Nerf Blaster Turret O'Fun

Weekly Drills - NERF blaster "Turret O'Fun"

This weekly drill was too good to pass up so before Uni work gets crazy lets make something cool. I love Nerf guns and I'm going to try to create the mix up of the century, a Nerf TF2 Turret.

Glad to have you along for the ride!

I only have a week so I would normally do more research but I felt I had a good idea of what I could create , I can also make quick changes whilst blocking out!

Really focusing on the bigger Nerf guns, I did consider looking at the stage 2 or 3 TF2 turrets but felt this would be pushing it time wise so I'm trying to keep things relatively simple.

Planning / Blockout

I love blockouts. I knew i wanted to create a mash up with tf2 and my blockouts started focusing heavily on the tf2 sentry but this became a non option because it became really tough to insert "NERFNESS" into such a iconic design, so instead I went back to the research and leant more on the Nerf design to begin with, as this gave me more options and I was able to keep close to the Shape language of the TF2 turret and I think keep within acceptable oh that's like TF2 territory... Not sure though! let me know what you think!!

High Poly

High poly was created in Maya and I used a mixture of hard modelled geometry and floating hard surface details to create the overall look. Normally I would have done this in Zbrush but I wanted to see what I could do with Maya and what challenges it would throw at me. It took me 3 hours to create this, the blockout was detailed enough for me to use some of the geo as a base but a lot of it was re-modelled / reworked. hoping to get texturing today we shall see what happens but its been enourmously fun so far!

So I'm not going to have time to wrap this up in a week, I will finish this asset over the next few weeks as I have time, unfortunately all my Uni projects hit this week and they're pretty intense so work has been primarily focused on that. stay tuned! I will finish this. I promise!