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i heavily loved the mortal shell axkatana and wanted to challenge myself with designing a transformative weapon
tried to make this as mechanically accurate as i could using Cardon joints to make the flexible chain and kinetics to make an umbrella mechanism for its head
made a custom rig for it using SDKs
and used Aim constraints to create the Cardon Joint Chain to make them behave themselves 
it all started in photoshop - made a few simple frame sketches and put them together to get the gist of how it was going to look
then slowly expanded on those lines and refined a more final logic and shapes for its design before moving to 3d

ZBrush

Maya

Keyshot