VOTE! : FXWARS Dracula's Castle

[jussing]

Plug? Please? :) (this thread is well hidden, and as of now only has 13 views)

And yea, double thanks and applause to Kvaalen! :thumbsup:

[frogchild]

That's some freaking cool stuff all around.

Can I vote twice?

[RobertoOrtiz]

All of the people worked really hard.
And about the vote, only one per customer.
:)
-R

[Joblh]

that was some serious quality stuff, great work guys! :) entry 2 get's my vote :thumbsup:

[SEPHROTH64]

casted my vote, good luck to all

[stuh505]

Cast my vote, I watched them all except for Google Monkey's...sorry but I'm not installing an ActiveX control just to vote on this!!

I did not feel that the categories were able to accurately represent the way I wanted to vote, though....Jussing's entry had the best emotional quality to it, but there was no category for this.

[colt]

Very fine results there. Good work.

But where to put my simulation vote ... not much simulated here.

[HellBoy]

I too agree, theres really hard effort on them, hope it all goes well on voting :thumbsup:

[azloha]

is the result determined? the earlier one seems to be better. the later is relatively not that better.

[JB]

the earlier one seems to be better. the later is relatively not that better.

What does that mean?

[pweckerl]

roberto,

how long are is the voting thread going to be open ?

thanks,
ph.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Well I am in the process of writing the rules for the Close Encounters Challenge.


So give me until Wednesday and Ill post the results.


-R

[Nando3D]

Very fine results there. Good work.

But where to put my simulation vote ... not much simulated here.

Colt vote for my entry.. the hanging bridge (Maya Hair simulation) and the Bats (Particles Crowd simulation)...

Thanks

[mybutterflyiris]

Really awesome job guys! I love how each entry brings something unique to the table.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Hi guys, Roberto here.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that made the Dracula's Castle FXWARS a success.

All the entries were great but it is obvious that 3 entries went ahead of the pack.

So lets show the winners!

But first ...
Thanks to Samuel Kvaalen for setting up the voting program

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On THIRD PLACE (in number of votes)
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http://www.treyharrell.com/dracula/poster.jpg
By Trey Harrell

Animation: http://www.treyharrell.com/dracula/TREYHARRELL_FXWARS(640x360).mov (http://www.treyharrell.com/dracula/TREYHARRELL_FXWARS(640x360).mov) (Sorenson 3 Quicktime / 640x360 / 1:05)

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On SECOND PLACE (in number of votes)
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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/robertoortiz1/fxwin.jpg

By Jonas Ussing!
Animation: http://www.duck.dk/cgi/jussing_draculas-castle.mov (http://www.duck.dk/cgi/jussing_draculas-castle.mov) (Quicktime, 7.8 mb)




And now for the big one....


Drum roll please

BEST OVERALL ENTRY
The winner will have the honor of gettting this nifty graphic....

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/robertoortiz1/cgtalk/fx1.gif (http://photobucket.com/albums/b216/robertoortiz1/cgtalk/?)
A on a sweep on all Cathegories:
http://www.alternatyve.net/forums/Dracula_Shots.jpg
By Fred Burdy !

Animation: http://fred.errances.free.fr/Dracula.wmv (http://fred.errances.free.fr/Dracula.wmv) (2min06sec, 720x304, 25fps)

Comment: I searched to create an immersive sensation, so I decided to create a long introduction and to work a lot on the mood and the rythm.

I decided to show a sunset, with the chromatic evolution, and a gradation of the camera moves.

The final shot uses the character design from Coppola's Dracula, whitch I found perfect for the dark/romantic athmosphere I wanted.

The music is from the same movie, but edited to fit my needs.

Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=2790893 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=2790893)


Keep an eye on the forum..
The next Challenge...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND will go up this week.

And of course you can post your ideas for future contests here:

CgTalk:FXWars!Topics (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=155219)

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BIG FREEZZE SPOTLIGHT
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One of the cool things about being a Mod is that I can spotlight, the work done by
our members.

Even on old challenges:
I would like to present the wonderfull work done by Onix on the last challenge, The Big Freeze...


FX WARS THE BIG FREEZE: ONIX (frozen city enviroment) (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=261424)
Video

http://www.digitalacb.com/onix-lolec_fxwars-320x240.wmv (20 Megs)



http://www.digitalacb.com/2cgonix640.jpg

-R

[jussing]

Yay, thanks and congrats to everyone!

Trey, your piece was extremely poetic and beatifully done! In many ways my favourite of the competition. :) Fred, I'll never know how you managed to produce such a huge amount of hi-quality work on such short notice, but when I saw your entry I knew you were the winner!

:)

Cheers,
- Jonas

[JB]

Congratulations guys! You did amazing work in a very short time :thumbsup:

[tharrell]

Congrats are definitely in order!

More props to Fred and Jonas for their amazing work. I'm honestly not sure how any of us pulled it off with a three-week deadline -- especially Fred. The sheer number of sets blows my mind, not to mention how awesome stuff looked. :thumbsup:

Thanks to everyone for participating and Roberto for taking the time to put these challenges on.

--T

[google monkey]

some truly great work.:cool:

[Dagibit]

like no one could predict the winners Lol.

Amasing.

[joshin42]

You guys are simply amazing to pull this off on such short notice. Excellent work. I'm shocked personally. :eek:

Congratulations!

[3DEffects]

Well done guys! U really deserved it!:D

[pweckerl]

congrat's to the winners ! until next time.

ph.

[Ishtar]

all my congratulations with all, it's beautiful work!

[tharrell]

Roberto,

Just got a lovely little note from my web hosting provider that wasn't too thrilled about a half terrabyte of bandwidth over the span of a week :)

Would you mind changing the link on mine to...

http://www.treyharrell.com.nyud.net:8090/dracula/TREYHARRELL_FXWARS(640x360).mov

Also, for other entrants worries about bandwidth, the caching mechanism I'm using above can be applied to any URL for free. Just take a look at how the link is built and you can apply it to your own site.

Cheers,

--T

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