this was a fun challenge, and the entries… :buttrock:
here are my votes:
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele :drool:
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia :applause:
BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey 
FXWars Flame Thrower: WINNER!
Myzlo
#23
Cool challenge, hope everyone had fun![b]
BEST SHORT: [/b]Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey
NahuelL
#24
This was a fun challenge! Great entries from everyone! 
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Samir Kharchir
BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey
jimmy4d
#25
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey
Great work mates…
SofianeAV
#26
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: TOUFIK MEKBEL
BEST WIP: TOUFIK MEKBEL
Good luck.
AhmadAbdulhamid
#27
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Tyson Ibele
BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey
kameldesign
#30
hi congratulation for all artist my vote
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: toufik mekbel
BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey
Lesia
#32
Great entries. Here’s my votes…
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson
Horganovski
#33
Great work from everyone, very well done.
My votes :
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson
PexElroy
#34
Excellent work everyone - awesome war! 
My votes :
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson
jispro
#36
Hi guys, alot of good works here.
my votes goes for:
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Nahuel Letizia
ChrisCorr
#38
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
[b]BEST SIMULATION: [/b]Nahuel Letizia
[b]BEST WIP THREAD:[/b] -
Oops, guess I was a few minutes late. Sorry about that.
RobertoOrtiz
#39
Guys sorry for the delay in the vote count, but I had a last minute emergency at work to take care of.
I should be able to count the votes tomorrow afternoon.
Later,
-R
RobertoOrtiz
#40
[b]Ok we have a winner for the FXwars challenge:
[/b]I am very impressed with the GREAT of entries we got.
and I hope you all will join us for our next mini challenge
Dambusters!
[b]Here are the winners:
BEST WIP THREAD:
Josh Johnson [/b]
NAME: Josh Johnson, Camera operator: Eric Mousel
[b]STILL:
WIP THREAD:
[/b]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr…?f=139&t=898360
DESCRIPTION: Well this isn’t the final piece I had in mind but I didn’t have a lot of time to work on it. Main things I wanted to try was make a semi-realistic flamethrower and have it interact with an object on a live action plate.
ANIMATION LINK: http://www.vimeo.com/14038111
Sim ANIMATION LINK: http://vimeo.com/14058177
MIRROR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4059083/fxwarscomp_Josh.mov
-Josh
[color=white]BEST SHORT:
Tyson Ibele [/color]
STILL:
WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr…?f=139&t=904508
DESCRIPTION: Two soldiers fight a giant beast within the ruins of a city. Inspired by Sergey Kolesov’s painting entitled “Old Terence’s War” (creature design used with permission).
and the BIG ONE
BEST SIMULATION:
Nahuel Letizia
STILL:
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WIP THREAD: [/size]Here
DESCRIPTION: The flamethrower and the ignition flame were done in 3ds Max with FumeFX. Flamethrower simulation time was ~34 hours and render time was ~30 hours (on a core 2 duo). All was composited in Fusion.
ANIMATION LINK: Footage (Vimeo) - Plain Animation (Vimeo)
MIRROR: Footage (Youtube) - Plain Animation (Youtube)
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Ok guys here is the Vote Count:
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele (24 Votes!)
Garrick Campsey
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia (16 Votes)
TOUFIK MEKBEL (3 Votes)
Alex Duque (2 Votes)
Tyson Ibele
Samir Kharchir
BEST WIP THREAD: [color=darkorange]Josh Johnson (8 Votes)[/color]
Garrick Campsey (7 Votes)
TOUFIK MEKBEL (3 Votes)
Nahuel Letizia (2 Votes)
Samir Kharchir (2 Votes)
Alex Duque