Amban Phase-Pulse Blaster

I did a test render of some of the textures out of substance. I'm pretty happy with them. I needed to do some tinkering to get the saturation levels of the stock right and a little gamma correction in post. 

I decided to create a more sophisticated light and camera setup for my progress renders, I'm pretty happy with this I think it looks a lot cleaner and shows off the model much better. I'll be posting all my progress updates with this lighting and camera angle going forward.

Finally pushed through with the UV unwrapping. In the future when the decision is up to me on such personal projects, I'll be trying out a Sub-Division with holding edges work flow instead of bevelling complex objects as the UV unwrapping stage in the latter workflow is a huge slog in my experience. 

Also Rendered out a Turn Table for the completed modelling phase. I'm really happy with how closely it resembles the prop from the show and how realistic if feels this far. I am fairly sure however that the texturing process will be make or break, although it definitely helps to have a well modelled foundation. 

3D Model Viewer

Did a little extra work of the modelling side of things adding in all the screws and Rivets I could find in the  reference images. 

Finished up the modelling and bevelling, I think the stock might still needs a little work. I'm not sure the bevelling workflow was the right choice, there was a lot of clean up work in some of the more complex parts of the model. In the future I think I'll use a sub division with supporting edge loops workflow. 

I tried adding in some poles here and there to optimise the poly count but I think that was part of what caused all the cleanup work and has also made the topology come across a little weirdly.

I'm pretty happy with how accurate the recreation is so far though!

I've done pretty much all the blocking, and am happy with it. I got bogged down in detail and I think that may hurt me in some of the details of the proportions. In the future i need to be more disciplined with that and block out in large basic shapes getting progressively more detailed instead of getting carried away.

Amban Phase-Pulse Blaster

The plan is to create an Amban Phase-Pulse Blaster like in Mandalorian to later include in a character sculpt. I also intend to present this asset compsited into some live action footage to practice compositing. 

This is a rough sketch I did to inform the basic proportions of the rough modelling process. I think the stock might be a touch too tall which I will address in the blocking stage.

Here is the reference images I've gathered and thanks to Adam Savage's One day builds I know the Rifle is around 170cm long.