Merlkir's Blade

August's artist challenge on my Art For Games Discord community was "Ornate."

I started this project back in 2018 for grad school and never finished. For this new attempt, I wiped out everything but the high poly mesh and started over from there.

Original design by Merlkir,
https://www.deviantart.com/merlkir

Thanks to my friends for critique and suggesting the addition of an eye. I took a little creative freedom from the original design to add emissive and push it towards an angelic-holy-powered-cybernetic... thing.