TOPIC SUGGESTIONS

#121

I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, but i think Boris Vallejo’s paintings would be great.

#122

[ul]
[li]More possible Topics:[/li][li]T-Rex[/li][li]Model T[/li][li]Concorde SST[/li][li]Tokio’s Himeji Castle[/li][li]Notredame Cathedral[/li][li]Louvre museum[/li][li]Palace of Versailles[/li][li]Le Mont-Ste Michel[/li][li]Gigers’s Alien[/li][li]Terminator’s EndoSkeloton[/li][/ul]

#123

Some of those are going to be damn tough to fit in to 50 hours modeling in any amount of detail, and that’s about what most people have to spend on modeling over a 3 weeks period.
I thihk you should try to keep it to things you think could actually be modeled in 50 hours, not just thown together, but actually finished details.

t-rex = no problem, but Notredame cathedral, or Versailles palace??

Also, I’m not sure I like doing exact copies of real life things, it’s actually quite tedious.
Something like a dinosaur is fine, since there is no definitve way to do it, we have guidelines, like a skeleton and other artists impressions, but we will also be able to put our own imagination into it as well, whereas doing something like the current David, or a building, we’re left with no artistic input at all, it’s just plain robotic copying of reality.
THis is where things like paintings would be nice also, turning a 2d picture into a 3d scene gives us quite a bit of artistic licence and freedom of imagination.

So basically, I’d like to stick to subject matter that gives us a little artistc freedom.

#124

hey Roberto, can you give us an idea when the next challenge will start?

#125

I vote to peter paul rubens self portrait http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/r/Rubens_Peter_Paul/large/biopic.jpg

… Great Idea turn 2d paintings to 3d … it will be fantastic

#126

One to two weeks…

-R

#127

Some Escher could pose interesting modeling problems (assuming they are possible in 3d :slight_smile:

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#128

OMG!! Escher! Wow you do wanna go hardcore.

I’m really excited about this forum. I’m definitely gonna join up soon. I’m itchin’ do work on new projects. :bounce:

#129

Here is an idea that I had.

I think it would be neat to model a hi-rez coin. See this link for an example:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/original.asp?review=nikoncp990&orig=/reviews/nikoncp990/Samples/Macro/000415-1649-40.jpg

Coin from farther away:
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp990/Samples/Macro/th_000415-1649-40.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp990/page12.asp&h=180&w=240&sz=22&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=yTp_i9fiEphxyM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmacro%2Bphotography%2B%252B%2Bcoins%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff

You’ll have to scroll down abit till you see it. (sorry for the long link)

The rules would be simple. NO displacement, bump nor normal maps allowed (except for little pocket marks in the metal, but not for any actual coin design elements)… Strictly pure poly-modelling. Both sides of the coin would be needed. The coin of choice would need to have enough detail to make you sweat a little, you know what I mean?

Just a suggestion.

Cheers,

NRG

Edit - Oh yeah, no ZBrush, Mudbox or any other specialised scultpting app either - end edit

#130

Thanks for bringing up the idea mr.mod

#131

One of the hardest things to model in my opinion is a likeness of someone. For example im currently modeling Yoda, everytime I saw a model of Yoda on the interent I kept thinking to myself it looks like a member of Yodas species… but not Yoda.

Id like to see a challenge to get an exact likeness of someone famous, Harrison Ford for example, Charlize Theron or Gollum.

My 2 cents.

#132

GREAT IDEA, But I am more partial to REAL famous people, not the current crop of talentless morons. (There will NOT BE a Paris Hilton challenge on my watch)

[ul]
[li]Marlon Brando[/li][li]Wiston Churchill[/li][li]John Wayne[/li][li]John F. Kennedy[/li][li]Alfred Hitchcock[/li][li]Albert Einstein[/li][li]Charlie Chaplin[/li][li]Clint Eastwood[/li][li]Jack Nicholson[/li][li]Audrey Hepburn[/li][li]Humphrey Bogart[/li][li]Lauren Becall[/li][li]Muhammed Ali[/li][li]Frank Sinatra[/li][/ul]And maybe a STARWARS Creature TRIBUTE

#133

ideas from NRG_Alpha

Kölner Dom:
http://images.google.com/imgres?img…ficial%26sa%3DN

Rouen cathedral:
http://images.google.com/imgres?img…ficial%26sa%3DN

Sagrada Familia Catherdral:

http://www.brynosaurus.com/album/20…catharch-lg.jpg

Antonio Gaudi Catherdral:

http://photos.runic.com/photos/sagrada1.jpg

#134

ideas from dogmatico

Thanks for the answer FX81. =D

My suggestion. Looks difficult but not impossible in 3 weeks. This place is called “Wire Opera” and stays in a city here in Brazil. I never see personally, but looks beautiful!

http://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/pmc/s…eraarame800.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera6.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera4.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera3.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera1.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera2.jpg
http://www.viaje.curitiba.pr.gov.br…mage/opera5.jpg

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carlos

#135

ideas from polymess

  • Eiffel Tower
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Great Wall of China
  • Machu Pichu
  • Empire State B/ Manhatten Skyline/ Brooklyn Bridge
  • Caves of Tora Bora
#136

@lias

well. i see alot of tourists in this picture …:twisted:

http://www.arabian-knight.com/Russia/kremlin1997.jpg

#137

Famous Buildings:

[ul]
[li]Fallingwater[/li][li]Flatiron Building[/li][li]St Peters Rome[/li][li]Sydney Opera House[/li][li]Partenonj[/li][li]Arch of constantine[/li][li]Cathedral of Pisa[/li][li]Globe Theater[/li][li]Paris Metro Entrances[/li][li]Rockefeller Center[/li][li]Westminster Abbey[/li][/ul]

#138

Leonardo Da Vinci

[ul]
[li]Mona Lisa[/li][li]The Virgin with Flowers[/li][li]The Madonna of the Rocks[/li][li]Vitruvian Man[/li][li]Leonardo’s Inventions [/li][/ul]

#139

yo Roberto, any clue on the next organic modeling challenge ?

#140

it will be based on a 2d imaqge

-R