Shinken (Stylized)

3D Fan-art of the Holy sword (Shinken) from the manga X 1999 by Clamp (Magic Knight Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura)

Revisit of one of my very first pieces but with some slight twists:
1. I tried to make it as close as possible to a stylized type game asset (as in World of Warcraft or League of legends)
2. This time I chose the colors from some of the colored manga illustrations.

Once again I kept my workflow of creating a basemesh in maya (modeling), then sculpt in Zbrush to add details (I do like to go a bit crazy at this stage), then back to maya to do some retopology of items and ready the mesh for baking and texturing, then Substance painter (still learning how to achieve the "stylized-hand painted" look with substance masks, generators and filters) and finally render in Marmoset toolbag.

Still readying the piece so it can be "game ready" and used for any project, at that moment I'll upload it to download for free (mesh polycount is around 2.6k tris)

EDIT: Added the 3D model to my art station store (for free) to download: https://www.artstation.com/a/9011364