Cosmic Fool
12-06-2004, 04:59 PM
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Title: Maxforums.org Modelling Tournament Winner (5 Pics)
Name: Mike Lambert
Country: Canada
Software: 3ds max, Brazil r/s, Photoshop
***I haven't posted anything here in a while so this new upload thing is a little new to me. Hopefully this is acceptable.***
Since mid-September I have been competing in a 3D Modelling Tournament (http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=259207&r=71) (5 Rounds, winner moves on)
Each round had a new theme that we had to use in our work. We had between 1-2 weeks for each round. I won all 5 rounds and was chosen as the "Best of the round" each time.
So without further delay, here are my winning entries.
Round 1 - "It grew from a teapot"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round1-Teapot.jpg
The only rule for round 1 was that we needed to include a teapot in some way. I decided to go for a more literal interpretation of the theme and created these Venus Fly Traps busting out of the teapot.
Round 2 - "It has an interesting shadow"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round2-Shadow.jpg
For this round, the resulting shadows of the objects were to be our main focus. I decided to go with something along the lines from the shadow scenes in the Austin Powers movies. The caption was added to make it blatantly obvious what was going on.
Round 3 - "Alone in the Superunknown"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round3-Supernatural.jpg
This round was a little more open ended, which actually made it tougher to come up with an idea. We were simply required to come up with something "supernatural", which could have been almost anything. Normally I do a lot of mechanical modelling, so I decided to go for something completely different and design a more organic looking scene.
Round 4 - "Big? No dude, that thing's HUGE"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round4-Huge.jpg
The title explains this one pretty well. For this round, we had to make something unbelievably huge. I wanted to turn this one around a little. The kids are amazed at the size of the fish they caught, meanwhile they don't see the monster behind them.
Round 5 - "Ah-ha! So that's how they did it"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round5-Basement.jpg
Round 5 had a twist to it. We could model anything we wanted, as long as we wrote a tutorial on how it was done. At the time I was working doing renovations on a basement so I figured that was as good a subject as any for the scene. The accompanying tutorial explains every step of the creation of the basement scene:
Basement Scene Tutorial (http://www.shinynewmachine.com/tutorials/detail/detail01.html)
(Forgive the look of the pages, it's just a temp layout as I'm currently re-designing my website)
I'd love to hear your comments, and would be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Title: Maxforums.org Modelling Tournament Winner (5 Pics)
Name: Mike Lambert
Country: Canada
Software: 3ds max, Brazil r/s, Photoshop
***I haven't posted anything here in a while so this new upload thing is a little new to me. Hopefully this is acceptable.***
Since mid-September I have been competing in a 3D Modelling Tournament (http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=259207&r=71) (5 Rounds, winner moves on)
Each round had a new theme that we had to use in our work. We had between 1-2 weeks for each round. I won all 5 rounds and was chosen as the "Best of the round" each time.
So without further delay, here are my winning entries.
Round 1 - "It grew from a teapot"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round1-Teapot.jpg
The only rule for round 1 was that we needed to include a teapot in some way. I decided to go for a more literal interpretation of the theme and created these Venus Fly Traps busting out of the teapot.
Round 2 - "It has an interesting shadow"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round2-Shadow.jpg
For this round, the resulting shadows of the objects were to be our main focus. I decided to go with something along the lines from the shadow scenes in the Austin Powers movies. The caption was added to make it blatantly obvious what was going on.
Round 3 - "Alone in the Superunknown"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round3-Supernatural.jpg
This round was a little more open ended, which actually made it tougher to come up with an idea. We were simply required to come up with something "supernatural", which could have been almost anything. Normally I do a lot of mechanical modelling, so I decided to go for something completely different and design a more organic looking scene.
Round 4 - "Big? No dude, that thing's HUGE"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round4-Huge.jpg
The title explains this one pretty well. For this round, we had to make something unbelievably huge. I wanted to turn this one around a little. The kids are amazed at the size of the fish they caught, meanwhile they don't see the monster behind them.
Round 5 - "Ah-ha! So that's how they did it"
http://www.shinynewmachine.com/gallery-temp/Round5-Basement.jpg
Round 5 had a twist to it. We could model anything we wanted, as long as we wrote a tutorial on how it was done. At the time I was working doing renovations on a basement so I figured that was as good a subject as any for the scene. The accompanying tutorial explains every step of the creation of the basement scene:
Basement Scene Tutorial (http://www.shinynewmachine.com/tutorials/detail/detail01.html)
(Forgive the look of the pages, it's just a temp layout as I'm currently re-designing my website)
I'd love to hear your comments, and would be happy to answer any questions you might have.