Visual Design - Futuristic Gun

Mood Board:

This a moodboard of images I've collected from multiple games. Games such as: Borderlands, Call of Duty, Halo and Fallout. Each of these guns have a futuristic theme, however they are still very different from one other. There are differences in: form, colour and style. But they served to be great inspiration for my final design.

Quick Sketches:

Above are some quick pencil sketches of ideas I had with inspiration to those shown on the moodboard. I don't think much of these initial sketches so for my final piece I created an entirely new weapon with attributes from my sketches. I liked the idea of the bottom weapon the most, having some sort of melee aspect attached to the gun. The idea came from rifles in the past which had knives attached to the front. But I wanted to make this more futuristic, also I liked the idea of haven't an attachment like this on a pistol, with different technology I imagine there wouldn't be any issues with weight and such either. So I started brainstorming and created the piece below.

Final Design:

The piece above is my final design of a futuristic weapon from this assignment. As mentioned above I wanted to add a melee function to a pistol which was also futuristic. So I designed this, the blue beam in between the barrels is a laser which would cut any enemies down. The pistol is designed to be held with two hands (mainly one but maybe a second to stabilise it) and has a barrel both at the top and bottom. To cut with the laser you'd be able to turn the gun easily since it's a pistol also.

In terms of design I wanted to keep the gun looking sleek and reliable. To do this I used straight edges in almost the entire piece. I wanted it to seem like a light and elegant weapon so I used light colours in the design to portray that. In futuristic media lasers are usually red or blue so I chose the colour I thought worked better. I designed the lasers to be the same colour as what I fought could be the energy supply for the weapon (assuming it's the future and they don't use bullets but instead energy weapon because they're cool). I enjoyed this piece and I felt it gave me a chance to create something especially original.