[Rhys] Sword Hilt Research

Sword Hilt Reference 1: Extravagant design with idea on how to present final product 

 Sword Hilt Reference 2: Incorporating  interesting designs on to the sword hilt guard while keeping design simple.

Sword Hilt Reference 3: Different swords with interesting guards I found

Sword Hilt Reference 4: Interesting Design with hand guard idea - ergonomically sound design.

Sword Hilt Reference 5: Interesting Design, plain and simple. 

Sword Hilt Reference 6: Sword Hilt with Sword Knot 

(Prevents user from dropping sword as it is wrapped around the hand)

Sword Hilt Reference 7, 8 and 9: How a sword hilt fits into a hand. Different angles, relates to ergonomic research.

Sword Reference 10: How a hand grips different handle types. 

[Aidan] Early Colour Concepts

[James] Crystal Sword Concepts

[Kyle] Group Update - Fri 25th

After our usual feedback sessions we talked about a couple concepts we had gathered and working to the selected few. This ultimately will help with the decision process for our final design.

Tasks:

• Continuation with the develop some digitised version of the sword designs
• Feedback sessions to determine what final design we would like to work to
• The research needs to be continued and collected

As we strive to meet these targets for this week. Accomplishing these goals will push our group to continue on the correct path that coincides with our original production plan, minor to a few changes.

[Jasper] Colour Theory

There are three main groups of colours - warm, cool and neutral colours.
These three groups have a range of colours spread across the spectrum, representing symbolism and a variety of different meanings. This is widely used to convey specific themes.
Below are some examples of colours and what they symbolise or mean.
The colours used for our weapon design will be determined by the team with a theme that we see fit for use.

[Aidan] Sword Concepts

Few concepts, brah.

[Rhys] - Colour Research

While researching colouring for the crystal, I found this simple yet extensive colour wheel of different types of gems. Although the diagram does not specify which gem is which specific colour, it helps give a rough idea of how the different gems are coloured in general. Colour spectrum specifics will need to have more in depth and extensive research done on it, but until what material the crystal blade is going to be made out of is decided, extensive research into the field is redundant seeing how large of an area gem colourisation is. Since this is a fantasy weapon, having a rough idea of how different gems are coloured will help for making decisions on how we can improve on the idea (if we're even going for an existing element for the blade, it could very well be a made up element but that still requires research and a basis to make things easier (for referencing and such), but that has yet to be decided.)

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