Star Wars: The Old Republic - Fractured Ashla & Bogan Lightsabers

These are the Fractured Ashla and Bogan Lightsabers from Star Wars: The Old Republic. After creating the Ancient Force-Imbued Blade, I wanted to continue the evolutionary progression of force user weaponry. As I was concepting, I was imagining how early iterations of lightsabers would look like. The crafters of these sabers would have access to early technology and a metal like material as an internal chassis. The functionality of stabilizing the power of a Kyber crystal still being out of reach needing an outer shell to try and contain it. Having the force of the lightsaber crack, break, and split fragments away from the saber requiring the user to control it using the Force. I believed that these would be fairly ceremonial and spiritual to the user, having ancient text carved into the stone; Ashla (light) and Bogan (dark) inscribed on the Light and Dark variants of the sabers respectively, along with the symbols for ancient Jedi and Sith. This was most definitely a labor of love and a continued exercise on bringing more story and history to an asset.

I was responsible for concepting, modeling, sculpting, texturing, integrating, and creating VFX for both lightsabers. All art was overseen and critiqued by the Art Director, Carrie Meade, and Lead Monetization Artist, Brad Lewis.