[Finished] SciFi SMG MK-14 "FOX"

Zi0

Hi everyone!

I decided to update my portfolio and model a sci fi smg. The weapon is almost entirely based on a concept by Kris Thalers MK11 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nObXE. I changed some parts and added flip up sights to the weapon that I designed myself.

Just finished the high poly model but I am thinking about designing a red dot sight for it. Next steps will be low poly then UVs bakes and textures.

Feedback and critique is welcome

Renders where quickly made in keyshot I still have to learn how to render properly.

zachagreg

It's looking nice! Love the keyshot material, kind of "crayon-ey" really shows off the edges. What are you using as reference for the knurling on the charge handle? Right now it's looking a little under-developed but I would need to see reference, usually it's a bit more pronounced and sharp looking. The stock is a bit sharp right now and I'm not seeing the striping in it that is shown in the reference in the 3/4 shot, large cut ins to a soft butt stock material would be seen in that view. I think that's the biggest area  that looks off to me right now. Just revisiting to it as it does seem there is some artifacts on the face that is pointing towards the gun.

Zi0

@zachagreg Thanks for your feedback

At my previous job I had to model scopes and red dot sights and some of them had these diamond shaped patterns on the adjustment or mounting knobs. Also where do you see the artifacts?

As for the buttstock I did make the stripping but its very subtle so you cant really see it from the side.

zachagreg

Yea, the diamond pattern is the "knurling" I was talking about, if it's going for stylization what you have now is fine, but from the reference notice how tight that pattern is. Across the width of the knob it's roughly 9-10 diamonds where as what you have currently is around 4-5 diamonds for the width. Also currently each bump is square where your reference shows diamond knurling that has its length along the length of the knob.

For the artifacting

Those two lines, may be shadows now that I look at it though.

I do feel like the striping on the stock will reinforce the silhouette that many of the other elements have, such as the ribbing on the handle and silencer, the rails on top, as well as the ridge in the grip.

It is still an excellent model, I just don't know how stylized your aiming considering you've nailed the shape and style of the concept and added some more realistic elements such as the better iron sights.

Zi0

Thanks again for your feedback.

I looked into the artifacts and they are caused by my lack of rendering skills, what you see there are indeed ugly shadows.

As for the diamonds I think I will keep them stylized as they are.

Zi0

I added a red dot sight to the gun.

Feedback and critiques are welcome!

Zi0

Another update, I changed the buttstock a bit and gave it some more detail. The low poly model is finished as well so now I only have to create the UVs and bake the model and I can finally start texturing it.

Zi0

@Shaz_Snow   Thank you and of course:

The stuff with weird wires was made with the zbrush boolean technique

CybranM

Looks great
Are you going to rough it up with the textures or are you going for a clean metallic look?

Zi0

Thank you very much guys

Texturing wise I am going to aim for a "used" look so it wont be clean. That way I want to give the weapon some character.

Zi0

I finally found some more time to work on this project so I made the low poly + UVs and bakes.

For texturing I am going to use substance painter, Its going to be my first time texturing in substance.

Feedback is welcome!

R3D

looks like it baked down really nicely! Some of the edges on the sight feel super hard, is that intended?

Excited to see how the painter works turns out!

Zi0

@R3D Thank you, some of the edges on the sights came out a bit hard I might rebake them before texturing.

Zi0

I finally had some more time to work on this weapon so I started with the next step texturing. This is my first time using substance painter so I had to follow a couple tutorials first. The receiver is pretty much done the whole rest is WIP.

Some feedback would be great since texturing is one of my weakest sides.

Zi0

Tweaked the magazine a bit and textured a piece of the buttstock today.

Feedback is welcome!

Zi0

Feedback anyone?

Zi0

Textured more parts, not 100% sure about the colors yet tho. Any feedback would be appreciated

Zi0

Started texturing the flip up sights and I added splinter camo to the red dot to make it less boring. Here is today's progress

Zi0

Did some more texturing, the metal parts are done and now I will focus on the plastic parts of the weapon, pistolgrip etc. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Zi0

Did some work on the plastic today, almost finished with this project! Feedback is welcome

Sage

That came out really sexy. Nice work

Zi0

Thank you Alex

Ashervisalis

No critique here, looks sleek as. Good job

PeterK

Love how the texture turned out.

Zi0

@Ashervisalis @PeterK  This is my first time working in substance so I'm happy you like it

Dethling

The model looks really nice, but the texture could need some improvements. 
Try to break up the edge wear, currently it looks like a procedural substance mask. 
Simply put a paint layer on top of the mask and start to overpaint the mask. Think of how this weapon is carried, where does it have contact with other things, where can some wear appear (and where not). 
Also think of the direction of the wear etc. 
Another nice trick is to add some roughness only wear/damage/dirt (e.g. finger prints, color damage etc.)
It's not visible on the first look, but if the light is moving across the surface these little details really make the texture "pop".

Zi0

@Dethling Thank you for the feedback, I will look into it

Zi0

It took me a while to get this mesh and textures into Marmoset Toolbag 3 because I had multiple texture sets in Substance Painter and I didn't know that SP doesn't merge the texture sets and you have to merge them manually in substance designer which I never used before.

I added more roughness dirt and more height damage. Tomorrow I will start working on final renders.

TL;DR These are not final renders.

Zi0

Started to play around with marmoset, render so far any feedback would be appropriated

Zi0

Well I finished rendering this piece, learned a lot from this project mainly how to use substance painter, here are the final renders

kreativbloc

Great job.

polygons

Looks awesome!! 

Zi0

@kreativbloc @polygons Thank you!

Shrike

Looks good but the edges are very uniform with no variation and often too sharp, even for the large close up screen-shots
Also try more large scale wear and variation in the textures. The rougher materials should also be rougher

Zi0

@Shrike Thank you for the feedback will do that for my next project

NikhilR

Lovely work!

Zi0

@NikhilR Thank you very much!

evgeny_h

great!