Gas operated.... why? Very interesting design choice. Anyway, beautiful work. My only criticism (which you should honestly ignore because I'm not expert) is that the slide grips below the rear site look a little shoehorned in. Kinda...too round or something. Maybe add a little detail to that region of the slide. Anyway,…
I pretty much just made it up as I went along. Somewhere along the creation of the slide I thought the bolt would be an interesting shape to test out zbrush's dynamesh advantages, because making holes inside of cylinders is a pain with sub-d. After that I made the rest of the gun off of that idea, basing a bunch of things…
I made a Maya baking interface that uses Substance Batchtools for the main baking process and then Imagemagick for some additional functionality not available in Substance. The goal of the tool is to streamline and minimize baking setup time, also to get rid the need to ever leave Maya to bake. From my benchmark timing…