more in just it's form, though. How long does something like this take you to make? Hmm...and the house, too, but thats a question for a different thread.

This particular one took an hour, and then after I had the comment about the material it added an extra 10 minutes to the process. I had to look at images of blood packs and blood samples to try and get a betetr understanding of the properties blood undertook to get that kind of colour. Graal Kingdoms leaves much to be artistically licensed, as you normally only get to see one angle in everything it literally gives you the liberty to improvise with 2/3rds of the model.

This sword was all stemmed from the handles, I created the wristguard (i think tis called not sure) and then I extruded a handle and blade from it so it's one clean geometrical model. I think what I do when making 3d models though is if I know what kind of style or feel it's going for but I am not too fond of the image, I trust my gut and play on it a bit. With the houses, they already had a unique style and the feel was there which made it that much easier on the imagination.

As for the houses in particular, they take about a day each. Swords shields adn such only take an hour. I guess you could say per one object in the scene it can take up to an hour to develop, and then most of the work on the house is to place them correctly. In the attached image you can see that the roof took most of the time, but then because the base of the house isnt a box, aligning the curves was also challenging.