short weapons challenge
 

What to do
make a hand holdable weapon
it can be anything that's real like a sniper rifle, katana, grenade etc
or anything that doesn't exist as a weapon like a oddly shaped sword, gun with lots of different funky sci-fi augments, or a tonberry lantern! or whatever
go wild

tools
whatever you want to use you can use.
any 3D, 2.5D and 2D app

start-end time
1pm saturday nz time (GMT+1200)
to
1pm tuesday nz time (GMT+1200)
12am (midnight, the start of the day) tuesday UK Time (GMT + DLS)
10pm monday winconsin time (GMT-0500)
4am tuesday kenya time (GMT+0300)

ie, 72 hours after the start date (not the 48 as i originally put up here when i said 3 days!!!) correct me if i'm wrong

deciding for winner
polls will decide...

im going to put the poll up in this thread because i dont know where else to put it
hammer, im not sure if you're going to do this or not, but i'll put your name in the poll anyway

we'll let people vote on the poll after the stated end time and then we'll take count of what they are at
1pm thursday nz time (GMT+1200)
12am (midnight, the start of the day) thursday UK Time (GMT + DLS)
10pm wednesday winconsin time (GMT-0500)
4am thursday kenya time (GMT+0300)

i dont' have the ability to close the poll... think you need to be a mod to do taht

yeah i'm in. I've been on night shift this week so i need something to do to keep me awake on saturday.

...i think i'll do a colt or some other kind of classic.

its amazing how many HQ reference images you can get if you want to model a gun!

so, I've decided on the Smith & Wesson Model 29.

were you just looking in google image search?

i thought of doing a sniper rifle of some variant, because those things are pretty cool, but i'm not going to

doing something a little different, interestingly enough (to my surprise) such weapons actually exist, just not in the complete way i'm doing it

here's a small preview of what's to come from me

an SM exclusive

you'll be asking 'wtf is that meant to be?!?!?!'

once it's in a reasonably presentable state i will show

Right, here's the start of mine, as always I'm trying something that I most likely won't have time to do, but I'll do my best!

I'm not going to say what it is yet, I'll leave that to your imaginations for now....

Make the edges harder it's just smoothing out now ... don't get the idea of weapon

Haha, you're not meant to....yet.
And this part of it is meant to be a rubber type material, so hard edges wouldn't look quite right.

Here's another part of it....

it kinda looks like a duel bladed light saber or something that will have something poking out from either side of the grip

i've managed to spend a few hours on this

here's another SM exclusive, until i get better pictures

it's not often bevel works for me...
in fact there is a lot of funky geo going on around some places, but i figure it wont matter so much.. im not skinning this

for such a small thing it's using a lot of triangle already... 54,494 not that it matters too much.. i hope.. i do hope to use this in future

i wonder what i'm making.... you'll see soon enough

I thought i was laser saber !!!!!

:p

Looking good so far... but what is it with all these inconspicuous images? lol

damn you guys are making some crazy good looking stuff. Im pretty new to this whole thing still but this is the only way to get better so i'm throwing my hat in.



how do you guys take such good pics of your stuff. sorry for my noob-ness

Ok who win kicks other asses :D and they are suppose to type in their signature " My ass was kicked by .... " for 1 week :PPPPPPP This will be good stuff!!!!!

lmao

what i have so far after 2 hours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIwJCCP7CH8

well, here's what i have after a few hours, couldn't do anything for a long time because i was without power

no more need to hide what it is

it's an axe with two blades and a hidden gun

materials aren't final, i just put different blinns on so i could kind of see what the objects are

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5810373_n.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6570719_n.jpg

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1168001_n.jpg

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4394982_n.jpg

that is awesome. How do you shoot the gun though.

Both of the other entry's so far are looking good!

Here's a bit more of mine, it's a WPN-WMPG1. Wrist mounted plasma gun. Not finished yet by far but I thought as everyone else had now shown what theirs are I should too.

The first image I posted was of the trigger grip which is inside the main casing....

that looks like it could do some major damage for being on your wrist lol. you guys are damn good. im glad i found this site it i will learn alot

aaaaah crap!

i just realised i set the wrong end date for the challenge in the first thread

hold up, going to give it the proper 3 days instead of my failed 2 days!!!

i hate time...

challenge started at 1pm saturday in my time, so it should end at tuesday 1pm my time.

i'll get the correct times for all of us...





anywho.. now that that's fixed, i don't feel so bad that i lost a lot of hours due to no power today

here's a few close ups

i was getting it rigged so i could collapse it easy into the axe but rigging would start doing weird things

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4677533_n.jpg

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...06_29820_n.jpg

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1094431_n.jpg

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...8_816675_n.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3029372_n.jpg

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1821138_n.jpg

kruj4k: you fire the gun by pulling the trigger that pops out at the handle

which reminds me, i'll do a close up of that too at some point

good looking for now waiting for Dango i know you get some very detailed work right :?

Chirone gj ! get a brighter render next time pls

wow chirone i like how yours is coming along finally startin on mine been in a party mood so it was kinda hard to settle down and start on this good luck to everyone though

I've started, i had to get some new batteries for my keyboard.

i was thinking of doing it gold, what do you reckon?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...ror/gun_01.jpg

due to the gun laws in the UK i've never held or seen one of these. I've only ever fired 3 kinds of weapon. Therefore i have no idea of proportions for this, perhaps one of our US friends might like to help me out there!

is this a previously designed thing or an invention?

Looking good guys!

@hammer.horror: Gun looks fine thus far... proportions seem fine. Though, if your going for a gold, you should make it a Desert Eagle. :p

@Chirone: Looking good. I like the idea of it folding out like that.

@Dango: That laser wrist watch is a good idea. Looking forward to seeing how much detail you can jam in there. ;)

@Kuj4k: Your space gun is looking good so far.

@murambi: ... take your time... it's not like you only have 3 days to model the thing.

did I miss anyone?

hammer, that's an awesome gold. what did you do to make it? (i want to stick it on my eye character)
you going to make it pure gold colour? (i assume it's gold plated)

murambi, good to hear you're going to start soon! *wonders what you will do*

dango, does that stand for weapon - wrist mounted plasma gun?

i'm thinking when i get home i'll try a few different colours

don't think i'll be able to properly layout the UVs (the blades are the only things that had a bit of attention but that was a real rush job, i think there are some overlapping UVs there too... not that it matters, it's only two colours and where they change it doesn't overlap)

Hey Hammer, it's an invention of sorts, not actually copied from anything, but I'm pretty sure the idea has been done before by someone.

And Chirone, yes, that is indeed what it stands for! Well guessed/worked out.

Been out all day so not done any more to it today, will get some more done, and hopefully get it finished for the deadline tomorrow.

thats a quick gold mate,
its just
mia_x > replace copper 100%

then bump the colours more into the yellow than the orange... done.

Well, for a quick Gold, that's looking really nice! I'll have to remember that for the future, so cheers for the info!

I guess if I'm going to get any kind of a texture on this (even just shaders!) then I should call this almost done, may add a little more detail and then spend most of tomorrow trying to get it finished.

@Dango77 im lovin that thing. very bad ass

blocked out some more, good job i have the day off work.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...ror/gun_02.jpg

Kick ass revolver !!!! my dad use to have one when he was a cop :beer:

another...

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...ror/gun_03.jpg

Looking good Hammer, personally I prefer the first of the two last pictures you posted, I think because it's clearer to see the shapes of the barrel. But the last one you posted looked a bit more realistic, so maybe somewhere inbetween?

Good work anyhow!

And thanks Kuj4K, I'm doing what I can with the time I've had, (not a lot!) Glad you like it!

aaah, pushed the wrong keys and killed the post page and so yeah.. starting again..

this is going to be my last post with pictures because i dont have a chance to work on this for the comp after this point here

a bit about the weapon...

the weapon is an axe with two blades
it has a hidden gun, the gun fires as a single shot gun, so it's not semi auto or full auto.
it fires ordinary.. umm... 45mm lead bullets (unlimited ammo and no reload time..... :p)
the weilder of this weapon carries two (so he has four blades and two guns) and can join them at the butt end to form a halberd-like weapon, or open an end up to fire a shoulder mounted energy weapon.


made a very quick and crude playblast of the weapon switching between axe and gun form

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDmQLflAS3I

sorry...this is probably going to be my longest post... lots of close ups of the weapon

this took just over 32 minutes to render... at 640x480 res... must be all the glossyness to the reflections
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4101106_n.jpg

gun form from behind
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3045456_n.jpg

another close up of gun form
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._8071252_n.jpg

the entire gun form
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5875341_n.jpg

close up of the trigger, you should be able to see the hole that it came out from
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4528817_n.jpg

i was about to go sleep when i realised my post never posted

it had too many images.......

now i forgot what i said after my post...

tip of the axe
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3539885_n.jpg

moving down the axe
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3476072_n.jpg

the handle of the axe
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4291206_n.jpg

the entire axe (i think i made it a bit too long.....)
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6618867_n.jpg

two joined together firing an energy beam
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7874807_n.jpg

same shot, different angle
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1775220_n.jpg


that is looking sweet hammer, do you have the holes for the bullets in teh chamber?

forgot the last picture

of the wireframe

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7316844_n.jpg

56,412 triangles........

could you guys tell me how your taking such good screens? so i can post mine.

i use grab on mac osx for screenshots.