[SD/Modeling] Grail Item Model

Shar Dundred

Hosted Project: LoA
Level 76
Joined
May 6, 2009
Messages
6,089
I need a grail model befitting this icon.

It is going to be used for an item seen in a cinematic and picked up so it does not require any complex animations but must also be "presentable" in a cinematic.
I picture it being golden and glowing - it does not need to hold any content but if there was red wine/blood in it, it'd be all the better.
No animations is fine to me, if there was a stand animation of it floating over the ground and slowly rotating or something of the kind, I would not say no to that either.

I am aware of a trophy model but that does not really befit the role it is meant to play.

All support in this instance is appreciated.
 
1738472235916.png


I made a generic chalice model using generic item animations. This is some programmer art made with my usual tools, and then checked in the Hive sanity tester tool, but I wasn't in a setup to test it ingame. Maybe I can leave that to you, or to any artist who takes this and makes a better one.

It's quite literally the existing chalice model from the Reforged game doodads from the culling mission flair stuff or whatever:

1738472429046.png



... then I took the blue chalice graphic from on the table, ripped it up and put the Altar of Kings texture onto it, converted it to Frozen Throne formatting so it would work in any game version and not be Reforged specific, smushed the shape a little, and attached that onto gold coins. Very programmer-art-ish, work of a couple minutes. So, as always, since it's a derivative work of Blizzard I give zero cares of people making derivate works of it itself. As such, if some actual artist gets on here and wants to use any part of it to make a stylized thing, rather than programmer art, they can feel free. Or maybe one of them will post here while I'm writing this and dump something from-scratch and much better.

But, at least in the interim until they do that, maybe this can work for you.

Edit:

For what it's worth, I don't remember why I named this "chalice" instead of "grail" but it appears that I'm not the first person to make something like this:


So, I don't really know, but it's possible I saw that other model years ago and was inspired by it. I don't recall.
 

Attachments

  • Chalice11.mdx
    13.3 KB · Views: 2
Last edited:
Top