HCR MINI-Challenge #42:Winner!

#1

Welcome to the latest round of the HCR Modeling mini challenge.

I have to say that I am extremely pleased with the quality of the outstanding models that have been produced and the incredible amount of entries.

So please take a moment and VOTE for your favorite piece.
You may read the rules of the mini challenge here:
HCR MINI-Challenge #42: Goodbye Ghibli.
Anyway, lets get on with the voting:
(The best model will be selected by an open vote for these categories)

Please vote for :
BEST WIP
BEST DIORAMA
BEST VEHICLE
BEST ENVIRONMENT
BEST ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF ESTABLISHED CHARACTER
BEST RENDER
and
BEST MODEL

[COLOR=WHITE] To vote, just post a REPLY to this thread with selections for each category.

NOTE TO ALL VOTERS:

The principal judging criteria to all voters should be
how well the model was sculpted.

The beauty render & the shading should NOT be the most important judging factors for the Best Overall Entry.

When judging keep in mind that Bump and Normal maps are acceptable modeling methods.
To view the entries Click the numbers besides their names

Please judge ALL the models to determine the best model

Here are the entries
(To view them, please click on the name):

◦Eddy Loukil
◦Totodost
◦Saquic3D
◦Sebastian Torres
◦Ricardo Orellana
◦David Callahan
◦Simon Beaumier
◦http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=7950714&postcount=9
◦Sebastian Hornbaek
◦Pil Chang
◦Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)
◦Reila Soley
◦Tom Norman
◦Lawrence Kameen

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Good Luck!

-Roberto

Legacy post below
Please post:
ARTIST NAME

BEAUTY RENDER

HIREZ RENDER LINK (VOLUNTARY)

TURNTABLE ANIMATION (VOLUNTARY)

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS

WIREFRAMES

WIP THREAD

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION

Thanks,

-R

#2

The Bath House from Spirited Away.

By Eddy Loukil

Beauty render:

Wireframe:

Orthographic renders:

WIP Thread:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1227816&page=1&pp=15

Most of the modeling was done in 3DS MAX, I’ve used a bit of Zbrush for the rocks.
Final image was rendered in Vray.
Post process and grading in Photoshop.

Took me around 10 days for the whole modeling part, and 5 for the texturing process.

Was fun participating, and I hope joining in on future challenges, if I am not too busy working.

Cheers !

Eddy

#3

Character from Spirited Away

ARTIST NAME : Totodost

BEAUTY RENDER

TURNTABLE ANIMATION (VOLUNTARY)

[VIMEO]113148273[/VIMEO]

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS

WIREFRAMES

WIP THREAD

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1235526

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION
Most of the modeling was done in Maya 2014, I’ve used Zbrush for details
Final image was rendered in Marmoset toolbag and Vray.
Post process and grading in After effects and Photoshop.

Took me total 13 days, which 5 days for the whole modeling part, and 6 for the texturing process and 2 days for render and composite.

This is my first time to be in this challenge, it was very fun!
Thank you :buttrock:

#4

Princess Mononoke San

  Artist Name: Saquic3D
  
   Beauty Render:
  
     [img]http://i.imgur.com/6BWRc9g.jpg[/img]
     
     Turntable Animation:

  [VIMEO]113465536[/VIMEO]
     
  Orthographic Renders:
  
     [img]http://i.imgur.com/bG3q9WN.jpg[/img]
  
  Wireframes: Difficult to get out of Zbrush when having over 40 subtools, here is what one looks like as an example
  
  [img]http://i.imgur.com/KqwHLZs.jpg[/img]
  
  WIP Thread (More final images in thread): [http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7945844#post7945844](http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7945844#post7945844)
  Comments and Description:
  I had lots of fun with this one, almost everything is created in  Zbrush with exception of the spear blade. I sculpted without symmetry in  many sections and alot of things were created out of boxes, dynameshed  and then refined. Rendered in Zbrush.
  
  Took me about two weeks to complete in total getting in as many hours as I could everyday. 
  
  Thanks Everyone
#5

Sebastian Torres - SetoCG

Beauty Render

Turntable

[VIMEO]113839174[/VIMEO]

Orthographic


Wireframes



Wip Thread

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1234450

Comments

This was fun to do and i also practice some techniques of rigging.
The modeling was done with Maya and ZBrush and the final render was made with Zbrush and post processed with photoshop.
This took me two weeks and 3 days to finish.
Thanks everyone I hope to participate in another challenge soon.
btw sorry for my english :slight_smile:

#6

By Ricardo Orellana

BEAUTY RENDER

HIREZ RENDER LINK

http://i.imgur.com/1IMFUo1.jpg

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS



WIREFRAMES




WIP THREAD

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1228997&page=1&pp=15

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION

Modeling was done initially in Zbrush and 3ds Max was used for retopo. Shading and Rendering were done in Maya, using Maya’s Mental Ray. Photoshop was used for texturing and final composition and Marmoset Toolbag was used for rendering the Wireframes (quick and easy).

Kiki’s dress was created in Marvelous Designer and simulated for her pose. After
the dress was ready, it was imported back in Zbrush and ZRemesher was used to give a clean geometry. The dress is the only piece of the model were auto-retopo was used.

The final details were sculpted back in Zbrush.

Considering only the time that I actually spent on the project, I would say it took me about a week to model Kiki, from initial sculpt to finish UV model, 2 days for Jiji and 1 full day for the Seagull. A total of one day was spent making her assets.

Shading took about 3 days and I would say a week for doing test renders, trying different lights and doing the final renders and composition.

This was my 1st challenge and it was a fun experience to participate. Looking forward for future ones.

Cheers! :wavey:

#7

Jiji, from Kiki’s Delivery Service

by David Callahan

Beauty:

Turntable:

//youtu.be/ynCyVvsFZC4

Orthographic:

Wireframe:

WIP Thread:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1235711

Comments:
It was my first challenge here, I found it to be a lot of fun and I learned new things.
It’s also been really great seeing everyone else’s works coming along.

Perhaps 12 hrs total. Started in Zbrush, then 3ds max for topology and rigging, then back to Zbrush for final details and texturing.

Thanks for viewing!

#8

ARTIST NAME : Simon Beaumier

BEAUTY RENDER :

DETAILS :

HIREZ RENDER LINK : http://s1371.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Beaumier/media/Posterweb2_zps9e705d5c.jpg.html

#9

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS (Sorry I can’t do an orthographic render of all the scene…is very too large for my Computer. Here is the sylvain part):

WIREFRAMES:


WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7944883#post7944883
COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION : All made in Zbrush and Photoshop for the final composition. My first official post in Cgsociety! And my first official modeling projetc. I hope you like! Hayao changed my life so it’s been a very great honor to be part of this challenge. Comments and critics are very welcome!

#10

Sebastian Hornbaek @ Z Studios

HIREZ RENDER LINK

TURNTABLE ANIMATION

[VIMEO]114079895[/VIMEO]

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS (check here for highres )

WIREFRAMES

WIP THREAD

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1234274

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION

Created in Maya / mudbox, rendered with Maxwell. Took About 2 weeks during sparetime. This was the first time I’ve worked with Mudbox and had some issues along the way with displacementmaps aso, but all in all I really enjoyed working with the programs and figuring out a nice little workflow. Although I did not made all the details I wanted, I’m happy with what came out! Enjoy!

Thanks for a fun mini challenge and I look forward taking on a new challenge soon! :slight_smile:

Thanks to Master Lbj, Roger, darthfishpaste, catacaillou and Signe for all the support in finishing this project! :slight_smile:

#11

Pil Chang

BEAUTY RENDER

HiRes Image

TURNTABLE ANIMATION:
[VIMEO]114204668[/VIMEO]

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS

WIREFRAMES

WIP Thread

I used ZBrush, Maya and Photoshop.
I cannot really tell how much time I spent on it because never actually measured it, but study and planning took really long and revision to get the expression that I wanted took really long time.

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION:
Hello,

Ghibli animations have been great inspiration for me! I love every one of their movies! It was really hard for me to pick which one I wanted to make for this challenge. I watched Arrietty a few years ago when it came out. I really loved the movie because of the feeling it set out. It was not really dynamic or action packed unlike some other animation films. But, it said or made me feel something. I wanted to depict that feeling in this character sculpt too. I wanted to study the personality and characteristics of Arrietty before I started to modeling. I did not want to focus on technical aspects of modeling, rather I wanted to focus on capturing the feeling and the moment of the movie that reached out to me. I do not like explaining what my intended feel or how you should feel looking at this piece because I worked on the piece to speak for itself. I hope it successfully transmitted some feelings to you. I still have a lot to learn, but gained so much by working on this project.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy!

Pil

#12

ARTIST NAME : Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

      [u]BEAUTY RENDER[/u]
      
[img]http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/123963full98.jpg[/img]
      
      
      [u]ORTHOGRAPHIC[/u]
      
      [img]http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac59/catacaillou/Ortho.jpg[/img]
      
  [u]WIREFRAME[/u]
  
  [img]http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac59/catacaillou/Wireframe_cockpit.jpg[/img]


   [u]TURNTABLE ANIMATION
   [/u]
   [VIMEO]114175993[/VIMEO]
    
      
      [u]WIP THREAD[/u]
      [http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1235668](http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1235668)
      
      [u]COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION[/u]

      We were keen to recreate the very first battle of Porco & Curtiss. So we modeled the two planes and we set them in a diorama. The scene take place when porco's engine got a failure. So Curtiss takes advantage of Porco to shoot his plane.

Software: Maya, Zbrush, Mudbox, Photoshop, Nuke, AE

#13

Artist: Reila Soley

BEAUTY RENDER

ORTHOGRAPHIC RENDERS

WIREFRAMES

WIP THREAD
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1229691

COMMENTS & DESCRIPTION

Finally I made it! It was a lot of fun! I’m not really finished. I started the retopo but couldn’t finished it. >< So I decided to render the HP mesh in zbrush. It was my first time. So the beauty render isn’t really beautiful. But yeah better than nothing (:
I learned a lot and it was a great challenge!

Software: most Zbrush, some basic meshes in 3D Max, Rendering in Zbrush
Time: puuuhhh I don’ know exactly…a couple of days

#14

Before I get into my entry I just want to say awesome job to everyone who’s submitted so far! :bowdown:

ARTIST
Tom Norman

BEAUTY RENDER

full res

ORTHO

full res

WIRE

full res

WIP THREAD
lynx

DESCRIPTION
My Neighbour Totoro is my favourite of the few Ghibli films I’ve actually seen, so I knew I wanted to model something from it. I was torn between doing Totoro or doing the moving truck from the opening sequence. Even though a few others were already doing a Totoro scene, I still went with it because I had been wanting to improve on my character stuff and I was curious to experiment with fur.

I can’t really say for certain how much time was taken, but I can say that it wasn’t as much as I’d have liked to put into it, even with the deadline extension (thanks again Roberto!). There’s definitely a lot that could be improved but I’m overall pretty happy with the result, and I learned a whole bunch so that counts for something :thumbsup:

maya • zbrush • photoshop • mari • vray • xgen

Enjoy!

#15

Lawrence Kameen

Beauty Render

Some Orthos


WIP Thread
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=208&t=1227348

Notes
Wow great job to all the artists who were working on this challenge! I myself ran out of time even with the extension but posted what I have regardless. I use these challenges as an opportunity to explore and discover new ideas and methods as well as try things that are out of my comfort zone, such as an environment/diorama. My Neighbor Totoro is one of my fondest child hood memories so I hoped I could do the movie justice. I chose a relatively recognizable scene from the movie however it presented itself with a few challenging tasks. The whole scene is wet, the lighting is fairly interesting with how the animation was drawn, and there are three characters. I attempted to keep the lighting relatively similar to how it is in the movie while giving my own twist on Totoro. Posing has never been my strong point so it was nice to try to pose the sisters in a believable way and as it was in the movie. Overall I’m pretty happy with the progress and everything I learned while doing this. On to the next!

Software
ZBrush, Mudbox, Maya, Renderman

#16

Amazing work everyone! :smiley: :eek: :thumbsup:

Here are my votes:

BEST WIP

Porco’ First Round

Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST DIORAMA

Simon Beaumier

BEST VEHICLE

Porco’ First Round

Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST ENVIRONMENT

Simon Beaumier

BEST ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF ESTABLISHED CHARACTER

Character from Spirited Away

Totodost

BEST RENDER

Princess Nausicaa
Sebastian Torres - SetoCG

BEST MODEL

The Bath House from Spirited Away.

By Eddy Loukil

#17

Hey! This is a difficult decision, there are too brilliant work here…

BEST WIP
The Bath House from Spirited Away. By Eddy Loukil

BEST DIORAMA
Princesse Mononoke - Simon Beaumier

BEST VEHICLE
Porco’ First Round. By Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST ENVIRONMENT
The Bath House from Spirited Away. By Eddy Loukil

BEST ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF ESTABLISHED CHARACTER
The Forest Spirit. By Tom Norman

BEST RENDER:
The Bath House from Spirited Away. By Eddy Loukil

BEST MODEL
The Bath House from Spirited Away. By Eddy Loukil

#18

Here are my votes:

BEST WIP

Porco’ First Round

Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST DIORAMA

Simon Beaumier

BEST VEHICLE

Porco’ First Round

Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST ENVIRONMENT

The Bath House from Spirited Away.

By Eddy Loukil

BEST ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF ESTABLISHED CHARACTER

Arrietty the Borrower

by Pil Chang

BEST RENDER

The Bath House from Spirited Away.

By Eddy Loukil

BEST MODEL

The Bath House from Spirited Away.

By Eddy Loukil

#19

BEST ENVIRONMENT =

EDDY LOUKIL

The BATH house

BEST MODEL =

EDDY LOUKIL

The Bath House

BEST RENDER =

EDDY LOUKIL

The Bath House

BEST ORIGINAL interpretation of established character =

TOM NORMAN

The forest spirit

#20

Definitely a tough one to judge…

BEST WIP

Kiki Delivery Service
Ricardo Orellana

BEST DIORAMA

Princess Mononoke San
Saquic3D

BEST VEHICLE

Porco’ First Round
Pierre Lefranc (Macchi) & Wallace David (Curtiss, Porco, Compositing)

BEST ENVIRONMENT

Simon Beaumier

BEST ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF ESTABLISHED CHARACTER

Arrietty the Borrower
Pil Chang

BEST RENDER

The Forest Spirit
Tom Norman

BEST MODEL

Character from Spirited Away
To Todost