DMP Mini Challenge 012 - October 2015 - Allison Road

#28

Heyo Scott,

We may be taking another break for November, but hopefully December!

#29

Edit: December’s winning thread was misplaced, if you’re looking for the winners of “Pit Stop”, go here in the December 2015 thread http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=8136845&postcount=34 Sorry about the confusion! -David

And the winners for October 2015’s challenge are…

1st: Dave Tipper
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=370&t=1314490

David’s comments: Coming soon!

2nd: Lee Rouse
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=370&t=1317805

Milan’s comments: There are a couple of ways, I think you could improve this image. I’ve posted an image for visual clarification into your thread. Firstly, you can separate light from dark by making the warm/cool contrast stronger and more obvious. The overall image is lacking a certain contrast. Emphasize on the light/dark play here. Have a shadow side and a bright side because the entire environment feels like a stylized fantasy world. Make use of that ability to fake the lighting to create visual interest and a focal point. Which brings me to the next thing: Depth of field. Try not to have everything at the same level of textural detail or it will become very noisy. Imagine a rack focus, or a lens with the aperture wide open. Ultimately, leading the eye begins with your composition and framing. Study the rule of thirds and try to get your points of interest closer to that while maintaining a visual rhythm. I warped things into place in my example. Lines (directional and indirect) can help achieve the same thing but it’s a bit more of an in-your-face type of tool. Keep these points in mind when you create your next Matte Painting.

3rd: Jack Stevens
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=370&t=1314542

Chris’ comments: Coming Soon!

The prizes for top 3 placements are:

1st Prize:

  • Allison Road T-Shirt (if campaign is successful)
  • Allison Road game for console (xBox or PS4)
  • A spot in CGWorkshop of choice
  • A coupon code for a free year of Autodesk SketchBook Pro
  • One Krita USB stick bundle
  • A free digital subscription for 1 year (13 issues) of 3D World

2nd Prize:

  • Allison Road poster (if campaign is successful)
  • Allison Road game for PC or Mac
  • A coupon code for a free year of Autodesk SketchBook Pro
  • Krita Muses digital download
  • One year subscription to Advanced Photoshop magazine

3rd Prize:

  • Allison Road eBook Making Of
  • A coupon code for a free year of Autodesk SketchBook Pro
  • Secrets of Krita digital download
  • An ArtRage Lite licence

There are no runner-up prizes but 3D World offers everyone who enters a final submission one free digital issue of their magazine. No strings attached.

Allison Road - Considered the spiritual successor of P.T., the playable teaser for the cancelled video game Silent Hills, Allison Road is an upcoming first-person survival horror video game created by Christian Kesler: www.facebook.com/AllisonRoadGame

Advanced Photoshop Magazine - Published by Imagine Publishing, Advanced Photoshop is the essential resource for creative professionals wanting to master high-end, commercial Photoshop skills. Focusing on cutting-edge trends and created by industry professionals, this trusted brand delivers world-leading step-by-step techniques in matte and digital painting: www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk

Autodesk SketchBook Pro - Developed by Autodesk, SketchBook® Pro helps digital artists design with professional-grade perspective tools and an intuitive user interface. The program supports layers with import and export of Photoshop format. Other features include rulers, symmetry, the ability to customize brushes, create texture brushes, and rotate the canvas: www.autodesk.com/products/sketchbook-pro

Krita - The only real painting application for Linux, Krita is also available for Mac and Windows. The Software has been developed with Matte Painting, Concept Art, Texturing and Comic Book Illustration in mind: www.krita.org

3D World Magazine - The planet’s best-selling magazine for CG artists, covering the fields of animation, VFX, games and arch-viz. Every month, you’ll enjoy brand-new tutorials written by some of the leading creators in CG, providing practical guides to help you create amazing artwork or animation and explaining essential techniques to help you develop your 3D skills: www.creativebloq.com/3d-world-magazine

Ambient Design ArtRage Lite - A realistic painting program for Windows & Mac OSX, part of the range of ArtRage painting apps from Ambient Design. ArtRage offers something different to the standard digital art program: a bit messier, a bit more room for inspiration, and extremely flexible. No other program offers the gorgeous textures, easy colour mixing and creative freedom that ArtRage does: www.artrage.com/artrage-lite

Delivery of the prizes is the responsibility of the sponsors, not CGSociety.

Congrats to all! Thanks to everyone for joining. Hope you enjoyed this spooky themed challenge. We’ll be back in 2015 some time!

#30

Really good work this month everyone! Really glad to be part of it and im looking forward to the new challenge in december!

Thanks for organising this!

#31

Congratz to winners, can’t wait for next challenge. Roll on December :slight_smile:

#32

Congrats guys. Really good work! Thanks for the challenge it was really fun

#33

Really awesome work everyone! There were quite a few great entries and it was quite tough to choose the winners. Congrats and well done!! :slight_smile:

#34

Great thanks I will keep my eye out for the Dec project!

Congrats everyone on the amazing work this past month. Inspiring work

#35

holy moses. nice work. congratulations to the winners!

#36

Congrats to winners and all others

#37

Congrats to winners…:slight_smile: :thumbsup:

#38

Awesome works… well deserved!

#39

When is the next challenge starting???

#40

We’re thinking maybe December, keep an eye out!

#41

Thank you! :slight_smile:
So there isn’t any challenge in this month(November), right?

#42

thanks so much
That’ll be fun!

#43

I just put the new challenge up for you guys: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=8119717#post8119717
Made it a bit trickier this time. Merry Christmas ya’ll.

#44

How do you claim your copy of 3d world?

#45

Thank You!
:slight_smile:

#46

Hi Guys,

Excited about any future upcoming challenges.
I’m sure you’re all busy but I was wondering if/when there might be any feedback and critique on the 3 winning images for Allison Road challenge?

Thanks, and understand things might be busy.

#47

Please, accept our apologies for the delay. David and I are currently in the process of catching up, and also working hard on putting the new challenge together, which will launch in April. Probably, won’t get it ready in time for April 1st but get ready… it’s coming! Soonish…