WINNER!:HCR MINI-Challenge #25: THE OCEANS

[uinku]

This is James Winkler's (uinku) entry for HCR #25: The Oceans. I sculpted a lionfish using Zbrush and 3DS Max. Click the pics for high res versions.

Beauty:
http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/5027/presentationalposefinal.jpg (http://img532.imageshack.us/i/presentationalposefinal.jpg/)

Orthos:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7506/orthos.th.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/orthos.jpg/)

Wireframe:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2425/topology.th.jpg (http://img375.imageshack.us/i/topology.jpg/)

WIP thread:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874834
(http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=6548875#post6548875)

[chichiri]

That's RUGGERO Cyrille's entry. I modelled this diorama fully with Blender. The goal is to show the fishes from antarctic.
Here's the beauty render:
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9933/final1b.jpg (http://img580.imageshack.us/f/renderb.jpg/)
And here are the ortographics view:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/2848/ortho1.th.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/i/ortho1.jpg/)http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/8584/ortho2.th.jpg (http://img706.imageshack.us/i/ortho2.jpg/)http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4846/ortho3.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/ortho3.jpg/)http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2291/ortho5.th.jpg (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/ortho5.jpg/)http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2995/ortho4.th.jpg (http://img257.imageshack.us/i/ortho4.jpg/)
And here's the wireframe:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3628/wirepp.jpg
Here's the link to the wip (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=878482).

[JasonTonks]

Hello!

My name is Jason Tonks. I am submitting HMC #25 The Oceans - Wild West Ocean.

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/WWgrey.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/WWgrey.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greyleft.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greyleft.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greyRight.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greyright.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greytop.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greytop.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/WWwire.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/WWwire.jpg)



WIP Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874934)

Tried to give the meaning of Ocean, a vast quantity of water, a more stylized approach. A theme with-in a theme with-in a theme! I used 3dsmax and photoshop, and rendered with V-Ray. The modeling took me roughly 30 hours, Texturing 18 hours, Lighting 4 hours and Compositing 2 hours.

Cheers!

[GerR]

Bryan Butenhoff posting final entry. I modeled a polar bear attacking a seal. I Worked in it over the coarse of 5 days in max and zbrush.

Link to Wip: Polar Bear (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=887126)

Orthographics:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4158/smallfinalmetalfront.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6266/largefinalmetalfront.jpg)http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4782/smallfinalmetalright.th.jpg (http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/9545/largefinalmetalright.jpg)http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5931/smallfinalmetalback.th.jpg (http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/7040/largefinalmetalback.jpg)
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1321/smallfinalmetalleft.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1439/largefinalmetalleft.jpg)http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/2075/smallfinalmetalbottom.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7273/largefinalmetalbottom.jpg)http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/381/smallfinalmetaltop.th.jpg (http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3381/largefinalmetaltop.jpg)


http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5748/smallfinalmetalbeauty.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4791/largefinalmetalbeauty.jpg)


Wireframe:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2659/polarbearwireframe.jpg

[ryankittleson]

Hi everyone, thanks to everyone who commented on my wips. My first HMC went pretty well. The piece is a confrontation between a young hammerhead shark and a green moray eel. The shark's companions spiral above, near the water surface while the main shark dives to investigate the eel's rocky home. I modeled everything with maya and zbrush, textured with zbrush and photoshop, rigged in maya, rendered with mental ray. The modeling took about 3 days for the shark and 3 days for the eel. Rigging took most of my time, about 2 weeks for the eel and 4 days for the shark. texturing, lighting, posing, rendering and photoshop touchups to the beauty render took another week roughly. Here's my beauty and orthos:

http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.1.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.2.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.3.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.4.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.5.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/orthos.6.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/sharkeelbeauty.jpg
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/wires.png
http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/wireseel.png

link to the full-res beauty render (http://www.erraticimagery.com/share/sharkeelbeauty.jpg)



Here's another link the the youtube vid where I show the rig on the eel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6tpv5RDBk

and here's the link to my Wip Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=878277)

Thanks for viewing my submission!

Ryan Kittleson
www.erraticimagery.com

[aovesen]

Anders Ovesen, The Food Chain.

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS
http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Tuna.jpg

http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Cleaner.jpg

http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Seal.jpg

http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Shark.jpg

http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Squid.jpg

BEAUTY RENDER Final Scene, composition.

http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Foodchain_mod_low.jpg

High res : http://akira.ruc.dk/~aovesen/images/Ocean/Foodchain_mod.jpg



WIP THREAD : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=875721



DESCRIPTION : Working backwards from a initial composition idea I had to create and model various animals within the timeframe. All the primary parts I got ready in time even had time to model a cleaner fish :) I got some very good ideas and feedback along the way regarding composition and I'd like to thank the people for that. It helped me alot to make the scene more convincing and interesting. Everything is left untextured in the Scene Render. I wish everyone good luck and respect to everyone participating its some great pieces your creating. Regards Anders

[Luke046]

Hej,

My name is Lukas Lundberg and my entry for HMC #25 is - Green Sea Turtle (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=876286). For this model I used Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop.

Concept Art:

http://lukaslundberg.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/turtle_persp_lukasl_hmc.png

Wireframes:

http://lukaslundberg.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gst_lopol_top_lukasl_hmc.png
http://lukaslundberg.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gst_lopol_side_lukasl_hmc.png

OrthographicRenders:

http://lukaslundberg.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/gst_ort_renders_lukasl1.png

Beauty Render:

http://lukaslundberg.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/gst_beau_lukasl.png

Created a short animation for a course starring the mighty sea turtle. I hope you like it!
Atmospheric Perspective (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3WM2heGwHo&fmt=22) - Green Sea Turtle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3WM2heGwHo&fmt=22)

I really enjoyed creating this one!


Cheers!

[spideyman]

Artist: Stoyan Dimitrov

Beauty Render:
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/beaty_small.jpg

HighRez Link (http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/beaty_big.jpg)

Orthographic Renders:

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/front.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/back.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/side.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/top_bottom.jpg

Wireframes:

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/wires-1.jpg

WIP Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=888722)

Description:

Hello, this is my first HMC and for it I decided to make an attacking great white. I've modelled the base mesh in 3ds MAX and after that I added the details in Zbrush. Texturing was done in Photoshop and comping in Fusion. The whole process took me around 4 days and I'm fairly happy with the result. I hope you guys like my entry and I wish the best of luck to the other participants.

[TiMrozek]

Artist: Tim Mrozek (timrozek)

Beauty:

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/157/8/5/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Final_by_tmrozek1.jpg

hi res link (http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/157/8/5/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Final_by_tmrozek1.jpg)

Orthos:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/157/4/9/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Orthos_by_tmrozek1.jpg

hi res link (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/157/4/9/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Orthos_by_tmrozek1.jpg)

Wireframe:

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/157/5/5/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Wireframe_by_tmrozek1.jpg

hi res link (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/157/5/5/Squid_Vs_Whale_HMC_Wireframe_by_tmrozek1.jpg)

Turntables (links):

Turntable (shaded) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FylMeUMahRo)

Turntable (wireframe) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARNYwnwGCg)

WIP thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874528)

I chose to do a battle between a Sperm Whale and Colossal Squid. Squid v Whale popped into mind when first seeing the post for this new challenge so I did some research and saw that Sperm Whales are known to eat the elusive Colossal Squid so it seemed like a perfect fit to try to do as accurate a rendition of this battle as I could. Hope you enjoy.

This is my third time participating in the Hardcore Modeling Challenge and, as usual, I had a lot of fun, I feel that I've grown a great deal through competing in these and look forward to taking part and seeing you guys around again soon.

[angel]

Artist: Angel Nieves
Beauty:
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/White-Death-Comp.jpg
full size beauty render (http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/White-Death-Comp.jpg)

ORTHOS
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/GW_Top.jpg
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/GW_Bottom.jpg
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/GW_Side.jpg
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/GW_3Q.jpg

WIREFRAME:
this is all I have available at the moment:
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/the_oceans/GW_Wire.jpg

WIP Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874094&page=1&pp=15)

[TimForbes]

Artist: Tim Forbes
Beauty render
(hiRes) (http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab141/TimForbes/cFish_Beauty.jpg)
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/8717/cfishbeauty.jpg
RightSide
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2524/cfishrightside.jpg
LeftSide
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2645/cfishleftside.jpg
Top
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8184/cfishtop.jpg
Bottom
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1746/cfishbttmcopy.jpg
Back
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5556/cfishbackcopy.jpg
Front
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5972/cfishfront.jpg

Wip Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=876049)
Ok so here is my final submission for my cuttlefish diorama. This is my first ever entry in a HCM. I have learnt a lot from it and am really looking forward to the next one;-) I hope you all like it. There's some super impressive work that has been posted. Congrats to all.
Cheers,
Tim.

[scottimation]

ARTIST NAME: Scott Broad (scottimation)

BEAUTY RENDER: (click for high-rez) (http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/oceans_final_002_lg.jpg)
http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/oceans_final_002_med.jpg (http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/oceans_final_002_lg.jpg)

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS: (click each for high-rez)
http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/frilled_ortho_med.jpg (http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/frilled_ortho_lg.jpg)
http://www.scottimation.com/images/hairy_angler/ha_ortho_med.jpg (http://www.scottimation.com/images/hairy_angler/ha_ortho_lg.jpg)

WIREFRAMES:
http://www.scottimation.com/images/frilled_shark/frilled_wires.jpg
http://www.scottimation.com/images/hairy_angler/ha_wires.jpg

WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874637 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874637)

DESCRIPTION:
I chose to model a couple of deep sea creatures for this oceans challenge, the hairy angler fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_angler) and the frilled shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frilled_shark). It was a challenge just finding good reference photos for either of them. I used maya for modeling and rendering and zbrush for sculpting.

Thanks for looking! :D

[TheRazorsEdge]

Title: Keiko Tribute (Star of "Free Willy")

Artist Name: Felix Lahme

Beauty Render:
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaBeautyB.jpg

Higher Resolution Image (http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaBeautyB.jpg)

Orthos:

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaTopB.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaFrontB.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaLeftB.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaBackB.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaRightB.jpg

Wireframe:

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff104/TheRazorsEdgeStudio/HMC%2025%20Ocean%20Creatures/orcaWires.jpg

WIP Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874803

Software Used: ZBrush, Maya, UVLayout, Topogun, RealFLow, Mental Ray

Description: I initially wanted to depict 2 Orcas or Bottlenose Dolphins breaching, but since, in addition to not having the time, I found good reference very hard to come by, decided to dedicate this work to my best reference, Keiko, the more or less voluntary star of the movie "Free Willy". As of this deadline this piece is still very unfinished, missing textures and an environment render. But what the heck, this has to do for now. :)

Great work everybody!

Cheers!

Edit: Since Roberto indicated we have till tonight, I took the liberty to "tweak" this a bit more with a quick&dirty RealFlow sim, since I did not really feel like sleeping any more. If anybody has a problem with this,make yourself heard.

[japetus]

My name is Mike Hanson (japetus) Here is my final entry! I made a Giant Isopod for my entry. Click the link below each image to see the full resolution render. Thanks everyone for the help and critiques and comments! I always really enjoy these contests! Good luck eveyrone!

http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/Isopod_beauty_small.jpg
Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/Isopod_beauty.jpg)

http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_front_small.jpg

Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_front.jpg)

http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_bottom_small.jpg
Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_bottom.jpg)


http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_rear_small.jpg

Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_rear.jpg)

http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_side_small.jpg

Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_side.jpg)

http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_top_base_small.jpg

Full Size (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_top_base.jpg)

Wireframe (http://www.japetusproductions.com/Images/CGTalk/HMC_25/final/isopod_wire.jpg)

WIP Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=874199)

[nsb]

Hiya,

I attempted the mimic octopus:

This fella was discovered in the 90's and nobody knew what he was since he did a convincing job of mimicking the environment as well as other sea creatures!(For example he/she would bury himself and leave only a tentacle showing to mimic an eel).

Cool vids of the mimic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juj5XyHiwDs

Ref:
http://www.users.on.net/%7Ensb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.01.ref.jpg

Render:
http://www.users.on.net/%7Ensb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.07.jpg

http://www.users.on.net/%7Ensb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.08.jpg

orthographic
http://www.users.on.net/%7Ensb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.09.jpg

wire

http://www.users.on.net/%7Ensb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.10.jpg

The tentacles for this guy drove me abit crazy at times, glad hes done and look forward to the next one :)

cheers

[RobertoOrtiz]

And that is that...
I will have the voting thread up tonight.

Great work guys...
-R

[CathrynBailey]

This was so, so hard to choose as all of the models were so good. Really inspired to participate in one of the future challenges.

My votes:

Best WIP thread - Scottimation with Hairy Angler Fish
Best Beauty Render - Jason Tonks with Wild West Ocean
Best Diorama - Luke 046 with Green Sea Turtle
Best Model - Scottimation with Hairy Angler Fish

Well done guys!

[japetus]

Very hard to choose...

Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best WIP: Jason Tonks
Best Beauty Render: scottimation
Best Model: scottimation

Congrats to everyone involved!!

[TheRazorsEdge]

Best Diorama: nsb
Best WIP: japetus
Best Beauty Render: angel
Best Model: nsb

Great work everybody! :arteest:

[AndrewPalmer3D]

Best Diorama: Tim Forbes :buttrock:
Best WIP: Angel :wip:
Best Beauty Render: spideyman :thumbsup:
Best Model: nsb :bowdown:


Nice job everyone!

[Luke046]

everyone did such an amazing job so kinda hard to choose but here are my votes:

Best Diorama: Jason Tonks
Best WIP: TimRozek
Best Beauty Render: nsb
Best Model: japetus

cheers

[grantmoore3d]

Wow, some really outstanding entires for this one... great job!


Best Diorama: ryankittleson
Best WIP: --
Best Beauty Render: spideyman
Best Model: nsb

[wahtye]

Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best WIP: TiMrozek
Best Beauty Render: nsb
Best Model: nsb

[milko]

Best Diorama: nsb
Best WIP: --
Best Beauty Render: spideyman
Best Model: nsb

[szkuls]

Best Beauty - Spidey/Stoyan Dimitrov
Best Diorama - JasonTonks
Best Model - nsb

[embryotic]

Best Diorama: GerR
Best WIP:
Best Beauty Render: Angel Nieves
Best Model: nsb

[Intervain]

Best WIP thread - aovesen
Best Beauty Render - Angel Nieves
Best Diorama - nsb
Best Model - nsb [really love that one!]

Congrats to all who finished :)

[TiMrozek]

Best Diorama: nsb
Best WIP: Jason Tonks
Best Beauty Render: Angel Nieves
Best Model: nsb

Good challenge guys.

[JBoskma]

Best diorama: Ryan Kittleson (Great models too by the way, love that eel!)
Best Model: nsb

[seancap]

Best WIP thread ;Ryankitleson
Best Beauty Render ;Ryankitleson
Best Diorama;Ryankitlesonand
Best Model ;Ryankitleson

[MissMoneypenny]

Best WIP - Supernekosan
Best Model - Uinku

I have always liked Great Whites and the ones here are very good, but there is one being made in the Collab. Forums which, although I am aware there is no time limit on these projects, I have been keeping an eye on and it could be sublime. Great challenge!

[SantoAnderson]

Best Diorama - NSB
Best WIP - Ryankittleson
Best Beauty Render - spideyman
Best Model - NSB

[herekitty]

Best Diorama - ryankittleson

Best Beauty Render - nsb
Best Model - ryankittleson

[JasonTonks]

Best Diorama: Luke046 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=419708)
Best WIP: japetus (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=231078)
Best Beauty Render: japetus (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=231078)
Best Model: GerR (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=226034)

[Testure]

best overall: nsb for his octopus. that's a great vignette! nice job!

[uinku]

Best WIP Thread: TiMrozek
Best Beauty Render: spideyman
Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best Model: nsb

Congratulations to everyone.

[AnimeOne]

Best WIP: JasonTonks
Best Beauty Render: spideyman
Best Diorama: nsb
Best model: nsb

[spiritmouse]

Best Beauty Render - Jason Tonks
Best Diorama - GerR
Best Model - nsb

Cool works~!

[DDS]

Best Diorama: nsb
Best WIP: Jason Tonks
Best Beauty Render: Angel Nieves
Best Model: nsb

[bzsolt]

Best diorama: GerR
Best wip: Jason Tonks
Best beauty render: Angel Nieves
Best model: nsb

[razeverius]

goodluck guys :bounce:

Best diorama: Jason Tonks
Best wip: GerR
Best beauty render: Angel Nieves
Best model: nsb

[nsb]

Best wip: timrozek
best render: angel
best diorama: gerR
best model: scottimation

Good work all round, congrats on finishing.

[Yav]

Best diorama: nsb
Best wip: GerR
Best beauty render: Angel Nieves
Best model: nsb

[chrleon]

damn! my mistake

reposting vote in a sec

Best Diorama: nsb

Best Beauty Render: angel

Best WIP thread: haven't followed enough, sorry

Best Model: Japetus

[Shamon]

Best Beauty Render = spideyman (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=6549278&postcount=9)

[fabiopaiva]

best beauty render: spideyman
best model: nsb

[RobertoOrtiz]

Ok guys,
you got 24 hours from the time of this post to post your final votes.

-R

[ragevvorks]

Wow, some marvellous entries here! I'm really impressed. Good job guys!

So, enough chatter, 'ere be my votes:

Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best WIP: nsb
Best model: nsb
Best Beauty: spideyman

[moidphotos]

best beauty render: spideyman
best model: nsb

Some very impressive work in many of the entries

[Aldarion]

Some really inspiring entries this time.
Here are my votes :

Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best WIP: nsb
Best model: nsb
Best Beauty: spideyman

[RobertoOrtiz]

Guys, the voting stops in one hour from the time of this post.
You got until then to vote.

-R

[matiuste]

Best Diorama: JasonTonks
Best WIP: JasonTonks
Best model: JasonTonks
Best Beauty: JasonTonks

[RobertoOrtiz]

And that is that..

Time to count the votes..
-R

[RobertoOrtiz]

Ok here are the results:

Thanks to all who participated on our last mini challenge.

We will have a BIG challenge up in the next
FRANK FRAZETTA TRIBUTE
OK we have the winners:



Best Beauty Render:
spideyman
WIP Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=888722)

Description:

Hello, this is my first HMC and for it I decided to make an attacking great white. I've modelled the base mesh in 3ds MAX and after that I added the details in Zbrush. Texturing was done in Photoshop and comping in Fusion. The whole process took me around 4 days and I'm fairly happy with the result. I hope you guys like my entry and I wish the best of luck to the other participants.
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/stoyan3d/beaty_small.jpg

Best WIP Thread:
Jason Tonks ,Ryankittleson ,GerR,japetus:



nsb:

and the big one of course:


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/robertoortiz1/cgtalk/17.gif

Best Diorama, Best WIP & Best Model:
nsb

Comments:
Hiya,

I attempted the mimic octopus:

This fella was discovered in the 90's and nobody knew what he was since he did a convincing job of mimicking the environment as well as other sea creatures!(For example he/she would bury himself and leave only a tentacle showing to mimic an eel).

Cool vids of the mimic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juj5XyHiwDs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juj5XyHiwDs)

WIP THREAD:
HMC #25 The Oceans - Mimic Octopus (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=878686)

Ref:
http://www.users.on.net/~nsb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.01.ref.jpg

Render:
http://www.users.on.net/~nsb1//cgtalk/cgt.hcmc.oceans.07.jpg

Vote count:



Best Beauty Render:
spideyman: 12 Votes
Angel Nieves : 10 Votes
nsb: 3 Votes
Jason Tonks : 2 Votes
scottimation
japetus
Ryankitleson

Best WIP Thread:
Jason Tonks: 5 Votes
TiMrozek: 4 Votes

Best WIP Thread:
Ryankittleson:2 votes
nsb:2 votes
GerR:2 votes
japetus: :2 votes
Angel
Scottimation
aovesen
Supernekosan

Best Diorama:
nsb: 9 votes
JasonTonks: 8 votes
GerR: 4 votes
Ryan Kittleson : 4 votes
Luke046 : 2 votes
Tim Forbes


Best Model:
nsb: 23 Votes
Scottimation :2 Votes
Ryankitleson :2 Votes
japetus :2 Votes
Uinku
scottimation
GerR

[cherrypig]

congratulations NSB...
you are "Winner Killer"... :thumbsup:

[TiMrozek]

Congrats NSB, great model, well deserved :beer:

[VM]

excellent work everybody, there are some great models here :) I guess it was an inspiring challenge :)

[RobertoOrtiz]

HCR MINI-Challenge #26: Frank Frazetta Tribute (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=895279) (we are live!)

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