VOTE! : FXWARS Dracula's Castle

#1

Hi guys, Roberto here.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that made the Dracula’s Castle FXWARS a success.

All the entries were great but it is obvious that 3 entries went ahead of the pack.

So lets show the winners!

But first …
Thanks to Samuel Kvaalen for setting up the voting program

On THIRD PLACE (in number of votes)


By Trey Harrell

[font=Verdana]Animation: http://www.treyharrell.com/dracula/TREYHARRELL_FXWARS(640x360).mov [/font](Sorenson 3 Quicktime / 640x360 / 1:05)

On SECOND PLACE (in number of votes)

By Jonas Ussing!
Animation: http://www.duck.dk/cgi/jussing_draculas-castle.mov (Quicktime, 7.8 mb)

[font=Arial]And now for the big one…

Drum roll please

BEST OVERALL ENTRY
The winner will have the honor of gettting this nifty graphic…


A on a sweep on all Cathegories:

By Fred Burdy !

[font=Verdana]Animation: http://fred.errances.free.fr/Dracula.wmv (2min06sec, 720x304, 25fps)

Comment: I searched to create an immersive sensation, so I decided to create a long introduction and to work a lot on the mood and the rythm.

I decided to show a sunset, with the chromatic evolution, and a gradation of the camera moves.

The final shot uses the character design from Coppola’s Dracula, whitch I found perfect for the dark/romantic athmosphere I wanted.

The music is from the same movie, but edited to fit my needs.

Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=2790893 [/font]

[left]Keep an eye on the forum…[/left]
[left]The next Challenge…[/left]

[left]CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND will go up this week.[/left]

And of course you can post your ideas for future contests here:

CgTalk:FXWars!Topics[/font]

[left]BIG FREEZZE SPOTLIGHT[/left]
[left]__________________________________________________ _______________________[/left]

One of the cool things about being a Mod is that I can spotlight, the work done by
our members.

Even on old challenges:
I would like to present the wonderfull work done by Onix on the last challenge, The Big Freeze…

FX WARS THE BIG FREEZE: ONIX (frozen city enviroment)
Video

http://www.digitalacb.com/onix-lolec_fxwars-320x240.wmv (20 Megs)

-R

LEGAGY POST BELOW

Hey guys,
Welcome to the latest edition of the FXwars.
First I would like to thank for all who participated.

Also I would like to thank Sammuel Kvaalen for developing/hosting the voting thread.

Please

>>VOTE HERE<<

And for those with slower connections I have posted a smaller compilation file (10 megs)
>>Compilation File<<
>>Compilation File<< (mirror)

Great work to all, I hope you all can join us on the next FXWARS that
promised to be very challenging. The topic is inspired by a classic Steven Spielberg film.

(>>Click here<< for more info.)

Later,

-R

#2

Plug? Please? :slight_smile: (this thread is well hidden, and as of now only has 13 views)

And yea, double thanks and applause to Kvaalen! :thumbsup:

#3

That’s some freaking cool stuff all around.

Can I vote twice?

#4

All of the people worked really hard.
And about the vote, only one per customer.
:slight_smile:
-R

#5

that was some serious quality stuff, great work guys! :slight_smile: entry 2 get’s my vote :thumbsup:

#6

casted my vote, good luck to all

#7

Cast my vote, I watched them all except for Google Monkey’s…sorry but I’m not installing an ActiveX control just to vote on this!!

I did not feel that the categories were able to accurately represent the way I wanted to vote, though…Jussing’s entry had the best emotional quality to it, but there was no category for this.

#8

Very fine results there. Good work.

But where to put my simulation vote … not much simulated here.

#9

I too agree, theres really hard effort on them, hope it all goes well on voting :thumbsup:

#10

is the result determined? the earlier one seems to be better. the later is relatively not that better.

#11

What does that mean?

#12

roberto,

how long are is the voting thread going to be open ?

thanks,
ph.

#13

Well I am in the process of writing the rules for the Close Encounters Challenge.

So give me until Wednesday and Ill post the results.

-R

#14

Colt vote for my entry… the hanging bridge (Maya Hair simulation) and the Bats (Particles Crowd simulation)…

Thanks

#15

Really awesome job guys! I love how each entry brings something unique to the table.

#16

Hi guys, Roberto here.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that made the Dracula’s Castle FXWARS a success.

All the entries were great but it is obvious that 3 entries went ahead of the pack.

So lets show the winners!

But first …
Thanks to Samuel Kvaalen for setting up the voting program

On THIRD PLACE (in number of votes)


By Trey Harrell

[font=Verdana]Animation: http://www.treyharrell.com/dracula/TREYHARRELL_FXWARS(640x360).mov [/font](Sorenson 3 Quicktime / 640x360 / 1:05)

On SECOND PLACE (in number of votes)

By Jonas Ussing!
Animation: http://www.duck.dk/cgi/jussing_draculas-castle.mov (Quicktime, 7.8 mb)

[font=Arial]And now for the big one…

Drum roll please

BEST OVERALL ENTRY
The winner will have the honor of gettting this nifty graphic…


A on a sweep on all Cathegories:

By Fred Burdy !

[font=Verdana]Animation: http://fred.errances.free.fr/Dracula.wmv (2min06sec, 720x304, 25fps)

Comment: I searched to create an immersive sensation, so I decided to create a long introduction and to work a lot on the mood and the rythm.

I decided to show a sunset, with the chromatic evolution, and a gradation of the camera moves.

The final shot uses the character design from Coppola’s Dracula, whitch I found perfect for the dark/romantic athmosphere I wanted.

The music is from the same movie, but edited to fit my needs.

Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=2790893 [/font]

[left]Keep an eye on the forum…[/left]
[left]The next Challenge…[/left]

[left]CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND will go up this week.[/left]

And of course you can post your ideas for future contests here:

CgTalk:FXWars!Topics[/font]

[left]BIG FREEZZE SPOTLIGHT[/left]
[left]_________________________________________________________________________[/left]

One of the cool things about being a Mod is that I can spotlight, the work done by
our members.

Even on old challenges:
I would like to present the wonderfull work done by Onix on the last challenge, The Big Freeze…

FX WARS THE BIG FREEZE: ONIX (frozen city enviroment)
Video

http://www.digitalacb.com/onix-lolec_fxwars-320x240.wmv (20 Megs)

-R

#17

Yay, thanks and congrats to everyone!

Trey, your piece was extremely poetic and beatifully done! In many ways my favourite of the competition. :slight_smile: Fred, I’ll never know how you managed to produce such a huge amount of hi-quality work on such short notice, but when I saw your entry I knew you were the winner!

:slight_smile:

Cheers,

  • Jonas
#18

Congratulations guys! You did amazing work in a very short time :thumbsup:

#19

Congrats are definitely in order!

More props to Fred and Jonas for their amazing work. I’m honestly not sure how any of us pulled it off with a three-week deadline – especially Fred. The sheer number of sets blows my mind, not to mention how awesome stuff looked. :thumbsup:

Thanks to everyone for participating and Roberto for taking the time to put these challenges on.

–T

#20

some truly great work.:cool: