Weapon designs

[Zackwell]

I've recently rediscovered my talent of Weapon designing. So, with my trusty flash installed, and my overly-sensitive, hyperactive mouse in hand...
I am designing weapons.

Here's one I recently completed.

If anyone wants me to design a weapon for them, just PM me, and I'll have a speak with you about what you want.

 

[Sgt. Cookie]

That looks awesome. But thats all. It would be completely useless in an actual fight. All the hook like parts and spikes would catch and prevent it from being any good. But hey. It looks cool.

 

[Jason]

... And you made this in which program? I'm getting the idea you said Flash, that looks REALLY good...

Also Cookie, yeah it'd be useless, but seriously, we're on a forum where 99% of the people arse rape JRPGs, so it's know... normal.

 

[Sgt. Cookie]

Point taken.

But in the game I am making (yes I am making a game) I don't think that I would have a sword like that.

 

[Zackwell]

Jbrist beat me to it. JRPG = swords that could be used to hold up buildings.

Yeah, I used flash. Then exported to PNG and filtered it up a bit in fireworks.

Also, the person who weilds this sword is a lady in a wedding dress. Soo... Draw your own conclusions.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

hey, that actually looks pretty cool! relaly blurry though. if you tightened up the lines on that colouring job, or at least tone down the blur effects, it would look a better imo.

 

[EnderX]

Graphically, very well done - although as Dadevster pointed out, the blurring could become a bit of a problem. Inlay effect (darker sections) are nice though, although I can't quite make out the pattern, if any. (For some reason I keep seeing a 'palm trees on beach' image. Go figure.)

Logically, an interesting attempt - although you've got at least one problem with it in logical terms. The two 'gaps' in the blade are close enough together, and individually large enough, that you've got a very small cross-section supporting the upper portion of the blade (aka 'the entire cutting surface'). This means a risk that after a few strong blows your blade might snap at that point.

The upper gap appears to be entirely decorative, so it's the one I probably would have gotten rid of (see above) when attempting the design. The lower one, for all its strange position, might make an effective swordbreaker if you could trap your enemy's blade in it - worth noting.

Something I can't quite tell - is that light-purple piece at the bottom a strip of cloth (indicating it's purely decorative) or a handguard?

 

[mawk]

so soul edge and frostmourne had a kid huh

in less severely rude terms, that's a pretty alright design for a fantasy setting. severely evocative of other ones, but hey you can only go so far in making a sharp thing with a handle look unique. the colouring is sort of a mess, though; the main cutting edge looks like it's made of melting ice cream.

personally I think it's much better to aim for simplicity first and make the unified whole look cool in a much less overt look-at-me way but I guess these are the times we live in