Star Wars has, and always will always be, my all time favorite series. For this project I made a custom design for a lightsaber using the original trilogy's chunky and heavy designs as my reference. I wanted the final result to look like something an older, maybe exiled or Wayseeker Jedi would keep.

The hard surface modeling was done in Maya while the leather grip and Kyber crystal were done in Zbrush. I then textured the entire saber in Substance Painter. The model was then brought back into Maya and rendered out using V-Ray with a simple HDRI and directional setup. Rather than suspend the saber in the air, I made a quick sculpt of a stone table in Zbrush with the Republic logo, which was also textured in Substance Painter.