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Subject: Assault Rifle MA37 Adaptation

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Hello fellow gallery goers (and random people bored of the other forums).

Recently I visited the web page of a wonderful halo concept artists that posted some images of the Halo Reach assault rifle prototypes. I found myself wanting to make one of them in blender, and so I did. But I changed it around a bit to be something a little more realistic (The one I picked appeared to have no place to insert ammo).

So here are three renders of the colored but not textured version of the MA37.

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc236/tinyohyeah/Assault_R ifle.png?t=1301191510

First person perspective

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc236/tinyohyeah/Assault_R ifle_OPP.png?t=1301191509

And for reference here is Isaac's concept art:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ezXfXwVkn3k/TT8UH_nbxvI/AAAAAAAAAF4 /f3g9X7B7wz4/s1600/ih_assault+rifle01.jpg

And his website in which I obtained the concept art from:
http://www.isaachannaford.com/

The specific assault rifle concept I based it on was the very last one in the concept art image.

[Edited on 03.26.2011 7:32 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2011 7:31 PM PDT

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WOW!! Dude that is really good. You should work at Bungie.

  • 03.26.2011 8:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: TheBestTheyHad
WOW!! Dude that is really good. You should work at Bungie.


Why thank you, but there are far more qualified people who could work for bungie. I still need more education before I could even begin working as a Hard object designer.

  • 03.27.2011 9:42 AM PDT
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OMG DUDE!

  • 03.27.2011 10:47 AM PDT

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Pretty impressive, man. You picked the weapon I wouldn't have picked and made into something that's actually pretty cool.

  • 03.28.2011 1:27 AM PDT
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awesome, great quality and detail.

However, I saw some things that could need change.

the adjustable stock seems to have simple bars that go into the body of the rifle, but as it's a Bullpop design the bars will go through the magazine.

The case ejection hole in the side seems to be way to small, and placed too far ahead of the magazine. in most rifles the cases come out above the magazine, not infront of it.

The grip seems to have a quite angular shape, might be difficult to hold comfortably. maybe soften it up a bit. and enlarge the hole where you place the thumb when holding the rifle.

In the casing on top of the fore part of the rifle, there is a small, barrel like pipe, what does it do?

I'm by no means trying to shoot you down or anything. I think constructive critisism will help you develop skills with design and 3d. which are already quite good

  • 03.28.2011 2:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: Olole
awesome, great quality and detail.


Why thank you good sir.

the adjustable stock seems to have simple bars that go into the body of the rifle, but as it's a Bullpop design the bars will go through the magazine.

Yes I realize that, and I am actually going to fix that, but you should look at the gun I worked from, it didn't really have a magazine at all. Not using that as an excuse.

The case ejection hole in the side seems to be way to small, and placed too far ahead of the magazine. in most rifles the cases come out above the magazine, not infront of it.

To make the rifle I got the dimensions from the image itself, the ejection hole is approximately the right size in the gun itself. Also take a look at a lot of the Assault rifles, most of them deal with an ejection hole far ahead of the magazine. Take a look at the concept art, you'll see the halo 3 assault rifle has it far ahead the magazine.

I'll make a little disclaimer right now:

My intent with this 3D gun was for aesthetic purposes only.

The grip seems to have a quite angular shape, might be difficult to hold comfortably. maybe soften it up a bit. and enlarge the hole where you place the thumb when holding the rifle.

Yeah, the grip was just a little drive by addition that I added.

In the casing on top of the fore part of the rifle, there is a small, barrel like pipe, what does it do?

It was something I remember seeing on the Halo Reach assault rifle, as to it's purpose I have no idea what it is. But I would like to think that it's a camera that feeds video into the HUD of a spartan or one of the Reach army soldiers HUD.

I'm by no means trying to shoot you down or anything. I think constructive critisism will help you develop skills with design and 3d. which are already quite good

No worries, I definitely like constructive criticism, a lot of problems with making something in 3D is obsessing about something you made, which makes you make changes again and again and again. Which doesn't really help you change the design and sometimes even ruins it. So the best method is to show your work to others so they too can see the image, and criticize your work as it should be modified.

I will be changing the stock and if I can the grip (A whole mess of polygons that grip is, not gonna be fun modifying it). But if I do take care of the grip then I will probably make some changes to that entire area.

  • 03.28.2011 7:59 AM PDT