MGAC - 36 - Its Aliiive! Mwahahaha!!!

[dpizzle]

nice dude, 400 polys is perfect.
hopefully i can find time to join in.


:thumbsup:

[Swizzle]

I'm in. I'm thinking... technomancer. Yeah, that sounds good. :D

[Spex84]

I'm hoping to do a murderous coconut-yeti. But that means learning to model characters, with no prior experience, in a week. Woohoo! At least it's low-poly :D

[Swizzle]

Okay, screw this whole 'technomancer' idea. I'm doing a techno-zombie instead.

[Swizzle]

Here's a little WIP of the techno-zombie:


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/techz001.jpg

[mrgrotey]

Heres my attempt at this challenge (all images are clickable thumbnails)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/th_Hedgehogrender.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/Hedgehogrender.jpg)

i kinda cheated a bit, seeing as i cant win (being the creator of the round) by using an opacity map for the spikes (cant think of the real name), but i didnt use either spec or bump (coz i couldnt be bothered basically :) ) so you'll have to forgive me.

so heres the texture sheet and poly count proof...

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/th_Hedgehogdiff.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/Hedgehogdiff.jpg)


http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/th_hedgehog-prrof.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/mrgrotey/Other%20Stuff/hedgehog-prrof.jpg)

Looking forward to the other submissions, get a move on!!

[RockyDsign]

Ready to join in:) , My "Unborn Orge" is coming
398 poly on count, 3 x 512 map (diffuse, spec, normal)
C & C is welcome

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5922/40851570xa8.jpg


http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9948/35505488ve2.jpg

Poly Count:
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/115/polyprofsk7.jpg

walk animation
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5480/walkzg1.gif

[mrgrotey]

RULES UPDATED

Hey guys, so where are your submissions/WIPS?

anyway after doing my attempt ive changed the rules so you're not restricted by the types of maps you can use, just keep it to 3 maps (any type) and still no displacement

[dpizzle]

grotey i love the hedgehog :)

[Swizzle]

RULES UPDATED

Hey guys, so where are your submissions/WIPS?

anyway after doing my attempt ive changed the rules so you're not restricted by the types of maps you can use, just keep it to 3 maps (any type) and still no displacementI still need to do the texture for mine. I haven't had much chance to work on my guy since I posted that WIP, but here's the model as it was about half an hour after I posted last.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/techz004.jpg

[Blengine]

Why is this posted in the UGAC ARCHIVE?

[mrgrotey]

cause basically i did a search for the previous mgac rounds and the previous few were in this category, also being a new member here i was completely amazed at the stupid amount of different categories here that i didnt know exactly where else to put it.

[blacker]

RULES UPDATED

Hey guys, so where are your submissions/WIPS?

anyway after doing my attempt ive changed the rules so you're not restricted by the types of maps you can use, just keep it to 3 maps (any type) and still no displacement

Yup.. it's cause it's in the archive and very few people come here. I think the last one was just posted under WIP Game Art forum.

Grotey, your hedgehog is pretty gross. ;) without it being animated though, it's hard to say whether "Its Aliiive! Mwahahaha!!!" or not. :) Looks kinda dead to me! Anyhow, looks cool.

Swizzle, yours is looking pretty badass too. Hope you finish it!

RockyDsign, keep at it man. I don't have enough time to crit, but it looks like you could save some tris in the head. I'm also wondering what your UV layout looks like, or if you've got one. Right now, everything blurs together with nothing defining the different parts. You could also use 2 alpha maps (one on each side of the hole in the chest) to make it look less jaggy and uniform. Lastly, what's an Orge? ;)

I don't think I'm gonna enter this one.. There's no way I could finish in time. I was on vacation since last Friday and though I've got a decent idea, it's nothing I'll finish in time. Maybe if I have time I'll do something really simple..

[heavyness]

[moving this to the Game Art section so more traffic and eyes see it]

[mindrot]

HEHE!!! Nice choice of topic mrgrotey. This.... could be fun :twisted:

~M~

[RockyDsign]

HEHE!!! Nice choice of topic mrgrotey. This.... could be fun :twisted:

~M~


i playing with dead thing, nice sign for this challenge:beer:

[Swizzle]

Mrgrotey, there's currently only one finished entry besides your own in the contest. How about extending the deadline so that more people can enter? Hell, mindrot looks like he's entering, so we know that there could be some really spiffy stuff coming.



[Note: This is not some ploy to get more time for mine; I probably won't even finish with an extended deadline because I'm way too busy to work on it right now.]

[mrgrotey]

yeah i wanted to do that after it got moved to the correct forum, but didnt go ahead until someone else brought it up. I'll add on another 5 days, is that ok with everyone?

yeah?

okey dokey :)

New DEADline... 18.00hrs (GMT+0) MONDAY 14TH MAY

[RockyDsign]

I agree with it, make the deadline 5 more day, at least we can see more cool stuff and entire

[blacker]

Nice. I think I can enter now. : ) I was hoping it would be extended but due to deadline extension criticism in the past I didn't want to bother bringing it up. I think this case certainly warrants it though!

[bake3d]

Hope I can join.
I have a few ideas.. no promises.

[mindrot]

.... Hell, mindrot looks like he's entering, so we know that there could be some really spiffy stuff coming...


No promises, but I might try and make an effort to enter :blush: ... I'm kinda bogged down with two other personal projects and not to mention my wedding anniversary is next week Monday the 14th as well...

It would be fun though... so I'll see what I can do.

~M~

[mrgrotey]

come on guys :) lots of 'i might join in' and not much action. get those mice clicking away and churn out some truely gross art work :D seesm to be much more interest straight away after being moved so im really looking forward top what comes out of this.

[RockyDsign]

mrgrotey, can we have 2 submit, because i got other idea on my mind

[mrgrotey]

hey submit as many as possible! just submit SOMETHING :)

[RockyDsign]

i think i can't, i just get a freelance interior job need work on, hope u guy have fun with this competition:scream:

[bake3d]

Oh Cmon.. RockyDsign.. all that time eating.. and going to the bathroom.. you could be working on something with large teeth and no brains.

Something that eats cotton candy. ! ! ! cause I do love my candy..

anyway. yah.

ok.

[HellBoy]

lol, very interesting round. Am working on something :wip: :arteest: :twisted:

[Spex84]

I've tried 2 ideas so far. The first failed because I couldn't keep it under the polycount, and the second is going badly because I can't rig. So....maybe plan C.

[JuddWack]

Some really great stuff here guys. Here's my entry. It's based off a dream I had a few years ago where a giant black olive is busting out of an olive can giving birth to baby olives. Not to happy with it but it is what it is. The olive, can and babies are 396tris.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3392/oliverenderxw9.jpg

[blacker]

The first failed because I couldn't keep it under the polycount

I hear that. I get so caught up in making a character that I want to embellish. Right now I'm about 60% done modeling and I'm at 300+ tris. I hope I can pull it together, but I still have to model the neck, legs, and pelvis, along with maybe adding a tad more detail to the head... I think it will probably have to change from my original concept.

I have a backup, too, but as Grotey said "the gorier and grosser, the better" and my first idea was kinda toony, I went with Plan B.. >:)

Hopefully I'll finish the modelling tonight! If so, I'll post it.

[Swizzle]

Blacker: It's probably best to not worry much about poly count until you have all the parts or pieces of the model in place. After you've got everything built, then go back and optimize by getting rid of polygons that don't much affect the silhouette. Alpha planes are your friends.

[blacker]

Modeling is done I guess. I'm at 399 tris. :D

http://www.hostrealm.com/todd/shambler1.jpg

Comments are welcome. I'll try to post my concept sketch tomorrow. I'll probably move on to textures tomorrow, too.

edit: I've made a few tiny changes since this post. I think I'm going to change a bit more to finalise it as I'm not very happy with his lower half. I'll try to strip the top a bit to spend more detail on his legs.. I might have to cheat a bit with alphas, too. :shrug:

[Spex84]

I doubt I'll be able to finish this, because I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing :P Just thought I'd post to show that I haven't ignored this thread. The mesh is very rough..I wanted to see if I could pose it before going forward.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m312/Spex84/dreamcatcher2_may11.jpg

[blacker]

Looking cool Spex! I like those little threads coming off him.
I've got my modeling done, now I'm unwrapping. I'll probably begin texturing tonight if all goes well, and finish it up tomorrow.

Here's my minimalist concept. ;)

http://www.hostrealm.com/todd/slouch.jpg

And my inspiration from William Butler Yeats's poem, The Second Coming.
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

[RockyDsign]

yo, i just lose the interior Fking customer, so maybe i will submit 1 more for competition

for this girlhttp://meguru.moo.jp/past/gazou/sadako.jpg

[blacker]

Sorry to say I've gotta bow out of this. I'm at the texturing stage but just barely in and I'm way too tired to pull my usual hours (till 2 or 3 AM) to work on this. Barring another extension to the time limit, I'm out.

Looking forward to the next MGAC though!

[Spex84]

I hope I didn't miss the deadline...not too sure about time zones and whatnot. It's 2 in the morning here, and after thinking I was toast, I got it unwrapped and did some sloppy texture work:P Dreamcatcher says "give us a hug!" :D
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m312/Spex84/dreamcatcheComp.jpg

[mrgrotey]

Nah you didnt miss the dealine, still nine hrs to go, so instead of using 3x512 maps you decide to go for 4x1024 (16x512) maps? misread it did you? haha. i dont think you'll lose anything by making them all 512 maps and the body spec map isnt really doing much for the model so i reckon you could lose that too to keep it within the rules. looks great by the way, good job.

sooo after 3 full pages of replies, we have a humungous 3 final submissions at the moment! get those mice clicking and submit your creations, as i said before 9 hrs to go.

[edit] by the way where did the other 2200 tris come from in your scene? you haven't used a normalmap, cant make it out.

oh and blacker that sucks, your model was looking real good, shame you cant finish it was looking forward to that one

[Spex84]

Seams up the wazoo, weird mirroring, and distorted knees, ntm blood all over the place. It's my baby. I ditched the lousy spec map and re-sized to 512 to stay within the rules.
*all those other tris in my scene are junk pieces, higher-poly iterations of the same mesh on different layers, a ground plane, and who knows what else. This mesh is 400 tris, though :)
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m312/Spex84/dreamcatcherComp02.jpg

[blacker]

Seams up the wazoo, weird mirroring, and distorted knees, ntm blood all over the place. It's my baby. I ditched the lousy spec map and re-sized to 512 to stay within the rules.
*all those other tris in my scene are junk pieces, higher-poly iterations of the same mesh on different layers, a ground plane, and who knows what else. This mesh is 400 tris, though :)


It looks pretty cool but I'm confused. Is your bottom right map both color and transparency? Doesn't seem right.. I thought alpha maps had to be b&w?
edit: I'm guessing you're still using 3 maps since your previous post had an alpha.

In any case, very nice! I wish I could have finished to give you a bit more competition. I may still post mine, but it will be after the deadline. Probably tomorrow or the next day. All I've textured so far is the skull and it still needs dirtying up.

Good luck!

[mrgrotey]

i decided to give the competition an extra 2hr extention (well ok i forgot to close it hehe) and just as well for spex as he was late :)



soooooo...........

COMPETITION CLOSED

SPEX BE THE WINNER! with his great zombie geezer :) love the model mate, thanks to all the others for joining in, better luck next time :)

anyway spex, its over to you for the next MGAC round.... ready and waiting :)

[Spex84]

The teeth/stringy bits diffuse texture (.tga format) has an alpha channel for transparency, so I suppose it kind of counts as a 3rd map.
Anyhoo, woohoo! I'm sorry you couldn't finish, blacker...your creature was lookin' good :)
So...do I just begin a new thread for this week's MGAC? I think that's what I'll do...

[blacker]

The teeth/stringy bits diffuse texture (.tga format) has an alpha channel for transparency, so I suppose it kind of counts as a 3rd map.
Anyhoo, woohoo! I'm sorry you couldn't finish, blacker...your creature was lookin' good :)
So...do I just begin a new thread for this week's MGAC? I think that's what I'll do...

Ah! RGBa.. :) Makes sense. I think you're right about it only being 2 then.

[bake3d]

I think spex wins this one.. lol..

[Spex84]

In case you missed it, the new challenge (number 37) is up at http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=39&t=496215

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