Belakor's Halo 3D Weapon Models

[Belakor]

I like it! really makes me wish I hadn't run out of card stock :/

Wow, this is so great I lost in the detail.

Wow I have to say these pieces are beautiful they really are

Thanks everyone Hopefully have more interesting stuff soon!

these renders are amazing, I too use solid works for my projects, but nothing as detailed as this, I really hope I get to see more from you soon!

Cool, good to see more solid modelers on here and thanks

Awesome work here!!



You are saying that these are goign to be machined, am I correct? Cause if you are they're going to be the most epicnesses thing in the word.



Where can I get my hands on solid works? I deffinately want to try it out.



-Pony

Some of these models will almost certainly be machined at some point, I'm not sure which ones at this stage but I am kicking around the idea to build an all metal M6C SOCOM at some stage I'll be printing some of the models in here once I get my 3D printer too, will have to see how that works out.



As Loess posted just above you can get SW for a pretty reasonable price if you're a student, otherwise it's pretty pricey. It is a pretty expensive piece of software but it's pretty awesome, not sure if they do a demo but it might pay to look around (or see if you can find someone that has it to play with,a local school or something maybe?)







An update on the sight, blinky lights are cool





And the sight on the SMG:







Didn't notice that there were a few faces missing texture until after the renders had finished but I'll have new ones done soon so it doesn't really matter.

 

[Spawn Camp3r]

looking even better, and now I can say after seeing some more recent footage that the dot is in fact exactly as you hate it and I think you are right about the curvature being a result of a low poly model.

 

[Belakor]

looking even better, and now I can say after seeing some more recent footage that the dot is in fact exactly as you hate it and I think you are right about the curvature being a result of a low poly model.

I thought that would be the case… I guess my SMG will just be a little inaccurate

I've noticed the same problem with with other parts of the standard SMG in Halo 3 recently while grabbing references, sometimes I just make stuff up and hope it works out







The first photos of the all metal M6C SOCOM model...



Powder coat:







Aluminium:







I'm rebuilding the whole thing from scratch in multiple parts for machining, so far the suppressor is in nine parts. You can't really see it but underneath I've got a removable picatinny rail, I don't think that will work very well with the game accurate LAM so I'll work up another system as well but it'll work for any aftermarket accessories.

 

[drgon47]

your modeling never ceases to be less then 110%...

 

[bevbor]

Hey, man, you must tell us, how much costs the video card in your computer, man

 

[Belakor]

your modeling never ceases to be less then 110%...

I try to learn something new every time I start a new model so I'm constantly trying to improve and stay ahead of the game That's also why I like to jump between projects, if there's something on a model I can't do or just do badly I move on and eventually learn how to do it right

Hey, man, you must tell us, how much costs the video card in your computer, man

It's an ATI Radeon HD 2400 with 128 MB of VRAM, just the standard card that came with my iMac*, nothing fancy but it seems to do the job I really need to get a Mac Pro at some stage so I can actually upgrade the graphics card should it need it, I'm pretty sure all Apple computers except the Mac Pro have permanent graphics cards



*I run Solidworks in Parallels because I refuse to run a dedicated Windows PC ever again





Btw all the pics in this thread are smaller now, the load times were getting a little long.

 

[1ManBattalion]

Brother as always, your work is very impressive no matter what the Medium is.

 

[bevbor]

... just the standard card that came with my iMac*, nothing fancy but it seems to do the job...

Well, so please tell me, what exacly function do you using to get so beautiful rendering? Photoworks?

 

[Belakor]

Brother as always, your work is very impressive no matter what the Medium is.

Thanks man It's good to hear back about this stuff... from everyone, the feedback is good

Well, so please tell me, what exacly function do you using to get so beautiful rendering? Photoworks?

I use PhotoView 360

I only really use it with the "HDR studio shadow environment" and render as a PNG at about 1280 x 1024 though the background in the renders I post here is something I did in Photoshop (a two tone grey gradient with some noise).

I used to render them as a Radiance HDR image then convert to TIFF and then again to PNG (that's the only way I've ben able to get it to render with the PhotoView background) but now the photo viewing software on my Mac doesn't work like it used to so I'm back to just PNG and add the background myself.





I posted this up last night on Flickr and Twitter, just an early render of the all metal pistol in progress:



The barrel actually has rifling, though you can't see it. There are some issues with the design of the pistol too,it just wasn't meant to be made real, I should be able to work around them though.

I should probably point this out, when I'm talking about making it all metal or working I don't mean functional like a real pistol (it wont load or fire real or blank rounds), there are far too many legal complications with making a prop that realistic





Edit: Opinion time again... should I separate what I've been calling the LAM along the red line in the pic below?



To me it looks like it's supposed to be two pieces but I thought I'd try for some other opinions Will be easy enough to throw together an attachment system if I do go with a two piece design.

 

[bevbor]

I use PhotoView 360

It is Mega Cool! <facepalm> Why I didn't discovered it eralier </facepalm>

Just tried it without any thinked thru settings (materials choosen randomly):







Thank you for the hint!

 

[Belakor]

It is Mega Cool! <facepalm> Why I didn't discovered it eralier </facepalm>

Just tried it without any thinked thru settings (materials choosen randomly):





Thank you for the hint!

Cool, glad I could hep out a little That SR looks real good even with the randomly chosen materials, should look amazing with the final render





Haven't done much on this today, got the slide mostly done, frame too, and started working out the mechanics of the moveable pieces etc:

 

[bevbor]

Another quick modelling plus quick rendering. Custom warthog with SA / SS missiles

Sorry for hijacking your thread, I'm stopping I'm just so excited by PV360

 

[JSwift]

I think the laser and light should probably be seperate. Seems like thats how it should be.

 

[Burk]

I have heard for years now that Mac's are better at this kind of thing, but I think you bring a great deal to the screen. Otherwise it would just sit there. lol



Keep up the Epic work.

 

[Belakor]

A few updated renders of the pistol:





Haven't worked on it in ages but I managed to get the grips done before other stuff took priority.

Made the laser/light a two piece setup, it screws together from the top (which is then hidden by the rail on the suppressor), started working on the internals for those two piece too so I can add a functional light and laser.



I also did this quickly this morning as a test:



It's a scaled down version of the top of the Brute flame grenade printed on my Cupcake CNC, it was going real well but an axis (or two) lost a couple of steps about 45mins in and shifted the print so I aborted. I'll redo the model later and remove a lot of the material so it prints way quicker... I could do a while line of scaled weapons I'm going to try a scaled helmet or two sometime too



Going to be working on finishing off the ODST weapon models soon and starting on some new stuff, the goal is to model every weapon and prop in the Halo universe for the eventual CNCing/RPing.

 

[Garland]

Wow dude, you have some seriously mad skills. I wish I could do stuff that ridiculously awesome (without trying). But alas, I am too lazy.

the goal is to model every weapon and prop in the Halo universe for the eventual CNCing/RPing.

Can i haz fuel rod gunz?



That would be quite an accomplishment. Are you going to do the equipment too?

 

[Belakor]

Wow dude, you have some seriously mad skills. I wish I could do stuff that ridiculously awesome (without trying). But alas, I am too lazy.

It helps when your job and your hobby are the same thing

Can i haz fuel rod gunz?



That would be quite an accomplishment. Are you going to do the equipment too?

Fuel rod gun is on the list, I haven't planned it or anything but it'll get done eventually.



Yeah, equipment, weapons, some vehicles. As much as I can really, from the games, books, comics, shorts, movies (should they ever get made), anime... everything! probably armour too but the weapons and equipment interest me more right now.

 

[Dh748]

"It helps when your job and your hobby are the same thing " ( didn't quote right...)





Man i wish i had a job and hobby that were the same, What is it exactly that you do?

 

[Belakor]

"It helps when your job and your hobby are the same thing " ( didn't quote right...)





Man i wish i had a job and hobby that were the same, What is it exactly that you do?

Technical term is freelance practical FX artist, also solid modeler/3D modeler... basically I build things, both physical and digital, for people that need them. It's just a temporary thing while I wait for production to start on some stuff so I can pick up some real, more permanent work





Another in-progress Halo weapon:





That's maybe an hour of work, most of which was getting the reference images lined up properly and sketching the basic outline. I'm building the whole thing in stages so you could make it functional and by functional I mean lights and sounds, not actually blowing stuff up with a laser (as fun as that may be )

Something I've only just discovered, the Spartan Laser is big! It'll be interesting to see how difficult it is to hang on to...

 

[Dh748]

the spartans lasers looking REALLY good def. one of my favs youve done.