CGTalk - Master and Servant Challenge FAQ/Answers/Questions (Update 24 March 2005)

flyingP

07-11-2005, 07:17 PM

hey duddlebug, sorry, but the other challenge was held during the weekend,
now u gotta wait till the judging n stuff for at least another month until
the next challenge...

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you're really quite an evil little bastard aren't you? :D

Squibbit

07-11-2005, 07:56 PM

:rolleyes:

I'm Friend!!

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duddlebug

07-11-2005, 11:11 PM

hey duddlebug, sorry, but the other challenge was held during the weekend,
now u gotta wait till the judging n stuff for at least another month until
the next challenge...

Oh well... i was too busy boozing at the weekend. It could've been fun but you've gotta get your priorities straight, eh?

I want a challenge!! C'mon CGTalk!!

paperclip

07-13-2005, 08:18 PM

Don't worry Jonny, only 2 1/2 weeks to go...before 31st July, remember?

How's Daisy btw?

Squibbit

07-13-2005, 09:43 PM

and Lily ?

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duddlebug

07-14-2005, 08:12 AM

Don't worry Jonny, only 2 1/2 weeks to go...before 31st July, remember?

How's Daisy btw?

Yup... hopefully they'll get it online in time. I'm sure the 'Grand Space Opera' ended up being delayed until after SIGGRAPH. Ho hum... i'm sure they're doing their best. I've just got a bit of free time at the moment and i know i'm gonna be dead busy in a couple of months time... so, on a very selfish level, the sooner the better!! ;)

And Daisy's doing just dandy!! She's super cute!! And smiles at her dad a lot... i think she's learnt already that she's gonna get a long way with that smile and me. :)

coCoKNIght

07-14-2005, 02:26 PM

Are you saying that it's gonna take 2 and a half more weeks?!?! I CAN'T wait that long! I just CAN'T! :cry: :banghead: :cry:

paperclip

07-15-2005, 02:02 AM

duddlebug

07-15-2005, 08:43 AM

Daisy duddle is such an adorable name.... Unusual surname at any events. Where/what is it from?

Well, I like it :)

I was once told by one of these 'where's-your-name-from' market-stall-country-fair-things that 'Duddle' was a misspelt 'Dudley'. And that one of my ancestors couldn't spell his name!! The cheek of it!? We're very clever chaps, us Duddleys! And we're very good at spelling Dudle!! So there!!

I've not met any other Duddles though.

coCoKNIght

07-15-2005, 09:54 AM

Daisy duddle is such an adorable name.:love: You should feature her in KinG of SpACe!

Unusual surname at any events. Where/what is it from?

Coco...you CAN wait. Harry Potter is out tomorrow night! Yay! If you start the contest on saturday, you will have one unhappy contestant....me.

See you there!
P

Go watch the movie!... The next three weeks is the first time EVER I'd have some decent ammout of time to work for a challenge... I'm so unlucky...

duddlebug

07-15-2005, 11:05 AM

The next three weeks is the first time EVER I'd have some decent ammout of time to work for a challenge... I'm so unlucky...

I'm in a similar position... i've only got a full time job and a baby occupying my time at the moment. ;)

I'll have a ton of stuff on the go by the end of August, so i'm gagging for this challenge to start!

It can't be more than two weeks away now... can it...?

coCoKNIght

07-15-2005, 11:44 AM

I'm refreshing cgtalk every hour for at least one month now, just to make sure I don't miss the start... :)

duddlebug

07-15-2005, 12:01 PM

I'm refreshing cgtalk every hour for at least one month now, just to make sure I don't miss the start... :)

Hahaha!! You'll wear out your 'refresh' button... :)

Maybe they'll just tell us two... because we're really keen and dead nice and enthusiastic'n'all..?

coCoKNIght

07-15-2005, 12:20 PM

Hahaha!! You'll wear out your 'refresh' button... :)

Maybe they'll just tell us two... because we're really keen and dead nice and enthusiastic'n'all..?

Or because CGTalk's gonna be down if we don't stop refreshing all the time :scream:

paperclip

07-15-2005, 01:36 PM

Add me in for the F5 crowd. Do I get to be privy to the secrets??

duddlebug

07-17-2005, 02:27 PM

Add me in for the F5 crowd. Do I get to be privy to the secrets??

If only we had secrets...then we might ahve something interesting to distract us from waiting for the challenge!

I guess you've seen this:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2467217#post2467217

ho hum... i'll have to think of something else to fill my time... :sad:

paperclip

07-18-2005, 12:03 AM

*Sadly stops sharpening pencil*

Oh well. A while yet. I got something for you to do duddle- show us a wip of your 'romanes eunt domus', I love that picture!! :love: Go on jonny, you know you want to...

duddlebug

07-18-2005, 10:06 AM

I got something for you to do duddle- show us a wip of your 'romanes eunt domus', I love that picture!! :love: Go on jonny, you know you want to...

I saved off a load of jpg's of the WiP, mainly to put in the rather sparse 'How?' section on my site. So i'll let you know when it's there!! And i might load it up on the original thread in the cgtalk 2D forum too..?

paperclip

07-18-2005, 04:12 PM

duddlebug

07-18-2005, 10:04 PM

Theresa! Step-by-step just posted in Art techniques forum!

And i've gotta agree!! C'mon CgTalk! Post us some clues!

Mibus

07-19-2005, 02:40 AM

Now that really would be telling ;)

Art2

07-19-2005, 07:40 AM

... mibus, was that the clue? ... :curious:

Mibus

07-19-2005, 07:41 AM

No, that would be breath-taking.:twisted:

duddlebug

07-19-2005, 08:36 AM

No, that would be breath-taking.:twisted:

oooOooooooOh...?????

coCoKNIght

07-19-2005, 10:49 AM

sooooo, was 'breathtaking' the breathtaking clue? :surprised

AlyFell

07-19-2005, 11:20 AM

No, that would be breath-taking.:twisted:
My curiosity is aroused... :curious: now what would take your breath away I wonder? Death manages that... :hmm: Oh Mibus... you tease... ;)

Squibbit

07-19-2005, 11:30 AM

Death manages that...

and love ... :)

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duddlebug

07-19-2005, 11:35 AM

and love ... :)

Or a very nice view.

Or a fairground ride.

Or a good punch under the ribs.

Or a traffic cop if they think you look a bit tipsy.

hmmmm... the mystery deepens.... :p

paperclip

07-19-2005, 03:26 PM

Work with it, people!

Hmm, breath taking, well I was hoping for a nice broad topic like Death, but I have a feeling that they won't make it that 'easy' for us, so we may have a more complex version of such a clue.

Hmm.

Breath-taking? End of the world...grim reaper...final days...ahh, mystery does indeed deepen.

Oh, for more clues!

mmoir

07-19-2005, 04:55 PM

Please do!!

Looking forward to this. Sad to hear that challenge won't be until after SIGGRAPH though, at least it'll give us plenty of time to speculate on the new topic!

If only we had someone to drop us insanely obscure clues...sob...please guys, someone throw us a bone here!

Paperclip,
Where did you hear that the next contest was starting after SIGGRAPH , everything I have seen suggest the contest will be announced before Siggraph

duddlebug

07-19-2005, 05:01 PM

Paperclip,
Where did you hear that the next contest was starting after SIGGRAPH , everything I have seen suggest the contest will be announced before Siggraph

Leigh's announcement (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2467217)

In Announcements... ho hum...

walrus

07-19-2005, 05:05 PM

'Breathtaking,' hmmm?
Maybe it's another space theme, as in the vacuum of space.
Well, maybe not the vacuum. That just sucks. :shrug:

-m

Art2

07-19-2005, 05:17 PM

...maybe he misspelled it...
so it could be 'bread taking' or 'breast faking' or... :shrug:

paperclip

07-19-2005, 06:29 PM

'Breathtaking,' hmmm?
Maybe it's another space theme, as in the vacuum of space.
Well, maybe not the vacuum. That just sucks. :shrug:

-m

Vacuum? As in....

http://media.hoover.com/Media/PageImages/about/history/au_his_photo1.jpg

Mystery solved? Otherwise 'breath taking' could be re-interpreted as 'bread baking', if you have bad hearing, and I do, so...

http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/art/bread-baking-sm.gif

coCoKNIght

07-19-2005, 08:13 PM

It must have to do something with jennifer o'neill, cause this (http://www.jenniferoneill.com/breath-taking-jen-in-directors-chair.jpg) is the first thing google comes up on an image search for breath taking

mmoir

07-19-2005, 10:52 PM

Leigh's announcement (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2467217)

In Announcements... ho hum...

Duddlebug,
Thanks for the info, I guess I don't go to the front page very often.

leigh

07-20-2005, 12:12 AM

I'd post a clue, but no words in the vernacular can describe this great event.

Clanger

07-20-2005, 12:26 AM

Birth, new life? Taking your first breath.

leigh

07-20-2005, 12:59 AM

:shrug:

You'll just have to accept a slur.

paperclip

07-20-2005, 01:25 AM

I'd post a clue, but no words in the vernacular can describe this great event.

Great event? Slur?

Hmm.

Fall of the Angels? Apocalypse? The final Ride of the Four Horsemen?

Or some other such event?

Slur... on someone's name...term of disparagement...them against us attitude..warring cultures?

Am I getting close? :grin::D

leigh

07-20-2005, 01:44 AM

Am I getting close?

Nowhere near.

Mibus

07-20-2005, 03:40 AM

It'd be amazingly impressive if you got anywhere close.

Leigh, stop teasing - that's my job! ;)

duddlebug

07-20-2005, 08:05 AM

Leigh, stop teasing - that's my job! ;)

It is teasing!! We need to know!!

So when do you realistically think you'll launch the challenge..? Will it be very soon after SIGGRAPH for instance...?

Mibus

07-20-2005, 08:44 AM

Hopefully very shortly after SIGGRAPH :)

duddlebug

07-20-2005, 09:37 AM

Hopefully very shortly after SIGGRAPH :)

Splendid...

:bounce:

paperclip

07-20-2005, 02:51 PM

It'd be amazingly impressive if you got anywhere close.

Leigh, stop teasing - that's my job! ;)

It's something to do with insects, isn't it??

Aiaiai.. I am looking forward to this indeedy.

By the way, Robert, I'm going to email you Jason's compiled Q & A later today. Keep an eye on your inbox....

Squibbit

07-20-2005, 09:32 PM

Come on, solve it already for us, Paperclip, wanna get a headstart!

:bounce:

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AlyFell

07-20-2005, 11:12 PM

Come on, solve it already for us, Paperclip, wanna get a headstart!

Squibbit, you do so many drawings anyway, why don't you start now... one of them's bound to be right! ;)

Squibbit

07-20-2005, 11:18 PM

Squibbit, you do so many drawings anyway, why don't you start now... one of them's bound to be right! ;)

heh yea, nah, I'll just practice my painting, I really need to..

never seem to learn anything tho, but it's a past time :)

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coCoKNIght

08-04-2005, 12:10 PM

Yay! Today is the last siggraph day.... sharpen your cursors!

Squibbit

08-04-2005, 01:27 PM

oh crap I wanna rest for a while ....

:cry:

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paperclip

08-05-2005, 09:22 AM

*Waits in pleasant expectancy.* It's a while before I start school, so I'm looking forward to this, the results will be something fun to think about while I'm in Gross Anatomy...

duddlebug

08-05-2005, 09:52 AM

I'm afraid the challenge isn't allowed to start before the 15th... I'm on holiday in Devon next week and i'll be most miffed if it starts without me! ;)

paperclip

08-05-2005, 01:12 PM

Why did you tell them, Jonny? Now they'll start on the exact date you leave.

At least it gives me a head start ahead of you, but it'll be useless once you get back...:D

LadyMedusa

08-05-2005, 01:34 PM

Breath taking? Great event?
hmm...
Great event... Festival! Party!
hmm...
Breath taking... !!!

Assasination at the great Festival! or something less brutal...
:D

I wonder what would happen if somebody acctually guessed it.

Jonny, I bet it'll start the 14'th or 16'th, that would be so typichal(spelling?).

BlackDidThis

08-05-2005, 02:08 PM

For some reason I have a feeling it might be aquatic/marine...
Though I fear that it would make it a harder task to tackle and would not wish it... can't leave it aside.

We have little more to do but wait... :sad:

Black

Squibbit

08-05-2005, 02:39 PM

you got it, in fact , i think it's gonna be "Underwater Love" to be more exact

mmm....

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paperclip

08-05-2005, 03:23 PM

If someone guesses it they'll just change the topic. We can't win, people!

DrFx

08-05-2005, 04:51 PM

Breathtaking great event? The sinking of Atlantis! Of course!:bounce:

duddlebug

08-05-2005, 05:11 PM

At least it gives me a head start ahead of you, but it'll be useless once you get back...:D

I've only finished one out of three challenges!?

Changing jobs wasn't the best excuse for not finishing my Grand Space Opera (but i really didn't have access to a scanner or decent access to the internet! Honest Guv!), but a baby arriving two weeks early and two weeks before the deadline was quite a good excuse for Master and Servant!! At least i've finished it now... three months late but who's counting?? Let's hope nothing crops up this time round.... must try harder.... ... i want to get into some judging for a change...

And let's hope there's a whole bag full of 21" Cintiqs up for grabs!! Every prize is a cintiq!! And clever peeps get a BOxX and a Cintiq!! Woohoo! ANd 15" cintiqs for honourable mentions, pleeeease!? And some bundles of lovely software just for good measure!! YiPPee!!

An underwater theme sounds interesting... but maybe a bit specific..?

There's not been a myths and fantasy type topic yet, has there?

And i like Aly's 'Death' interpretation... nice and broad, if a little dark.

walrus

08-05-2005, 05:24 PM

And let's hope there's a whole bag full of 21" Cintiqs up for grabs!!

See, there was the problem with the last challenge right there. It's not like any of us couldn't have easily won top prize in the challenge. It's that the SECOND prize was a Cintiq so we were all trying hard enough to get second place but not quite good enough to come in first. It's easier if you just shoot for the top, but we were all shooting for almost the top so that we could win the Cintiq, and that requires a bit more precision. We all accidentally undershot... (except for Matt, of course.)

...

:D

-mike

AlyFell

08-05-2005, 05:39 PM

We all accidentally undershot... (except for Matt, of course.)

Undershot... undershot..! I dropped me gun and looked the wrong way as well...!

And i like Aly's 'Death' interpretation... nice and broad, if a little dark.
Dark, because I am dark! Dark mysterious and brooding but occasionally a bit fluffy... :argh:

Speaky

08-05-2005, 07:51 PM

Seems like it's gonna happen soon... :)

From a thread in general discussion here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=265085)

duddlebug

08-05-2005, 08:53 PM

Dark, because I am dark! Dark mysterious and brooding but occasionally a bit fluffy... :argh:

"Bubbles...? Bubbles?? I'm fu*king Aly Fell, I'm the prince of fu*king darkness!!"

'nuff said.

and what's with the new avatar... you ain't spookin me...

(apologies for the misquote!)

mosconariz

08-05-2005, 11:39 PM

okay Leigh... In your 2 phrases you used 2 wierd words: vernacular and slur... I think there is the clue...

vernacular:

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
common: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
Vernacular architecture comprises "traditional domestic and agricultural buildings, industrial and commercial structures, twentieth-century suburban houses, settlement patterns and cultural landscapes."

slur:

<li>A curved line placed above or below two or more notes of different pitch to indicate that they are to be performed in legato style.
(http://www.google.com.ar/url?sa=X&start=0&oi=define&q=http://library.thinkquest.org/2791/MDCTARY/S.htm)<li>a single bowstroke that incorporates more than one note.
(http://www.google.com.ar/url?sa=X&start=1&oi=define&q=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrgloss.html)connect two or more notes together smoothly; not tongued

So, it's about languages and culture, not as spread concepts, but as unifying; something global. Am I close my favourite little south african admin? :D

XIA

08-19-2005, 09:58 PM

Two weeks after Siggraph...I am still waiting.
I am ready for the next challenge. Bang Bang!

arLutiK

08-22-2005, 07:22 PM

XIA, didn't you know yet.

They love to make us wait.

:twisted:

TwitchyHamster

08-22-2005, 09:11 PM

Give us the challenge already =) You're killing us here!

*twitches on the floor*

-Twitchy

Mythmaker

08-22-2005, 11:08 PM

Maybe this is the Challenge?!..

...see who holds on to their sanity the longest! ;)

...bugger... there goes my entry!... :drool:

Dutchman

08-28-2005, 12:41 PM

Maybe this is the Challenge?!..

...see who holds on to their sanity the longest! ;)
It seems to be.... But in every case it's really not fun anymore to wait... I though the challenge was to be starting more than 2 weeks ago... Why all this delay...? Now I've been waiting for two weeks and haven't started another project because 'the challenge would open soon'.... Just really sad that it takes so long: school begins tommorrow again, so from now on it'll be very difficult to find time and so... :sad: :shrug:

Please open it soon... I really don't like this delay anymore... :sad:

Ego

08-28-2005, 04:10 PM

It seems to be.... But in every case it's really not fun anymore to wait... I though the challenge was to be starting more than 2 weeks ago... Why all this delay...? Now I've been waiting for two weeks and haven't started another project because 'the challenge would open soon'.... Just really sad that it takes so long: school begins tommorrow again, so from now on it'll be very difficult to find time and so... :sad: :shrug:

Please open it soon... I really don't like this delay anymore... :sad:

I could have sworn I just heard you sobbing :D

Mibus

08-29-2005, 01:09 AM

To quote myself in the "next challenge" thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=265085&page=25&pp=15):
It won't be out this Monday, but it will be out "soon" now (instead of "later"). A smallish number of "weeks".

The big delay was between the SIGGRAPH rush (and everybody having holidays shortly after), and us wanting to make sure we got the latest prizes, instead of "last season's" ;). It shouldn't be long at all now, and I hope you all think it's worth the wait!

paperclip

08-29-2005, 11:53 AM

This challenge is too weird to live and too rare to die! :D

which movie is this from? :twisted:

BlackDidThis

08-31-2005, 03:22 AM

hmmm.. Let me see if I got it right...
"There he goes... One of God's own prototypes.;
Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production...
Too wierd to live and too rare to die."

It was something Johnny Depp had said after the Dr. in Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.

Do I get an award?:shrug:

Black

liquidwerx

08-31-2005, 07:10 AM

hmmm.. Let me see if I got it right...
"There he goes... One of God's own prototypes.;
Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production...
Too wierd to live and too rare to die."

Love that flick...

"Did you see what GOD just did to us man?!!"

paperclip

08-31-2005, 10:03 AM

Very good! :thumbsup:

blakbird

08-31-2005, 05:30 PM

How are you doing?

BlackDidThis

09-05-2005, 08:53 PM

Still alive Levent... Had some difficulties remaining such, but it seems I am given a chance to move on :)
Thus I am not as around as before. Getting my gear together since our production is starting soon.

I'll PM you shortly, thanks for the concideration.

Black