Prop 4 Concept

http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/mondo_zax_and_victor_lazarin.php/

Going with the Chua character since it is a newer race among Wild Star and this guy is Mondo Zax, the most awesomest character!

In UDK:

Unreal Engine!!! What are you doing to my normals?!!!

Normals

Tried popping out the normals more for the statues, could barely see it before. Mental ray rendered.

Textured:

Need to fix a few things, the normals and the texture for some areas.

Zbrush Fix:

Tried fixing the blobbiness of this one with more HPolish and tried to define more of the details. Want the whole column to be worn by sand and covered by moss and dirt. Well..its all gonna be in the texture now....

Zbrush

Started sculpting...

Blockout:

Simple blockout. Going to fix up on the low geometry to enable a better bake/ and a high poly for zbrush.

The concept:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/394135404860703996/

http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/

I couldn't find a thing that I wanted to do, so I went and search online for hours and stumbled  upon the guys who did the concept art for Uncharted 2. Soooo....most of the concept was inspired by Tibetan culture, which more research is needed.For the time being I am going to go with one of these columns...ahhh...so much time wasted on reference! Better get to work on modeling and researching at the same time!

In UDK

Fixed some edges and in UDK, might do an emissive

Texture

Tried to follow the color scheme of Crystal maiden's staff.

UVs

Unwrapped UVs

Zbrush Details

Decided that just plain colors was too boring, so I added some details. 

Prop 2 : Sculpt

Started sculpting

Prop2: Thickened

So I thickened the staff so as to not to lose the silhouette and extended a bit longer so it does not look like a club.

Prop 2: Staff

Never done a staff before. :P. Super stoked! Fantasy stuff!!!! Designed this staff for the crystal maiden from Dota 2. Seeing as to how the previous staffs contain elements of swirls, wings, feathers, and crystals; I decided to take elements from it and come up with what I have now. Any advice is welcome!

In UDK

In UDK with emissive. THE PREVIOUS RENDER WAS MENTAL RAY

Power supply

Fixed the texture so that the color is not so saturated. Might want to add an emissive to the activated one. Also beveled some edges so it is not so harsh. pretty satisfied with the re-worked version.

Textured

Textured it as close to the concept as I can get. Probably get the inactive state in there as well as doing the glow for the active state. Any suggestions?

Update: Zbrush Final

Finally zbrushed it the way I want and slapped a reflected map for that chrome feel.

UVs Unwrapped

Start Zbrushing

Update continue:

Active and inactive: Super low poly no bevels..:P

Update 1_prop1

Update

Simple blockout will mirror it over

Prop Concept

Prop Concept

Link to person's concept:https://cghub.com/images/view/349687/