Highguard Weapon - The Saber Rifle

Gotta have a burst rifle right? Another fun one... gotta stop saying that, this entire project was insanely fun. Anyways, wanted to push the sexiness on this design. Got hooked on the look of a 'floating' front foregrip and an interesting burst mechanism that animates nicely in first person view. As you may notice, a lot of 'final concepts' I'm sharing aren't exactly what you see in game. Our team worked highly collaboratively, meaning we pushed to get proxy models in as soon as possible. After these concepts are done there is a tremendous amount of back and forth, proxy paintovers, between 2d and 3d until you get what you see in game.