January 2007 - Octopus - VOTING

[ben-3DT]

Please post your Final Images in here, 800 or 1024 size is fine before 8th February 2007 10:30AM GMT.

Only entries posted before this date will be eligible for Voting.

Voting will then start immediately afterwards and will run until 15th February 2007 10:30GMT

I will post to commence the Voting. Voting will be the same as last month with each voter putting forward their top 3 in order, 3pts for a 1st place, 2 pts for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. This means that will have to choose carefully! Feel free to give a reason for your choice as it will be good feedback for all of you!

Thanks again for the enourmous amount of work you have all put in.

Ben

[kal-el]

Yeah!! baby!! I got it!!. It's not Dr. Octavius of spiderman 2, but it's the best I can do. jeje!!. I hope you like it.... and here we go. :shy:

[GiDeOn<3d>]

my final:)
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3812/oct28copy2kp5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[mim]

Hi n goodluck with everyone :D
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3DMAX.8 on scanline!
PhotoShop (diffuse, atmosphere, shadow, z-dept n alpha mixed on!)
n no else! :D

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Best wishes, mim :wave:

[mim]

mmmm! I wonna suggest attachin ur works right here instead of using hosting servers cause I have trouble seeing them! n some of them isn't permanent btw.
so it's good idea if you post a 100kb here n link to a hi-res on other servers if you want :dunno: just a thought
tnx for your contribute in advance ;)

[praveen3d]

Hi Friends,
Here's my final entry.

Software: 3ds Max 9, V-Ray Adv.1.5RC3, Photoshop
Render Time: 35 mins for 800x1000res
Time taken: 2 days

HI-RES PIC. HERE:::
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q239/praveen3d/Oct_FINAL_praveen3d.jpg

Best Regards:)
praveen3d
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www.praveen3d3.cgsociety.org
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[hammering3D]

:wave: My Final


My final entry:
Modeling and Render: 3ds Max 8
Composition: Photoshop
Post work: no post work on renders

HiRes version HERE (http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hammering3dentryhireswr4.jpg)

[artecnl]

Lightwave 9 ,fprime
photoshop cs

HI-RES (http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3169/octopuslastfinalwebua6.jpg)

[penguins]

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8379/finalbigcompress3ux2.jpg

Here's my entry.

[capitan_popo]

Here it is

[arneoog]

Here is my final submission! :smug:

http://www.elqx.com/sm/threedy/octopusDone.jpg

[omalley]

That's my final entry :

http://mimura.free.fr/cg/poulpe_omalley_final_small.jpg

Bigger resolution here (http://mimura.free.fr/cg/poulpe_omalley_final.jpg) .

Good luck everybody :D

[al3x]

Squid D O double G :roll:

[Realmling]

Here she is:

http://www.realmofsavage.com/projects/TDcon/krake/madame_final.jpg

Good luck to everybody! :)

[AbhishekKr]

This is my final entry :wave:
http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=104668&stc=1

[authentic]

here's mine

http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=104679&stc=1

[SithLord_Steve]

Okay...there hasn't been any movement in this thread for the last few days so I'm throwing my votes out there...I wish I could have entered but got bogged down with work. Anyhow....

1.) omally: Wicked entry...Although I'm not a huge anime fan, this style really worked to your advantage on this project. I really like the character design, display and texturing. Overall great idea and it really stands out from the other models.

2.)artecnl: Another great entry by you...That's two in a row! Very clever idea for your octopus. In fact I was thinking how nice it would be to have a work station like that for myself! hahaha. Nice structure to your model, he has a very "geek" look to him.

3.) authentic: Everytime I see your character I have to know where he is going to...He looks like he is so rushed, and I like the use of the arms as a tie.


Just missing the mark...

Praveen3d: thought model looked a bit too realistic, no real stylized look to it. Textures didn't seem right either, don't think that it would have a glossy look to it if it is underwater. Perhaps if it were out of the water yes, but underwater I would say it would be extremely toned down.


Great models everyone, keep up the good work!
Steve

[praveen3d]

Thanks Sith. This's one of my problem, I always end up with some serious/realistic render. I'll keep it mind next time:) For the octopus, I actually did'nt had any funny concepts & I did in the last 2 days, Did just for fun & ended up Terrific :evil::evil::)
The shader was actually made for some non-underwater scene, but changed to underwater at the last minute

[Conkrys]

Mind if I vote?

Authentic 1st Awesome entry! Very good modeling and render! I really like the expression on his face.

Omalley 2nd Very good modeling! nice and clean accompanied by a nice render.

Capitan_popo 3rd A very nice production overall. What I am not so fond of is the Bipeded nature of your octopus. good work

[chaitanyak]

1st authentic : great character and lighting
2nd capitan_popo : amazing use of the characters tentacles
3rd artecnl : nice idea. sometimes i wish i had more than 2 hands :)

[ben-3DT]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Stop!
Right, Its voting time! I count 14 fabulous entries so a big thanks to all who entered.

Voting goes : Choose your top 3 and put them in order of 1st 2nd & 3rd. You may give comments if you like, it might be helpful to the artist it relates to. All 1st places will recieve 3pts, 2 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. Ill add them up this time next week so you have 7 days from NOW!

[ben-3DT]

VOTING STARTS HERE

1st : Omalley : Really fun, has captured a lot of humour
2nd : Authentic : Great character in this one
3rd : Artecnl : Thought about the use of an octopus!

Well done

[Ameretat]

ok here's my vote

1st

authentic (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=531196&postcount=16) - Very nice design and render, just gives me ideas for a short film!

2nd
omalley (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=530972&postcount=12) - really like the concept and the look of the character, nice job!

3rd
artecnl (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=530925&postcount=8)- nice concept, modelling and lighting!

It really is hard for me to rate theses ppl, cause all the work is great, but I tried to do my best! :)


Good luck everyone!


Ameretat

[Warin-3DT]

Here from me!

1st : Hammering3D - love this fun idea, very creative
2nd : artecnl - lol nice concept
3rd : omalley - remind me to 'a Japanese samurai octopus! lol

Well done, everybody!

[Rich-3DT]

1st OMalley
2nd Authentic
3rd Hammering

[authentic]

Ok here's my vote :

1 : o malley : Simply the best design of all. Wold deserve an environment
2 : capitan_popo : for the nice use of the tentacles
3 : artecnl : nice environment

[praveen3d]

Here's my vote:

1: artecnl - Nice texturing, lighting
2: Authentic - just simple & effective
3: capitan_popo - nice concept & design

[omalley]

1st - authentic : could be a frame from a short movie. I love the expression, the details and the rendering. The only thing I'd tweak would be the mouth, but other than that, great work.

2nd - capitan_popo : your image is a little bit greyish, but I really like the concept and the way you used the tentacles (except for the two "legs", but they don't show much on the final image so...)

3rd - arneoog : the lighting is kinda strange, but I really really like your octopus, especially the arms and head. And the concept is pretty funny. A shame you couldn't finish the environment (the ground is a bit flat).

And, err, Mim, sorry, no point, but your octopus is really cool. I'd really like to see it more detailed, with a nice environment. The round tentacles are awesome.

[authentic]

Praveen, thanks for your comment. Your work was good too I think but it seems you would have need more time... OK just to say your vote is not clear, you write an order but the number before are not in the right position ( 1 3 2). If you can edit the message, whatever was your choice :haha:

[artecnl]

:D great challenge¡ my votes

1.- authentic-great style and colors
2.-capitan_popo- i love the mood, and the details
3.-hammering- nice idea too :D

see ya in next one ;)

[praveen3d]

Praveen, thanks for your comment. Your work was good too I think but it seems you would have need more time... OK just to say your vote is not clear, you write an order but the number before are not in the right position ( 1 3 2). If you can edit the message, whatever was your choice :haha:


Sorry, mistake now corrected:)

[3Dvirus]

1: authentic-i just love those colours and nice modeling and ideea.
2: hammering3d-votet him cause he made a great progress,funny ideea,and his face looks so cute.
3: omalley-beautiful render,and it's just plain hillarious,i realy like it.

[capitan_popo]

1st - authentic - Great character, has so much expression in him, can almost hear and see him move, its great!!
2nd - Omalley - Great character too, with alot of expression, difference between urs and authentics, could maybe be that I cant see urs moving as easy.
3rd - artecnl - great character, and environment, and the octopus has a great expression.

[Realmling]

So very hard to choose on this one....

1st - Omalley - love the texturing and feel of the octopus

2nd - artecnl - octopus is great, love the smile, and just blown away with the whole environment, all those little details in there just put it all together.

3rd - Hammering - I just really enjoy the expression and activity of the little guy

[kal-el]

Here I go:

authentic: because the modeling, the situation and the render it's GREAT!!.
omalley: very cool everything Too. The most think I like it, it's the way you resolve the problem of the enviroment... very intelligent man!!
artecnl: the enviroment it's amazing, maybe with little better octupus you can get it to the first place.

I hope it win the better!!

[GiDeOn<3d>]

1st - Hammering -
2nd - Omalley-
3rd -artecnl-

[Lynette-3dt]

1: hammering3d - playful and energetic; a really nice idea. kinda reminds me of being a kid and wanting to do everything all at once!

2: artecnl - this is great, and reminds me a bit of Ben-3dt, with his many, many computers, and... i think he's even wearing one of his t-shirts too?! ;)

3: authentic - love the idea behind this, even though he does seem to have a few tentacles missing, but i don't think this harms the overall concept and finish.

[Chrisp-3DT]

Ok I have looked through them all and here are my top 3:

1st - artecnl - Really like this idea and the character is really funny, although do you get many ginger octopi in the ocean? (answers on a postcard please)

2nd - omalley - A good sense of humour, well modelled and good characterisation of this creature. Well done

3rd - authentic - Really like the 'English Gent' approach. Really nice model and concept. Though, down at the bottom of my list due to him having only 5 arms.

[hammering3D]

1st - omalley - That I call funny :D and I love funny, well I'm adicted to funny ;P... even U not change the gums, for me is the funnyest entry, and well done modeled I love the tentacles, and rendered (even with the platic look :D), relly want to see and carton aniamtion with this charater :D is so funny

2nd - artecnl - I like the ideea, like the modeling, the expresion, I like the overall look of the image, textures, lighting, renders, all :)

3rd - authentic - I like the expresion alot, he give me feling of he rush and feling of movement, nice modeled, and sweet ideea of the tentacles tie :D

The others where nice modeled, nice concept, nice renders and all to, but we must chose just 3, and was verry hard, ...

[kuriouz]

Omalley - great intepretation of an octopus! really cute and funny
Authentic - Love the expression and overall mood of the character.
artecnl - Lovely and great details in the scene

[AbhishekKr]

My Votes :)
Authentic - simply cool
Hammering3D - sweet 'n nice model
capitan_popo - Nice Concept

[pasita n_n]

:halo:

Hi my votes .-

1 Authentic _ i like the cute detail of the hat i like it a lot.
2 Artecnl _ the scene is very detailed and it is a good concept, but i don´t like to much the octopus
3 Capitan popo _ i like the scene, the octopus looks good like a pirate.

[al3x]

1. authentic
2.hammering3d
3.artecnl

[mim]

Ahh! seems no one likes my octopus! :( just like my cow! :ugh: but I love all of yours! :lurve: so here goes my votes:

1.omalley
2.al3x
3.capitan_popo

with the bests, mim, :wave:

[Shahin_fj]

Hi, I don't know if I can vote or not.. but here is mine

1st - omalley
2nd - artecnl
3rd - authentic

[penguins]

My votes

1. authentic
2. captain_popo
3. omally

[Klash120]

1. Omalley! Simply awesome. Also, what happen'd to that starfish dude?
2. Authentic!
3. Arneoog!

[Warin-3DT]

Hello all!

To who haven't voted yet, the voting time is nearly end now!

Cheers
Warin

[SithLord_Steve]

Just making sure my vote gets counted...Looks like it wasn't going to.



1.) omally: Wicked entry...Although I'm not a huge anime fan, this style really worked to your advantage on this project. I really like the character design, display and texturing. Overall great idea and it really stands out from the other models.

2.)artecnl: Another great entry by you...That's two in a row! Very clever idea for your octopus. In fact I was thinking how nice it would be to have a work station like that for myself! hahaha. Nice structure to your model, he has a very "geek" look to him.

3.) authentic: Everytime I see your character I have to know where he is going to...He looks like he is so rushed, and I like the use of the arms as a tie.


Just missing the mark...

Praveen3d: thought model looked a bit too realistic, no real stylized look to it. Textures didn't seem right either, don't think that it would have a glossy look to it if it is underwater. Perhaps if it were out of the water yes, but underwater I would say it would be extremely toned down.


Great models everyone, keep up the good work!
Steve

[arneoog]

Oh, heh, sorry.. forgot to vote :)
But here they are!

1. artecnl
2. omalley
3. authentic

[ben-3DT]

Ok, stop the voting...

Results will be posted in a few minutes!

[ben-3DT]

Voting was pretty focused this month on 5 of the entries, therefore we will feature those 5 in the magazine. Well done to all. I hope that those of you who wont be featured can learn from the fantastic tips being given and come back stronger next month!! We would still like to give you all a free copy of 3DCreative anyway for your efforts. Please send your email address to : Ben Barnes (ben@zoopublishing.com)

RESULTS:

1st Authentic
2nd Omalley
3rd Artecnl
4th Hammering3D
5th Capiton Popo

6th Arneoog
Al3x

7th Kal-el
Gideon_3d
MIM
Praveen 3D
Penguins
Realmling
Abhishekkr

Thanks again everyone.

TOP 3 : Please can the top 3 entries contact Warin Greenway (warin@zoopublishing.com) for their prizes and for submitting the making of their images for inclusion in the April issue of 3DCreative.

[mim]

tnx ben n warin :) and congratulations to winners, :)
also goodluck by your camels on current running challenge! ;) I saw some interesting entries this month on thread! :)
Cya, mim :haha:

[SithLord_Steve]

Hey Ben,
Did you give out free copies to everyone for the Highland Cow challenge as well? If so, I never got one. :(

[Warin-3DT]

Hey Ben,
Did you give out free copies to everyone for the Highland Cow challenge as well? If so, I never got one. :(

Hi ya, I'm afraid the 'free copy of 3DCreative Magazine' prize will be given to top10 winners in each month competition only.

Thanks
Warin Greenway

[authentic]

thanks everybody. It was a great challenge and a hard duel with Omalley.
Big pleasure to do it. I make a break for the camel, and I will be in the next one.
See you.


Vincent

[artecnl]

CONGRATZ to Authentic and Omalley, and all the dudes :D i hope to manage some time to do my camel :P see ya:)

[capitan_popo]

congratz to everybody especially, authentic and omalley

[omalley]

Grats to everybody who entered, and thanks to 3d Total for this cool challenge. That was really fun, and the final images are great. I'm skipping the camel challenge, so see you on the next one :D

[praveen3d]

Congratz :cool:

[ben-3DT]

[QUOTE=ben-3DT]Voting was pretty focused this month on 5 of the entries, therefore we will feature those 5 in the magazine. Well done to all. I hope that those of you who wont be featured can learn from the fantastic tips being given and come back stronger next month!! We would still like to give you all a free copy of 3DCreative anyway for your efforts. Please send your email address to : Ben Barnes (ben@zoopublishing.com)

Hi,
As these are new challenges and we are still trying to get the system right, I thought it only fair to give each entrant a free copy of the mag. I'll add you in this time Sith_lord steve, thanks for reminder.

[hammering3D]

Congratulation to Authentic, Omalley and Artecnl verry nice and expresive models.

Tnx U all that vote for me, and bring me in 4th place, I did't expect that, and I'm glad that U like my ideea and my model.

[Warin-3DT]

Hello!

As we don't want anybody misses out! Can you all plese contact me with your email address that you want the 3DCreative magazine - March Issue link to be sent to? Please also tell me who you are, your user name in the forum, too!

Thanks!

Voting was pretty focused this month on 5 of the entries, therefore we will feature those 5 in the magazine. Well done to all. I hope that those of you who wont be featured can learn from the fantastic tips being given and come back stronger next month!! We would still like to give you all a free copy of 3DCreative anyway for your efforts. Please send your email address to : Ben Barnes (ben@zoopublishing.com)

RESULTS:

1st Authentic
2nd Omalley
3rd Artecnl
4th Hammering3D
5th Capiton Popo

6th Arneoog
Al3x

7th Kal-el
Gideon_3d
MIM
Praveen 3D
Penguins
Realmling
Abhishekkr

Thanks again everyone.

TOP 3 : Please can the top 3 entries contact Warin Greenway (warin@zoopublishing.com) for their prizes and for submitting the making of their images for inclusion in the April issue of 3DCreative.