Next Gen Weapon - Sawed-off shotgun

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Hi, I'm a Digital Art and Entertainment student at Howest in Belgium.
We have an assignment to make a a next gen weapon. I chose to make a Sawed-off shotgun based on the "stevens 311 shotgun" model.
There is a side view picture of that model included in this post.

I finished the first part, the high poly model. I uploaded that aswell together with a wireframe render.
Any changes I should make or tips to improve my model before I begin on the low poly version?

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Final Version

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Finished Low Poly version, it has 2000 tris

Brygelsmack

Looks like you got some weird topology on the side? Maybe I'm missing something but some of the edges look strange to me.

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there are some parts that are seperate that could be in one piece. But I modeled it like that for my high poly.

sdmitchell

The handle definitely needs smoothing out, how did you create it? I would suggest starting with a box and then using an FFD modifier on top of that to pull/push it into shape, you'll get a much smoother result.

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I just made it with a plane on side view and pulling out more quads if I needed them.

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Started texturing and I got this so far. Deadline is next monday, can I get some last minute tips or feedback??

ivanzu

Doesn't really look next-gen more like stuff from 2003.Did you bake the normal map and created specular maps?

desktoppirate

The seam on the barrel is really obvious, I would move it round the bottom where it would be less visible.

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ivanzu wrote: »

Doesn't really look next-gen more like stuff from 2003.Did you bake the normal map and created specular maps?

Did bake a normal map, but specular map wasn't proper yet and added some other maps aswell. I'll do another update soon

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desktoppirate wrote: »

The seam on the barrel is really obvious, I would move it round the bottom where it would be less visible.

Yea, was a bad decision when unwrapping but already learned a way how to fix it easily. I will remove it later on.

odium

Why on EARTH would you put a seam right there of all places Show us the UV

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odium wrote: »

Why on EARTH would you put a seam right there of all places Show us the UV

theSixtyEight

lots of unusedUV space. not rly optimised unwrap

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Final version