Machineflesh Book Announced!

[leigh]

How fabulous!! The layout looks stylish (as always) and I am sure the text content is superb. I am looking forward to reading this one!

Congratulations again to all the winners, and I hope you all enjoy seeing your work in the book.

[blindsleeper]

Absolutely excellent... now i have to decide to put money away for the wedding or machineflesh...

[Peddy]

the community-driven publications of ballistic publishing contine to astound me, and make me rather proud that its an Australian based company. congrats on another awesome book in the works!

[JesseDavis]

That's really great. If it's anything like the Oddworld Inhabitants book, I'll be sure to order me a copy. Congrats to all the participants in that challenge as well. I checked it out, and just like space opera, want to vote for all of them. Super news.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Ordered. When can I be expecting this book? :)

[Hexodam]

wow, nice job there :D

one question, are there any plans of including a cdrom with the books which includes high res pictures of the images in the books?
would be awsome to be able to have some of your favorite images as wallpapers :)

[hertzchim]

ballistic books always look super stylish

[tristan-bethe]

Yay! Keep making those high quality books and i will keep buying them. I feel collection urges coming up!

[yolk]

How fabulous!! The layout looks stylish (as always) and I am sure the text content is superb. I am looking forward to reading this one!



but no money,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[dmonk]

Great Idea! I hope the book is a success, actually I'm sure it will be.

[SUN]

My Congratulations to Ballistic Publishin and CGtalk
this book gives to all one more big motive
to participate in challenges
:thumbsup:

[Markuss]

wow, nice job there :D

one question, are there any plans of including a cdrom with the books which includes high res pictures of the images in the books?
would be awsome to be able to have some of your favorite images as wallpapers :)


Why don't you just save the images from the competition website and use that as a wallpaper. I think they are quite high res aren't they?

http://http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/machineflesh/

[angel]

Nice job guys. What happened to Greg Petchkovsky's piece? I didn't see it in the page gallery.

[Matt_Forcum]

Holy cow! thats awsome! You will have a serious explosion of enteries in the challenge now!

so...when is the next challenge being announced?

[tlggungor]

:bowdown: Ballistic Publishing and CGtalk:bowdown:

:beer:

[Versiden]

Nice job guys. What happened to Greg Petchkovsky's piece? I didn't see it in the page gallery.

yeah, I wondered about that also... isn't he the runner up?

[halo]

if shrek 2 beats the incredibles, it will all be over from then on...

[KurtBoutilier]

The book looks great... cant wait to get one.

[Hexodam]

Why don't you just save the images from the competition website and use that as a wallpaper. I think they are quite high res aren't they?

http://http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/machineflesh/

that works for this book but for Expose and other books its harder to find the exact picture you are looking for

[AirbORn]

This is exciting. I remember doing the survey last year, and I am extremely happy to hear you guys are going along with producing these books :)

[walrus]

That's great news! I was really impressed by the quality of the Oddworld Book, this should be equally nice.
Just to make sure I've got this straight: People can get the discount if they participated in the Grand Space Opera challenge even if they weren't a part of the MachineFlesh challenge? Really? If so... cool!

-mike

[cgkrusty]

I just ordered the book... to get the discount as a challenge entrant all you have to do is type in your userID and password and it's done!

Sweet... They only have a soft cover version though... still, it's going to be great!

[LeonardoSchubert]

Awesome!!!

BTW how much does it cost??? :shrug:

leo

[angel]

yeah, I wondered about that also... isn't he the runner up?

Yes, he was the runner up.

[ArtisticVisions]

One question I have is on who's work appears in the book:
Is it just the winners and honorable mentions or is it based off, like the top 25 entries of each catagory? :shrug:

[monsitj]

that's great! can't wait for GSO book and new challenge!! :thumbsup::bounce:

[Leonard]

>> Greg Petchkovsky's piece

Here's two layouts from Greg's tutorial. Not all pages are shown in the page gallery. As mentioned, all winners and runner ups have tutorials in the book:

http://leonard.cgcommunity.com/machineflesh6.jpg

http://leonard.cgcommunity.com/machineflesh5.jpg

>> How much does it cost?

It is ~$33 (US dollars) / $44 (Australian dollars).

>>They only have a soft cover version though

Yup that's right. Challenge books are one standard format to keep the cost as low as possible for everyone - hence why we can offer such huge (20%) discounts for all Challengers!

>>who's work appears in the book? Top 25 of each category?

Tutorials: All winners and runner up's (50% of the book)
Page gallery: Honourable mentions and print worthy entries selected by the editors (50% of the book)
We try to fit as many images as possible into the book, but we do retain a quality standard for publishing images. Definitely more than 25 in each category.

[nathanwallis]

i haven't entered in any of the competitions, but I can't wait to get my hands on the books, sounds like a great idea...this channel truely is a great place to be around. Can't wait for the next competition to begin.

Cheers,

Wally

[ArtisticVisions]

>>who's work appears in the book? Top 25 of each category?

Tutorials: All winners and runner up's (50% of the book)
Page gallery: Honourable mentions and print worthy entries selected by the editors (50% of the book)
We try to fit as many images as possible into the book, but we do retain a quality standard for publishing images. Definitely more than 25 in each category.
Ah, that's cool. :)

[angel]

cool! thanks for posting that leo!

I wonder If I made it to the book, I never received an email so I guess not. Maybe next time.:thumbsup:

[ArtisticVisions]

SNoWs: I don't think they're sending those emails yet; the ones we recieved today were to announce the CG Challenge books and the Machineflesh book.

(this is from the email that the participants of GSO recieved):
Grand Space Opera book
======================
The Grand Space Opera book will be put together in just a few weeks after
the judging finishes.

All artists whose work is be selected for the book will be contacted by
email to approve PDF proofs of the pages with their image. Everyone who gets
in print will get sent a free book. In addition, everyone who entered will
be offered a 20% discount on the book and any other Ballistic books they
order at the same time.

Schedule:
21 - 27 January 2005 - Public Voting
28 January - 4 February 2005 - Internal Judging
14 February - Winners announced and notified

Book production will begin immediately after the Challenge winners are
announced. By then, all winners will be notified with the 'making of'
guidelines for the book. All artists with images to be used in the book will
be notified by email before March 2005.

[MarkSnoswell]

Answers to a bunch of questions:

Emails have gone out to Machine Flesh Challenge entrants telling them how to get their 20% discount -- if you entered the Machine Flesh challenge and have not recieved your email contact helen@ballisticmedia.net

Emails have gone out to Grand Space Opera challenge entrants explaining the process for their book. Once the Grand Space Opera book is on the press entrants will be sent details for ordering thir challenge book at a discount -- this will be just a few weeks after the judging is finished.

Machine Flesh book is already printed and will be on a ship to Adelaide next week. We should have them in about another 4 weeks to send to people. We do not charge credit cards untill the day the book is sent to you. If you ordered any other books at the same time they will ship out immediatly.

The Page Gallery will be updated soon to include all pages in the book.

The Pricing page will be updated tomorrow to include Machine Flesh pricing

We have kept the Challenge books as affordable as possible and still just enough to fund challenges. The price is: (Australian dollar price is fixed, other prices vary with exchange rates)
Australian 44
USA 34
EUR 26
GBP 18
... Challenge entrants get a further 20% discount on their Challenge book and any other Ballsitic Books they order at the same time -- if they order quickly.

Everybody that got an image in the book will be sent one free book. If you want more you will have to place an order for them.

The Grand Spage Opera book will be ready to go to press within just a few weeks of the close of judging.

When we are sure that the Challenges are running regularly with 4 a year -- would people be interested in bigger discounts for subscriptions to all the challenge books?

I think that sould answer everyones questions for now.

BTW -- the book looks awesome. Congradulations to everyone that participated in the challenge and all those who got their work into print!

Mark

[BernardoDelgado]

yeah this challenge books rock!!, I think this will keep motivating more and more to the artist to do our best efforts in each challenge, congratulations :thumbsup::)

[erilaz]

Ballistic is the sole source of my annual financial decline. :D

[balistic]

Ballistic is the sole source of my annual financial decline. :D

Yeah, I've been meaning to pay you back.

Oh, wait . . .

[erilaz]

Yeah, I've been meaning to pay you back.

Oh, wait . . .

Heh... I was kinda waiting for you to pop up with that one. :D

[Fanfurra]

Hi,
Just ordered the book.
The pages look amazing. This is my first buy to Ballistic, can't wait...

Fanfurra

[Heber]

just placed my order for this , roughly how many pages is the book? cant wait to receive it and hopefully someday get my work in . great work guys

[eygji]

just placed my order for this , roughly how many pages is the book?

the number of pages is 96.. :)
the book idea is very cool, not only as a way to show off the collection of great works, but also as a promotion to spawn interest in the contests and this cgtalk itself.
very cool.

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