just polypainting by hand and sculpting a fire hydrant, the base mesh is the first thing I have made in maya, just trying to make the switch from 3ds max
MDiaz Love it! Makes me think the leaves are fire or something. Might be cool to place the whole scene inside a tornado style thing and have debris and wind swirls around the tree so it's like a freeze frame.
in fact if you were to redesign the handle to split in two rather than trigger / trigger guard (basically like a hand help stapler) then as you punched and your hand impacted it would automatically fire could be a cool variant