MGAC - 55 - The Cube Challenge

[Clanker]

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7210/clankubesp1.gif

C'mon people !

[urgaffel]

Haha nice one Clanker!

[CodeVeroby]

Damn ,I have been sitting for the entire last hour and I can't think of anything creative !

[Blekdar]

I think I'm finally gonna enter one of these, I got a couple ideas to throw in. Gimme a day or two and I'll have somin in.

[matsman]

Hi.... on my way home from work I though up something fun to do with this assignment... it's gonna be more playing with stuff then only texturing a box.

But just to be sure (i'm gonna do it anyway) it is okay if I play with the length and breadth values, yes? I mean as long as it is 6 sides squarish... it doesn't have to be a perfect cube right?

Anyway I have to finish it tonight or it won't get finished... so later y'all!

[Clanker]

hum...
No I meaned a perfect cube, cause I think it's more work to imagine something fitting in it and imo, it's a more interesting (and harder) research. The object could be cartoonish, or stylised...
(my "portal cube companion" was not a very good example actually, pretty basic. I 've just made it for fun and re-up the thread :p)

[matsman]

Well.. that is too bad... and I am nearly finishedl... oh well... next mgac well see again. NO hard feelings here! :)

Bye!

[Clanker]

Sorry bro :sad:
You can post your model anyway

[CodeVeroby]

I got an idea ,how about an amplifier ? I really don't have any patience left to make one so anyone that wants can go ahead and make it !

[cow1787]

Just so I understood it right, you said we could have multiple 512x512 maps right? (diffuse, spec, etc etc - each 512x512?) If so, then...


I made a gamecube. That's the first thing I thought of when I read 'cube'. Though the actual thing isn't a perfect cube, I made it one anyway. I really didn't spend too much time on this because I was at work, supposed to be doing work...but not. So it's kind of sloppy in areas (you'll see in the normal), and I won't/don't have time to clean them up. Just wanted to participate. My first challenge. So this is final for me.

The one thing I forgot to do is take a 'viewport' screen and a wireframe. But it's just a cube..

Renders:
http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/gc_turn01.jpg

http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/gc_turn02.jpg
http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/gc_turn03.jpg
http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/gc_turn04.jpg

Viewport Shots:
Regular - http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC_viewport.jpg
Wire - http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC_viewport_wire.jpg

Textures:
Diffuse - http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC_d.jpg
Normal - http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC_n.jpg
Specular - http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC_s.jpg

Turnaround: (flash.swf)
http://www.marklemmons.com/files/Cube/GC.swf

Software used:
3ds Max 9 rendered with Mental Ray
Photoshop CS3
CrazyBump Beta 8.6

[Clanker]

Hey cow1787
Nice entry ! :thumbsup:
Yeah you could have multiple 512 maps, so you did right.
I love the fact that objects have to be deformed to fit a cube, it made them a bit cartoonish.

[cow1787]

Thanks. I've added the viewport shots with a wire just to follow the rules. Pretty sure I have more than enough images to prove that it's just a cube, haha.

[Clanker]

And the winner is...
suspense...
cow1787-the-only-one !!!
Your work is good, perhaps not so imaginative, but well done :)
(Maybe my subject was ininteresting :sad: )
So it's up to you for the next challenge.

[CodeVeroby]

Nice challange ,the only problem with it is that it's very linear ,I hope the next one will give me a little more room for the imagination !

[velenosangue]

Over a month later and i'm not seeing any MGAC 56. Cow1787 seems to have left the building.

Any takers? (I'll make a new one myself if no one else wants to)

[matsman]

I say go for it.
You could PM cow1787... to see if he wants the honors, but honestly I think it better to just make a new one. Or if you don't have any ideas, I think I have a brainstorm file lying around here somewhere from last time when I had to think up a Challenge...

[8bit_Mind]

i think that he might having too much work, i left the 3d scene last year because of that too...

I also think that the people here is loosing the interest on mgac due to the short time to complete the requests....

[matsman]

Well actually I think everybody doing some kind of gameart was (is) really busy with the Dominance War III.
And if I may say so last challenge was kinda hard... since you had so little room to play with... more like a texture challenge then an actual modelling challenge.

So those two factors would explain, for me at least, the low interest.
But start it up again, I am sure people will join if it is a nice challenge I am sure I will do my best to make some free time. :Cheers:

[Clanker]

hey mates !
Yeah the precedent challenge was on texturing, but that's part of the job too. I'm sorry it hadn't had success. If someone has a cool idea, I'll enjoy spend a bit of my time on it.

[velenosangue]

I have a couple topic ideas that could work out pretty well without beging too time consuming. I'll put a thread together in a couple hours when I'm done with work.

[Spex84]

I haven't seen a "MGAC--chairs" thread yet...
Or "Pets"
How about sports equipment?
Or gadgets (phones, computers, radios)
Or "derelict/abandoned"
...looking forward to getting back in the game with MGAC :D

[velenosangue]

Okay, I've gone ahead and made the new thread --

MGAC - 56 - Inedible Food! (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=39&t=622643)

I tried to keep it more in tune with the idea of a micro challenge -- the tri budget is only 200 polygons and the texture limit is 256x256 per map type.

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