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BiG ToE-3DT
23-02-2012, 12:07 AM
Sculpting Challenge #3
Subject – Fan Art

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/DJBiGToE/Banners/FanArt-2.png
banner art by Dave Rapoza (http://daverapoza.blogspot.com/)

Thread Naming: Your Name – Fan Art
Keep all questions in this thread


So for this challenge, I’m keeping it simple. No mini story to get the juices flowing, just the theme. Fan Art. What’s fan art, basically, art created by fans of a certain movie, cartoon, comic. So if you are a fan of the star wars movie, you can make Darth Vader. Fan of comics, create Super Man.

The timeline for this is wide open, so is the planet they live on. You can do a spot on recreation, or tweak the original to what you think it should look like.

Fan Art, make it what you will.

DUE DATE: April 29th, 11:59 pm GMT - SUNDAY

Idea:

Choose a character you are a fan of and recreate them.

Pedestals/Stands:

You do not have to create one, but it would be nice if you did. You can go as crazy as you want, or keep it basic.


Restrictions:

-Joint entries are allowed for this challenge, this means, you can have someone draw a concept for you, but you must do all the sculpting yourself.

-Your entry must be specifically created for this challenge. Do not use any pieces from previous works.

-You will be supplying your own base mesh for the competition, from which you will sculpt from. You can create your base mesh in any application (3dsmax, Maya, XSI, Cinema4D, Zspheres in Zbrush, etc) using any technique. Don’t use any pre-made base meshes, you must build it specifically for this challenge.

-There are no lighting restrictions.

-You must create a W.I.P Thread to show off your work in progress.
- If you post in the final entry thread, you must also vote when the time comes. If you do not, your entry will be disqualified.

Final Pictures:

Required In The Final Post (1 post per entry):

- A picture of the original character you are making.

- 1 x Winning shot (render or screen grab). This image should consist of your object depicted in its most awesome angle.

- 1 x Beauty shot (render or screen grab). Feel free to put multiple angles of your object or just one big version or your object on this page. You are free to do whatever post effects you like on this image. Be careful how you do this though, simple is often better. It’s up to you.

- 1 x Construction shot of your base mesh and at least 3 shots (screen grab) of your sculpt as you work from beginning to end. Feel free to put more if you like, it’s up to you.

- Concept Sheet (if you have one)

- Link to your W.I.P. thread


Prize(s):
1st Place - First place gets you £30 worth of 3DTotal downloadable content & a gold award badge.

Good luck everyone!
BiG ToE.

Jussslic
23-02-2012, 02:35 AM
Oooo, this could be super fun. Gonna wait and see what the Stylized theme is before committing to either one!

Tycane3D
23-02-2012, 08:03 AM
2 months?, rlly?, great, think im gonna make something ive wanted to make for years.

Adroit.jrk
23-02-2012, 01:43 PM
now that is great theme, i hope i'll sculpt something for this challenge.

Jussslic
23-02-2012, 10:54 PM
This is seriously an awesome challenge....

Someone should advertise this round on CGTalk, Polycount, and ZBC. These are always more fun when there are a lot of participants, and this is open ended enough to draw a lot of interest!

Jussslic
23-02-2012, 11:06 PM
Also, OMG Dave Rapoza (banner art) is incredible. Check out his CGHub gallery (http://daverapoza.cghub.com/images/) if you haven't seen it.

Frank_Tzeng
24-02-2012, 02:23 AM
nice challenge, i am in :)
one question, can we pick a "Fan art concept piece" that was done by another concept artist, and use that as a concept to do the sculpting??
for example: can we pick one of the Dave Rapoza's concept and sculpt it out??
or we have to find a concept artist and ask him to do a fan art concept just for the challenge, and sculpt it out?

thanks!!

BiG ToE-3DT
24-02-2012, 03:31 AM
nice challenge, i am in :)
one question, can we pick a "Fan art concept piece" that was done by another concept artist, and use that as a concept to do the sculpting??
for example: can we pick one of the Dave Rapoza's concept and sculpt it out??
or we have to find a concept artist and ask him to do a fan art concept just for the challenge, and sculpt it out?

thanks!!

well, because you will be doing the sculpting your-self, it's ok to use a pre-made concept. If you use someone elses concept though, you will want to ask them if its ok.

MightyReg
24-02-2012, 09:19 PM
Ooooh I like that 2 months of work until deadline! Since there's much more time I'll probably enter this one!

Jussslic
28-02-2012, 02:26 AM
I'm gonna go ahead and say this because I've noticed that at any given moment on this forum there are usually around 185 guests and only 6 or 7 members.

If you're watching this competition from the outside and wondering whether you should register and participate...

DO IT! :wave:

This is such a badass theme... help us make it epic!

But seriously, look at my tiny post count compared to when I joined. Take it from a long time lurker... it's more fun to join in : )

JAPO
28-02-2012, 01:05 PM
Hello :)
I would like to ask a question: how is it with hair? I know some can be sculpted, but I am sure not all of it. So, does hair have to be sculpted, or are other solutions allowed? Like hair plugins?

MightyReg
28-02-2012, 01:14 PM
Mmmm that's a good question JAPO is asking there. My guess is that it would be better to sculpt the air since doing it in another app with a plugin is starting to sound more like rendering than sculpting.

BUT

In Zbrush R2b the new fibers fonction let you add and sculpt fibers all inside of Zbrush, so maybe that could work? I even think one of the contestants already did some beard and eyebrows with it.

JAPO
28-02-2012, 01:41 PM
Thanks for the reply, that makes perfect sense :) I had no idea about hair in Zbrush, I dont have that one.

BiG ToE-3DT
28-02-2012, 01:44 PM
I guess it would be ok, but I wouldn't get too crazy with it. The idea is to sculpt, not generate.

Tycane3D
28-02-2012, 01:54 PM
SOOoooo Cousin IT or a member from ZZtop is out then..

JAPO
28-02-2012, 01:57 PM
So no wookie? :O Joking. Thank you, I am still not clear what would I do, possibility of hair widens the choice pool though :)

Blackschmoll
29-02-2012, 03:59 PM
Hi this is my first post here, ever. This is a very cool theme for a sculpting challenge ! Are characters from books allowed ?

BiG ToE-3DT
29-02-2012, 05:03 PM
yes

Jussslic
29-02-2012, 09:13 PM
@Blackschmoll: Welcome to the forums! What book are you thinking about working from? Man, there are so many literary characters I'd love to eventually tackle...

Blackschmoll
01-03-2012, 09:10 AM
@Jussslic : Thanks ! I m thinking about Discworld From T. Pratchett :-)

Nugasaur
01-03-2012, 02:54 PM
Hey, Im new here. I was wondering if you still can win if you don't texture your model ( not that winning is all important). Just wanted to know if the model would even be part of the competition. I myself am not a great texture artist, but I am a 3d modeler. I just want to enter a competition where I don't have to do both, but it seems most do. A reply would be appreciated.

BiG ToE-3DT
01-03-2012, 03:10 PM
you don't need to texture you model for the sculpting challenge.

Nugasaur
01-03-2012, 06:56 PM
Thanks for the fast reply. I didnt see that there was a FAN ART contest for both game art and sculpting, must of read the wrong one. I guess my follow up question is if I could make the high poly zbrush for this challenge and then make a 20,000 tri limit low poly of the same model for the game art contest and just bake the textures and stuff on to it? I am a novice at best on texturing, so i just want practice.

BiG ToE-3DT
01-03-2012, 09:16 PM
yes, yes you can

living_for_cg
23-03-2012, 07:33 AM
hi guys . im in .
i just made my thread but forgot to put my name in it. what should i do? make another one?

BiG ToE-3DT
23-03-2012, 12:26 PM
Looks OK to me.

meltingman
09-04-2012, 11:53 PM
hello.
excuse me cause i don't understand English very good .
I finish my Sculpt Fan ARt challenge here:
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=107224 < the wip
But y don't find the Final entries.

please some on to guide me :-).

thanks for this sympathy challenge i passe a good time for my pupets :dance:

++ meltingman

BiG ToE-3DT
10-04-2012, 02:14 AM
I will be creating a final entry thread in a few days.

ale3dfx
20-04-2012, 01:09 PM
Hello everyone I knew that competition today and I hope to attend this event pretigiar thanks to all!