Akula concept assault rifle

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

started a gun based on this concept by dfacto: http://dfacto.deviantart.com/art/Akula-Rifle-436304459





all feedback appreciated

CougarJo

Nice start! It translated well in 3d! I like the changes you've done on the mag, it's closer to what we see in real life I think.

Fridock

how is it possible you doing such great work with such short time?

ZacD

Not a huge fan your your revisioning of the design. I like in the concept how it looks almost like a dolphin or shark, but changing the colors and design, that shape is completely gone.

Stirls

I disagree, the variation of colour in the current revision is a lot easier to look at imo. A bit punchier, I think.

What's going on with the trigger guard, though? It appears to be a tad wavy. That could work, buuut I think you may need to make those edges less soft.

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

FridockShir wrote: »

how is it possible you doing such great work with such short time?

thank you

Three main things IMO:

1. Hotkeys and organized projects / user paths / files
2. Procedural modeling and texturing as much as possible, lots of modifiers, lots of masks from baked maps, makes it much easier to iterate quick
3. Always working to the final result - not getting absorbed in clean highpoly geo etc - always thinking about final game context

Kaine123

this takes the idea of "fish shaped gun" to it's logical extreme lol

juniez

i think the the model itself looks ace but the design has a bunch more width variation with the carry handle sloping and the drum sight and all that which is kind of missing in the model. the magazine redesign is rly good tho

Insulaner

Not a big fan of these indents at the side of the body. I understand they're in the concept as well, but they feel out of place in my opinion..

Geno527

Oh yeah this is very nice, I definitely want to see a first person view

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

lp and uvs this morning. obvs still a few redundant loops

GrungyStudios

really nice design. Crisp model

Racer445

concept dad meets model dad

dfacto

Always cool to see someone inspired by your work. Thanks for modelling this.

I like what you've done with the back end, and with the mag, it looks a lot better than my flat version. The metallic rail is also a nice touch, it gives a good solid metal stripe along the spine of the gun which looks very cool.

To critique though, I have to say that the area above the grip is not very good. The white body panelling is floating above the body of the gun for no reason, and those two indents which were for buttons in the original are not framing anything, making it looks very strange and empty. The two knobs on the front are very out of place, and would make a lot more sense visually if they were in that hole above the grip, where they could fill out the space a bit more. I also agree with insulaner that those insets don't looks very good as they're very big and noticeable as compared to the concept. It would be better to simply draw them in as thin panel lines on the texture.

Hope that helps a bit, and I look forward to the final result!

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

good feedback guys. pace has slowed a lot with the workweek but i got the magazine lp together

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

HP updates, no more floating casing and a few angle changes on the carry handle. added details like a new mag release and some takedown tab/lever things

The Lone Penguin

oh man, digging the red bits. lookin killer as always.

dfacto

Much better dude, it looks a lot more solid now.

CougarJo

Sweeet looking forward for the low!

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

thanks everyone. did some minor hp details... unfortunately this autodesk 3ds max application error window is covering most of them





i wanna get bakes done today... updates soon

warxsnake

Beautiful model, the attention to functional detail such as the bolt and magazine is a mark of a great artist!