MGAC - 31 - The Twelve Triangle Challenge!

[Synthesizer]

This sounds interesting, I may give it a go if I come up with a good idea. I think the big turn off for the other challenge was the music theme. I certainly couldn't think up anything I wanted to make for that.

Also, you forgot to mention a deadline.

[Swizzle]

Also, you forgot to mention a deadline.I actually realized that just a couple of minutes ago. The contest will last a week, from today until Tuesday next week with the deadline being about twelve noon US Pacific timezone.

[Tronno]

I'm in. My entry is an incredibly lame communication satellite. UVs are done (:p), I just need to paint the textures.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1544/satxc1.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Swizzle]

You're using what, 10 triangles there? You could probably add a satellite dish with the two extra tris.

[Synthesizer]

Good start Tronno, nice to see it's not a crate :p

I've been on a bit of an Egyptian kick lately, and I was thinking of doing a obelisk at first, but that was much too cube-like. Now I'm going to be trying a winged scarab beetle.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8443/mgac12vg8.th.jpg (http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mgac12vg8.jpg)

And here it is looking a bit more like something:
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4946/scarab1gk8.th.jpg (http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scarab1gk8.jpg)

[blacker]

I'm gonna try to enter this one. I've got two 12 tri models done (no highpoly), but I'm having a hell of a time with the UVs. It's not that UVing a 12 tri model is hard.. it's that my freaking scale manipulators have gone missing again. I think it's due to my graphics card not being fully compatible with Maya.. :shrug: sure sucks though. I think I'll just manually scale the UVs with the move manipulator (before that one disappears too!). Pics later.

[JYoung]

I'm gonna try to enter this one. I've got two 12 tri models done (no highpoly), but I'm having a hell of a time with the UVs. It's not that UVing a 12 tri model is hard.. it's that my freaking scale manipulators have gone missing again. I think it's due to my graphics card not being fully compatible with Maya.. :shrug: sure sucks though. I think I'll just manually scale the UVs with the move manipulator (before that one disappears too!). Pics later.

Anytime I've had that happen, I either had to delete the preferences file for maya, or re-install my graphics drivers. Might be worth a try.

[Tronno]

You're using what, 10 triangles there? You could probably add a satellite dish with the two extra tris.Good idea, thanks! I've changed the geometry a bit and the maps are almost done. Here's what it looks like now:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7091/cgtalksatellite1ai3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Swizzle]

Looking sweet, Tronno!

[urgaffel]

Here's one of my ideas, hopefully I can get one or two other out before the deadline :)

http://www.urgaffel.com/images/12poly/12poly_xmas.jpg

Wire (http://www.urgaffel.com/images/12poly/12poly_xmas_wire.gif)

[Swizzle]

Bwahahahahaa! Awesome! Are those shadows painted into the texture?

[urgaffel]

Yeah, I thought I'd do some texture baking for the hell of it :) The sign is actually baked from a mesh as well with the lights painted on afterwards. Just me being silly I guess :)

[psychojohno]

im in on this, just finishing something off. Im glad its back on this forum because i thought it had been scraped and didnt see it in the ugac

[blacker]

Anytime I've had that happen, I either had to delete the preferences file for maya, or re-install my graphics drivers. Might be worth a try.

I LOVE you man! ;) I tried the preferences deletion, didn't help. I reinstalled my video drivers and BAM! I'm back in business. Thanks for your help!

[doylle]

Here's one of my ideas, hopefully I can get one or two other out before the deadline :)

http://www.urgaffel.com/images/12poly/12poly_xmas.jpg


lol, looking cool. Why not call them "Christmas Tris?":thumbsup:

[Swizzle]

lol, looking cool. Why not call them "Christmas Tris?":thumbsup:Yes! That's PERFECT!

[psychojohno]

heres mine the one on the left is the high poly the one on the right is the low poly it has 12 tris and 1 1024 colour map + 1 1024 normal map

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/dudleystinks/shippingcrate.jpg

[mrgrotey]

:scream: Hey you guuuuuys! :scream:

just had to join in on this,

my idea is the 12 tri hand :D

heres a short vid of the animation, check it out. (quicktime - 320x240 - 4.97mb)
www.mgrote.com/helpouts/12trihand.mov (http://www.mgrote.com/helpouts/12trihand.mov)

uses two diffuse maps (double sided material)
one opacity map

and thats it!


http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/Hand010003.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/proof.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/unwrapcomp.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/topdiffsmall.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/palmdiffsmall.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/oppsmall.jpg

Hope you like, took feckin ages to line up the texture :eek:

[Swizzle]

Really great stuff, guys. I really like that hand.

psychojohno: Do you think you might be able to get a bit more detail out of the normal map? Try to get the locking mechanisms and stuff in there and it'll look sweet!

[SirManfred]

I guess its my turn :)

http://www.freds3d.com/wip/12poly_challenge.jpg

[urgaffel]

Psychojohno, do an ambient occlusion pass as well (or just take the blue channel from the normal map), might help with the textur.

Grotey, nice one, reminds me of Monty Python

Freddo, cool :D

[peez]

And now something totally different: a bunch of black (huh?) Finnish fellows celebrating 1st of May in Lapland:
http://www.kasmaris.com/video/12_tri_DIF_render.jpg


and wire for that, behind the camera view:
http://www.kasmaris.com/video/12_tri_Wire_view.gif

triangle count:
1 for the ground
2 for the falling snow (UV animated, lookAt to camera)
3 for the tipi
6 for the bunch of drunken Finnish people (vertex animated)

See them dance here: (1,6MB quicktime) (http://www.kasmaris.com/video/12tri_anim.mov)

As you can see, I ain't no texture artist :)

[mrgrotey]

lol! love the dancin there! haha. what style is that? :p


Thought id have a seond go :)

Behold the mighty 12-tri-pod! :P

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/render.jpg


http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/Walk3.gif


http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/proof-1.jpg

[peez]

lol! love the dancin there! haha. what style is that? :p

It's a local folk dance called "lets hold each others vertices". And get drunk. That's what they do around here around this time of year.


Behold the mighty 12-tri-pod! :P

Cutie. We have those around our house on spring time. Before cat eats them away. Oh, wait, it's got lasers! I guess they'd get angry, eventually :)

[mrgrotey]

Oh, wait, it's got lasers! I guess they'd get angry, eventually :)

ah i can tell you dont recognise it then, its the tripods used for jeff waynes musical version of war of the worlds

here a pic of the originals..

http://www.hour25online.com/pix/war-of-the-worlds_jeff-wayne_02a.jpg

[Titan369]

that kicks ass mrgrotey, nice work.

[Swizzle]

Only a day left, everybody! We've already got some great stuff, so if you want to win you'd better get crackin' on something mighty fine.

[mrgrotey]

thanks titan :)


Okey dokey here's my final submission, this has been fun :)

behold once more the Impossi-cube! 3D

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/render.jpg



Click Here for a spinning gif image (2.5mb) (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/spin.gif)



http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/proof.jpg

[Spex84]

MrGrotey, that tripod is totally awesome :D Great animation.
Lopoly Jellyfish!: 5 jellyfish at 2 triangles apiece, and a 2-triangle plane with alphamapped specks on it just in front of the camera.(Texture not shown here). 1024 textures, rendered with some fog....and voila! Normal map doesn't really show up, but *shrug*
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m312/Spex84/12PolyJelly_comp.jpg

[blacker]

No time for normals, and only one model. :shrug: Could've been worse! Without Yungimoto's help, I wouldn't have had even this! :D

edit: I forgot to mention texture specs. 2 X 1024X1024 (1 color and 1 alpha).

http://www.hostrealm.com/todd/12tri-shark.jpg

[Warlock 279]

Didn't see this until tonite, but wanted to jump in on it anyway, sounded like fun. I'm not usually a low-poly modeler, but I figured I couldn't make too big of a mess outta 12 triangles.

This is supposed to be a bit of a cross between the Scorpio constellation, and a mechanical monster. I used 3, 128x128 textures, figured I ought go small there given the nature of the this challenge. Rigged and animated, was a pretty fun challenge all around.

Nice work all around guys. :thumbsup:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w303/Warlock279/Warlock279-MGAC31Entry_01.jpg

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w303/Warlock279/ScorpionWalk_04.gif

[NOTE: Hopefully I'll be able to edit this tomorrow, and switch to externally hosted images, because I can't to get into my image host right now, and am still waiting for an e-mail from them.]

[EDIT: Switched to externally hosted images.]

[B.T.]

here's my entry - rushed it this afternoon:
http://freenet-homepage.de/darkmod/tipi1.jpg

[Swizzle]

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

No entries submitted after this post will be judged, but feel free to keep posting if you like.

The winner is mrgrotey for his three excellent entries, the hand, tripod and impossi-cube. My favorite of all is the tripod; it reads well, has a decent silhouette, and that walk cycle looks great.

It's nice to see so much creativity and so much done with such a minimal budget, so thank you guys for making things very interesting.

Mrgrotey, it's now on you to start the next MGAC. Pick a theme, choose texture and triangle budgets, and let's go!

[ElFuego]

Great stuff! con'gratz to mrgrotey!

[mrgrotey]

Hooray!! thanks guys. didnt realise i needed to make the new one! :) its already up to MGAC 35!

[Swizzle]

Hooray!! thanks guys. didnt realise i needed to make the new one! :) its already up to MGAC 35!My goodness! I guess I didn't see my mistake. Oh well.

Now, get crackin'! :D

[GoSsS]

Really interesting stuffs here !!

I'll try to do something in few days 'cause it was a really interesting challenge.

[AnOldFriend]

This is a pretty cool challange. People come up with the craziest things:thumbsup:

Well i had my go even know the challange is over....

I present to you the top secret new stealth fghter from the US military called the T12 stealth fighter... It is the first stealth fighter to be used by the US military made entirley with paper,markers, plastic and stickers... Entirley undetectable by radar.:wise:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/T12StealthFighter.jpg

[mrgrotey]

haha love the paper stealth plane :)

anyway guys, the new mgac challenge is up and ruuning, check it out, and more importantly join in!

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=128&t=492486

[Yunga]

I know It`s too late, but I just can`t pass by!
That`s my contribution:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/Yungas/rats.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/Yungas/rat.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/Yungas/rattextures.jpg
This Rat is not perfect, but it was fun to create it.

[mrgrotey]

You're certainly late mate, by about 7 months, youve posted in the previous 12 tri challenge

[iSOBigD]

Hehehehe. It was a nice entry though.

[matsman]

Hi Yunga! very nice work man and welcome on the forum! don't worry about posting in a old 12 tri challenge we' ve seen it and we know you can do this!

I for one look forward to seeing more of your work... can we maybe tempt you to try another MGAC? like the one that starts coming week (deadline of current is tomorrow so that might be a little short on time)

once again welcome and nice work!

[Yunga]

Thanks! It was sudden inspiration.
MGAC is good to practice.
Maybe I wil try another MGAC.

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