AK-337 modular rifle system

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

Source >>> http://alexjjessup.deviantart.com/art/AK337-393171376

Modular guns are h-o-t and I aint made one in a month or two so let's get it done

Dunno if I'll make all these parts or not but here's the breakdown,



Base blockout to define volumes and junctions



So let's contemplate the barrel first. All these parts will be source-textured at 2k. They'd likely be halved in a game

Gazu

Curious how yours will end up
@Shini: Maybe to have later in the process less work to do

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Because each part is separate...

Gazu

Looks really cool in this early stage ^^

Edit:
Do you have enough References?
I made a AK some time ago.
And if it helps:
mag_b is a Short AK Magazine from Tapco.
The only difference is that the concept artist is using details from the "big" brother magazine.

For the Handgrip A when you type in Google Pic Search "AK Saw Style" you will find a lot of references.

EnDivine

Nice!! Keep rocking!

Cyph3r

Looking good, how are you doing these renders? Look really nice

kohg

Mr Hilton, have you ever considered doing gumroad tutorials? Your polycount threads never let me down and are a treat to follow.

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Thanks everyone

Cyph3r said:

Looking good, how are you doing these renders? Look really nice

The HP renders are screengrabs from Max viewport, the rest are from Marmoset.

kohg said:

Mr Hilton, have you ever considered doing gumroad tutorials? Your polycount threads never let me down and are a treat to follow.

Maybe... I wouldn't rule it out

nickcomeau

I'm glad you're posting this piece by piece. It's really awesome to see what Champlain alum are doing for work still (I'm graduating this year), beautiful work.

I second the gumroad tutorial! I'd love to see how you work through these. Or even if you just did a timelapse.

SsSandu_C

looking great so far

Mattvaughn12

I am loving the way you are posting this, keep it up! It is a good source of inspiration for showing parts or accessories. Keep it up, I look forward to see the end result.

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Receiver... first set is starting to come together, might start on materials soon

Eric Chadwick

Show wires for your sub-d ?

Gazu

So fast! O.O

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Eric Chadwick said:

Show wires for your sub-d ?

Eric Chadwick

Thank you! And the others too? Looking great man.

Drgreenethumb

Looks awesome man cant wait to see this textured

Kid.in.the.Dark

That ribbed grip concerns me a little because of how dense the topology is for every rib line but I've heard from some high profile professionals that when they do their own artwork they could care less about restrictions and budget etc... so I guess if you're just looking to make this look good don't worry about it.

This is coming along nicely btw (Y)

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Kid.in.the.Dark said:

That ribbed grip concerns me a little because of how dense the topology is for every rib line but I've heard from some high profile professionals that when they do their own artwork they could care less about restrictions and budget etc... so I guess if you're just looking to make this look good don't worry about it.

This is coming along nicely btw (Y)

Thank you. The vert grip is around 3k tris, no big deal for an attachment in a modern FPS but you're right that those ribs are most of it. They're easy to remove for LODs / optimizing since they're just loops.

Eric Chadwick said:

Thank you! And the others too? Looking great man.

Sure here's the other ones

igi

coming along nicely. Thank you for the wires.

Kaine123

I'm curious if you use a skewmesh? your bakes are so clean! 

Phoenix995

Looks really good
Im looking forward to see the finished mesh

Polygoblin

great work as always. looking forward to seeing the rest

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Kaine123 said:

I'm curious if you use a skewmesh? your bakes are so clean! 

I don't do the tesselation thing no, but sometimes if things are skewing I'll add a loop manually on the bake mesh, if it won't affect the shading (otherwise it has to be on the LP too)

Decided to make a flashlight

Gazu

I think this will be your best folio piece

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Laser unit

Prime8

awesome work as usual! Very inspiring.

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Eddy Shin

wow! your work is amazing!!!

im stunned when i saw your awesome detail you made, btw can i ask how did you do that? if you don't mind 
btw, im practice with this concept of sniper modular too but still suck and i don't even know the name of this gun so i just called it Dragunov Tactical ahaha, nice to meet you and have a good day
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YJk33

PogoP

Really clean bakes and awesome renders too. Nice work!

Pedro Amorim

Added to favourites.

Neox

a bit late, but some of your holes look squarish, not circular like cut with a drill

Polygoblin

quick mention that I'd also buy your gumroad tutorials if you happened to go that route down the road. carry on sir

Gazu

Gumroad? Will pay for your Tutorials,too
But please no Speeded Up Tutorials, really dont like that

skyline5gtr

Man your bakes and renders are just pure sex

Phoenix995

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel said:

Kaine123 said:

I'm curious if you use a skewmesh? your bakes are so clean! 

I don't do the tesselation thing no, but sometimes if things are skewing I'll add a loop manually on the bake mesh, if it won't affect the shading (otherwise it has to be on the LP too)

So you didn't bake a geometry and a surface normal map to ged rid of distorted normal details?

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Eddy Shin said:

can i ask how did you do that? if you don't mind

This is an easy way to do that stuff

Phoenix995 said:

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel said:

Kaine123 said:

I'm curious if you use a skewmesh? your bakes are so clean! 

I don't do the tesselation thing no, but sometimes if things are skewing I'll add a loop manually on the bake mesh, if it won't affect the shading (otherwise it has to be on the LP too)

So you didn't bake a geometry and a surface normal map to ged rid of distorted normal details?

No, I only bake a single normal and single occlusion map generally. I use cuts in the LP sometimes to fix distortion in the cage.


Thanks for the feedback everyone. Here's a scope.

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n4uj

For me the knurling step by step is completelly witchery, some kind of black magic  
Your high and lowpoly meshes look awesome. Nice job! I have pinned half of your screenshots to a pinterest board xD

Nuclear Angel

Your work goes so fast and is so well done, super inspirational! In which hours of the day are you working on this? How much time do you put in to each modular piece? 

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n4uj said:

For me the knurling step by step is completelly witchery, some kind of black magic  
Your high and lowpoly meshes look awesome. Nice job! I have pinned half of your screenshots to a pinterest board xD

Thank you

Nuclear Angel said:

Your work goes so fast and is so well done, super inspirational! In which hours of the day are you working on this? How much time do you put in to each modular piece? 

I like to do each part in one session, which averages like 2 or 3 hours... it depends on complexity though, some take more or less time. The receiver took the longest, about two sessions. The grip took ~40 minutes. The laser module and silencer were maybe an hour each.

I always work between 8am and 6pm, every day, whether it's portfolio stuff or contract or studio work.  I don't work at night much.

Jetta89

This is amazing. Looking at this makes me want to back and work on projects started but never completed, and we all have projects like that hahaha. 
One question, What is it called when you put a piece on top of the receivers high poly so you don't have to model it into the receiver? Cheers fellas.
 

C86G

You mean the "floating geometry"?

@ Ben: Following your work and I really like every singel piece from you : )

Nuclear Angel

@Amsterdam Hilton Hotel  Thanks for the answer, always fun to hear how long time it takes for someone as good as you to produce stuff. And it sounds like a good routine. Good luck on texturing this piece, it will be fun to follow.

Jetta89

C86G said:

You mean the "floating geometry"?

@ Ben: Following your work and I really like every singel piece from you : )

C86C, Yes thank you. 

Wombatinahat

I think with the amount of geo on your low poly you could probably afford to have a bit of an inset at the end of the scope, it's looking a little flat. Other than that this is looking great, really clean bakes and nice presentation.

n4uj

C86G said:

You mean the "floating geometry"?

@ Ben: Following your work and I really like every singel piece from you : )

In my studio we also call them push-ins ^^

C86G

But floaters can also be "push-outs" : P

n4uj

C86G said:

But floaters can also be "push-outs" : P

That is, indeed, very true. We need to assembly a council and debate this matter in a much more official way!

PetrMaxa

Epic! what sharder do you use for preview?

samifira

I have nothing constructive to add other than to say these look amazing and the wires are helping me visualize how to make more complex shapes. Cheers!