The Gungslinger's Gun
The Gunslinger's Gun
Self-Assembly
Exploded view. Fundamental to this gun is that it's actually three guns: a revolver, an AR and a sniper, that modularly reconfigures itself driven by the alien relic as its brain
Wireframe. This project was designed as a game-res prop. I learned a ton of techniques for improving my high to low poly bakes, especially baking the bevels into the hard edges
I used the low poly as the base of the high poly and focused on getting nice bevels on the edges and cut-in details
Texture sets and Bake
Revolver silhouette. Maintaining the distinct silhouette of each type of gun was very important to me throughout the project.
AR silhouette
Sniper silhouette
I started by finding a concept that was close to what I wanted (this excellent piece by Kaiyuan Lou) and then modified it to fit my idea.
I have this pipe dream of a project I want to make in my demo reel at Gnomon next year that has been slow-cooking in my head for about three years now. I attempted to model the character for it, an android called 'The Gunslinger' and his gun at the end of 2022, but after getting professional feedback I knew I needed advance as an artist before being able to execute it at the level I want.
I envision The Gunslinger overlooking an Icelandic landscape, decimated by corporations mining for the tombs of long lost alien relics. He leans on his one-wheeled motorcycle, holding the gun of his namesake, before holstering it and riding headlong into danger.
There's a lot of complex modeling I want to do for this project, so I'm splitting components of it out into my projects for my courses at Gnomon wherever I can. I decided to take on his space-magic gun for my Props and Weapons for Games class taught by Gabe Cervantes.
Concept: Kaiyuan Lou
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lDd9R5
Special thanks to Gabe Cervantes!
https://www.artstation.com/gabrielcervantes3d