Speed Modeling Competition 2: Steampunk Blunderbuss

[urgaffel]

TEXTURE NOW!


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Just to be clear: this challenge will run to NEXT SUNDAY, 14th of March

Post you wip and final images in this thread. Final image can be a clay render or screenshot us an image of the wires and the uvs. Use the gif format for wires and/or uvs, you'll usually get higher quality and smaller files compared to jpg. If you want, feel free to create a high poly version and use that to bake a normalmap for your lowpoly weapon. You don't have to of course, it's up to you. You do need to unwrap it though since a modeler would pass on an unwrapped asset to a texture artist (which could be you ).

Now go nuts!

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[couto607]

Ohh, good to see these have returned. Don't think I will enter this one though. I lack the creativity for steampunk haha xD

Good luck to everyone.

[Coldeath]

Oo soo want to enter but just started a new project and i am loving it and downt want to submit a bad model

[Michael_K_Schmidt]

I would like to enter this competition. It would be my first. Do I just post my results here?
Do I need to sign up anywhere?

I have Blender, Gmax, and 3-D Game Studio, and I can export to pretty much any format, which format would be best?

I will check back here for a reply, or you can email me mkschmidt30@hotmail.com

[urgaffel]

Michael, you just post an image of your finished model in this thread. You can post work in progress too if you want. No need to sign up fir anything

[Aijati]

I think I might try to join this if I have time. How strict are the rules though? Does it specifically have to be based on the era of that picture (1700's ish) blunderbuss or can it be a little bit later like 1800's. Obviously nothing to futuristic.

[PermaGrin]

I was not going to enter when it first stated it would only be 2 days long, got too many deadlines to finish before GDC. Now that is a week long, I might see what I can do after this weekend is over.

[Philly13]

Thought I'd go for the second gun approach - the blunderbuss' secondary fire functions by spitting globules of acid at the user's enemies. Still a lot of reworking to do on the design and trying to keep it 'steampunk-ish' while adhering to the blunderbuss shape

[urgaffel]

How about having the containers on the side of the gun instead and have the grip for the second hand where they are now?

[urgaffel]

Originally Posted by Aijati

I think I might try to join this if I have time. How strict are the rules though? Does it specifically have to be based on the era of that picture (1700's ish) blunderbuss or can it be a little bit later like 1800's. Obviously nothing to futuristic.

As long as it has the characteristics of a blunderbuss, you can do what you like. One example could be the guns the dwarven riflemen have in Warcraft 3. Or you can be more realistic but add a second gun it's a fairly open brief, the images are just a starting point.

This goes for everyone: feel free to share references. In a studio environment, you usually share references with eachother. If you see something that might help others, you send it around.