SWTOR | Cyborg Sith Lightsaber

This is one of the three lightsaber designs I was asked to provide to ILM for our tenth anniversary CG trailer promotion for SWTOR. Being asked to design lightsaber assets for Industrial Light and Magic was a great honor for me, a high point of my career!

As this saber was for a cyborg sith character, I decided to weather it in such a way as to indicate some history of being gripped and crushed and damaged by the cyborg hand. To do this I studied how chrome plated brass flashguns weather and age as the plating is worn off, and modeled the rubber grips as torn and pitted from use. I further used vintage camera reference in the D ring hook, taken from a Graflite flash gun activation button, plus Folmer Graflex glass eye and red button elements.

This was modeled in 3DS MAX, painted in Substance Painter. Concept, model, material and textures, vfx and animation all me.