speed modelling challenge week 31 - watch

[Kingcolin]

@ Vidiot:
Aha oke thanks:) I will try some ways to make some a good one tomorrow!

[JJLAMOROSA]

My first post for my first challenge.

Modelling with 3DMax5 about 55 min
Texturing 30 min
Rendering 4 min

[JJLAMOROSA]

My second post.

Modelling with 3DMax5 about 60 min
Texturing 40 min
Rendering 6 min

[JJLAMOROSA]

To finish my last post

Modelling always with 3DMax5 35 min
Texturing 10 min
Rendering 1 min

[RideStowe]

Originally posted by otacon
Nice topic. Heres mine.
50min model
5 min texture/light
Lightwave

is it jsut me or does otacon always seem to pull off the best-looknig renders and never reveals how?

[evilken]

k well itle b up soon..

[evilken]

URF... :eek:

sry bout the blur...
had to reduce quality of pic cauz of the ruleszs....

[evilken]

here it is

[shinichikudou]

argg... i accidentally deleted my last post when trying to insert a better-textured copy of my model, so here it is again...

its still the same model, don't worry....

here are the specs again:

modelled in 3ds max 6.0 : 60 minutes
textured in a VERY long time
rendered with mentalray: 0:00'39"

plz criticize... i really need to improve

[vladoportos]

Originally posted by Mousek
Vladoportos:
Laser watch = good idea!:D

Thanx :)

Originally posted by fasth
Almost feels a bit unnecessary to even try to beat people lika otacon and vlaodportos

:o

Originally posted by vidiot
@Vladoportos - your Laserwatch scares me!
But isn´t it more a clock?

Im not completly sure but this can be consider as watch, its small you can get this on your keyring... I let Andy to decide...

Originally posted by juha
vlald . wild idea.... lasers...

Yea i know but almost everybody done clasical watch so why not.. :)

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Well... I had some technical difficulties with the render. Each time I rendered the scene with the glass... everything under the glass barely showed up... so I had to settle for a render sans glass. I did include the glass in my wireframe though... since it was actually modelled. I'm no Otacon... but here goes... :D

3D Studio Max 6, 55 mins modelling, about an hour texturing (many experiments and test renders), 9:04 min render (default scanline render with 1 skylight and 1 onmi for speculars):

Edit: I've updated the image to now show the glass... Thanks to everyone that offered help in this matter! You guys all ROCK!!! :dance:

[vladoportos]

@Juha mice watch i like it and nice render with flamingo...

[3djunior]

Ok, second entry over here.

Modelling- full 60 mins
Texturing- bout 5 mins
Render- 21 mins
Software- Cinema4d, Photoshop for textures.

That chain was torture, pain and torture. Well maybe not that bad,
but it took up bout 50 mins (had to place all the little toruses along the spline). Meh.
I'll find a better way sometime.

btw, great entries people. im liking some of the renders.

[Nojoy]

Hi Good Fellas

Let me first introduce myself so you folks know who i am. You might've seen me over at the Digital Tutors Forums often since im a moderator there, and try helping out as much as i can. I have to say i been following the speed challenges week for week now and this time i was very tempted. I finished a watch as well and hope you guys like it i will post it in a few minutes along with the wireframe etc. (I made sure to read the rules :D) Ofcourse i also have to agree that the renders here are amazing, especially that watch of andy's is purely "Ohsoreal" ;) and had me inspired of trying something similar in maya. Good Luck to all on this one and thank you for exepting my registration. :)

[vladoportos]

@ 3djunior : Nice watch isnt that face of that watch from corel tutorial ?

[3djunior]

vladoportos- thanku

I have no idea, i went on altavista and found it

but the filename is zca4_tutorial-watch_34, so i guess it must be off a tutorial.

[Andy_k-3DT]

Originally posted by Marty_McFly
Well... I had some technical difficulties with the render. Each time I rendered the scene with the glass... everything under the glass barely showed up...

a quick tip for rendering objects behind glass successfully

turn off the shadow casting properties of the glass object :)

HTH

Andy

[inspired]

modeling time - 30 mins
mats & lights - 15 mins (1 sky, 3 omni's)
render time - 1:30 mins


Ive made quite some watches this week... Most of them werent finsihed in the hour, or were just ugly! So i decided to do some pre-sketching again... This is what i came up with. Didnt had much time, so i kinda rushed it, and i really didnt feel like modeling the err... thingy that goes around you arm :p

well anyway, MTM is proud to present to you, its newest design:
The MTM Xd 242. Be totally the man, walking around in town with this nicely designed watch. Make your friends totally jalous, and watch the time, in style!...

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Originally posted by Andy_k-3DT
a quick tip for rendering objects behind glass successfully

turn off the shadow casting properties of the glass object :)

HTH

Andy

Nice idea... hadn't thought of that. Too bad it's not making a difference though... :(

Here's what my render looks like so far... Grr... (http://img1.exs.cx/img1/2500/wa3glass3eg.jpg)

[inspired]

marty.. i had the same.. the dark glass i mean...

what is ur light setup? cause to me it seemed like it happened when i rendered with skylight and light tracer...

i think the best way to render glass is with brazil, but i have absolutely NO skills at brazil...

i had to delete the glass in every single watch i rendered...:(

[fellazb]

Let me see you what I've got.
software: 3ds MAX 5
modelling: 15 min.
textures/lights: 20 min 4 omni lights and HDRI
rendertime: 25,34



Been following you guys for quite a while now. Glad to get some time to participate in a speed modelling competition.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Inspired: I'm also using a skylight with the light tracer... I also set bounces to 1 in the light tracer's settings because that's the the help file said to do when rendering glass. Actually it just says set it above zero... but each value above zero dramatically increases render times. :( Oh... and next time... just hide your glass instead of deleting it... ;)

[fellazb]

I experienced that problem also. For me it helped to set up the first omnli light without a shadowcasting. The second, third and so on you can setup with a shadowcasting. Sounds weird, but it helped for me.
I used the default scanline render from MAX. Don't think Brazil is the solution to this problem.

[Orkron]

If using Light Tracer with a skylight Marty, then u need to make an omni that only inculdes the obects under the glass with no shadows, thats what i do for good results.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Well I'm glad that worked for you fellazb... but my omni doesn't cast shadows... *sigh* but you do have quite a nice render there!

[inspired]

Orkron's idea sounds interesting! gonna try that soon. Maybe my next entry will be WITH glass :p How did you ppl made the glass btw? I tried some different ways, but i never was really satisfied... I actually want good glass with nice reflections... any ideas?

[Andy_k-3DT]

I'm not sure how Max materials work but do you have a value for "transmission"? this would effect the way light is allowed to pass through the object and is completely different (but not unrelated) to transparency properties.

Andy

[fellazb]

Yo Marty,

I think I misplaced the word shadowcasting.

I've made a simple render with the standard "clear glass" material, to be found in your matlib directory in 3ds max.

If I place two omni lights in the scene with the shadow option on, I get a black glass appearance.

If I turn off a the shadow option of one of them the glass is transparant.

I think light tracer always works with a shadow option. My suggestion is that you place an omnilight in the scene without a shadow option. I worked for me.

[vladoportos]

I gona play with that glass render too.. I will post my result here... :)

[andoy]

My second attempt for this week,Didn't get time to do the strap or the crown on the face, so i guess it's gonna be classed as unfinished.

modelled in Max in 60 minutes
textured in just over an hour
Rendered with MR and one skylight in 43 minutes.

[Henry_B]

how are you making your glass??? i want a glass that create no distortions but have good reflectios, all my glasses distort a lot the inside of the clock and i dont like that, any ideas???

[Orkron]

It wont look like glass if it doesnt distort at least slightly.

Andy I think Max uses refraction map to do the same as what urs does...Could be wrong though...

Click here (http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/252409/Action/FullPreview) to see some Mental Ray glass I made last night.

[Andy_k-3DT]

getting good glass is always a challenge - fortunately it's something C4D does with consummate ease for the glass I used on my watch I had

colour channel disabled

transparency set to 92% with fresnel reflectivity enabled

refraction value of 1.25

reflection turned down to 5% with a dispersion value of 8% to avoid any "real" reflections

specular mode was "plastic" with a height value of 250% and width of 28%


If any of the C4D users want the material let me know


Andy

[Jonssen]

WOW! Very nice models everyone!

Well... here is my fifth watch... unfortunately I was not able to make all details...

Software: Maya 6
Modeling: 59 min
Lighting + texturing: 30 min
Rendering (mental ray): 3 min

[Henry_B]

wel, this is my second entry, still no glass =(

modeling: 50 min.
mat and lights 15min

[Nojoy]

As promised here is my very First Entry, I enjoyed this one alot, and must say there is some serious competition here. I modeled out a Formula 1 Monaco from Tag Heuer created in the late 70's, My brother owns this watch and i couldnt resist modeing it out since i love it too. I noticed under pressure i wouldnt be able to model well and only got half done witch is the wireframe in different color, i modeled out the rest wich you can see on the mid bottom in red wich took a additional 90 min. This was a very good topic and I hope to participate more in the future thanks Andy. :) (Sorry that at this picture size/compression some color annotations one cant read ill make sure to pick better colors next time ;))

Modeling Time - Full 60 min
Texturing Time - 20 min. Leather Band Only rest Shaded
Lighting and Shading Time - 2 Hours
Image Rendering Time - 8:45 min. (Maya Software Renderer)
Compositing Compressions Time - 20 min. :D

[otacon]

Originally posted by RideStowe
is it jsut me or does otacon always seem to pull off the best-looknig renders and never reveals how?

:cool: I would give some info, but it seems like nobody else here uses lightwave. Almost every speed model ive done has been lit with the same setup, an hdri with background radiosity, and an area light.:) Its really pretty simple.

BTW, i was pretty exited about this topic when i first read it because i had just finished a watch model. Heres a render of it. I forget how long it took to model, probably about 2 hours, but might as well post it for some inspiration!
(I hope thats not a problem Andy):)

[Nojoy]

Wow Otacon really increadible looking renderer, same as andoy and andy... you guys do make nice images. I rendered out my watch plain software in maya. I own lightwave 7 but cant hardly model half as quick in it as in Maya. I also own a prehistoric Cinema 4D XL V6 package but i wont even start with that subject and leave it to andy. It seems so tedious to model in Cinema. I love all products so no discussion about this or that software. Just wanted to give my two thumbs up to Otacon - Andoy and Andys images, they are very inspiring and plain REAL looking. Ill try giving my Monaco watch that hdri look later Otacon ;) By the way you have a great living room very tastefull i really like it. :)

[mr_lemon]

really intresting subject this week...another try done all in max in the 60 min time limit...andoy you are doing a great work this week and otacon,your last watch it's really impressive...let's share with us your knowledge,i think that a light setup could be adapted to other package so if you have some tips they are relly welcome.

[PixeL]

50mins
3ds max
my 1st noncel shaded render :)

[DESPISTADO]

Originally posted by Marty_McFly
Well... I had some technical difficulties with the render. Each time I rendered the scene with the glass... everything under the glass barely showed up... so I had to settle for a render sans glass. I did include the glass in my wireframe though... since it was actually modelled. I'm no Otacon... but here goes... :D


i dont know the why that happen but as andy say you can fix it by turn off cast shadows but no in the object properties you must turn it off in the advance lighting do this: select your glass object and with your right mouse button go to properties then go to "adv. lighting" tab then go to "adv lightning general properties" and uncheck cast shadows and thats it youll never see that black render again, just in case you have trouble with with reflection go to material glass and change the index of reflection to 5 you can play with this value, i never use light tracer with sky light, i like more brazil :) that never happen with brazil, another solution is that you use mental ray GI, i guess that happen due the glass material refract all shadows but im not sure. just in case you have trouble with reflection go to material editor and change to a low value like 5 the index of reflection you can play with:) if you still have problem let me know

best regards

ok heres my entry

3ds max 7: finally discreet fix boolean and nurbs max 7 rules :D and i like the beauty mesh

time modeling: 1 hour

no texture this time

render time: 3 minutes and 9 seconds

[gan3d]

Originally posted by andoy
My second attempt for this week,Didn't get time to do the strap or the crown on the face, so i guess it's gonna be classed as unfinished.

modelled in Max in 60 minutes
textured in just over an hour
Rendered with MR and one skylight in 43 minutes.

wow! andoy thats a very good model i liked it a lot.

octacon - great model and especially material n rendering is superb!!

i was wondering is there anyone who can tell how to use hdri in maya .... well obviously am a newbie...

[andoy]

mr_lemon: Thanks for your compliments.

Nojoy: Thanks for the two thumbs up.

otacon: your renders are real nice. I look at them week in and week out and try to get a similar effect. Your materials are always so nice too, are they default in lightwave or your own creations?

Andy_k: i can't use your glass material but some pointers on how you did the brushed metal material would be nice, I have tried a few different ways but get nothing like what you have got.

I really am enjoying this week's challenge as there are some great entries from all.

[andoy]

gan3d: thanks but it's really only simple shapes like cylinders and tubes, with a few extruded splines, array and a boolean thrown into the mix.
Glad you liked it though.

[inspired]

Orkron - Wow, that watch is UGLY! hehe, i abslutely DONT mean the modeling, but just the watch... That red hurts my eyes ;) btw, the wireframe looks a bit weird... could you tell me how you modeled you watch?

Otacon - What can I say...:drool: You truly are a master at rendering! Great Light setup as always, really makes your modesl stand out! But your modeling itself is pretty good too! Really great work! again ;)

PixeL - Nice to see you around here again! nice model, altough the jpg seems low quality, and there is some aliasing going on, and i think its because of the low quality JPG...

Mr.Lemon - Nice model man! The rendering is awesome!

[Black]

Originally posted by Marty_McFly
Here's what my render looks like so far... Grr... (http://img1.exs.cx/img1/2500/wa3glass3eg.jpg)
It IS max..so there might be a diffrence..
But in the rendering of transparent materials, especialy if the matrials have refraction on them you have to put a higher refreaction and reflection rate.

What that means is the amount of surfaces you are going to allow the rays to be calculated.. in your case you have two surfaces til you get to the dial. and two surfaces for it to get bask to the camera.. something like 4 for refraction rays should be enough. How ever your compuer slows down you are sort of obligated to crank that up to get the effect

As I said. it's Max... things might be diffrent but I doubt it.




Juha So you did it.. Actualy you have managed some parts that I am now stuck on.. Your model looks great.
(Though I had hoped for some 'out of it' textures to complient it)

I didn't work on mine since then. Will porobably try and finish it today. (Textured hopefully)


by Nojoy
Hi Good Fellas

Let me first introduce myself ...

Nojoy... Have we met?

In any case.. MaYA all the way!

[Ger22]

I haven't posted any models in ages.

So here's my first of 2005.

Modeled in Max - 55 minutes

Texturing & Lighting - about 2 hours (I've been concentrating on texturing and materials over the past few weeks I think the extra work has paid off)

Rendering - FinalRender 6.5 minutes.

[Kingcolin]

How do you guys create your basic shape?
What do you think is the best way? *In 3ds max*

[andoy]

Kingcolin: Andy_K went through an explanation on page 3 of this thread, It's basically the same principle in max really.

[Black]

Originally posted by Kingcolin
How do you guys create your basic shape?
What do you think is the best way? *In 3ds max*
I don' t know if it would be any help.. But this is a method I realised in the weekend:

To first create cylinder for the dial (Or Bezer if you have a diver-sort sportwatch) and then create one curve from the side with least buttons. Duplicate and flatten this. Array the center control points to the dial/Bezer; and mirror duplicate it. Then sort of adjust the side curve again to alow the buttons ports.

You are going to be getting two independent peaces from lofting for the two sets. These are going to be the horns.
Since you directly snap the curve to the shape of the dial in the very begining you already can get a nice curve surface.

For the inbetween I would set my tesselation to poly's... and extrude them to each other after I have capped and quaded the ends.

Hope this helps. I am attaching this image to help it all make some more sence.
Note that this is not software specific

[Black]

I'll be posting a modeled version of this hopefully today

[Ger22]

Originally posted by Kingcolin
How do you guys create your basic shape?
What do you think is the best way? *In 3ds max*

Hi Colin.

The basic shape for my watch was created using a standard sphere which I flattened using the scale tool. Then converted to an editable poly.

The buttons, glass and side clips which attach to the strap are just extruded out from the flattened sphere and a meshsmooth modifier added.

The strap is just an extruded box primitive with a meshmooth added.

I hope this is of some help to you.

Ger22

[Kingcolin]

I keep updating my post till my final watch!
Is that oke with you Andy?

nope - this is not a WIP thread - the rules are quite clear on that one.

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20976


Andy

Edit:
Oke sorry Andy!
I will post how far I got with my model.. Within the time limit

[Black]

Originally posted by andoy
Kingcolin: Andy_K went through an explanation on page 3 of this thread, It's basically the same principle in max really.
Andoy as good as I know your intentions always are.. there are many ways to do many things. I believe that it would be better if evryone spills out what they come up with.

Originally posted by Kingcolin
Thanks for all the comments! I made this basic shape so far *I want to create a watch as realistic as possible, not just for this match;)*
What do you guys think about it?
Now does it look good; Yes...
But if you are asking if it looks realistic.. Not really the most "promising to be convincing" start that I have seen.
If you are not really intending on competeing with your model, there are WIP forums here aswel that would be of great use to you.

[Kingcolin]

Black:
I will compete, but I will finish it later on to tweak it more etc! That is what I ment

[cRaSh]

hidiho
this is my try

modelling 56min with 3dsmax
texturing 1hour
render 3min

greetz cRaSh

[andoy]

"Andoy as good as I know your intentions always are.. there are many ways to do many things. I believe that it would be better if evryone spills out what they come up with."

I could not agree with you more Black, i guess my earlier post was a little vague, I apologise to Kingcolin and anyone else if i seemed a bit offish with my answer.
What i meant was that i used the basic principle that Andy_K used only in max.
I started out with a cylinder,converted it to poly,selected the top poly, tessellated it, selected a quarter of the entire thing ( 6-9 ) deleted the rest.
extruded and bevelled the polys on the side to make the strap housing, chamfered one vertices and extruded the resulting poly to make the strap pin hole.
then added a symmetry modifier to get half a watch, then i used another symmetry modifier to get the whole watch. Collapsed the stack, extruded the polys to get the winder housing, Chamfered all the edges i wanted to stay crisp and added a meshsmooth modifier.

Again i apologise if i was vague and i agree it's great for us to share as we are all here to learn new ideas and techniques.... sorry sorry sorry guys..

[inspired]

another... had couple of mins left... but i must hurry now, so here it is! Its the MTM Apple... ;P <-- that smiley is awesome :p

modeling time - 35 mins
mats & lights - 10 mins
render time - 2 mins

I had to kick out the glass again..:( i have tried a couple of things, different mats, different light setups.. but the only way to get a good glass resulted in a 2 hour rendering or something... and since i hadnt got so much time, i kick the glass out... again ;P

[chaymation]

Slightly off topic but I just saw an advert on TV (In Britain) for one of these magazine collection things that seem to spring up all over the place. (first issue £2.99, every other issue £6.99) which is a pocket watch collection, loads of different styles, a different one every two weeks. I might buy the first one as you get a watch and magazine for £2.99.

Lots of different styles of watch too, including some funky looking modern ones.

Just thought it might be of interest as so many people made 3d pocket watches (although the ones with the magazine look less well made!)

[otacon]

otacon: your renders are real nice. I look at them week in and week out and try to get a similar effect. Your materials are always so nice too, are they default in lightwave or your own creations

I usually just make them myself, i have a few saved that i modify too. Personally i would never call myself a good modeler, theres so many better modelers in these challenges. I just try to make up for that by showing my models in a nice render.

[n-e-gma]

Originally posted by inspired

I had to kick out the glass again..:( i have tried a couple of things, different mats, different light setups.. but the only way to get a good glass resulted in a 2 hour rendering or something... and since i hadnt got so much time, i kick the glass out... again ;P

Inspired....everyone.....hope this helps

This is in MAX by the way!

1- Turn off the cast shadows for your glass object (object's property-clear checkbox for cast shadows)

2- Make the material like 10% transparent. In MAX its opacity, so lower values are more transparents, higher more opaque.

3- For reflections use HDRI. You could probably use a mix material too to combine an HDRI (I love HDRI) and a raytrace material to catch the other objects reflections as well. HDRI will ALWAYS render faster though.

I dont think Watch glass refracts too much if at all.

4- Try playing with the specular and shininess levels too and the amount of reflection (too much reflection may not look natural).

Loved fellazb's render a lot, very natural looking reflections there :D

Maybe he'd like to share how he did that :roll:

Well, this is how i've done mine :D

If anyone has another technique to make it more real, please share :roll: , i'd like to know too :D

[Braggart]

I will get disqualified, I know, but I can't help myself and I had to finish my watch for 3 reason:

- This is my first post ever,
- Is the first time than I model something with 3DMax,(usually I model with Autocad)
- Is also the first time I model something different than furnitures or building,

Modelling time: 1h 21m 53s (as the watch display)
Texturing and lighting: 45m (1 direct, 1 vray, HDRI, few object self illuminated)
Render time: 42m ca at 800 x 600

Software: 3Dmax

This was a very nice topic, I really learn a lot modelling this object.
Tanks you all 3dtotal staff

[RideStowe]

Originally posted by otacon
:cool: I would give some info, but it seems like nobody else here uses lightwave. Almost every speed model ive done has been lit with the same setup, an hdri with background radiosity, and an area light.:) Its really pretty simple.

BTW, i was pretty exited about this topic when i first read it because i had just finished a watch model. Heres a render of it. I forget how long it took to model, probably about 2 hours, but might as well post it for some inspiration!
(I hope thats not a problem Andy):)

its not necessarily the render i ugess, but the strange aura-glow that lightwave adds to the render rather than typical raytrace, if i look at all of your teapots, watches and keys they all seem to have a fading glow around them, and i think thats what gives it something extra. lightwave must add that part in in radiosity.

also, i might hafta check out lightwave so see if i can replicate the effect in max somehow, i dont wanna use videopost :P

[Kingcolin]

Like I mentioned before,
I'm still encountering some problems:P So couldn't finish in time..
This is what I got in 60 mins
Textured: 5 mins
Rendered: 10 secs

[DESPISTADO]

n-e-gma your a liar your not a beginner :p hehehe

[DESPISTADO]

Originally posted by Kingcolin
How do you guys create your basic shape?
What do you think is the best way? *In 3ds max*

i use a basic cylinder then i convert to poly and extrude faces need it and chamfer edges to get nice smooth, if there are more ppl having trouble with this ill create a video tutorial, i dont have too much time so ill do it only if have a lot request, sorry :)

best regards

[T 1000]

its not much but...
Modeling Time ~40min~
3D max 6

[Taurus Anurag]

This is "HMT" indian watch, modeled and rendered in 3DS max7.
texture made in photoshop 7.
Time taken:
Modeling : 46 min
Rendering :18 min 43 sec
lights used: 01 skylight and 01 omni

[PixeL]

Originally posted by inspired
PixeL - Nice to see you around here again! nice model, altough the jpg seems low quality, and there is some aliasing going on, and i think its because of the low quality JPG...
[/B]

hi inspired! it's good to see you too! :) the aliasing i still don't know how to fix, but i'll try my best.

here is a glass mat tutorial i used for my watch. it came from here http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/count/1927

Press 'm' to open up the materials editor, select a sphere (any grey one of your choice). In the diffuse colour box change it to black.

In the maps rollout of the materials editor next to refraction click the box that says (none) and choose raytrace from the list. Leave the settings at 100.

still in the maps rollout select the box next to reflection, this time choose mask from the list. In the map box select a bitmap that you would like your glass to reflect. I used a picture of a restaurant dining room, since it seemed quite appropriate. Click the goto parent button (like a bent arrow, just below the spheres in the mats editor). Click the mask box and choose falloff, leave the default settings and click the apply to object button to apply it to your glass.


as for the lighting setup, i use skylight, 1 omni and 1 target direct with TD as the only light to cast shadow plus a target camera for the final render. I hope that helped. :)

[Taurus Anurag]

Hi ANDY!

I always wanted to make " a metal texture" like what you've made. But i didn't get success.

COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME OUT, HOW CAN I MAKE A METAL TEXTUE LIKE YOURS. COULD YOU TELL ME THE PROCESS.
I am waiting for you reply. EEEEGARLY
THANKS.

[TORNADO]

T 1000 you are from Bulgaria too man I thought there is no one else around here from Bulgaria.I talk with many people in many forums but I've never met a Bulgarian here before.SO Добре дошъл!(Welcome here):D

[pepperoni90]

I think Im the only one who has a legitimated reason not to model the glass on my watch since i broke it last summer :)..
I did this in 3dmax6, used about 50 minutes for modeling, textures and materials took me an embarrassing long time.

[PixeL]

Silly Perpperoni! :)


Originally posted by Kingcolin
How do you guys create your basic shape?

I used a basic sphere for my model. Extruded, detached, attached, chamfered almost everything, but from one sphere. :)

Mr. Lemon - would you be kind enough to share your glass mat in max? I really like the way it reflects light, and gives thickness. Thanks. :)

[n-e-gma]

Originally posted by DESPISTADO
if there are more ppl having trouble with this ill create a video tutorial...

Please make the video Despistado.

Im having a hard time making my next model 'cause this time i'd like to do it right.

I would really apreciate to see how any of you actually do things :D

[MR. BROWN]

name: scott aka MR. BROWN
subject: watch
software: 3d max
model time: 42 mins
render time: 7:56 mins
texture time: 35 mins

[T 1000]

:) Çäðàâåé :)

[TORNADO]

Êàêúâ òè å å-ìàèëà!Äà ñè ïîëàôèì è äàé âå÷å äà ñè ãîâîðèì òóê íà àíãëèèñêè!:D

[shamohan]

Hi friends

I am again with my simple work, really this Speed modelling challenge is encouraging me. So this time i am with the model of my watch. and i tried to add some light, but i dont know how far it is better.

I used 3ds max5, this time i took 51 mins.

Thanks for every one,


Sha

[max_love4you]

hello all,

this is my first ever attempt to the speed modeling challenge,
their is glass on top but i did not render it as these are not my final textures yet, I will upload the image with glass on top if i get time.
C & C are welcomed as will be adding to my portfolio for quick modeling section.

watch is Tag Heuer Monaco concept
Software : Alias Maya 6 Unlimited
Model time : 57 min 46 sec
Render time : 1 hour +
Texture time : 15 min

[vladoportos]

i've been trying to render a nice watch glass but not very successfully , anyway i post here my result..

Btw: Its not an entry :)

[3djunior]

Hey people, some really great models.
Otacon- I was wonderin, do u know any good lightwave beginner tutorials?
ive looked on the 3dtotal site, and their not really what im lookin for.
Ive also found some beginner tutorials, but there a bit too simple if u know what i mean.

Yeah, that question was to every1, not just otacon
:)

[Nojoy]

You might want to try these three sites to either start with lightwave or do some intermediate type projects.

www.3dbuzz.com ---- explains per video training the complete interface etc.

www.simplylightwave.com - nice projects to from start to finish check the free video section.

www.3d-palace.com - long term projects , hours of videos to downoad and a complete riggin tutorial per vts for lightwave aswell along with some modeling videos ... i for one to learn Lightwave did the Space Shuttle manifold

Those are great sites for video training thats free, for individual tutorials im sure you find hundreds of pages dealing with LW written tutorials.

[c.o.b]

This is my post..
Modeling time: 35xx sec, x=(0,9)
texturing: ???
rendering:???

[vladoportos]

@talater: Nice watch but you miss forum this is more to wip forum

@c.o.b: Hi, are you from Slovakia ? (SK = Slovenska Koruna :))

[Nojoy]

Talater i really like that detail you got going there.... beautifull inside modeling work too bad it took so long. By the way i own a old Glashütte and totally love these watches... today one probably couldnt pay for these watches anymore as they are increadibly high priced. Beautifull Job is what i think

[Black]

Originally posted by talater
...Please let me know what you think...
I am sorry to say that I have to agree with VladoPortos.. as this is not really a forum meant for the WIP projects to be commented on.
Your model is very impressive and is definately 6 hours well spent.

One small crit is that your gears don't seem to match up. Sort of like as if you just had one gear and scaled it to a variaty of sizes... they look good but don't function.

VERY impressive models this week. (Great subject to begin with!)

[eichwulf]

ok, here is my new image.
3ds max 4.2
Modelling 60 mins
Texturing 60 mins

[Orkron]

That's the absolute last time I try to texture something at 3AM! I got online today and saw that hideous texture and almost fainted! If it's okay Andy, I deleted the other post, retextured the watch (no modelling change I promise) and would like to resubmit it.
Hope this is better guys :D

edit: almost forgot to include this the second time: max 6 in 60 minutes.

[vladoportos]

Soo many new faces in this challange, great :)

My next post is just funny idea of mine....:crazy:
I know that coposition sux but i have 4:00 in morning now so i don realy care, im deadly tired :xx: im gona sleep now

Modeling: 40 min
Rendering: 45 min
Texturing: ?
Soft: Rhino, Max6, Fr, PS
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[otacon]

Nice one vlad, although mine would probably say 3d, sleep.....yea, thats about it.:p

BTW, a good site with lots of lw tuts.
http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Ok guys... I'd personally like to Thank everyone who helped out with the whole glass material problem I was having. In the end it was DESPISTADO's tip on turing off the shadow casting in the Advanced Lighting properties that made all the difference. (There are two different shadow casting options and it was that "hidden" one that was killing my render!)

Orkron: LOL... I really didn't want to say anything about your previous render... but I'm very very glad you "fixed" it! Much better now.

Vladoportos: Nice idea... but there's one problem... FREE TIME!?! What in the world is Free Time?

n-e-gma: Thanks for your glass material... the one I used is a variation of yours.

:D

[gan3d]

hello all, this is my sub-d modeling in maya and also my first model submit here.

maya 6.0.1
modeling time - 25mins
textureing - 20 mins
rendering - 6 sec

[Orkron]

Originally posted by Marty_McFly

Orkron: LOL... I really didn't want to say anything about your previous render... but I'm very very glad you "fixed" it! Much better now.


Hehe thanks Marty. Glad you figured out the glass, it's a B sometimes :D

[raven2k4z]

I would try to make another watch...But I really have to go now, hopefully i'll pass my drivers test today... :S

I'll come back in about 5 hours to tell you how it went, so you all get a part of my personal life ;D

And then more modeling! If it goes like planned.




And btw, great models everyone!

[Nojoy]

Gan3D to make sure you are in the entry it is most important to post a wirframe of your subd model... you might wann convert to polygons so that others get a idear of the mesh....well thats at least what i did.

After all the talk about the nice renderings in hdri and about the good looking glass i too went ahead and rendered out my previous Tag Heuer Monaco Watch Entry so consider this a final render also for inspiration, i hope it inspires someone at least. ;)
I hope you dont mind me doing that andy as i saw many artist doing the same. :) Hope you guys like it ... was messing with the reflection on chrome and glass all night long. Ill make another one now hopefully will finish in time only a day left in the competition.

[vladoportos]

@ otacon : Thanx, that top circle is exchangeable so you can print your self one (software is included) :)

@ Marty_McFly: free time, hmm i put that there as another option, i meen that you dont have to do enything ... I was realy tired.....

[gan3d]

thanks Nojoy for reminding me to post the wiremesh image along with rendered image. i dont know how to render in wiremesh format hope this will do.

[inspired]

Originally posted by Orkron
Hope this is better guys :D


oooh, this is soooo much better Orkron...nice one! btw, how do you get ur HDR refelctions so nice? I suck at HDRI, tried some tuts, but when im just making myself a simple raytrace mat, and play around with HDRI, it always s*cks... any tips :)?

Vlad - man! you are really on fire this week huh! Great models from your side man! the last one made me laugh :D btw, is it ok that I call you vlad? I keep forgetting your name...

Every1 thanks for the tips on the glass! have tried alot of stuff, and some of them worked pretty nice for me! thnks!

all the new faces - :dance: WELCOME :dance: Good to see so many new faces around! These challenges are still growing :D

Nojoy - Great entry! thats a nice watch, good mats too!

Hodo - that will be pretty heavy on your arm...youve got to be very strong to carry that around ;)



- 3dMadness

[hodo]

Software: 3dsmax, Brazil, Photoshop
Modelling: 1 Hour
Texturing: None
Rendering: 6min 23sec

[Nojoy]

Thanks inspired, ive been wanting to get to these challenges for a while now ... i even made half a bike for one of the later challenges in cinema4D but it was at a friends house and didnt get to finish it.... :(

Kind words will make newcomers stick around im sure. I for one will participate more often. Second entry coming up ... still need to texture before i upload... this time a round watch similar to vlads without the cool lettering ofcours. That was a nice idear....

Hodo im loving that model ... very creative.... ill see you all later with my second entry... this time i can model more already knowing the workflow of watches ... :D

[vladoportos]

@inspired: Thanx, and yea you can call my vlad thats ok... My real name is Vladimir (Im not from Russia) I choose the second part of my nick Portos (No Protos) as one of the Three Musketeers. Together VladoPortos (Vlado = Vladimir more familyiary) give my completly unique nick name... I think that only one VladoPortos on the net :p


Wow sooo many new people here, we can beat that two week challenge :D

[c.o.b]

@vlado..
Hi, I am from slovakia.. I thought SK-slovakia and SKK-slovenska koruna..
Takze asi tak..

[hodo]

tu je slovakov viac nez dost :o)

[Vhector]

Hi you all.
I'm a newlydude. Normally I only create things in acad (buildings and stuff). So this new to me. And not ease at all.
modelled in a hour, so I couldn't finnish it. and lighting and stuff, you don't want to know (longg..)
problems with the lighting, Or to dark, or a big with spot in it, comments how are welcom.

Pff, great work you all, and very inspiring. I've got a few ne hero's in my live.

[inspired]

Originally posted by vladoportos
Wow sooo many new people here, we can beat that two week challenge :D

yeah! this week is going so unbelievable good! So many entries, and so many new faces! This is great! We are gonna beat the lego weeks! fo sho :p

[vladoportos]

@ Vhector : Thats is a nice watch, but you have to post wire frame of your model in one picture along with your render.... Read the rules, or your post will be deleted, which would be shame ;)

@c.o.b , Hodo: cafte tu je teda fakt slovakov dost :) este Mousek ale ten ma pokazene pc tak nesutazi teraz..

Translation for non slovak speaking people: "Hi yeah thats right, realy lots of people from slovakia :) also Mousek but he dont compete now because his pc break down"

[raven2k4z]

Hey, i've got my drivers license now :D

Oh well, maybe it's time for another watch now

[andoy]

raven2k4z: congrats, i thought you would be out and about driving around all night......

[Mousek]

Co sa tu deje?

[raven2k4z]

I thought so to, but I don't have my own car yet, and mom's got the other car to work so :/ I'm just gonna have to stay here modeling :P


But don't know what kind of watch to model :(

[andoy]

Originally posted by raven2k4z
But don't know what kind of watch to model :(

http://www.kcmghongkong.com/watch7673wbl.jpg

try this link for a car themed watch, hey if you can't go out driving it's the next best thing for you..

[Orkron]

Originally posted by inspired
oooh, this is soooo much better Orkron...nice one! btw, how do you get ur HDR refelctions so nice? I suck at HDRI, tried some tuts, but when im just making myself a simple raytrace mat, and play around with HDRI, it always s*cks... any tips :)?


My best advice is to use hdr maps on curved, or round surfaces...Trying to do it on flat surfaces is very hard to get a good look, I had to try 10 different settings to get that the way it looks now...Flat surfaces...I know you've gotten my hdr maps from my site, but have u gone to the tutorial link too? That's by far the easiest tutorial to follow -> It tells you step-by-step exactly how to set hdri up...my personal preference is to use hdri in the "envirornment" map slot rather than using it as a sky, that way I have more control over individual objects' maps. Hope this helps :D

[vladoportos]

@andoy: thats cool looking watch, may i do tham also ?

[inspired]

Originally posted by raven2k4z
Hey, i've got my drivers license now :D

Oh well, maybe it's time for another watch now

congrats raven! awesome! You wanna borrow my car? ;)

Orkron Thanks! dunno if i have done the tut, but i did downed ALL ur hdri's! Thanks again!. Gonna look at the tut now... I can do some simple mats with nice HDRI, alough it only seems to work on spheres to me...
btw, you said you had to change the settings 10 times... which settings do you talk about then? :o

btw, whats ur site again? :roll:

but anyway... good luck every1 ;) lets beat the legoweek ;P

[andoy]

Originally posted by vladoportos
@andoy: thats cool looking watch, may i do tham also ?

don't see why not, i only posted the address for some inspiration for raven2k4z cos he just passed his test.

[TORNADO]

Hi.I made a quick one just for you to laught at.I don't know why I can't make good models this week.
Modeling:40 min
Materials & Rendering:10 min
Soft:Max 5.1, Photoshop CS

[Orkron]

Originally posted by inspired
congrats raven! awesome! You wanna borrow my car? ;)

Orkron...
btw, you said you had to change the settings 10 times... which settings do you talk about then? :o

btw, whats ur site again? :roll:



www.orkron.com

I had to keep changing the tiling to get the setting right, everytime i changed the tiling, I had to rerender to see waht it looked like...heres a couple screen grabs

[Orkron]

and 2

[Renz]

WOW .. This week is really the speediest week on the speed models :) .. and so many new faces and so many models.. good renders too.
Here is my second post .

Modeling: Full 60 min
Texturing: more than a hour .. detailing on dials and words.. in CorelDraw
Rendering: 2 hrs 19 min
Soft: Maya 6, CorelDraw, Photo Shop

Good luck every one.

[juha]

so i messed u pa bit .. when i was chancing my picture i deleted my whole post... so i hope its all right to post it again...? if not . ill understand..
sorry Andy ..

i just made another rendering in max.. oooouh it was painful process...

and ill see manymany so goood models.. all of them, good work boys and girls....


my dream watch "never gonna have it "
i used full 60 mins to model it .. and didnt finish it... some important details missed..
and dont have time to remodel it......
anyway im going to finish it someday...
so here it is ..doxa. t graph sub 200 " juhas version" i idid make some chances while modeling it....

ubercool diving watch..
modeled in rhino
rendered MAX

[raven2k4z]

No thanks inspired, just give it to me instead... :D



55 min, and as you can see it's just made to be seen from above, everything else would be crap :P
I forgot that i was going to use the same tyre as the...wrist...thingie.. so i welded it all together

Oh well, as this is just crap maybe i'll make it again if I have the time... Thanks for the idea, and sorry for the crappiness :P

Guess I could blame it on my hard day of concentration ;) Yeah right

[Orkron]

UrsiNMC, try this (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22561) forum thread. Helped me a lot.

[Mystery Boy]

So this is my watch
its a trendy model and i hope you like it:!!!:
:???:I only have one problem when I use wire parameters.:???:
I used it for having a realistic look when the clock thicks.
I used something like: Minute ->Hour*12
But they still dont move correct:!!!:
Don't know my problem! Please HELP ME:!!!:

And C&C are welcome!

I used 3dsMax5

[cbaristo]

hi,

here is my work.
3d max r6, polymodeling, vray.
modeling time, 30mins.

(rendering time, too much, damn glossy reflections!)
cya.

edit: picture couple of posts down!

[raven2k4z]

and please try not to post more than one image?

[cbaristo]

3d max r6, polymodeling, vray.
modeling time, 30mins.

problem fixed,
only one picture,

I used to post more than one pictures in the challenges... but a long time ago, so i didnt read this rule.

[Renz]

Originally posted by juha


i just made another rendering in max.. oooouh it was painful process...

and ill see manymany so goood models.. all of them, good work boys and girls....




Juha nice man.. everything Modeling .. texturing .. lighting and real good rendering .. I liked the brushed metal tex .. real good model. bets of luck.

This week as u say is so many good models and done with speed too .. good luck every one.

[vidiot]

I´m not sure to made it in time...
[EDIT - I´m stupid - thinking it´s wednesday night... :roll:
- so maybe I post a better render tomorrow...]

Modeling in Wings + UV Texturing
Ex- and import to AOI.
Rendering in Art of Illusion (Freeware)
with HDRI Texture.

...to bad AOI made an extra smooth on the mesh - to late to correct. (~ 10 min Rendering time)

Postwork (not much) in Photopaint.
ALL together in under 90 minutes incl. upload.
Modeling time 15 min.


Just did that because of the discussion of free software!
So to anyone who´s not comfortable with blender or likes to have a better Render engine than for example animator - with Photon mapping + Monte Carlo,
Soft shadows and caustics - take a look at AOI.
www.artofillusion.org

[2nd EDIT: Repost the picture - now it looks like a handpainted stonewatch - I really messed up that one with every other render:grr: ]

[juha]

thax renz... im still little dissapointed cause i didnt finish my model,, i finished it afterwars, it took 15 mins to finish my model... havent rendered it yet...

[Black]

Juha,

You know what I am going to ay.. so just say "Thank you" and get it over with.

It is a really good model... As how you typically work; it is very clean. And as usual well above the standards.
(I too liked the texture)

Cbaristo..
I understand that you have been away for long.. and that you made a small mistake that you fixed up.. but in anycase it may be a good idea that you go through the first page once again.
We tend to have the softwares and the time used indicated aswel.. Great model BTW

Renz..
I have a Chrono model that I did.. and I KNOW the pain it causes.. yours looks just great

Vladoportos..
Your whole contribution to this weeks challenge is amazing.. very good models all the way
Oh and an extra thank you for being probably the only member that puts a English translation next to chats done in a foregihn language to the magority here: Thank you

Otocon;
Not a good modeler?.. and making up with good render???
This forum is full of people that would STRONGLY disagree.
It was sort of funny that I had seen your image in Digital BackLot.. and the subject title of this week right after that..
What can I say.. we hate you.. your models are too good

There are so MANY great models of this week. I wouldn't expect the results posted any time before April!

[D-Russ]

Too busy to participate in the challenge, but I thought I'd drop my watch image in the thread. Modelled and rendered in MAX.

[vladoportos]

@D-Russ: wow thats nice watch also shader looks graet, can you share it with us :halo:

@Black: Thanx :)

[cbaristo]

Originally posted by Black

We tend to have the softwares and the time used indicated aswel.. Great model BTW



hi dude,
I have two posts, the first one indicates the software and modeling time and the seccond one shows the picture. I will edit the second to include this information too, so nobody will get confused.

thanks about the model coment...
cya.

[inspired]

Originally posted by raven2k4z
No thanks inspired, just give it to me instead... :D
hahahaha, whaha,ha...ha...*cough. Give my car to you :p? hehe never :D nice model btw, r u gonna texture it?

Orkron - thanks for the explanation and the screencaps! gonna take a look at that tut again! thanks mate...

ALOT of great entries... every time i check this challenge there are more great posts! awesome!

Juha Great! Just Great! as always... :roll:

Vidiot- nice model! awesome mats on that one!

[vladoportos]

So my next entry is here, just a quick one...

Fixed watch thet priveous wasnt funny... Thanx Orcon to put my back to right way...

Modeling: 50 min
Rendering: 5 min
Texturing: ???
Soft: Rhino, Ps
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[Henry_B]

third entry
Energy Clock
Modeled in 3ds Max 7
Modeling time: 40 mins.
Mats & lights: Forever!

Thanks to Orkron For sharing his Hdr Maps. and the link to the tut for using them

[Nojoy]

Well you know how it goes cant give up without a fight ... ;) so here is my second entry aswell. Again as before the colored mesh modeled within the time .. the red detail top right objects after the 60 min. So please grade my picture upon the colored wireframes andy ... thanks a million... havent been her that long so trying to get comfi with the folks here. :roll: Juha great model, that is one of my favorite watches ... i beleive thats the one with the moonstone and that went to outer space with nasa. Im half indian aswell and my dad lives in calcutta. :) But enogh yappin here is my 2nd Entry. A watch i could never afford :o

here the regular stats.....

modeling time as stated .......60 min.
shading networks tuning ......6 hours :grr:
rendering time for image ..... 24 minutes
(High Dynamic Range Image Rendering Applied Tipp: plus one point light with very low setting were you want some extra light );)

[Orkron]

Originally posted by Henry_B
Thanks to Orkron For sharing his Hdr Maps. and the link to the tut for using them [/B]

Happy to help man. :D

Vlad, you are a gifted modeller and very nice person (in here) but I have to say I am troubled that you think that concept is "funny" .. I smiled when I first saw ur watch, then read the post and resaw the towers and my smile disapeared man...I know people who lost family and friends there (not mine tho) and they also would not find that amusing. I do understand that everybody finds humor in different things but I'm sad to know that is something that affects you in that way. Though humor is a good way to dull the pain of something, I feel (my personal opinion here) that any humor regarding 9/11 is in terrible (not poor) taste. However this is only my opinion, and that said, you did a fine job on the watch.

Be mindful of the_bully though. He almost died in the WTC towers on 9/11 I doubt he has any humor bout this either.

[vladoportos]

@Orkron: You are right, its not funny what happens there.... im sorry. Im gona change it...

[Orkron]

Originally posted by vladoportos
@Orkron: You are right, its not funny what happens there.... im sorry

I wasn't looking for an apology mate. Just wanted to express my opinion about ur subject matter...no offense.

[vladoportos]

No you're right man... I fixed it, hope now should be ok...

[Orkron]

See, I like it like that, that's why I smiled originally cuz I just thought it was a plane goin round...Looks great now Vlad.

[shinichikudou]

hey juha,

i love the brushed steel material on your last watch, but cant get the same effect...

do you mind sharing some tips....:)

[Nojoy]

At least he didnt make people for the minute and hour pointers and an big hour pointer in the shape of a wave....(ones Imagination can offen be offensive...for me its the creative thinking process in the beginning that counts and gets rated ... you could have left it like that the idear itself was intelligent) no offense to anyone please just my thoughts. Boy am i glad i didnt model that :roll:

[H2O-3DT]

There are some really good ones this week. great job. :)


3Dmax.
modeling time 60 min.

[injacphi]

Here is my STORM WATCH!!!

Lightwave 7.5
modelling: 60 minutes
texturing and rendering: 30 minutes

[Orkron]

Looks like I'm the first to make a caculator watch! :)
60 minutes in max 6

[juha]

shinichikudou: sure. , material that i used was a max architechtural brushed aluminium, i added that uvw box modifier for each part and just try different settings, two lights , one sky light and
one omni with raytraced shadows..
skylight value 1.2 and omni .0.50
and basic scanlline renderer..
so kind of basic stuff.
hope that helped...

Black : thaks im really flattered now, and you know that im waiting to see your watch........ kiitos paljon.. ; ))

insired : thanks a lot man...

awesome models guys... keep up.......

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Everyone has been doing such a great job this week. So many newcomers... so many new minds to uhh... appreciate. (hehehe...) Just wanted to get one more model in before this week's contest was over. And it has glass too!!! :D One thing I'm sure of... I'm glad I'm not judging these things!

3D Studio Max 6, 55 mins modelling, about 1 hr. texturing (including something from Total Textures CD 1!) :D, 4.5 minute render (default scanline render with 1 skylight and 1 omni):

[shinichikudou]

thx juha.... i gotta start experimenting now... :)

[vidiot]

Vidiot- nice model! awesome mats on that one!

Inspired, are you serious?
I guess this image is not a good representation - whether for me
and especially not for AOI. I should have done it better, but I was one day in the future and tried to to everything as fast as possible just to upload the picture before 22:00 GMT - so I deserve the result, but not the extraordinary software AOI.
It´s well worth a look - the material editor is a witch-kitchen.
All animatable and scriptable. Even the animation tools can be considered as "High End".

As I already statet - For those that are not going to be familiar with blender and it´s gui (though it´s getting better with every release) - you should have a look at AOI.

-------Comercial end -----------------;) -------------------------

@vladoportos: Your my "Artist of the week" - not only because your models and renderings are good, but simply the number of entrys is amazing.

Other models I like very much are from Orkron, Nojoy, inspired and Henry_B. I wish I had as much creativity and phantansy.

Vid

[vladoportos]

@vidiot: Gee thanx, but i know my renders are far from good.... ;) I have terrible problem with texturing things.. I just dont know hot to do it right

[Orkron]

Hey thanks for the "shout-out" vidiot, much love.

[Ger22]

This has been a great challenge. Soooo many brilliant models

I think Andy should give everyone a Total Textures CD this week :-)

Anyway here's my second watch.

Modeled in Max 6 - just under 60 minutes

Textures & lighting 90 minutes

Playing around with HDRI and render settings 2.5 hours

Rendered with Final Render 8 minutes.

[StarCrap]

Modeled for about 50 minutes in maya

[vidiot]

Nice one aesthetik,...

just 2 things:
- Your ambient (HDRI) has some artefacts in the reflections
(which is not realy a problem)
- you have to append your image since linking is not allowed.


Might be a good idea to read the rules on the first page again?

[aesthetik]

its not letting me hotlink :( , and there is a wire in the top left corner :)

[vladoportos]

im doing my last watch for this great week, and also tutorial for rhino how to do watch :)

[Nojoy]

Vlad you and Otocon surely made loads of entries this time... nice job both of you....There are so many other great models - renderings-here.... im really amazed by the quality of alot of em, there are some i beleive that should even win bigger awards.

Vidiot thank you for your kind words.... i work hard on my stuff as im a total beginner (well roughly 1 year with Maya now)... its being exepted that will make others come in the future more often.

I been looking now at each page and have to say.... ALL you guys Rocked That Clock ;)

[vladoportos]

so here is my last watch :) Tutorial is in progres (i have just pictures so i must put tham in line and maybe some text)

Modeling: 60 min (Because of capturing the screen every sec...)
Rendering: 5 min
Texturing: 5 min
Soft: Rhino, Penguin
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[vladoportos]

Ok here is promised tutorial (im not sure that any1 need it here, cause of quality of entrys...). Its made for Rhino 3d but could be use for any software which work with nurbs.... i think.

Its packed in rar... 119 pictures... :)

Tutorial: Tutorial file (http://rhino.vladoportos.sk/watch_tutorial.rar)
Rhino file: model in 3dm format (http://rhino.vladoportos.sk/watch.rar)

[Black]

Originally posted by juha
...
Black : thaks im really flattered now, and you know that im waiting to see your watch........ kiitos paljon.. ; ))...
terve Juha... (HelloJuha),

Kiitos (thanks), I hope to not disapoint you...
I just didn't want to render it before I had the strap finished as well. And inspite my best of wishes I STILL didn't get into that. I am a bit preoccupied on matters.
I'll just post it without a strap if nothing (IF I get to rendering it! :( )

yötä

[inspired]

Allrighty then! Here i Go :dance:

Nojoy - Great model from you again. I can see you put alot of work in ur entries, and i dont only mean the modeling, but the texturing, and the post work in photoshop aswell.. you really have your own style on the postwork! very cool :D

Orkron - Thnx for replying to vlado's post that well... I wanted to say something but i didnt know how to say it. I personally wasnt offended with it, but i could imagine some ppl might... thought you handled that great! And cool and original calculator watch btw :D

Vlado - Very cool models from you this week! And SO MUCH! i always like your renders, really a great style! And btw, i think you handled it pretty good, the thing with the 2 tower watch ;)

H2O - Wow! Awesome model! Good to see you are still around here :D

Injacphi - A great model from you man! pretty original design, and nice modeling too! Very original watch!

Vidiot - thanks for saying you like my models! im flattered, especially cause i like ur models and texturing so much!

Marty - what can i say, another great model from you! I like it, looks very clean 2 me!

there are alot more great models this week! This an awesome week, and i REALLY loved following this one! im not gonna model more watches, but i really love seeing all your great models!

allright ppl, good luck for the ones who are gonna model some more! and ANDY , Good luck judging man... if you need some help...just call ;P
and im looking forward for the next challenge btw :D really wondering what the subject is this time :D

:dance:

[Henry_B]

Originally posted by vidiot


Other models I like very much are from Orkron, Nojoy, inspired and Henry_B. I wish I had as much creativity and phantansy.

Vid [/B]

@vidiot- Thanks man, good to hear that, since i've been usin 3ds max since 2 weeks ago and never used any other 3d software, so im a real noob but trying to learn from all the good modelers in this forum.

[inspired]

wow henry_B! so new to 3d, and such great models! u r a fast learner ;) btw, is that alien in ur avatar from 3dbuzz' VTM's?

Vhector, could be me, but i dont see a pic...:roll: btw, so your dutch 2 ;)?

[Vhector]

Joehoe my second post. It's a (zandloper) watch. Modelled in 45 min.

[Chris-3DT]

Hour glass is the word, Vhector. Welcome to threedy. :)

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Originally posted by inspired


H2O - Wow! Awesome model! Good to see you are still around here :D

Marty - what can i say, another great model from you! I like it, looks very clean 2 me!


Yes... I too am glad to see H20 still making models for us to admire. Great model H20!!

Welcome to Vhector aswell... I was working on an hourglass watch myself... but I wasn't happy with the way it was coming out... Yours took a different approach... it's pretty cool. :)

And Thanks Inspired for mentioning my last watch... that one was very fun and interesting to make. My renders this week have followed more of the "pretty" or "realistic" type renders that I enjoy from so many other people here. Just an experiment to see if I'm actually capable in making a "pretty" render and not just a clay render! :D

[H2O-3DT]

Originally posted by inspired
H2O - Wow! Awesome model! Good to see you are still around here :D
[/B]

Thank you. Great work from u too this week. :drool:
Yes i am still around. :) Just been insanly busy lately. I was not planning to enter this week, but seeing the subject and following the development and all the great models i just had to do one. :)

[Henry_B]

Originally posted by inspired
wow henry_B! so new to 3d, and such great models! u r a fast learner ;) btw, is that alien in ur avatar from 3dbuzz' VTM's?

Vhector, could be me, but i dont see a pic...:roll: btw, so your dutch 2 ;)?

thanks inspired and yes, i made that alien with the VTM's from 3d Buzz, i see all of them!! they helped me alot!!!

[Nojoy]

Inspired thanks alot ... those models i make and the renderings themselves are pure rendered out images with no PS Tuning.... the other stuff around i tune much yes... here is my last and final a bit crazy concept version for the challenge... im not sure if it counts but the spaceship wasnent modeled within the time i previously modeled it out the other stuff around i did new. The nebular is included in the fluids package and tuned. A not really serious entry. Very nice to be competing here folks, you guys keep one at it ;)

[Black]

Good Catch NoJoy...

As far as m knowledge is concerned.. you are the first to come up with an idea such! Funny never thought of that! :)


Hey anbody have news on Mimi?! She hasn't been around for some while too!
It's a tisk to not have her renders onboard anymore

[Black]

Darn.. look at the hour.. Not too much time left!

I guess I am going to have to render without modeling the straps...
Sorry about that

I'll try to make up to it with nice renders and a fitting presentation...
(Too busy lately)

[vladoportos]

Yea this challenge is getting to its end :( sooo many good entys and new people...

Andy will have lots of work with this one... :)

I looking forward nex theme.. :cool:

[Mousek]

It´s end. No ,please no! :cry:

[Thapa_Laxman]

I was too busy this week that I couldnot make the watch in time. Anyway, here is my unfinished watch and I know a lot of work is being left for this watch.
Software used 3ds max 6
Modelling time 23 minutes

[Thapa_Laxman]

Nojoy, I wonder whose watch is that?:D

[Orkron]

With the exception of week 27, the forums haven't been this busy since week 14...nice to see it picking up :D

[Henry_B]

4TH entry

modeled in max 7
medeling time: 50
mats & lights: 1.5 hrs
Rendering time: like 10 mins.

finally i can make the glass, :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: hope you like it.

c&c are welcome.

[Henry_B]

why my bananas are not dancing???
jajaja that sound quite funny...

[vladoportos]

But your bananas are dancing.. ! lol :)

[andoy]

I think everybody here deserves a pat on the back for making this one of the most exciting weeks, and if everyone keeps it up then i'm sure that new people will join every week.
Well done all ....

[vladoportos]

Yap we are just 17 post behind week 14 and that one was actualy 2 week challenge awsome :eek:

[kenkuru]

Whoa!! damn guys! This week is huge and i haven't had time to make an entry... :( That'll change next week for sure :)

There are so many new faces this week and with some awesome quality. That's very kewl indeed. Please do keep this up, so nice to look at all the great works ;)

Thumbs up for every1

[mimi01]

Originally posted by Black


Hey anbody have news on Mimi?! She hasn't been around for some while too!
It's a tisk to not have her renders onboard anymore


Hi, people!!!

After being away from this forum quite a long time, I was really pleased when I read Black's post.

Hey, Black, I think I could make an efford to join week 32...:roll:

I stopped for a while, 'cause I have too much work to do, and besides, I'm startin electronics, and as I'm trying to learn it alone, I have to dedicate some time to it.

I really was missing you guys.

Great work this week! See You soon...;)

[Mateusz]

hi i have just finished my clock
modelling about 50 min
texturing & rendering(mental ray) 90 min
Your opinions are welcome here.

[3djunior]

Mateusz- Im liking ur chain, what did u use to make it? Are u usin Max?

:D

[Black]

Well OK..

Here it is as promised:
My Breitling favourate the Chrono Avenger (http://www.breitling.com/en/models/aeromarine/chrono_avenger/) aeromarine model!

A true work of art that I hope to one day be the owner of.


I hope you like it as ALOT of work has gone into it. And unfortunately I won't be able to render my other less successful (to my opinion) models...

Modeling 60 Minutes
Texturing around 50-60 miuntes (Shader network)
Rendering 150 Minutes (11 rendered images where used to make this 4096x3072 image)
Done in MaYA
Postwork 50 minutes (Which was a tisk cause everything special about it is lost with the optimising)
Done In PhotoShop

here goes nothing...

:)

[Black]

Originally posted by mimi01
...
I really was missing you guys...
Dido Mimi!

Well it was a hell of a week! With great entries and a hell of a crowd. And well it sort of needed a post from you added :)

Good luck with your startin .. not that you'll be needing it =D

[Mousek]

Black

Your model is The BEST! :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Mousek]

Black

You have use very nice render !

[andoy]

Black: worth waiting for in my opinion, as usual your renders are a breed apart and very distinctive... i like them a lot.
superb..

[Barks]

Wow...Black, I don't even know where to start the praise on this one. Let's just say that your entry is a cut above. Well done.

[kenkuru]

Black...that's one kewl speedmodel you have done. Cool render and modling indeed ;)

[juha]

so , you finaly made it ..and wow..
what an entry...... damn..
something ill propably remember a loooong time...

your models are allways so good but this baby... yeah totaly awesome..
10 points and hiphiphurraa three times.....

[Black]

Woow thanks guys! :o

Well I hopped you would like it.. but well this was abit unexpected.

Thank you


I think that I would have been able to model this watch in around four hours easily.. and with even better details. But just to model it in one fourth the time I had to get it out on about four DAYS (about 3 hours a day) and it was really frustrating that I couldn't do any of the nummerals by modeling, and that I had to leave out the nummerals on the bezer studs inspite all the retries.
(Thats also why I had some other watches aswel. It grew too frustrating to count the hour with this difficult task)

As happy as you have made me. There are ALOT of great entries that so equal my presented entry. The week was exceptional all together.

Good luck Andy!!

Note: I am keeping from setting looong explanations to how I did the model as I post them lately. Basically because I grew too annoyed by a dear few reactions... If you would like to know tips on 'how to do what' do feel free to ask me, I would be honured)

[inspired]

black... wow :eek:

this was a great week! Hope the weeks to come are going to be this big! We almost beat the legoweek, and we surely are going to beat the week 14 :D

Great models every1! There were so many great entries! I really loved folowing this all! Good luck andy ;)

and in a couple of hours, lets beat this weeks postcount on the next challenge ;)

@ mimi - Hello ;) nice to see at least one post of you this week ;) Hope you can join in next week. You know we love you ;P

@ Mateusz - hey, welcome 2 the forums... nice model, could you tell me how you did your glass?

later

[Randall]

Hi guys,
I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. I could try again later.
Here is my watch.

It took the entire 60 min to model the watch. The bands took longer, and the texturing took about an hour also.

I built it in Softimage XSI 3.0 and rendered it in XSI as well.
I put all the images together in photoshop.

[Matdman]

Hi Folks! This is my first time posting. I'm a newbie, so I'm having trouble with these speed challenges. It's good practice though, and maybe one day I'll be able to create a decent model in under an hour!

This took me 4 hours in 3DS Max. Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Mat

[Renz]

Here is my Third post .
Modeling a WATCH .. I really learnt precision timing. and WATCH my WATCH for Modeling :)
Really a great week with so many good models.. to WATCH :)

[gan3d]

my second entry, since no one did it thought will do it....still trying to figure it out how to use hdr maps in maya, may be someone post some tips.

[vidiot]

Pheeewww...
the last models are nearly all breath-taking.

@Black - precision is your second name, isn´t it?:cool: `I really like your style of postwork.

@Mateusz: Someone asked it before, - i second this:
How did you do the chain? Awesome.

@Mimi - good to know you´re still around - I hope you´ll find some time beside your electronic lessons/self-education.

One guess:
I expect the next week to be harder, don´t know why...:D
What about Chromespheres on checkerboards?

- The Lego week was beaten long ago - it was a two week challenge....

Vid

[jm3d]

Second entry, I´ve changed the render, but the model stills the same.
modelling 50 mins, texturing and lighting 2 hours,
rendering forever.

Ps: Awesome works around, really impressed. :eek:

[Renz]

Originally posted by gan3d
my second entry, since no one did it thought will do it....still trying to figure it out how to use hdr maps in maya, may be someone post some tips.

Hi! here is a real good tutorial on Global Illumination for Indoor, Outdoor and HDRI .. that's how I learnt. hope it may be of help to u too ..
( You may have to become a free member to the web site.. :) )

http://www.alias.com/eng/community/tutorials/maya_global_illumination/index.jhtml


Black
I am left with no words now.. cus they all have said what i wanted to say.. real nice compositions from you. Yep .. you have inspired me a lot. :) Thnx

Good luck every one.:)

[3djunior]

ok, the deadline is in a sec isnt it, what do i do?
its rendering and its taking quite a while. ive made it.
Its bout half way through the render.

Im faffing over here:cry:

[inspired]

y dont you post a screenshot of the render now, and post it... maybe andy will allow it... you can always try... or you have to just try next week. But be sure to post your model anyway!

btw, arent we over the deadline already :p some1 get andy ;P

[3djunior]

ok, i scrapped that render, it was takin soooooooooooooo long, doin a quicker 1,
but the quality isnt as good. (just hope its allowed!!)

[Andy_k-3DT]

OK folks - deadline reached

week 32 now up and running


Andy

[3djunior]

Ok, i hope this is allowed.
Its kinda rushed coz i remembered the the deadline.

Modelling- 50mins
Texturing- 10mins
Render- OMG, first time had taken about 30mins to do half (with radiosity and all the other things). For this, bout 3mins

Software- C4d

[escaped_monkey]

Argh, can't believe I forgot the deadline!

I haven't taken part in ages, pity that when I do it doesn't even count. Oh well, guess there's always this weeks challenge. Here's my watch anyway.

[inspired]

aaah, pity you couldnt enter this in time, escaped! its an awesome model!

[ravenlp]

Damn, I finally decide to do a model, and im too late. O well, atleast I sat down and did it. Maya 6, 58 minutes
texture - 30 mins

[Andy_k-3DT]

This week proved particularly hard to judge with so many great models I had to raise the standards that we looked whilst judging the entries. It was wonderful to see so many entries od such a high calibre

honorable mentions go to


despistado (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292385)
otacon (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292520)
marimo (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292536)
sezza (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292656)
jonssen (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292872)
JAC (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292936)
andoy (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293612)
Zwempha (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293176)
Modig (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293218)
Chaymation (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293273)
vidiot (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293475)
JJlamorosa (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293500)
shinichikudou (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293520)
despistado (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293666)
renz (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294269)
juha (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294279)
cbaristo (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294317)



runners up

H20 (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294447)
Orkron (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294473)
Major Tom (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=293126)
n-e-gma (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=292938)

winners

Black (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294755)
Renz (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294791)

Congratulations to everyone that took part if you haven't got a mention it doesn't mean that your model wasn't good so please don't be disheartened. Infact had we not raised the "mark" this week there would have been lot's more honorable mentions.

Winners. please contact ben@3dtotal.com with your details and let him know which CD you would like

also for the winners of this and previous challenges please check out this thread

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21373

we've tended to overlook this in the past few weeks but you are entitled to display these awards

Andy

[Nojoy]

Congratulations Renz and Black your models were great indeed well picked winners and runners up, Andy, im sure it was very tough.

as well as all the runners up and honorable mentions ... this was very high class modeling challenge, too bad none of my 3 entries didnt make it anywhere this time but than again was my first challange, im hoping to get better and make it into one of the three categories eventually. I think the bar has been raised a little to high for me. It was alot of fun and great meating new superb artist.

Keep it up, i hope to be regulary here, and again awesome work Renz and Black ... they were along with n-e-gma's and Major Toms and about 4 Orcron models my favorite ones.

[the_jigu]

so result came man!!!

renz and black and also runners up and hon, conrates guys!!!

u all did excellent job!!!

well see ya all guys in lamp challange.:p :p :D :)


Have a nice day!!!

[H2O-3DT]

Congratulations to Black and Renz. Superb models from u both. And congrats to all of us.. another great and fun week. :)

[chaymation]

Wow thanks. Honourable Mention :D
Definately makes me want to try again with other challenges. Cheers guys! :)

[Black]

Thanks Guys,
Congratulations to Renz, runners up and Honorable mentions. Your models were simply fantastic.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

You guys did great this week. Congratulations to Black and Renz! To all the mentions and runner ups... I'm commin for ya! :D

[inspired]

congrats Black and renz! Great models!

Renz, 2 weeks in a row :D that sounds fimiliar ;) Great job!

also congrats to all runner ups and honourable mentions, you all did a great job! This week was fantastic

ciao

[Orkron]

Congrats to renz and black

Andy and NoJoy, my name is Orkron, not Orcron.

[Andy_k-3DT]

Originally posted by Orkron
Congrats to renz and black

Andy and NoJoy, my name is Orkron, not Orcron.

yeah I know - my mistake - sorry

Andy

[Orkron]

Thanks for the Honorable though :D

edit, thanks for changing it too andy

[JAC]

Congratulations to Black and Renz, and well done everyone! these challenges are awesome :)

[Andy_k-3DT]

Originally posted by Orkron
Thanks for the Honorable though :D

edit, thanks for changing it too andy

tee hee - see we all make mistakes - it wasn't an honorable but a runner up :)

Andy

[Orkron]

Originally posted by Andy_k-3DT
tee hee - see we all make mistakes - it wasn't an honorable but a runner up :)

Andy

LoL, you're right! Good catch there Andy :D

[Nojoy]

Well if we gonna be that picky .. lets just say my name is not NoJoy but rather Nojoy ...

( not to be taking seriously please :o )

I guess we do all make mistakes Yes

[Renz]

Thanks Guys,
Congratulations to Black, runners up and Honorable mentions. Your models were simply fantastic.

no wards left with me. am honored to share my win with Black.. so ...copy paste his wards..tooooooooo

[Barks]

Congratz to Black and Renz. More for the trophy shelves eh?

[Renz]

Hi! just wanted to share my win with you all. Hope this is not a spam..
I want to share the blue print that i created for the challenge and the texture maps I used for TAG HEUER.yep this took me more hours than the modeling time.. :) if u like it I can mail u higher resolution pics if u need them. ( bkrpradeep@gmail.com)
I used CorelDraw to create them.
Thnx once again .. hope the LAMP contest is going to be one of the many best challenges, we will have with real good new entries and good renders.. yep this subject is a good study for metal and light.. TY

[Renz]

Case_Divisions_TAG_HEUER

[Renz]

Dial_Bottom_TAG_HEUER

[Renz]

Dial_Top_Left_TAG_HEUER

[Renz]

Dial_Top_Right_TAG_HEUER

[Renz]

Main_Dial_TAG_HEUER_small

[Nojoy]

Nice textures Renz .... on my tag heuer i decided to model the whole thing out, including the Tag Heuer Logo, since it was a modeling contest ...
I shouldve went with textures too it seems, since i wasnt even mentioned. I thought both my models (tag heuer and iwc) was decent enought, but than again what do i know. ;) maybe next time. Critics to my models much appreciated:)

[Andy_k-3DT]

Originally posted by Nojoy
Nice textures Renz .... on my tag heuer i decided to model the whole thing out, including the Tag Heuer Logo, since it was a modeling contest ...
I shouldve went with textures too it seems, since i wasnt even mentioned. I thought both my models (tag heuer and iwc) was decent enought, but than again what do i know. ;) maybe next time. Critics to my models much appreciated:)



ok let's take a quick look at your images - never let it be said that I'm not open and fair in the judging

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=293622#post293622

As your image says, all of the detail which would have madee this a great model was done outside the hour. therefore I can't judge it on that

why did you make the strap pins so detailed - they are not visible on the reference material and the fact that they are visible makes your strap model look wrong as it's too narrow.

http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=294428

much the same crits apply to your second model, take away the work you did outside the hour and although it's a good model it's not as good (in my opinion anyway) as those that got mentions in the final summary. Is it just me or are your secondary dials not quite round? They look distorted to me and that kind of detracts from the whole impact of the model.

There's something "missing" from both of your models, they seem to lack "subtlety" watches are light, delicate objects and the parts which make them always seem to look "fragile" your models didn't have that feel about them - does that make sense?

As I said in my summary. There were many very good entries this week and I had to be more critical in the judging - as standards improve this will become more and more neccessary. Just because you didn't get a mention should not be something to get downhearted about but something to inspire you to produce better models.

Andy

[Nojoy]

Andy thank you for your critics - comments....

I sure think your right ... the models that got mentioned where definatly modeled faster meaning within the hour and alot more detail than i reached. In time ill be able to work quicker.

As to being fragile, i dont quite understand as they are individual parts, but i think i know what you mean.

The reason i made the seam was because it was easy to do and i thought would add alittle visually to see those. The strap pins i made quite quickly and just stuck two cylinders into each other and a bit of rezizing. Im not that great in working fast and things like that i guess happen in the process. I have to work a bit cleaner.

I was just a little dishearted as i put many hours into it (rendering) and didnt get mentioned at all (wich i thought i would, not as a winners or runner up of course);)... however with your critics and words i do agree i didnt quite make it, and that the other models where higher notch, maybe I slipped right by from makingi it into the honors. Ill try harder andy and thank you for your comments, makes things alot clearer from hear and strive harder for the future. Best regards Nojoy

wasnt trying to wine incase it came over like it. :o

[vidiot]

Congorats to Black ("Mr. Precise") and Renz.
You both really deserve winning this contest!

And thank you Andy for the honorible mention (hey - 3rd time!)
I´ve got to work harder :-)

Vid

[Modig]

My first entry got an honorable mention! Thank you Andy, and congratulations to the winners! :)