speed modelling challenge week 39 - wind instrument

[tupu]

Snake flute.

xsi 4.2
modeling 60min
texturing 1h 12min

[mimi01]

WOW! Wonderful models! I didn't expect so many great entries, when I read this weeks subject.

Here's mine:

modelling 60min
textures, lights and render: 20min
3dmax 5

[mboi]

Number 2 from me, mostly made from primitives. LESTAT thanks for the encouragement..

Software: Max
Modelling: 1 hour
Mats and Render: 20 Minutes

[H2O-3DT]

wow!
No time to enter anything this week. And looking at the high standard i´m sure it would have been futile :)
There are so many great models . And the renders\presentations are really better than ever. Otacon as always has an ace entery, but this week there are alot of those... :)
Lot of fun watching this week. Great work people. :wave:

[Orkron]

Unfortunately, somebody forgot to let me out of the salt mines...So I snuck out for a smoke break (hahahaha, I fooled them cuz I don't smoke) and came to tell you guys...I better get back before they realize I am gone...
Next time I'll fake a heart attack because the infirmiry has internet access!!!!
Orkron.

[fastrak]

Glad you snuck out Orkron..hurry back soon.

Mimi,
I see you took a break from your awesome robot wip to join the fun. Very nice. Interesting that there are so many variations of the same thing.

mboi, I'm starting to get tired of saying "excellant" to all your models. :)
But I have to once again.

Tupu, Nice concept. Dont see many XSI users in here often.

[noyb]

Playing around with VRay depth of field on this one.

Modeled in Autodesk Inventor: 43 min
Rendered in 3ds max: ~22 min

[LESTAT]

juha : thanx for the nick and the comment ... glad you liked it . well
if its the modellin part you were referring to , heres what
i remember ........


1. THE LARGE BORE TUBE :

i started off with a standard cylinder selected the polygons at either ends individually and started with the bevel
and thats how the extruded pieces of the cylinder were done.

2. THE TONE HOLES :

the magic of boolean . tone holes are covered by pads ,
cylinders were again used for boolean purposes for the tone holes.

3. THE TONE HOLE PADS :

i had used a cylinder again , chamfered the edges .. made it smooth enough , deleted the inner poly , selected the border and extruded it 4 times to get that " groovy effect " ( lol ) and then in the front view selected four polygons ( cylinder central ) beveled it into oblivion ( to wrap around the chrome bars with the sphery ends ! ) and i have a pad ! there are two kinds there if you notice ( bored and happy ! ) select the center polygon ... hit the " inset " key ... just a pinch of it and then push poly down ... delete !

4. TONE HOLE KEYS :

"The tone holes on an orchestral flute are covered by pads operated by various keys " ... finally a change of primitives.. a box .
enough segments to shape em up ... pull vertex here vertex there.. and with a good reference pic... it came about right .

5. BLOW PIECE :

this being a transverse flute ( played to one side and air is blown across a hole near one end ), it was modelled using the all so famous cylinder again .. converted to edit poly .. vertices of of either end selected and scaled for the piece.
boolean "blow piece" with a cylinder again.

6. MISC :

the chrome bars with spheres at either end that help them keys function and hold on .. 3 of em ... one of them i'd applied
a bend modifier on with limit effect ( the extreme end with two pads ). tweakin here and there.. apply mesh smooth for the keys
and pads .


for the textured and rendered look ... i had applied a metal chrome mat with a metal map with scratches in the DIFFUSE SLOT and BUMP SLOTS respectively . bump amount - 25. diffuse amount - 55 . and also added the " beach.hdri" map (courtesy orkron ) for the environment .
4 omnis and black chrome for the floor . light diffuse glow in PHOTOSHOP (under the filters and distort menus ).

i think thats it . hope its what you were lookin for.



Rooky : you are too kind .. i love watchin your models too.

DaftPunk : lol... had a tough time... but ive managed to cross my toes as well .

daphone : very nice cozy mats !

mboi : glad you made another ....looks great !

[Vhector]

All off them above, think below to.
Wow, totally awesome dudes. Really, really (forgot a really) good "big" trompet section with some really (like really) beautiful artistic flutes at the side.
High overall level, but I trust Andy with his kean eye.

[laserjock]

good to be back modelling again.
here's a simple one for all those who remember their science of sound lessons.
testtube wind instrument
truespace 5.1
30 mins

[andoy]

laserjock: I was wondering when someone would model that idea, well done

[laserjock]

Cheers Andoy.

Was going to do a trumpet, but it's been done to death already.

CJ

[mimi01]

Fastrak - yes, a little break from the robot.

Marty - New avatar! looks great, but I was sooo used to the old one.

wonderful models, and renders. If I started to list my favorites, it probably would take me the whole morning, so... You're all doing fantastic work!!! This week will be hard, Andy...

[juha]

hello again... laserjock , whatan superb idea,, i was planning to model set of half empty whiskey bottles,, but yours really rocks...
thanks lestat, i was morelikely interested about your rendering methods, but thanks really much " now i know how you do those beautiful things" , allways really nice to get some more tips in modeling..
so heres my last model for this week , Piccole flute...
hope you guys and girls like it...

[Zerzil]

I don't know if anyone has ever seen one of these, but I swear it's an instrument :)

It's a KAZOO!! :D

Modeled in: Truespace 6
model time - ~15 mins
texture time - 10 mins
rendered in - 25 seconds

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Hehe... that's funny. The second model submitted this week was a Kazoo. :D A nice change from trumpets though... :eek:

[Bardur]

here´s my second entry... :dance: pretty quick made i was a bit tricky :crazy: well here it is:

[tupu]

Thnx fastrak,
I try to come up with original/different ideas :)
I like your entries, they differ from the usual stuff also.

[deadplant155]

so close! you stated everything except the software you used, the mods don't like that.

[fastrak]

juha,
Very nice model and render.

lestat,
good tutorial. (now we know the method to your madness...heh, heh, heh.) :)

So who's gonna make the "comb and tissue paper" instrument?
How about the "blade of grass between the thumbs"?
lol

[inspired]

what software bardur?

im affraid he is right, bardur. welcome to the smc's btw, dont think ive seen you hear before :)

oh and your pics sais lightNing, it should be lighting ;) without the 'n'...:p well sorry, im just nitpicking...

well anyway... great models again ppl... im affraid im too busy to trow in more entries this week, so its all up to you guys! lets make andy proud :p

inspired OUT!

:wave:

[mapposity]

Software XSI 4.2
Time: 60 mins.

[deadplant155]

so here's a simple one, a didgereedoo! i haven't seen one of these here yet, sorry if someone already did it though. it's really an instrument, even though it only makes one note, i know two guys who play it, so i hope it's within the brief. modeled in maya in 14 minutes, rendered and composed in 30 (i was doing other things too...) enjoy!

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Well... I made this really quick just because. I'm completely jealous that DeathRipple thought of it first!!! :wall: So to pay tribute to him... I made it based off of his wireframe. Great idea dude. I also gave mine a bit of The Legend of Zelda feel to it... just because. ;)

3D Studio Max 6, 35 mins.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Hey Deadplant155... there are already at least two aboriginal didgeridoos at this conest. One more couldn't hurt... I guess I'm glad I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of modelling one. :)

[Kynetech]

Lets get somthing straight - you can play more than one tune on a digerido... I should know. They are pretty cool instrament though... many tunes... thanks i loved the model though Deadplant.

[deadplant155]

haha, sorry marty. i usually read the whole thread, for some reason i didn't this week...i' keep better track next time.

-loren

:edit: i didnt see you post till after i replied kynetech, sorry. i thought you could only play one low thrumming note on a didgereedoo, but i must be wrong, thanks for the comment!

:edit again: woot, i didn't even notice i made it over a hundred posts, im at 112, heh.

[Unregistered]

Thank you to those with the nice comments toward my trumpet model.

I created this after seeing some beautiful submissions by Lestat, mboi and juha depicting the picccolo/flute. I didn't want to mimic exactly what they had done so I created my own version. Musical instruments have always been tremendously difficult for me to figure out. My brain simply doesn't function on that level. I can play piano as long as I leave my left hand tied behind my back.

So the flute depicted below reflects how my brain would look at a flute as I would try to play it while at the same time think about the sheet music, the audience and still somehow remember to breathe and not make a slobbering mess.

Surely not a winner. But I thought it was worth showing.

15 minutes to complete. All primitives with some converted to poly to stretch using soft selection. edit; the primitives were then attached to each other except for the mouth piece and then the model was cloned and the bend modifier applied to each element.

Off topic sort of... to Lestat, would you share the technique or material file for the scratched effect in the main body of the flute render you did.

[LESTAT]

unregistered : sure thing .. send me your email add and ill send it thru .

[Brodix]

Unregistered: By looking at the model and the wire I thought the flute was made of rubber. lol

[Duck Hunter]

Well I decided to do one more. This is a pan flute(for any who didn't know). I Made it in 45 min. textured it in 30 min. and used 3D Studio Max.

[JAPO]

Greetings
So here comes my contribution to this round. From the very beginning I wanted to do oboe. But I have to admit... that was a bit too much. So I did what I could within hour and here I post it. The oboe to the right is just for comparison, not for competition (it lacks wireframe as well), as the right one took a bit more time, than one hour.
So to make it clear (but I believe it is clear), the two oboes to the left are competing, the right one without wireframe is not competing. It is sort of a setting for the scene :) (somebody important said before, that I can put a finished model within the image as long as the main model and wireframe are clear. And I cannot make them clearer)

So I did this in 3Ds Max 7.0, the model took me 60 minutes and texturing took approx. 20 minutes top. (thx again, fastrak :)).

[roach105]

Here is my entry. as mentioned

Maya
20min modeling
10 min texturing and about 5 min in photoshop

[Dr. Gonzo]

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge. I haven't had time to texture, so a klay model wil have to do. O, this instrument only works when the water is boiling!!!!! :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:
Software: 3D Studio MAX R6
Time: 40 minutes

[stampede]

More often than not, I usually watch from a distance, but my wife plays flute, so this challenge seemed a great one to try. Here is my unfinished attempt. Beautiful work out there all!!

[DaftPunk]

The challenge ends today and I didnt have time to work on my instrument at all! :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

[inspired]

daftpunk, in the time youve opened your internet browser, went to this site, find this thread, type your reply, and posted it... you could have spent almost 5 mins already on the model.... 55 mins to go!

;) anyway, im TOO busy to do anything... havent opened 3dsmax since my last entry... and now, my hot bath is waiting... time for a good bath and some decent thinking...

will see you all tonight when the new subject is anounced, to spam the first page :p

ciao, inspired OUT

:wave:

[DaftPunk]

I only post wile I wait for renders. Sure, theres "time" but I dont have 2 comps.

[JAPO]

I conjured up another wind instrument. Or better to say, a "work in progress of it". Modelled in 60 minutes and textured in another 60 in 3Ds Max 7.0, this is a draft of a Legion Doomhorn form Warcraft III. What can I say... I love it and this is a wip of "fan art" :)

[elshopper]

ok, i have made an entry, the topic is a wind instrument right?, i hope it doesn't have to be a musical wind instrument, ok here's what i made, all the facts are on the pic

[inspired]

i hope it doesn't have to be a musical wind instrument

hmm, elshopper. it might be good to the first post from now on, and not only the subject...:ugh:

As long as it makes a tune when you blow then it counts

nice modeling btw...:D

[elshopper]

time to defend my model ahaha
sorry, but someone made some kind of an harp that plays when the wind blows, and then someone made a teapot, ok, my fan make a sound like this bssssssss ahaha, somewhere in my head that's a tune, andy should have named the topic a musical wind instrument, cause my fan fits in the wind instrument doesn't it?

[Rooky]

OK! Here's a quicky from me!! Didn't really have time to make something better.. but I like it any way! :)

[elhefe]

Another windinstrument .. it's a bagpipe .. just in time :)
I did not like how the render came (like always) out so I tried to fix it with Photoshop .. no luck either... anybody got some tips for getting a realistic render with maya/mental ray.

[Brodix]

JAPO: Thats pretty sweet sure wish I had 25 charaters

[Black]

Alright everybody.. The deadline has been reached.

Your modeles have been over amazing all through out.


Week 40 is up and running

[Black]

Those that shall change their post entries after this shall be disqualified. So shall the entries that have been warned and not modified yet.


Good luck with the next one

Black

[Destroythenseek]

Any word on if my organ counts? haha

[Black]

From the organ counts?

You lost me there.

[Destroythenseek]

Is my organ DQed because the person doesnt blow it...?
or is it still lagit. Debate on page 5. haha

[Black]

I am sorry.. I really had taken it literally.

Ok.. here is how my personal opinion goes as it is. I believe that your entry qualifies. And I shall go through the steps of judging it the best I can.
Even if at the end of the day it shall prove to not qualifying.. the fact that since the day you had posted it you have always asked and never gotten a reply (I am very sorry for that) Shall not be forgotten.
Thank you for doing your evr best to stick to the rules.

The posting dates for the images shall be chekked on in the final judging. If for any reason you have changed the image and not reported it to one of us prehand. You and your entry shall be removed from the week.

Black

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

The posting dates for the images shall be chekked on in the final judging. If for any reason you have changed the image and not reported it to one of us prehand. You and your entry shall be removed from the week.

Black

This is curious... normally we've been allowed to change our upload as long as we never altered the model in any way. We've also been told that we don't need permission to do this aswell. So why is it that now we have to ask before changing our upload? I personally have only changed an upload a few times... basically for a better render... but I just don't see why it's a problem now?

[Black]

Marty... try to look atit this way;

There were entries that were not accetable, even ones that have been warned individually. They had the chance to remove it them temselves.. or to change them.
It was not possile to track everything from the denceness of this week. So to be on the sure side a system such is going to be applied.

Shall the reason be for any tweeks you have mentined above. I would like to encourage you to change it. But that's the part where " REPORT TO US FIRST" comes in.

I hope this makes it clearer.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Since the question will be asked... I may as well ask it now. If I choose to change my upload for a better render... do you want to be asked via PM or should we use the "Reason for Editing:" field? I ask because sometimes the mods are very busy... but if you make it manditory to use that field... things would be easier on your part... and ours. Maybe even make the statement that entries may not be changed after the contest has ended without explicit permission from either Andy or yourself.

Just want things to be clear for everyone involved... :D

[Black]

Oh no,

Approval has to be granted before any change can be been done. So just stating it in the reason is not really an option.

The contestant can post it here openly or send a private message. But the contestant has to be sure that the approval has been given before any change shall be done to the submited entry, from the moment the deadline has been reached.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

No problem... like I said, I just want things to be clear for everyone involved. When I first read your post I thought you meant while the compitiion was still running. Thanks for putting up with my inquiries.

[Black]

Thank YOU for trying to help out :)

[elshopper]

does my fan qualify?, i really wanna know, it's a wind instrument you know, and it even makes a sound...

[brazz]

sorry to ask, been out for a while, how´s the voting for this chalenge?

[H2O-3DT]

I smell a wet fish comming up ;)
Judging will be done when its done. Use the search feature, Andy and Black have answered this questin about 10 times.. ;P

[Andy_k-3DT]

No long speech from me this week, just a quick apology for taking so long to get around to posting the results and a big thanks to Black for his input :)

The standard was incredibly high this week with a few of you really showing a feel for the subject.

On the surface it may appear that I chose two quite different winners this week, but if you look more closely, both exhibited a superb eye for detail and both were great representations of the brief.

Congratulations to all those who entered, here's this week's role of honour

Honorable mentions (in no particular order)

lestat (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67132)
problemss (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67135)
inspired (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67147)
mimi01 (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67140)
andrewday (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67187)
adamos (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67196)
fastrak (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67234)
mboi (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67463)
elhefe (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67529)
daphone (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67531)

runners up

otacon (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67216)
adamos (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67294)
rooky (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67408)
kare (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67276)

winner

marty mcfly (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67275)
unregistered (http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=67458)

if the winners could contact ben@3dtotal.com with their details, which tecture CD they would like and which week's challenge they are the winners of we'll try and get your prizes out asap.

Andy

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

WOW!!! Super cool... I really didn't think I stood a chance against such great models this week. (Actually... I thought I'd fare better in the Tripeds than in here! :eek:) Congratulations to Unregistered... very fancy indeed! Also a big Congratulations to all those who modelled all those beautiful horns this week! :drool:

Good going guys! And a special thanks to Andy and Black for thier patience with the impatient ones!

(Woah! Triple Deja Vu!) :D

[Agamemnwn]

Great job.:D congratulations to the winners, runners up and honorable mentions

[fastrak]

marty mcfly unregistered
All Right! Absolutely wonderful! Congrats to you two and the rest on the list.
(Hey Rooky, you got an honorable and runners up with the same entry! :) )

[Andy_k-3DT]

marty mcfly unregistered
Hey Rooky, you got an honorable and runners up with the same entry! :)
no he didn't, that's just the way I compile the results - sometimes it goes a little wrong :)

andy

[Henry_B]

congratulations to the winners!!!

[fastrak]

no he didn't, that's just the way I compile the results - sometimes it goes a little wrong :)

andy

Duoh! Fast editing there! lol
Deep down inside, I knew something was up. I just wanted to point it out with a positive spin. But that would have been cool though. :)

[Brodix]

Marty!!! No wonder you get paid all of the big bucks!!! Congrats to everyone else as well. I thought for sure I'd get a HM, but there is always next time.

3DMADNESS!!!

[JAPO]

And ... as fanfares from these finelly modelled wind instruments fill the air... I too would like to join others in congratulating winners, runner ups and houroable mentions. :) CONGRATULATIONS! :)

:dance: :dance: :dance:

[adamos]

Yeah right.

[hammering3D]

Again,
congratulation to all, and good luck in the other chalenges
Man I can't stop watching u'r models.

[Sniper]

Congrats marty mcfly and unregistered

What no honarable mention, runner up or win for me... :(
Aww thats right I didnt enter... :lame:

Great work from all the entrants, Im sure this week was a really hard task to judge.

Thanks again for your time Black and Andy.

Luke...

[Villane]

well done to all you guys, great work there in such a short time!

You winners rock.

V

[mimi01]

Congrats to the winners marty and unregistered! And thanks for the mention, Andy!!

[Kåre]

WOW! I'm a runner up! I'm very honered (and I can't spell, sorry)
After my little egotrip...

Congrats to the winners!!! Very nice models!

[LESTAT]

great goin marty and unregistered .... thanx for the honourable andy . :wave:

[mboi]

congrats to the winners!!

[Rooky]

Just can't believe - I got a runners up although there were so many nice and great models! It's really an honor to me :) !THANKS andy!! ;)
What a pity I missed the moment when I had a runner up and a honorable mention with the same model :/ ! :D
Congratulations to the winners! Great models! :)

[anima3d]

congrats to the winners, Honorable mentions & runners up!!!

[inspired]

wow, a hon mention... and I was away for the past 2, 3 weeks...:) well anyway, congrats to marty and unregistred! and ofcourse also congrats to the runner ups and other hon mentions!

well ppl, maybe im gonna see you in any new contests, but dont count on it :roll: have fun every1!

:wave:

[hadinsv2005]

I dont know what I should say!!!
Please say me.
Thank you.

[roach105]

congrats guys. There where some awesome models.