Lethal/Non-lethal Directed Energy Sidearm

james swanson

Concept can be found here, artist is Vadim Sverdlov. Here is my interpretation of its functionality. I've also altered some small things from the concept.




The upper muzzle is also going to be modified to double as a taser for non-lethal takedowns.

Here is my latest double smoothed blockin. Most things are going to be redone. 



I'll be texturing this with Quixel 2.0 since I just got it. I expect to have the high poly done by the end of this week. Thinking about streaming the making of this on twitch but not sure if there'd be any interest. LMK.

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Mouhsine Adnani

Great HP James

james swanson

Polished up the inside of the muzzle a bit. Now onto the bottom portion of the muzzle

james swanson

Quick update. Bottom rails totally WIP. Probably not gonna have 3 in the end just cause it's too impractical. Gonna do the bottom rails next and then onto the iron sights.

Nuclear Angel

Superb highpoly modeling James! But Is it really necessary to do the inside of the barrel? It is awesome, and if you are going to animate it would be really cool if you could make the barrel thing pop out of the gun so you can show of all those amazing details. 

james swanson

Thanks Victor! For this asset I'm going as far as I can with the modelling. I'm trying my best to develop a concept using my own ideas/shapes, and modelling the inside of the muzzle was part of that. Also, as you mentioned, it'd be pretty cool to animate the front flaring out a bit, which is what it was designed for. I'm trying to design parts of the weapon with animation in mind since I think it's important.

In the coming days I'll be making a flashlight/strobe, small holo sight inspired by the ELO sight in black ops 3, and possibly a new grip. 

Nuclear Angel

I am looking forward to the progress, and thanks for the great answer. Good luck.

Epitaph

Insanely well done. Really love the groove/line works in the grip especially. Also how are you rendering these?

james swanson

Thanks! Believe it or not all these renders aside from the blue one are screens of the max viewport. I have a simple light setup with one white key and two rims that are blue and orange. I also have viewport AO enabled. 

The grip will be refined once I get the chance.

james swanson

Quick update for today's progress:




I'll be finishing the HP this weekend. Then onto attachments

james swanson

Bakes done. Now starting to texture. I'll be using substance designer/painter.

snoop

Nice job! I definitely prefer what you wound up doing with the front vs what you first started out with, it was a very good change. 

james swanson

Initially texture pass. No decals yet- those will be on another sheet. Also still trying out different color breakup/themes. 

Gazu

Wow, nice!

james swanson

Testing out decals and different lighting scenes. Refining and beating up plastic and rubber. Adjusted rear LED screen.

james swanson

Wasn't happy with the color scheme/breakup of the blue/orange. Decided to do a blue/purple/hot red instead. Bonus retro image messing around with curves in marmoset. Added almost final decals.

james swanson

Done with this. Not happy with the way the materials came out but it's time to end this project and start something fresh.

Pedro Amorim

Excelent work Jared!

tda

I really dig this man, the colourscheme is rad and i'm a fan of the materials! They're understated which i think works well and the attention to detail its crazy, looks really great. It has a Borderlands meets Doom style that i really really like, tasty stuff!

The Rizzler

Love the colour scheme you went with, and the tiny details like the metal plate on the input side of the battery pack . Great work

skyline5gtr

Very cool design and color scheme. materials look spot on

james swanson

Thanks for the kind words, guys!