3D Week 05 - Cannon Modeling

This week, our task was to model a cannon for use in the upcoming weeks' assignments. Being the Warhammer 40,000 nerd I am, I decided to model a lascannon.

Using the above references, I sculpted out the lascannon. I started with the barrel, then the outer frame and connected the two, then the lower frame and tripod, connecting those two with each other and then the top, and finally the scope, battery, and power cable. I then scaled up the model to be about the height of a man on his knees, using the Cadian Heavy Weapons Team model as reference. The end result comes out to about 3600 tris, with areas for adding geo for the high poly in the barrel, tripod legs, and main frame.