My Portfolio - 3D Models - Cloud's Sword

 

 

Thursday 8th June 2006 -

Polygons - 31,370

This is my attempt at modeling the sword that Cloud uses, not in Final Fantasy VII the game but in the movie, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. From the first time I saw the movie I fell in love with the sword, mainly because of the concept of having 6 usable swords that can come together to make one totally kickass sword but also because each one of the 4 seperate swords (6 if you count the 2 which appear twice) look totally amazing on their own.

At the time of seeing the movie my comp had just died (on the exact morning that I got the DVD through the post to be precise) but I knew that as soon as I had the comp back the number 1 on my list of things to do would be to model this sword. So when I got the comp replaced a couple of weeks ago I started work the day after.

Now after over a weeks worth of work (9 days) the sword is finally complete. I think its ended up becoming one of my most highly detailed models, with a polygon count of 37,884, a number which is, I think, only second to my even more highly detailed model of the APU from the Matrix movies.

I now love the movie which has rocketed to take the highest place in the list of my favourite animated movies, a place shared only by Toy Story, so I guess modeling this sword sort of became a labour of love. I really like what I've achieved.