This thread is simply to show off several pages of my notebook in which I draw many of the designs I possibly want to create models of. A lotta people seem to say I model really fast and get stuff pushed out pretty damn quick. Really, I do take my time, but I also have a bit of a vision of where I'm going when I do create new 3d models.
Modelling isn't exactly a hobby that takes small investments of time, but it sure does make that time go by much faster when you get into the mood of the creation of a new baby! Simply put, I love creating new models, even of older classics!
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The purpose of this specific thread is to showcase the first step I take in creating a 3d model. This, of course, is to create concept art. I am not a great artist, so I just do the simplest thing possible: side-view drawings. While it's possible for me to move to 3d views, it's not really worth my time to do so: I'm making a 3d model of the stuff anyways!
Anyways, I'll just go though each image and explain the weapon concepts you see in the images...
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This is the original drawings page of the H7X1. I originally started by wanting to create a H&K G3 remake weapon. Obviously this snowballed into something almost completely different. I simply lay down the basic design stuff on the drawings, leaving off any attachments I'd add later on. Reason I do this is simple: It leaves me with less clutter when I'm looking at the drawings when I create the weapon. However, if you've seen the weapon model (on the BW Community site, check it out!), you'll notice I've added a few things for the concept drawing: these are my texturing cues.
I also noted a lot of the objects on the weapon so I'd be able to remember what I was wanting to make on the weapon later on in the 3d build of the weapon. I've got nothing more to say about this particular page... so let's move on!
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This is my drawing of the SPGt fully-automatic shotgun. I designed this particular weapon on two guns: The SPAS-12 and USAS-12. At the time I had been playing Far Cry 2... a bit too much. I really had taken a liking to the designs of the two weapons and wanted to see what I could make by combining the two. What I got is before your eyes now.
I liked this weapon particularly since I believed there are too few shotguns in the base BW mod. My goal for all my weapons I create is to try making them for BW someday. Of course, that's like step... 5. Step 1 obviously being art, 2 being the model, 3 and 4 being anims and UVs, and 5 being implementation to UT.
Oh, if you wonder, the top right part of the page shows what I imagined looking though the ironsights would have looked like.
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This page contains a wide variety of random weapons I drew. Obviously the majority aren't even modelled for. However, you'll notice my weapon concepts for the original remake of the Calico 960 I talked about in my SMG thread. Alongside that, you'll find my Mac-10 original remake idea. In the end, I went with making a Mac-10 model based on what I saw in Far Cry 2. I felt that version was the better looking one anyways.
The RAC-551 will probably never see the light of the day, since it was just a combo of a CAR-15, G36, AK47, and SCAR. Please don't bother me on that weapon, I was bored when I designed it one time during lunch break.
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For my final page of showing to you guys, you get to see a whole page of my failing attempts to design a good Machine Pistol. I obviously had something going more towards the end, but I decided I'd rather make a Mac-10 in the end. For simplicity's sake, I was wanting something not as hard to model. To me, pistols are the hardest weapons to model. Something about the handle not feeling as natural...
If I feel like it someday, I might possibly make the MP89. But that might never happen, I just don't like modelling pistols at all. All my previoius attempts at normal pistols were failures, and I consider them my weak point in modelling. However, I don't mind if anyone decides to have a go at making the models based on my concept art I've shown here. You can try all you want!
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And so concludes The Process [pt 1]... I'll have a part 2 sometime soon. Obviously that's the showing of a model and how I create it, or at least how I did in the past! I can't really show my current stuff since I did models with much less versions than I did previously.
