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#21

Crikey…this is a major and very ambitious undertaking.
First, and most important, I can’t easily see what the deadline is, only that entries musn’t be late.
Ambitious, because you’re going to be ‘competing’ with the best out there and also because you need to get to read the book to get a handle on how to present and construct an image or short that ‘drags you in’ wanting more, wanting to know what its all about. In this world, saturated to the brim with sci fi imagery that’s pretty difficult, especially if the ‘book’ is in reality no different from a score of other sci fi books. Already I’m thinking about the ‘stone’ in 2001 and the ‘ring’ thingy in the ‘halo’ game, plus a few other ‘asteroid’ movies.

In my view, the overall idea or concept or teaser is what will/ should ‘win’ this, provided its executed professionally. What I never get about these things is the WIP bit. If it’s a ‘competition’ why share ideas or concepts for others to lift?
Ok, that was a rhetorical question…
Apart from the necessity to present professionally and convincingly, this is 110% about ideas.

Martin K

#22

Well, I just browsed through this:
http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/inspiration.php

All pretty nifty, seems like an epic undertaking as you say. I think I’ll have to stick to the rendering challenges as I simply don’t have time to contemplate something like that.

I hope someone else here does though :slight_smile:
Ian

#23

Depending on what the timeframe is for this, i might be up for a team effort for the video entry…

Reuben

#24

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I agree with Martin about the story having similarities to other scifi novels. ‘Rama’ also comes to mind…

So, what to do, what to do…

~Mike

#25

A lot of people have noted how Eon reminds them of Rama, but several have noted that after reading the book it possesses its own flair…so I guess I will need to read it too. Probably a good thing to do. :slight_smile:

Something to consider for those interested in this particular challenge. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a specific, pre-existing, published storyline integrated into a competition. (at least on the web) Notes in the competition description state that several “important” people will be looking at this competition and I believe that. Since I do so much previs in Hollywood, they’re taking a very familiar path towards positioning EON for actual film production. Of course I have no way to prove that. But basically the competition is doing exactly what my company does on a limited scale. Conceptualizing a script with visual images and animated story animatics. (The trailer competition is just an offshoot of that process) If you’re interested in being “seen” in the film industry, this is a very good competition to do it with.

#26

So is anybody gonna enter the EON competition?

#27

Well, I’m still learning the very basics of EI and comparing the GI to that in c4d. This is incredibly time consuming. Not come to any concrete conclusions yet, but possibly GI in EI is as fast as c4d (which utilises dual core processing).
So EI is potentially twice as fast as c4d?

Martin K

#28

I bought the book Thursday and hope to finish it within two weeks.
Once I’m done I’ll decide if there are parts or themes to it that interest me enough
to take a shot at the Challenge… Update: I finished the book Monday and decided
to pass on the challenge…

Another challenge of interest is the Peugeot Design Contest.
http://www.peugeot-concours-design.com/index_en.htm

I’m also working slowly on my 24 hour comic marathon story, though it won’t be done this weekend or within 24 hours… I turned it into a 15-30 minute a day challenge with the goal to finish it no matter what. www.24hourcomics.com

Back to family time…

~Mike

#29

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