What's Next For Us?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Start tossing out ideas

[grindill]

Chibi head your favorite character/personality?

[yoyomon]

Full character

[grindill]

-Power Generator/Warp core?
-Interior room environment?
-Medieval siege engine?
-Book (necronomicron)? with pedestal?
-????????

just throwing out some more ideas

[patr1ot]

anime models!!!!

[GARBO X]

==>Ours Favorite Game character!
==>Ours Favorite Movie character!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I want a stylized character comp
or
a fusion comp, where you take two characters or things and show what it would look like if they fused together.

[grindill]

LOL, BiG ToE, I just had visions of Darth Chewbacca. Or maybe it'd be Chewbader.

[the_bromox]

Lets do a free for all, (no evironments) Just choose some industry standard specs and lets see what we do with no boundries... so to speak.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

that could be cool. With no limits to the ideas, we could end up with a wide range of cool. But then there are those people who want focus and a theme. Guess it wouldn't be a comp for them.

[Chung Wong]

I'm up for doing a full character. So I second yoyomon. Tighter deadline though, well in context to what we do next anyway

[bunglo]

I've been in a zombie fix lately, maybe we could come up with our own zombies. It can be human, animal etc... And if we can use normals, it would really give me a kick in the rear to learn how to apply them lol.

[BenniKImmel]

I like the zombie idea, so I second bunglo

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I guess another question would be, what kinda poly count do you guys want to go with. More of what we are doing now(450), in the current comp, or jump back up to the 5,000-10,000 range.

[GARBO X]

A have two cool ideas if you want to hear.
1st-> I am thinking of making a story all together and trying to fill the image, which will be a photo from ours story with everything we want like basic characters, things like chairs and everything else we can think about.... Like a paint.

2nd-> We can make ours own fantastic characters and make a fantastic heroes team, and then post scenes with them doing something heroic.

Sorry if I have confuse you.

[GARBO X]

This is what I mean, not exactly but it is a good example
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj86/GoDiOuS/World-of-Warcraft-world-of-warcraft.jpg

And this is my second example
http://www.jeffpidgeon.com/uploaded_images/JusticeLeague-AlexRoss-706881.jpg
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/spider_man_2/_group_photos/rosemary_harris5.jpg

[Chung Wong]

How about Wii specs people? I've been looking at what people can do with a 1024 map and its pretty awesome. All maps allowed type thing.

[NeXt 0ne]

What about making MINI me of yourself ? :D with some magical powers or something, in stile of MonteCristo-3DT's Widdle Solid Snake. just a thought.

[GARBO X]

I like your idea NeXt 0ne.

[defaultalias]

Whatever the theme, specs I'd like to see 3000-5000 triangles, 512-1024 texture maps. spec and normal ok, but only to be used discretion.

oh, and no renders for finals anymore, it's not true to things. only screens from in editor, CGFX/special shaders allowed but not mandatory and depending on target specs (DS doesn't support shaders, etc). If you use a shader that you didn't create yourself, you must cite and link to it in order to be fair.

Ideas:
Main character for a non-existent game
Baddies for a platformer (really like this one)
Prehistoric revival
DS level design (like this one too)

[grindill]

I'd like to see the poly count kept low, like in the sub 2000 range. It is the Low-Poly Challenge, is it not? Of course, I guess Low-Poly is fairly subjective. Since I don't know what industry standard specs are, I leave the final decision making to you guys in the know.

[kaizokuace]

This might be out there (and probably better suited for another type of challenge than low poly) but what about we all come up with some kind of story, a very short one. Then everyone gets assigned a character or task to model and then we composite posed characters in sets and make like a comic book. Wouldn't that be sweet? Just organize work like everyone has a job at a studio. Hmm this should just be another thread on the forums. "3dtotal Mock Studios" or something like that.

btw i like the idea posted earlier about making chibi versions of existing characters.

[VinsanityV20]

How about "Gender Bender"? Someone, please come up with a better name for that:) The idea is that you take a famous character, and redesign them as the opposite gender. A male Ripley (from Alien), or a female Indiana Jones....that kinda thing. Between books, films, comics and games, there are sure to be a ton of interesting concepts that could come from this idea.

I DO also like the Chibi and Combination-Character ideas.

Whatever wins though, I'm looking forward to this. Haven't even started a low poly comp since...man, I can't even remember. 6 months ago? I really gotta jump into another one...

[funkdelic]

a main character or the main villain for a non-existent game sounds pretty funny to me! also we could use the wii specs and directX shadders, that would be a a new experience for all of us here I guess.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

the whole screenshot/shader idea is great and all, but some people don't have the machines capable of doing it as for as normal maps in the viewport are concerned. I know all programs should have the option, but that doesn't mean the option will work. As for shaders, we can do that, if we find free shaders that work for everyone. Then we would also have to teach everyone how to apply the shaderes as well. It could be a great learning competition.

[ryvick]

VinsanityV20, idea strikes very cool to me. Gender Benders FTW!
Also the Combo characters as a second choice.

[MonteCristo]

Gender benders is a genius idea. If we go with the Chibi idea, there's a good chance I would cheat...

[BiG ToE-3DT]

so, is there any more ideas, or should I start the poll?

[yoyomon]

Here's a couple:

Dungeon Creatures/Monsters
Deep Sea Creatures/Monsters/Characters
"It came from OUTER SPACE!"
Horde Character/Historical or Fantasy
Creatures of the Bottomless Pit
Create a WoW character/class in the next gen (ie with spec, normals and all those other good maps)
Characters/Creatures for Diablo
Characters from space that accidentally teleported into a fantasy world

[Fenixy]

character from one of some fighting game like : MK, tekken, street fighter, soul calibur ?

and watching Montes snake , chibi sounds cool

[katana]

Comical superheroes

Expanding on that thought it could also include Comical Supervillians and paraody's on known Hereos and villians as well.

(example : Batman loses his money, reaches 60 and all he has left is a superkeg of cheap beer...)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

kinda like a super hero gone wrong kinda thing.

[akimba]

Superheroes gone wrong sounds awesome. I love that idea. The chibi idea is pretty good too.

[Chung Wong]

I'm really liking that super hero gone wrong idea.

[omnicypher]

how about...

"your idea of beauty"

or

"chibi-gender-bending-zombified-favorite-character-remake"


3000 tris
1024 maps of any kind

(: stealing ideas is ok, as long as you steal enough to frankenstien them together :)

[VinsanityV20]

how about...

"your idea of beauty"

or

"chibi-gender-bending-zombified-favorite-character-remake"


3000 tris
1024 maps of any kind

(: stealing ideas is ok, as long as you steal enough to frankenstien them together :)

DONE. Let's just do that second idea:) Make everyone happy

[Steamtrooper]

Being a big comic book fan I have to say Id prefer to do a redeemed villain, Dr Doom leading the FF or fighting off Galactus. We need all the heroes we can find these days so knocking them down is not my thing at all. I wouldnt mind doing a 'future', older version of a hero ala DarkKnight though.

[Firehazurd]

Chibi/baby versions of our favorite dominance war entrant.
A common day object blown up to giant proportions in an environment (giant table lamp sitting among skyscrapers, bunch of people floating in the ocean in a giant shoe, a giant fridge cooling the north pole...)

[simple_minded]

Chibi Self Portrait!

!BAMF!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

all great ideas, it will be a tough poll this time around.

[lordpisang]

i love tese idea : comical superheroes, sound cool:dance:

[mies]

we could just say super hero and every1 can determen for them selfs if they want an old one, bad one, cheeby one or maybe a super you..in the end we can trow the top 3 together and make a nice pic of them..

[omnicypher]

i know the polls already up, but i was thinking we could make a low poly community base mesh for the next speed sculpting challenge, it could be any topic and the winning model and topic could be sculpted in the next speed sculpting thread.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

thats a good idea, but maybe we should give the sculpting comp a few more weeks to find its self. Then we can jump in and help. It would most likely be a 1 week comp, making a base mesh should take too long and no need for textures.