WIP - S&W 500 -C&C please
polycounter lvl 12
This is my progress so far on the Smith & Wesson model 500. My intention is to model this as a weapon for a next-gen FPS. I intend to model a high-poly version to bake the normals from. Also, I am modeling all the parts of the gun discretely so that I can animate reload cycles and firing cycles later. Any and all Comments and critiques are welcome. I'd much rather correct errors now than have to redo large chucks of work later. Thank you.
Maya Screengrab
Edged Faces Maya Screengrab
Flickr photo set of references and progress
Maya Screengrab
Edged Faces Maya Screengrab
Flickr photo set of references and progress
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You should really consider creating this model in a more open and honest manner. You'll feel better about it in the end.
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It seems like a blockout to me, because its way too messy to be a lowpoly mesh, and it will need to be a lot more accurate to be a decent highpoly mesh. Theres nothing wrong with having a blockout mesh, infact its a great way to start, i just want to make sure you're not considering this as a lowpoly/basis for the highpoly because atm its nowhere close to being either.
I would study your refs a good deal more, because there are some glaring innacuracies here, the barrel seems to have some strange tapper shapes to it, when infact its a really simple octagonal shape. The grip needs a lot more love, it seems like you're just kind of modeling the general shape here, which is fine for a blockout, but nothing else.
From here you should concentrate on reworking pretty much everything, or salvaging what you can with geometry suitable to sub-ds, for your highpoly mesh, and then what that is done, you'll want to build a new(possibly start from the blockout) mesh around the highpoly.
Take a good look through this thread: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=56014