Artifact 1 - Bond Hand Gun (Walther PPK)

Bond Gun – Firing Bullet

The Bond Gun displayed above will build the beginning of the trailer. The Bond Gun will fire a bullet that will travel through the scene and smash its way through the 007 logo.

Construction of the Bond Gun

The Bond Gun is constructed of many shapes that have been edited with ‘Editable Poly’. The gun was drafted off a replica drawing that was used as a bitmap displayed on a plane to enable myself to shape sectors of the gun so that they would look correct. The basic shape of the gun begins with the use of the ‘Box’ tool to create differently sized rectangles. These rectangles were then converted into ‘Editable Polys’ so that the rectangle could then be shaped using the move tool on particular sectors of the poly. Once the desired shaped was achieved it was then aligned using the ‘Align’ tool to align it to the other shapes so that they all matched a similar height. The sectors that were crafted from the ‘Box’ tool were the handle, trigger and surrounds and the cocking/barrel shaft. The gun was originally crafted on one side so that once finished, it could then be duplicated to create the other side so that the gun will look symmetrical when view from all angles. 

The barrel and other rounded sectors of the gun were crafted using the ‘Cylinder’ tool. Once the cylinder was crafted into the desired shape it was then converted into an ‘Editable Poly’. Using the ‘Border’ tool the inside of the cylinder was removed and the outer border was dragged to the desired length. This was the same for all of the sectors using the cylinder tool as it gave control over the desired shape and was easy to achieve a barrel like shape.  Material applied using the material editor and text applied from the use of the text tool from the shape menu.

The bullet was constructed via the Lathe tool. An image of a bullet was imported into Illustrator and using the pen tool half the outline was drawn. The original image deleted and the illustrator image was imported into 3DS Max as an Illustrator 3 file. Using the lathe tool the half image of the bullet was constructed into a full 3D model of the bullet. A gold material was applied to the bullet and then the top was split from the bottom of the bullet and placed into position on the gun. In animation the gun will look as though it is firing the tip of the bullet as the bolt will shoot back sending the tip of the bullet out of the barrel and the discharged shell of the bullet out of the side of the gun.

Use of Lathe