Fantastic! Rick Baker does a homage to Ray HarryHausen. That’s insane. I am a huge fan of both these guys work. So I shall watch this space with great interest. Wish I was good enough to do some stuff but I guess I’ll just have to watch
regards
rich
Thats how it works, a whole lot of work just because.
Honor is the prize I suppose, both to yourself and CGSociety.
Do it for the love of it. I would do it myself since I’m a fan of his work, but how much time do we have left to participate? When is the deadline?
Hi everybody,
Hope i made the deadline for the Harryhausen modeling challenge, not sure if it was either 15-02-2007 or 28-02-2007, haven’t had much time to work on my entry, i’d love to do some texturing work but unfortunatly i won’t make it in time, tried to stay as close as possible to the Harryhausen version but it turned out a bit different, basically changed the shape of the mouth, added some teeth and the horn on top of his head, if i understand correctly the final renders should be rendered at 1600 X 1200 OR 1200 x 1600 in JPG format, and the smaller 800x 600 OR 600 x 800 image should be posted on the threads, so after 1001 crashes, virus attacks, a couple of all-nighters, 10 bags of nacho chips and some diet coke, i finally present CGTalk my “piece de resistance”, et voila…!
DATELINE! Wednesday, February 28th 12:00 PM
You still have two weeks to add detail to the model.-R
was browsing and came across this link that may inspire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4
Just wish i had the time to participate. …was going to try talos last year but never got round to it 
Hope it helps.
El-d
This is the Sinbad/Kali fight scene from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Kali was the creature I remembered most from watching those movies as a kid, so that’s why I choose her.
There were two Kali models used in the movies, there was a full sized one which was actually on the set with the actors, and a miniature that was used for the animation.
The full sized one had a lot more detail so I was making a version of that, rather than the miniature.
(Click image for large version)
It’s all Lightwave, with some mudbox sculpting for Sinbad’s clothing. It took a couple of weekends and some weekday evenings.
I’m going to have to call this done as I have other commitments that I have been ignoring to do this challenge. I just had to do something for this challenge as Ray Harryhausen has been such an influence on my life, as he has been to so many other especially of my generation. The Cyclops from the Seventh Voyage left an indelible mark on me as a child one that has stayed with me to this day so, I chose to recreate it. I worked on this for about two and a half weeks. Working between 6 to 10 hours a day. It would probably have taken less time if I new what I was doing. This is the first time that I have ever modeled a full figure from scratch. I learned a lot and had a blast doing it. I used Modo for the base mesh, created the displacement,bump and color maps in ZBrush rendered in Modo ,and used PhotoShop to composite the renders. I hope you like it.
Here is the full sized render http://www.monsterbaker.com/monsterstuff/Cyclopsfinal.jpg
here is a turntable render http://www.monsterbaker.com/monsterstuff/cyclopsturn.mov.zip
here are the ortho views http://www.monsterbaker.com/monsterstuff/orthoviewsfolder/
Here is a closer different version more like what I was originally thinking of doing thought you might want to see
http://www.monsterbaker.com/monsterstuff/cyclopstorso.jpg
This is my first Hardcore modelling challenge. I decided to enter because of the topic.
I love the Ray harryhausen movies, specially “Jason and the argonauts”. There are three things that shocked me when I was a kid and watched the movies: Medussa, the scene with the skelletons and the giant of stone. So I made Talos. I even thought that it was a real scale statue the first time that I watched the movie, hehehehe…
I’ve used 3D Max, ZBrush and Photoshop. It took me around 15 hours (I thought that the point of these challenges was the speed so I did my best to finish it quickly), plus a few hours for the renders… yes, a few hours for these renders… I have a very slow laptop.
Beauty Render:
High res click here
Ortographic renders:
Thanks for comments and viewing my renders and sorry if I didn’t change what you thought it was wrong, I didn’t pretend to make a 1:1 copy of the original.
I had a lot of fun making this model, good challenge!
Good luck everyone!
Hey Guys, well this is my entry… i used 3dmax and ZB to create the image with alittle
photoshop tinkering… its taken my about 2 weeks on and off and im happy its now finished.
I decieded to do my own version of medusa that was inspired by Ray character, i chose to do medusa becuase its my fav character from all his creatation.
Good luck to all those who entered, its been great fun taking part
Beauty Render
Orthographic renders:
High Res Image
Oh man, this does not compare anything to your guys’, but I didn’t want to leave it out either. oDDity, you are so right about the skeletons, after being at the museum and watching a film…this is a valuable point for me for future projects.
D,
Color:
Ortho:
Well here’s my finished model. It was great to pay tribute to Ray Harryhausen and I learned quite a bit in the process so it was well worth it for me. It took about 80-100 hours to model, texture, rig and render…I didn’t keep track so that’s just an estimate. All the modeling was done in 3dsmax and Zbrush and the textures I created in Photoshop. I wanted to choose something I wasn’t familiar with so chose the Grand Lunar…plus I got lucky and had pretty good references in a book I had. The Grand Lunar was behind a force field in the movie, so where I had questions I used the other Selenites as reference and tried to keep it as close to Ray’s model as I could. There’s been a lot of great work in this challenge, so good luck everyone.
Here are the links:
Beauty Render:
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/BEAUTYRENDER.jpg
Orthos:
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Front.jpg
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Back.jpg
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Left.jpg
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Right.jpg
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Top.jpg
http://www.jbuza.com/jewell/GL_Bottom.jpg
Turntable:
Dave King completed entry / Single Creature / Medusa / Clash of The Titans
This character was done in around five or so days, spread out from Jan 18th through to tonight. The aim was to recreate Rays original maquette from Clash of the Titans- complete with dodgy latex skin (note the fresnel reflections to make it look like rubber 
and dinted clay underbody). The model was done in 3dsmax 9 32 bit and detailed in Zbrush. Photoshop was called in for texturing and compositing. I set up a little weblink at visit http://www.daveking.com.au/gallery/medusa/medusa.htm where you can link to all the hi-res images and turntable.
http://www.daveking.com.au/gallery/medusa/daveking_medusa_turn.mov
Beauty render:
Orthos: (visit http://www.daveking.com.au/gallery/medusa/medusa.htm to see all orthos at 1600x1200)
Its been a blast. And now I have the fully poseable Medusa toy I always wanted as a kid. yay!
OK I am way out of my league here but I will at least show off one of my entries. This is the Ceratosaurus from 1,000,000 BC all poly modeling in Wings 3D. I’m not equipped to compete no displacment painting and other stuff but had some fun doing it all old school. Trying ot capture the Harryhausen look and nto an accruate dinosaur he had the limitations of his medium. (also my modeler does not render worth a darn so I am showing some quick no texture renders for the Front side etc. and a beauty shot.
Front side views etc.
small beauty shot.
Large beauty shot.
My attempt at the Cyclops from “7th Voyage of Sinbad”.
Total production time: approximately 1 week in total
Apps: Zbrush, Max, Photoshop
WIP thread here.
The Diorama I did was from “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”. I decided to model the cavern in which Sinbad Fights Kali. I have been working on this for a couple of weeks. I modeled the cave and Kali. The reference I used came from the Harryhausen website and some video clips of the fight scene which helped to determin what the cave looked like. The model was done in Maya 7, and Photoshop for some of the textures.
