Evangelion Small Arms - HK USP .45 - Katsuragi Misato

Premise

I am a big fan of Evangelion, some time ago I decided to do a series of fanarts in this direction. As the topic I chose small personal weapons of characters (although I had to search the Internet for references, it was a lot). Each of the scenes I wanted to relate to a particular moment in the series, showing all the drama with which the whole story of Eva is.

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Story NR-01

HK USP .45 - NERV Edition - Katsuragi Misato

This weapon saved Shinji, but he did (not) save the world.

Katsuragi Misato (NERV Headquarters Tactical Operations Department Operations Bureau 1st Section Manager ) is one of the main characters in the series and plays a key role in it. Her weapon is HK USP (in my execution .45 AUTO). She sacrificed herself for Shinji, gave him a chance to choose what the end of the world would be like.

As a character, she can be described as an ambitious young woman with a lot of life experience. Pretty open to other characters, but what's going on in her head is completely different than what's for show. Her cross (received from her father as a memory of the second impact) symbolically given on to Shinji (after her father had given it to her in Antacritica). The cross here is probably a symbol of sacrifice and memory as well as an unauthorized way of choose (outside of the SEELE scenario).

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3D Sketchfab Model

I tried to insert the Sketchfab player here in Hive, but it couldn't, which surprised me a bit, but here's a link to Skechfab

Here you can view and rotate model in 3d on Sketchfab

WIP

I started as standard by inserting the best possible reference into Blender as a blueprint and setting the appropriate size of the base model solids.

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Then using the Boolean technique (which is great until it stops working and then you have to combine with micro-offsets of the cut shapes so that all cuts are visible and working) I made some basic detail sculptures of the model.

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When the base form after Boolean was ready, I started the High Poly model using the Subdivision Surface technique.

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Next, I had to create Low Poly versions for texture baking in Substance Designer / Painter

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Normal Map was baked in Substance Designer and details from the above-mentioned masks were added to it - notches on the handle, and similar trifles.

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In Substance Painter, base materials and additional details have been applied, as well as the effect of light use.

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After loading the textures back to Blender, the appropriate composition was set and the project prepared for export to Sketchfab.

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2D Art & Characters © by GAINAX