Imperial Watch Armor for TESR: Skyblivion

A few years ago, I had the privilege to work with the super chill and talented teammate, Gabriel Eekenulv, Skyblivion’s Concept Art Lead. Together we produced this regal set of armor. As a historical arms and armor enthusiast, I often time find it difficult to work with many fantasy concept arts. Most designs sacrifice basic understanding and practicality for “cool” aesthetics which make no sense. When I came across Eekenulv’s armor designs, however, I was in awe. His designs are grand, elegant, and “cool”, yet they maintain insights and functionality of armors, a perfect balance between “Realism” and “Suspension of Disbelieve”. 
This was one of the most fun project I’ve produced in collaboration with others. The set is rigged and implemented into Skyrim by Fin Douglas. In-game material tweaked by Borja Franco. Not to mention my Twitch subscribers who took part in submitting poleaxe designs, which eventually developed into the one you see. Special thanks to my loyal Twitch Moderator, Alex Wavediver, who helped me with creating material mask, which saved me 30 minutes on Substance Painter! Also Tobias Kuberka who taught me how to use non-Zbrush Core Zbrush features.  

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