A development animation of the four barrelled Nordenfelt 1″ machine gun of 1883. This gun was developed as an anti-torpedo boat defense, and fired a hardened steel bullet to a range of 1,500 yards, although its effective range was only 400 yards. The objective of this animation is to show the loading mechanism. No audio.
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Hi, Iām Rob, otherwise known as VBBSMYT.
I create the animations on my iMac using Cinema 4D, which I find very intuitive, and allows me to add smoke and flames, and then send the model to my trusty Render farm.
I make my models as accurate as possible through reference books and particularly good drawings. You may have seen my animations of early torpedoes and machine guns on YouTube. I enjoy finding out how things work and it has been fascinating to track the development from the late Victorian period up to World War 1.