I’ve been looking forward to this one. Couldn’t finish the star wars one (will finish it in the WIP section though). I have been waiting for the release of the rules and the types of animals we can do. I was planning to do a Sperm Whale vs A Giant Squid. As I want to do an underwater scene.
Can I just ask. A squid is a mollusk or cephalopod. But for the purposes of this challenge can it be considered a fish?
For a title, if “Animals in Motion” doesn’t work (although it sounds OK by me), how about “Kinetic Creatures” or “Animals in Action”? Just throwing that out there…
Also, will multiple entrees be allowed again?
and the deadline ? when it´ll be ?
I´m looking foward to this challenge, I was interested in the last one too, but couldn´t participate. This one I´ll try, if there´s enought time, of course.
We will do the standard Month and a 1/2.
If we start on Friday, start counting after Monday.
-R
Bingo, bango bongo! Ready to begin!
I plan on doing a house cat jumping at a butterfly in flight. I could change that to a bird if the butterfly is no good.
I know you guys allready have your minds set on this months chalange. How about something that the rigging department can sing theyr theet in to? Like a some kind of creature with lose skin, or wings, some hanging cloth. Or a robot with movable parts that create a bigger motion. Something chalenging like that? What about something like that, what do you guys think? Just an idea…
Well we might be a hallowwen based challenge around october…
The creature you describe sounds like a vampire or a giant bat…
-R
Yeah I guess, not neceserlly but it could be. I let you guys to come up with the concept. Something where dynamics and cloth, and colision could come into play.
Actually, as I have chosen character rigging as my primary skill I would very much like the chance to team up with a modeller for such a challenge. Halloween would be a great oppertunity for such a contest. A splendid artist and a skilled rigger…interesting.
We might do a joint challenge with the rigging mini challenge folks…
Ill see if I can start the ball rolling.
This does sound like the PERFECT halloween topic.
We could start AFTER animal in motion ends, and give the model to the rigging people
for a mini one week mini challenge.
More rules:
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[li]Modelers may shade their models but it is not a requirement. See this entry from the Star Wars challenge as a great example of a unshaded entry: >>LINK<<[/li][li]Animal hair & manes may be done using hair shaders or you may sculpt it[/li][li]ALL MODELS will be done from scratch. Parametric entries will not be allowed.[/li][li]Participants may do multiple entries.[/li][li]Modelers may do tributes to classic animal photographs, BUT they need to give credit to the original source material.[/li][/ul]Examples
This is a great example of the type of entry I would like to see:
>>EXAMPLE 1<<
>>EXAMPLE 2<<
-R
HI,
I personally like the idea of animals in motion the best, But Creatures half Human half animal is better.
Can we have a human as a second modelin the scene? for example a bull and a rider in a rodeo, or a toro and a torero during a torada? A cowboy and his horse…
Andre
Onn case by case basis, since we have done plenty of humans.
Having said that I like your ideas and they are ok.
-R
Just waiting for the “go” signal.
Ready to go, boss, I think I´ll model a scene with two lions fighting for the pride lead.
I’d be prepared to let the rigging guys have fun with my tarantula once I start to model it. But I may need to do 2 versions of it. the first version would be a basemesh made in MAX and sculpted in Zbrush. And the 2nd version would be a refined and detailed version of the basemesh solely done in MAX, as I have heard that Zbrush made sculpts are extremely difficult to rig and animate convincingly. Also the Zbrush spider would be posed and the normal one would be in a straight layout to make rigging easier.
Just a suggestion with this rigging / modelling idea. Maybe a small team would be the way to go with this. As it’d be easier for one to model, one to texture and another to rig / animate.
I heard you can save the Zbrush work out as a bit map and then we can imported in as a texture. I’m not sure about the perminology. But I know this can be done. I rigged a character as a freelance and I know thats what they did.
Im interested in this contest! So, i take it rigging is OK ? I would like to model my animal in a neutral pose and then rig/envelope it, then play around with the pose. Lastly, high res sculpting and texturing is allowed?
PS> a Squid sounds cool. hmm.
