[WIP] Ruger Mark IV Lite + Suppressor and Reflex Sight

IgroMaks

Hello! After about half of a year of doing nothing for my portfolio finally starting my new WIP. This time I wanted something modern with interesting shapes and opportunity to attach suppressor and sight. So I decided to make Ruger Mark IV Lite.



I really like the contrast between black and gold colors so this color will be the main, but I will also make other color variations of the barrel like that:


I challenged myself to make the full pipeline in 14 days. I have about 4-6 hours every day after my work - this should be enough for me.

Today is Day 0 as I spend just about 3 hours to collect all needed references:

I'll try to post here every day so stay tuned! Btw, you can find my other works here: https://www.artstation.com/elizion

AB3LL1

oh man that gun looks very cool! the gold variation is beautiful.
I'll be watching your progress

IgroMaks

AB3LL1 said:

oh man that gun looks very cool! the gold variation is beautiful.
I'll be watching your progress

Thanks! And I will do my best to make it awesome!

IgroMaks

Made about 75% of the midpoly/blockout excluding suppressor and sight. Everything is on booleans so I disabled smoothing temporarily. I think I will finish the full modeling process in the next 2-3 days.

IgroMaks

The exterior's blockout is almost done, the magazine is left. Also I need to make some interior parts as they are seen while reloading or shooting.

IgroMaks

Completed all midpoly of the gun, tomorrow will make attachments and later start to highpoly all this stuff

IgroMaks

Finally done all midpoly part, now is the part for ZBrush 

IgroMaks

Done all Highpoly stage (some pins and bolts are not in ZBrush, they're done in Subdiv). Tomorrow will decimate all of this and start the Lowpoly stage

IgroMaks

Forgot to post yesterday, but there was just decimating and starting lowpoly. Today I nearly finished doing retopo, just need to do the mount, charging grip, some bolts and pins, and the magazine.

Currently it is about 16k of Tris in this scene, so I think full assembly will be around 18-20k total, mostly because of the cylinders
Later I will fix some areas also.

sacboi

Should be a neat looking portfolio addition

Wondering whether you normally budget hand guns around 18k+ tri's, aside from personal work? 

Also awesome StG-44 by the way, must get mine finished, too

IgroMaks

sacboi said:

Should be a neat looking portfolio addition

Wondering whether you normally budget hand guns around 18k+ tri's, aside from personal work? 

Also awesome StG-44 by the way, must get mine finished, too

Thanks a lot! Obviously the budget depends on the forms and shapes of the model so this one has a lot of cylindrical object at the top part and they are "eating" all my budget

IgroMaks

Day 8:
Completed Lowpoly stage and mapped all the UV's, just need to pack them. They will be divided to 6 textures sets:
1 - Upper Reciever
2 - Lower Reciever or Frame
3 - Magazine
4 - Suppressor
5 - Reflex Sight
6 - Charging Grip

Tiggis

Nice Work!

IgroMaks

Forgot to post yesterday (again) so here's double post:

Day 9

Packed all sets with approx. the same texel


Also decimated all highpolys and got them to the Blender together

Day 10

Baked everything and sent to Painter. Finally can start the texturing.

IgroMaks

Day 11

Textures are going very hard. Can't find a good facture for upper receiver. I don't think I will finish this in time (14 days total) as I need to experiment a little

IgroMaks

Day 12

Tweaked values for the coated metal, started doing base material for the dark painted metal. The progress is so slow

Zi0

I think that the coated part should be more glossy like in the reference you posted, its also gives your textures some more contrast.

IgroMaks

Day 13

Had just a little of free time to make some tweaks here and there. Completely redone the facture of coated metal - I like it a bit more but later I will make much more complex material for it

Zi0 said:

I think that the coated part should be more glossy like in the reference you posted, its also gives your textures some more contrast.

Yeah, you're totally right. The glossy version makes more contrast

IgroMaks

I think I'll hold this WIP till January 13th when I return home.

IgroMaks

Day 14

So I need to finish this someday and I'm trying to do this. Gave some details to the Frame part and started making damages to Reciever and Bolt parts(actually don't like that scratches on black paint). Also re-made facture on the Frame.