Speed Sculpt Challenge - 002 - Manimal (1 week Extension)

[bgen]

wow i havn't check for few hours and so many great entryies.
spaceboy412 - styleswise is your entry one of my top 5.
funkdelic - that owl is great :). Reminds me of a old greek coin i once saw somewhere.
vongn - nice clean sculpt reminds me of a female satyr a little.


so i had a little time during classes @ university.
Now i stand @ 1hour and 30min (+5 /-5).
Will put him a side till the evning today, then i got 2hrs spare time.

Here is Wifebeater Bullfrog

[Knut]

I tried making this guy morph into a bird of some sort, with the beak coming out through his mouth and tear the skin apart but I kinda failed :P I think I'll start over :roll:

Too much rake!

[Redregon]

Wow, a lot of great stuff here!

i'd love to see a list of some of the tools y'all used (i.e. clay, flatten, rake brush in Zbrush etc.) just so i can get a little bit of a heads up on what tools we should be looking at to improve.

[guhhh]

Thanks funkdelic.....your is awesome too.....really like his superiority! heheh

Thanks freespace....im liking to participate in this thread, a lot of great stuffs here!

[WilliamMAX]

Finish.
I hope you like.
http://www.william-art.fr/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/manimal3min.jpg (http://www.william-art.fr/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/manimal3.jpg)

[freesupra]

so many more fine works have come along :D
spent some more time on camelish fella just now - bout 2 3/4 - 3 hours total

[kazmamurat]

superb modeling...

[JHarford]

256 replies 16,501 views
already! woah.


Interesting work freespace. He looks wise

[DJdude]

freespura: very original. one of my favorite so far.

[gumby666]

All the posts here have been amazing and very inspiring!!
I only have the 30day demo of ZBrush 3 and this is my second ever sculpt using it.

This challenge forces me to use it before my 30 days are up.
I've only spent 12 minutes roughing out the base (dead tired today but had to get started!) but I wanted to get in before another Hammerhead emerged.

I'm loving this challenge 'cos most of these scuplts remind me of the bad guys out of the comics or horror movies I grew up with.
My sculpt doesn't have much to comment on yet but any crits would be appreciated!!

http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_front.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_side.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_back.jpg

[DJdude]

gumby666: your pic doesnt show up.

[gumby666]

I can see it?
Maybe it's so bad that the browser won't let it be viewed HAHAHA!!
Can anybody see them?
There's a front, side & back view.
It's my first post on this forum so I may have done something wrong.

[Iron Boot]

I can see it

[Mindblade]

i just love the camelman...thx supra

[DJdude]

i can c it now. i think it was my bad.

[gumby666]

So instead of going to bed as I should I had a shower and kept on sculpting.

Up to 45mins on this guy now. I seem to be a bit slower than some but I'm suprised how quickly these things can be achieved in ZBrush. Loving that software!!

Here's Hammerhead with some refining, extra divisions, eyes and a bit more of the look I was after.

How should I make his teeth?? Any tricks of the trade anyones keen to share? I know I could use radial symmetry but not sure if there's any other quick ways.

http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_front1.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_side1.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_back1.jpg

[JHarford]

Hey gumby, both sets of pics show up for me no problem . Good start, hope you crank out a load of work in the 30 days you have :).

I'm going to try out a pigman. 1 hour in so far. [no image yet]

[IRONMONKEY]

Here's a couple more images with little more work.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/sharkman-3_4.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/sharkman-botttomside.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/sharkman-side.jpg

[JHarford]

For making his teeth :
use the move tool on a low subdivion to ensure placement of the polys where the teeth will be.
in a high subdivion paint a mask where you want each tooth to be, ctrl click outside the model to invert the mask, switch to move tool and pull those teeth out and up!
subdivide the model more and work on sculpting them.

another way, is to use the clay brush and just layer on clay until the teeth are high enough to cut the backs away and shape properly. Key is being in a high enough subdivion. which is why it's best to get all proportions and large modeling details down before moving onto a higher subdivision.

[pixote_Mushi]

Great Job Grasseti, Print Rhino

[ibru]

man...everyones' hard workin......
here's my bullman after 2hr sculpting...
all kinda crits are welcome.

HAPPY SCULPTING!

[55joe]

freesurpa that is bad ass. my favorite so far. what shader are you using on it?

[spaceboy412]

guhhh, i love that seal, i think the way you integrated the clothes as part of the manimals theme is great!

aby arty, thanks i was surprised myself, i think its because i started it not really trying, i figured i would just play until i had to go feed my rabbits. sadly though i went back to work somemore on it afterwards and lost 30min of more work due to a crash. :(
i never watched naruto, but i do love anime.

montecristo-3dt, thanks i just figured its all about keeping the eyes human, hopefully i won't mess it up to much trying to make it a little more giraffee like.

grassetti, that is a sweet rhino

freesupra, very nice camel it almost makes me want to give up

vongon, this image is really beautiful, i love the subtlety of the facial features and the horns.

this is so much fun and so many people are doing great work, i'm having a lot of fun, thanks.

[wolfy]

Hello all,

Its been a long time since ive posted anything on this forum.

I must admit I saw this challenge and thought Id give it a go, and let me just say the entries so far are lovely.

Anyway I hope you like my 25 min sculpt.

[JHarford]

I thought i'd post some WIP's this time around. Heres WIP1 of my WildBoarMan. 45 mins so far.

[bgen]

Here is my 2nd final - total of 3hr. 52min (+5/+5).

I gave my best here, and learned a lot by the way.
I am really intrested what tools the pros use mainly in Zbrush or Mudbox whatever applictaions.

[spaceboy412]

I have a question, are we allowed to use the geometry however we want, what i mean is could i use the teeth geometry for something other than teeth. along the same lines, could i use one of the eyes for something other than eyes, but keep one eye as an eye? i know this may be bending the rules and understand if its not allowed.

[MonteCristo]

I think the teeth could be used as something else appropriate, say a tongue or something, but definitely not the eyes. Keep the eyes as eyes.

[kazmamurat]

i've just started another model, i don t know what it is exactly, but i think it s a fishgirl, 1 hour of work,

[spaceboy412]

montecristo, okay about the eyes, for the teeth i was thinking to shape them into earrings so i guess that is out? no problem if so, thanks.

[mike_k]

Yo guys, I'm 1hr15mins in:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/wolfywip.jpg

Haven't positioned the eyes yet, but I'll get to it. This is a really nice challenge =D

Oh and if you couldn't tell, it is a generic wolfman! I'm hoping to come up with something with a cool personality/character tho :P

[JHarford]

spaceboy, it's part of the mesh, the teeth are not a subtool so whatever you do with them shouldn't break any rules.. I pushed mine into the middle of the mesh becuase I didn't need it, and It always broke through.

Cool stuff again kaz, you like these long neck animals eh?

[MonteCristo]

Yeah ok. seeing as they tecnically aren't subtools, you get free rein on the teeth. :)

[Yvansteiner]

It's mine, King Cobra;

If someone have a tutorial to how make scale with zbrush, because i have pasted a long time to find a way. And i'm not very happy with them.

Great works everyone.

Done in Zbrush in 3h50min

[Yvansteiner]

About the teeth you talk, i used one part to make my tong...

[oliver1]

really great stuff here;

one update more ,i spend more 30 minutes working on the model

http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_24.jpg

[bgen]

just :lurve::lurve: brilliant oliver, top notch quality !!!! his eye show a little sadness no ??

[spaceboy412]

nice oliver, something seems weird to me about the edge of the lower lip, like its too thin or something near the corners.

[Daye]

This is when folks really start getting their models tweaked out and
nearing completion. There are some damn sharp entries and once again
it will make judging this very difficult due to the overall quality.

Welcome aboard Spaceboy :) If I only got one person from the Z-Brush
forums to come over and play then I can live with that. Some of these
folks NEED professional level competition as there is no way on Earth I
can possibly give it to them :P

Especially like the giraffe you're starting with.

[oliver1]

bgen-thank you!

spaceboy412- i agree with you , im working on that place now

[abstract]

hey iv got a prolly noobish q about zbrush, i want to extrude a part of my mesh but the only way i know of doing this is using the extract option in sub tools but that would be against the rules because you cant have extra meshes is that right if so how can i extrude parts of the mesh like i would in max or maya?

[Crimson King]

Hi all

so this is my rat dude, hes not finished yet but I'm going to stop and have a break before i start with the fine detail. there is some really nice work in this comp,well done all.

[oliver1]

Crimson King-great sculpt!

here's some images more , i work more 5 minutes on the lips

http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_26.jpg

http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_25.jpg

[spaceboy412]

abstract, any sort of extude, even the one in zbrush will change your geometry, thereby disqualifying you. i suggest just trying to move as many polys to the area you want to extrude and then either use the move, nudge, or snakehook brushes.
for future reference, the extrude in zbrush is done by using the edgeloop function in tool: geometry: edgeloop

daye, thanks again, as i said i'm having fun.

oliver, much better, too bad you can't add slobber, hehe.

[JHarford]

Second work in progress shot . Now at 3:30, this challenge should come with a warning 'make sure to use a wacom pen with a rubber grip', this intous 2 pen is killing my thumb all the sculpting.

just a quick question to you all... how many saves do you make during the 4 hours sculpting? roughly.
so far i'm at 25 with this one.

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[spaceboy412]

okay heres a quick update, i did lose momentum after that crash last night and found it hard to even open zbrush today. i did some quick tests, i'm really not sure which direction to go as far as the clothing, let me know what you think. I'm thinking "out of africa" using that as reference.
did both of these in about 20 minutes, using the claybrush, falloffsharp, std brushes, also used a custom lace alpha. i still have much work to do on the head,horns and body.
75min so far.
oh the hat is actually made from the top teeth geometry, you can see the bottom teeth floating out there tool.

[Crimson King]

I end up with between 20 and 40 saves, zbrush has a nasty habit of crashing just when you have nailed some cool detail.

oliver1 Cool pig man

JHarford your dude is looking cool as, the only crit i have is that the bottom teeth look to sharp i think they would look better with a flat blunt top to them.

Spaceboy nice work with the teeth i saw the hat and shouted SUBTOOL then i read you post.

[Porkpie Samurai]

Good work Oliver. Your sculpt has a lot of personality.
Looking forward to more updates.

[poopipe]

yeah,

I'm kind of getting my head round what some of the buttons do now but I think my poor computer's beginning to say no to all the polys


this accounts for another 40 minutes or so - I'll probably lose the remaining couple of hours trying to figure out how to make those nice crispy details everyone seems to be putting in.


If I could only be bothered to sit through a tutorial video or two....

[JHarford]

Got a chance to finish it up. Wild boar man is final.

Thanks crimson king , glad you like it.

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[JHarford]

Sorry about the crash spaceboy, i had a lot of those during wildboard man and the first cat girl too :[

poopipe, he looks cute and cool already

[MonteCristo]

So everyone, I reckon this one can run a little. We've had a think about this and have decided to let these run for two weeks, with no pauses. That means we now have a new deadline of the 27th May. At which point Competition 3 will start, and so will voting for this one. This way we'll always have something to be getting on with. :D

I've updated page 1 to reflect these changes (also written in bright red).

[Osky]

Awww. Mann......

It's great this challenge has gotten an extension. I've been looking at some of the sculpts so far and some of them are great.

I was originally thinking of doing a Rhino, but the one done by grassetti is bad ass.

So this is my try at creating a mid tranformation from the man into Elephant Man.

[M_Cederstrom]

Sweet more time, I really love this comp. :D Thanks

[spaceboy412]

i'm sure someone will get a laugh out of this, i have to laugh myself. normally i don't work so fast, so in my haste i went to hit the "save as" button in the upper corner, but my palette was shifted and i hit "delete" in the subtool palette, first time i've done that, bye bye 25mins of work. hehe.

[ibru]

JHarford-its a wow!!!!great work


osky-great start for the elephantman..............

[gumby666]

JHarford: Thanks for the tips for doing the teeth. I'll take all that on board and leave the teeth until my sculpt is nearing completion and I can get into some serious subdivision. Loving your King of Pork by the way!!!

Extended time means I might have to get started on another entry during my lunch breaks at work. Fun Fun!

[abstract]

abstract, any sort of extude, even the one in zbrush will change your geometry, thereby disqualifying you. i suggest just trying to move as many polys to the area you want to extrude and then either use the move, nudge, or snakehook brushes.
for future reference, the extrude in zbrush is done by using the edgeloop function in tool: geometry: edgeloop

daye, thanks again, as i said i'm having fun.

oliver, much better, too bad you can't add slobber, hehe.

hey thanks spaceboy i havnt tried the snakehook brush yet. i tried moving the polys but it ends up beng a real mess ill have another go later though!!

[Traiven3d]

Decided to go for a Meerkat Manimal, at least for this first effort. Trying to find a balance between human anatomy and the animal.

I'm beginning to figure out a bit of a workflow for myself... things are coming easier this time. Starting to rough in the general fur flow. I'll be really happy if i can have this sculpt detailed, and maybe start working to make it more expressive.

[kazmamurat]

oliver1, crimson king, hartford, skillfully sculpting, nothing to say, great work again,

spaceboy, i like your giraffe, very cute, good work.

[otas32]

1:40 H WIP

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/137/1/0/horse_man_wip_3d_zbrush_by_otas32.jpg

[ibru]

otas32-i like that hair.....

[pap87]

Very nice work all round, I'm still trying to come up with something.

Just a question, would a local subdivide be considered changing topology and therefore not allowed?

[JHarford]

i'm sure someone will get a laugh out of this, i have to laugh myself. normally i don't work so fast, so in my haste i went to hit the "save as" button in the upper corner, but my palette was shifted and i hit "delete" in the subtool palette, first time i've done that, bye bye 25mins of work. hehe.

aw, you have all the unluck spaceboy... If it's any consolation, i'm really far in assasins creed and in a tired state, instead of pressing the exit but i pressed the delete profile button :(

[kazmamurat]

2 hours more, i have 1 hour left,

[3DGURU]

it was fun to navigate this thread liked works by those

sathe
bgen
JHarford
Marv
Grasseti
guhhh
tntang
porkpie samurai
vongn
crismon king

i'm really confused , who would i vote to ? :( , they are all cool !!!

[kazmamurat]

last one hour of sculpting after working hours, fishgirl and an alternative shader;

[gumby666]

Another 45mins so takes me up to 1 hour 30mins. I downloaded some shark reference pics today which have helped a bit.

I'm finding the throat area around the adam's apple a bit odd, does anyone else agree. Think I need to add in gills next.

Any other criticism would be appreciated particularly on anatomy. What's the best way to achieve a realistic skin texture? An overall alpha map, hand painted in pores or another alternative? I've seen some amazing skin detail on forums but don't know what process achieves this.

http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_front2.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_side2.jpg
http://www.brokemerecords.com/hammerhead_back2.jpg

[freesupra]

kazmamarut - very fine sculpt you have there. nothing more can say other than i love it
jharford - pigmans looking cool dude good work
55joe - the shader i used was one that adam lewis released, but i just adjusted it a little

[disco stew]

hey guys great works so far i just came here from zbrushcentral and i guess ill give it a hit one question what about the hd geometry in zbrush am i allowed to use it? i guess it wouldnt be printable. ill be posting my manimal wip soon. grasseti that rhino is just sick really great work

[rap]

hi!

just learned about this great contest yesterday!
here's my wip... around 1 hr and 20 min. of a half man and half ram. i know some have already explored this idea of a half breed man and goat but i still went for it coz i've been wanting to do something like this for a long time now and this is such a great chance to make it.

tnx for the extension guys coz i sure have no time
to finish this wip right now

[MonteCristo]

last one hour of sculpting after working hours, fishgirl and an alternative shader;

Oh Kaz, that one is badass. If you get time, make sure to pose her too. Definitely a contender that one.

[aby arty]

spaceboy:dude i feel she was better without the clothes ,only give her clothes if u dont want to sculpt detail fur , but do try finishing wthout clothes.

and here's a link cause u havent seen naruto , this is narutos beauty jutsu
have a laugh ur giraffe poses almost the same way.:)
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3931/naru62vk7.jpg

and as far as my update is concerned , i dont have a wip right now as i didnt note the time while sculpting the 3 sculpts i did today ,obviously they were all a few minutes work but ill still present afair deal in a few days.

i think iam missing few fundamentals of sculpting , as freespace3dt sir said iam sculpting like pudding , so i would love if someone could share how and what all they use ,kazmamurat sir cud u help me in anyway here.

[bgen]

i am really bad in stylized things, but i will try anyway :P
37min. Monkey / Woman - got so far will put it aside till Sunday.

[disco stew]

i like the eyes so far but it will be hard to get the human part into the monkey given the fact that we kinda are monkeys :dance: at least those of us who believe mr darwin ;P

[mike_k]

2hr20 in, gonna try reach the 3hr mark later on then finish up 2morow

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/wolfwip2.jpg

gradually getting there, hope it will pull together shortly!

[cojoMan]

maybe I am mistaking, but isn't the deadline like 4 hours !!! for this comp ?

[Macku]

And again a lot of great sculpts!
Here is mine for now 50 minutes:

[bgen]

yes 4 hrs to work with.

[neolith]

1 hour 30 minutes so far,i'll work more on it tommorow.

[Vrav]

Squid man!

To be safe I'll over-estimate 2h so far. Not really in to compete, just having fun. Silo 2 is what I use... this has been a good practice in familiarizing myself with the tools. Those are supposed to be tentacles coming out around his mouth; I'll sculpt a beak in there too. Sorry for the lumpiness, ha.

[HMS-3D]

Wow, all this looks really nice! Keep up this work!

[JHarford]

The same material should be used for everything, if I'm not mistaken. Texturing is not allowed in this competition.

correct me if I'm wrong mods..

[Sathe]

No Joe, id say everything is...Golden

[HMS-3D]

Here is my first entry. It's almost done. This is completely sculpted in Blender. I used the model provided from 3DTotal. I'm sorry for the last post with the non-standart materials. I removed them and made everything standart again. Anyway, this is my komodo-man :haha: . I hope you like it!

HMS

[Steamtrooper]

Thought Id try some hair, found lots of ways not to do it but few that im happy with yet.

kazmamurat - Im realy loving your work, love the eyes especially in the merwoman, plus I love the litheness and stoney quality in all your work.

In a sentence or two which tool, what kinda alpha and which stroke did you find most usefull in doing the hair? Im using the standard or Layer brush/ on continous with lazymouse on with either a rake or spotted pattern alpha, but this is day one of doing hair for me so wondered about yours and others hair/fur techniques.

Aby - maybe if we bug Kazmamurat enough hell share his secrets?

K thought Id have a crack at a more cute version - this is the Little Girl who dreamt she was a tiger...

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[bgen]

well i threw away my idea with the monkey since showing him human, well is hard and i suck @ stylized things anyhow.

Hour an a Half in - this time the workflow the tools everything was brilliant.
I think it's because also i like to watch the pr0s here - soo much 2 learn.

My Half Womanplatypus
comment are welcomed. will work on her sunday. i never get to learn law :) thx threedy, thx 2 you and zbrush i don't get to learn ;P:wave:

[Vrav]

Macku, your ram guy is superb, probably my favourite so far.

Steamtrooper, that looks sweet. I thought of doing a child also... as for the hair, maybe you could try simplifying it? Instead of going in for ultimate detail, sculpt the clumps and blocks/chunks, then go over that with a fine rake-like brush to add the strands detail.

And of course kazmamurat I love your style.

A bit more messing around, figured out how to set up new lighting that follows the camera. The sculpt itself is pretty messed up though so I rather think I'll just polish it up sometime and do another with the knowledge I've gained. Maybe I'll use more reference next time too, was lazy for no good reason this time.

edit: bgen: Wow!

[Osky]

Boy, am I slow.....

I would like to get some help as to how to move the teeth geometry so that I can use it as the horn.

Or what would be a better way of getting the horn to come out of the geometry.

This is two hours into it.

I would like to get some feed-back.

Thanks,

[Freespace-3DT]

2hr20 in, gonna try reach the 3hr mark later on then finish up 2morow

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/wolfwip2.jpg

gradually getting there, hope it will pull together shortly!

Hey Mike, that werewolf is looking amazing! Make sure to finish it.

[spaceboy412]

Kazmamurat, that is a great model, although i can't stop thinking it looks like Terrance Stamp with breasts. :)

Steamtrooper that is looking really nice, its very cute, i found that using the rake brush and adjusting the alpha curve works well for some types of hair. but i perfer using the std brush with a very sharp point, through alpha and focal shift, with the lazy mouse, painting hair by hair, its tedious but i like the look of it more.

[dAnconia]

Ok i am in for this one. Gonna spend most of my time in the pre visualization since this is not an Improv Sculpt, its a Speed Sculpt. Which i need help with bad since i take so much time on my sculpts. Ill post something soon.

AMAZING SCULPTS EVERYONE!! Truly are an inspiration to me and my drive as an artist.

[abstract]

hey im making a fat ass anglar fish man lol. im getting this problem of the sides pushing through each other though, you can see it in his mouth, is there any way of avoiding this??

hour and a half so far....

[otas32]

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/137/e/7/3d_speed_comp_man_animal_01_by_otas32.jpg

I chose to work with a horse, and tried to leave as much man features on the face as possible, that's why the shaped of the nose and eyes specially. And of course placement of the ears.
About the crin, I went more for the greek helmet kind of look, as I did with the leather armor.

3 hours.

[spaceboy412]

some small updates, i decided to erase the eyelashes until later, fixed the ears and formed the scarf to be more historically acurate. need to bring some more life back into the collar. and add the hair and hints of fur.
i've lost the model 4 times to crashes and one accidental delete, this really kills my enthusiasm. around 2hrs right now.
someone had said they liked her better without clothes, i can agree but really am feeling more inspired to try to base it on something a little more meaningful, whatever helps you through right?
any input would be welcome.

[Siege]

A little over 2 hours used so far...Not sure I will get any farther. But had to get the idea out of my head. My little boy gave me the idea. We were looking over the other cool images here...and he said, "How about my Teddy Bear"? So here it is...

[MonteCristo]

A little over 2 hours used so far...Not sure I will get any farther. But had to get the idea out of my head. My little boy gave me the idea. We were looking over the other cool images here...and he said, "How about my Teddy Bear"? So here it is...

Love it Siege. Really cool. :)

[lampshadehead]

Sweet scuplts everyone. I have a question, how do you all make sure long horms without adding any more edge loops?

[pables]

Hey mates, I decided to give it a try....and here I am...this is my...first sculpting, very proud of how it is going... I would like you to C&C.
awesome works this speed sculpting challenge, wow

It is suposed to be some kind of rat man or something like that

[M_Cederstrom]

siege- love the concept. :D

[MonteCristo]

Erm... Yeah. This one's just a joke really. Hence... 1:30 spent on it. Still thought it was quite funny, and had to get it out of my system.

[gumby666]

The same material should be used for everything, if I'm not mistaken. Texturing is not allowed in this competition.

correct me if I'm wrong mods..
JHarford: Not sure if your comment about texturing came about because of my last post regarding getting the skin texture. If it was, then I think I worded my post badly. What I was actually referring to wasn't texturing it was getting all the lovely pores and blemishes sculpted into my model to make it's skin more realistic. Is there an easy technique to add these to the skin of my model was the real question I meant to ask.

Pables: loving your ratman!! Amazing stuff for your first sculpt. One thing you could do is make the lips a little less symmetrical. At the moment the lumps and bumps are exactly the same on both sides. Could maybe do this to one of the eyes too. Just a suggestion (and one I have to apply to my own sculpt too!).

[spaceboy412]

monte, OMFG!!, that is hilarious and twisted.

[55joe]

total of 3 hours on this so far, wil proly use the last hour to do teeth and any other random things. i hadnt upgraded to zb 3.1 till today and wow the brushes are amazing, so much better than 3.0 i had a blast playing with it on this.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4782/19349310ag3.jpg

[otas32]

This time man-horned beetle.

1 hour's work.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2008/137/0/4/3d_speed_comp_man_animal_03_by_otas32.jpg

[DJdude]

otos: thats awesome. really original. 5*

siege: thats really cool. i love the idea. 5*

[Weiryknight]

A little over 2 hours used so far...Not sure I will get any farther. But had to get the idea out of my head. My little boy gave me the idea. We were looking over the other cool images here...and he said, "How about my Teddy Bear"? So here it is...

reminds me of stewie when he merged with rupert

[otas32]

otos: thats awesome. really original. 5*



Thanx man! :)

[vongn]

holy moly, you go away for a day and theres 10 new pages!

MonteCristo-3DT - that is so messed up, at first I was like how is that a puppy? why does he have horns?? then I saw the dogs head and was like BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

true story.

[omnicypher]

2 hours 30 minutes. i stopped using symmetry before i made alot of the armor, which is not a good idea for speed or precision.

[Yuzrass]

Hey, great progress so far but i don't get it. A lot of the sculpt entry doesn't meet the specification of the challenge rules. In the rule it is clearly describe "transform into an anthropomorphic vision of frenzied destruction and kill everyone in the room". From what I understand from it, only some of you guys sculpt to that specification accurately. Like example Oliver01, Crimson King, Porkpie Samurai model are among the few that can be made as a good example.

Armor? why are they be armor involved? All the sudden a breast plates armor emerge from your inner body as you transform to this manimal creature? Come on people be realistic about the rules and specification of this challenge.

I know some of you guys might hate me for this but I am simply just telling the truth about what is happening here. Clearly the objective of this challenge 02 has gone astray.

I am hoping that our moderator and other experience sculptor would do a good job into guiding and keeping the contestant into the correct alignment of this challenge objectives.

It's a good challenge, don't let it astray.:cry:

[otas32]

Looking good omnicypher! :)

[bgen]

2hrs. used up.

[omnicypher]

Yuzrass: my space marine was wearing armor before the virus was released, which is why he is wearing it after it changed him.

[Avatar-3DT]

Here we go people, my Giraffe Woman so far. Total amount of time spent on it till now: aproximativly 90 minutes. Almost 40 minutes of that time was spent on adding the eyes since I'm a total nube with zbrush and do most of the things by instinct or rushing to google when I hit a wall. Many thanks to my friends here that pointed me into the right direction when I hit the mask and posing issue.
Now, just to justify the things Yuzrass said:
-after the transformation my giraffe woman just started to bash around with her head and neck, killing all the people around her, while screaming in agony and ripping her clothes out (that explains the exposed breasts and the dizzy look on her face).

[otas32]

2:40 Hrs

I didn't really know how much more to fine tune a lot of details on the larger segments. So I just slightly textured them. I only added more detail on the face.
What really consumed more time was creating the segments on the low poly stage.

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/138/7/b/3d_speed_sculpting_comp_02_by_otas32.jpg

[Yuzrass]

About this rule statement "We've all been there, it's a normal night at the cinema, the movie's in full swing and you're just about to reach your arm around the neck of your main squeeze, when all of a sudden you transform into an anthropomorphic vision of frenzied destruction and kill everyone in the room. In this comp we want you to take the base mesh provided and sculpt your visualisation of such a transformation, in any way or fashion you deem fit. Realistic, fantasy, stylized, anything goes. Pick whatever animal you like too, wolf, horse, puma, slender loris..."

Now I'm not sure weather we suppose to follow according to this situation described or is it just like one of the example our character should be in?
I think MonteCristo should explain more about it. Because what Omnicypher is doing is about a marine getting infected by virus is a completely different story than what MonteCristo has mention above.

Please clarify things up.

[cojoMan]

come ooooon ! have fun !

instead of being so rigid, see around you all the great entryes this comp has.
the main idea - a MAN-ANIMAL, was preserved. The starting scenario was descriptive for te MANIMAL word.

you're saying that an entry that is a bit oof by the scenario but great as an entry is out ?

stop being rigid. have fun and experiment !

[Yuzrass]

To Otas32. Please do not texture them as it has been mention in the rules. "No rendering, texturing, lighting or rigging, let's keep it all about the high-res sculpt. What we are looking for is the quality of the sculpts you can produce "under pressure". If your entry is not complete, you can still post as long as it's recognizable and on topic."

Please to everyone, do read the rules carefully to avoid you from disqualify.

[Yuzrass]

Yeah, we can all have fun cojoman but what good is a rule when you can't follow them? Wheres the challenge then? If what this challenge said is about making Manimal then its fine by me but then why put that in the cinema raging and killing people arround you scenario in the 1st place?

I really want our moderator to explain this to clear things out.

[otas32]

To Otas32. Please do not texture them as it has been mention in the rules. "No rendering, texturing, lighting or rigging, let's keep it all about the high-res sculpt. What we are looking for is the quality of the sculpts you can produce "under pressure". If your entry is not complete, you can still post as long as it's recognizable and on topic."

Please to everyone, do read the rules carefully to avoid you from disqualify.

What's the deal Yuzrass??
First you demonstrate a total lack of understanding an introduction in the manner of prose to create a funny environment where WE as creatures transform and go crazy in our anthropomorphic state. That intro is NOT part of the actual rules.

In regards to what you call "texturing". All I did was apply a material. That is NOT the same as texturing. As you can see, it's the same ALL OVER the creature.
Then I just apply Zbrush "best" render display to then press "ctrl + shift + Print Screen" to capture what Zbrush is showing me.
And finally, with no post prosessing I just paste the captures together in Photoshop in order to avoid uploading 5 images instead of just the one.

Why don't you just limit yourself to actually DOING some sculpting and stop harassing others to try to push them out of the way. If anyone can call attention to the rules it's the moderators of the challenge, that's all.
No one else is doing anything else but simply critiquing or admiring the other's work. You should try and learn some of that attitude...

[aby arty]

spaceboy: ahan i respect ur vision , all i was saying was that ur portraying a human transforming into an animal ,so dont u think the clothing should be affected in some way ? the sculpt is no doubt awesome , but urs look like its always been a giraffe girl not a human turned giraffe.
she looks like a new teen giraffe babe at the school man.

[MonteCristo]

Here we go... :(

Ok, with regards to this rule stuff. Please tone it down. It is true, texturing is not allowed, the rules stated under the section called Rules are pretty clear about what you can and can't do. But then again, technically no one in this thread is entering yet, so you can't technically break that rule here. Any comments that point out a breach are really only advisory.However, there is a line that can be crossed there, and if you cross it, say by posting something completely off-topic, you'll probably find that your message has been deleted. Same would happen to someone posting a picture of a boat here.

in any way or fashion you deem fit. Realistic, fantasy, stylized, anything goes. Pick whatever animal you like too, wolf, horse, puma, slender loris...

I think this is fairly straight-forward. If I had seen anything that was out of line by now I would have said so. If you want armour have armour. I don't care about all that. The main point is to create a man and animal hybrid. The brief is broad, the scenario added is merely to capture the flavour of it, which from what I've seen is being adhered to just fine.

Right, anyway, I have to go and move house. If anyone has any more questions over the next couple of days, please contact one of the other mods directly. If this turns into a flame war, I'm going to scream. Thanks for your co-operation.

[Yuzrass]

Hey, Otas32. I have no intention to accuse you of applying texture to you model or what so ever. From the looks of it I know you are apply material or shader to you model which is fine but the fact where you say "slightly textured them". Make me think that you might use a brief polypainting to you model. I just don't want you or anybody get disqualify for it thats all. I am sorry if my statement make you angry.

About all that in the cinema scenario that MonteCristo mention. If it was just and example and has nothing to do with the main guideline then I am of joy.:dance: coz I didn't start making any sculpt for this challenge becoz i am not clear on that part of the rules. But I need to hear form the moderator for the final clarification.

[Yuzrass]

Hey, thanks for you reply MonteCristo. I was typing my post when you replied in. Thanks for clearing it out. Now my thought is clear and I shall begin my sculpt.:dance:

I would like to apologies to everyone if I had make that big of a scene. I'm just trying to clear things that is not clear.

[otas32]

No problem Yuzrass. When I stated "slight texturing" I meant using the normal brush with an alpha (which to me feels like creating bump maps on the model, but is still simply just detail sculpting).

[otas32]

Oh guys, I've been meaning to ask... How do you work sharp edges/angles on your sculpt? say for instance flat faced industrial armor... I don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly. It's just that when I try using the "flatten" brush for instance to accomplish this, I still get rounded edges :(

[MonteCristo]

About all that in the cinema scenario that MonteCristo mention. If it was just and example and has nothing to do with the main guideline then I am of joy. coz I didn't start making any sculpt for this challenge becoz i am not clear on that part of the rules. But I need to hear form the moderator for the final clarification.

Yes it is common for competitions to be overly stict sometimes. This is a fun challenge. We want for its participants to have a lot of freedom, whilst at the same time targetting them in a general direction -- giving them a puzzle to solve, which in itself helps to form good ideas. :D

Ok, enough. Onto the painting.

[Yuzrass]

hey, Otas32. You can try using mask to mask of certain area you want to sharpen the edges and also try giving a low pinch to it as well. If I get it correctly .

[Avatar-3DT]

@otas32: You can can mask then sculpt as Yuzrass suggested or you can use your Flatten brush to get your surface nice and flat then use your Pinch brush to narrow and adjust the edges.

[mike_k]

Hey guys I have a little under 20 mins to finish my werewolf up, and I'm a bit stuck on how to spend the time. Any crits would be a huge help:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/wolfwip3.jpg

oh and I can't pose him, everytime I mask off a selection then try to soften it (by ctrl clicking the mask) it crashes out so I cant use any smooth movements with the transpose tool

[JHarford]

work on the eyes, and it will change the piece, go to a low level and arrange the points properly and wrap the eyelids around the eye. it will make this a lot better... good work so far..

maybe the next challenge could be a celebrity likeness challenge?, just throwing some ideas out there.

[Intervain]

hey some sweet stuff appearing in here! I've been following this thread for the past couple of days and am really tempted to give it a whirl as well!

Grassetti - really sweet sculpting on the rhino!

kazmamurat - love your sculpt!

Alex - the pig guy's sweet...

spaceboy - the giraffe is really cute :) kinda country style girl hehe

[otas32]

work on the eyes, and it will change the piece, go to a low level and arrange the points properly and wrap the eyelids around the eye. it will make this a lot better... good work so far..

maybe the next challenge could be a celebrity likeness challenge?, just throwing some ideas out there.

I like that idea :) I actually did a Bush likeness (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=627559&postcount=525) on the Orc challeng just for fun :D

[mike_k]

final one for me guys:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/Werewolf_Final.jpg

[Yuzrass]

Hey, guys. I finally finish my model and I think this would be my final submission.
A badass Werewolves. Hope you guys like it. 4 hours sharp. I use every minutes of it.:shy:

[Medusa]

Hello, guys! mmmm not many other girls around here :xx::xx:
This is my first sculpt. It's a Malephant :evil:

2 hours of work so far.

[Intervain]

well couldn't resist - 2 hours sharp so far [inspired mainly by some wicked turkey pics and chicken wings ;)]

http://mdadela.com/ssp_director/albums/album-3/lg/turkey_woman.jpg

[archee]

that turkey is cool...
Idea is cool and the sculpting looks clean enaugh too...
(it`s nice to see som original work because, everyone when gets to zbrush starts tu round up big muscles or something like that... but its seen thousands of times...)
the same original idea I liked in that teddy bear sculpt.. that was realy good too...

[DT_art]

This is after 30mins of work, he's my own Batman. Still needs work as I'm sure you can tell.

[AA-ron]

I really like the extension of this challenge, it extends past finals week! :D

After reading some of the posts, I have some questions to help claify somethings..
-I havent looked at the basemesh yet, but can you take the teeth and sculpt them into something else other than teeth?
-does this sculpt have to be an in-the-process-transformation, like a warewolf transforming?
-does this model have to be vicious like the intro states, on the first post in this thread?

I apologize for some questions that may be redundant, but after reading those posts, I just wanted to be sure so I dont get disquailified. Theres some really good ideas, sculpts and talent here, good luck to everyone!

[koyima]

A mod on the one I posted, maybe he is better. if do another one it will be a different species.

[Crab People]

Here is Man Bear Pig in all his glory ! -3hr45min-

[disco stew]

nice one intervain!

[disco stew]

wow nice manbearpig !!

[Porkpie Samurai]

Haha I really like Intervains!
Very funny and as always skilfully executed.

[AndrewQ]

This is the first one of these contests I've entered. Some really impressive stuff on here. I'm a little less than two hours into this, so any pointers would be great!

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/brood_overmind/2-3.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/brood_overmind/3-2.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/brood_overmind/1-3.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/brood_overmind/4-3.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/brood_overmind/5-2.jpg

It's basically a whale guy with some Giger influences.

[Freespace-3DT]

I really like the extension of this challenge, it extends past finals week! :D

After reading some of the posts, I have some questions to help claify somethings..
-I havent looked at the basemesh yet, but can you take the teeth and sculpt them into something else other than teeth?
-does this sculpt have to be an in-the-process-transformation, like a warewolf transforming?
-does this model have to be vicious like the intro states, on the first post in this thread?

I apologize for some questions that may be redundant, but after reading those posts, I just wanted to be sure so I dont get disquailified. Theres some really good ideas, sculpts and talent here, good luck to everyone!

1. I guess so, but why would you?

2. No it does not, as you've seen from the countless other entries in the comp.

3. No, the intro was just an example, you can make it cute and cuddly, or neutral. Anything you want.

Good luck!

[AndrewQ]

speaking of teeth, I think I miss read the rules. I took the teeth completely out of my base mesh and put them back as a subtool. I wasn't sure if I was going to use them for anything and I didn't want them in the way. Is that ok?

[AA-ron]

Thanks for the clarification, Freespace-3DT! I wasnt too sure so I just wanted to check before starting.

[Intervain]

archee - thank you :)

disco stew - thanks a lot!

Porkpie Samurai - thanks a lot :) glad you like...

well here's the final 4hr sculpt...:dance: lots I would have changed and added and substracted but heck I run out of time :cool:

[disco stew]

i got another question what if i dont need the teethpiece
am i allowed to delete it or is it supposed to fly around inside my model

[oliver1]

Intervain -AMAZING!! really nice see you here

[Freespace-3DT]

disco stew: If you don't need it, delete it. The point is not to ADD anything to the basemesh.

[disco stew]

ok thy freespace

[spaceboy412]

spaceboy: ahan i respect ur vision , all i was saying was that ur portraying a human transforming into an animal ,so dont u think the clothing should be affected in some way ? the sculpt is no doubt awesome , but urs look like its always been a giraffe girl not a human turned giraffe.
she looks like a new teen giraffe babe at the school man.

i understand your point, but considering the way her anatomy changed, as in a longer neck, humpback, and longer arms, these things wouldn't really tear clothes as you say, just stretch them, her clothes were loose in the first place, being in hot africa and all, i had planned on adding a tear along the back seam but it proabably wouldn't even be visible anyhow. however i do plan on making a button or two having snapped. i seem to run into this issue a lot where people don't understand why i do what i do and the decisions i make behind them, i do however put much thought into it. lastly so what if shes just some woman who changed into a giraffe, as the other giraffe-girl modler said, she probably just kills everyone by knocking them and trampling.
i truly do appreciate your input, we just have different ideas about what would actually happen.

btw that is a great model Avatar, its interesting to see how we both approached the idea differently.

Freespace, if you look i turned the teeth into the hat, so somethign like that is maybe what AA-RON means, good to see you here AA.

[spaceboy412]

spaceboy - the giraffe is really cute :) kinda country style girl hehe

Intervain, coming from you that is a great compliment, sexy-cute is what i'm going for, with a hint of literary history, being that i'm basing her on Out of Africa. i truly admire your work and am humbled by it, thanks for the bronze mats as well they helped convince my wife that i'm not wasting my time with pixols, to her they seemed like actual sculptures and is not so critical now. so thanks for saving that small bit of my rocky marriage. Your bird woman is amazing, what else can be said?

lastly i just want to say that i've not put much work into the model lately, last night i was pretty depressed, but hopefully tonight i can get back to work. once again, thanks to everyone for making this fun.

[funkdelic]

amazing Magdalena! so far the most creative in my opinion ( the teddy bear dude is awesome too =P)

[omnicypher]

all these entries are comming out great! so far my favorite is man bear pig, although i dont see much pig in there (might be just 1 ear)

someone mentioned somthing about a celebrity likeness comp, and i second that notion.
it would be great for all of us to not only have the freedom to choose anyone to sculpt, but also have a tangible refrerence for comparison.

[Emeth003]

Pigman - work in progress - 2,5 hod

[otas32]

WOW EMETH!! SIMPLY WOW! The hair, expression and detail are amazing!

[otas32]

Another possible entry. Up to now my fave, simply because I like the concept.

I wanted to convey the seductiveness the mantis would use to attract an unsuspecting male, that after mating will provide for her other needs as well.
(like ALL women hehe).

2:50hrs.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2008/139/2/9/3d_woman_praying_mantis_by_otas32.jpg

[freesupra]

emeth003 - that reminds me so much of sam burke from sam and twitch. classy

[Avatar-3DT]

My final touches on the Giraffe Woman. Great Entries everybody. Fun all around and awsome display of skill.

[neolith]

Great stuff,everyone,i'll come up with something new too when i have the time.
@otas32:Great concept,you are clearly getting better and better with each model :)

[otas32]

Great stuff,everyone,i'll come up with something new too when i have the time.
@otas32:Great concept,you are clearly getting better and better with each model :)

Thanx a lot man! Very motivating! :)

[Macku]

Emeth003- Very good sculpt, i like it, but don't you think that the dof is breaking the rule about rendering? And could you show him from other angles i really like the idea.

spaceboy412- In my opinion best concept, she's cute!

Intervain-To be honest i don't like the concept, but the execution is great!

my model for now around 2:15

[Intervain]

oliver1 - thanks so much!! :o

spaceboy - made me all blush! Thanks :halo:

funkdelic - thanks :D Much appreciated :)

Macku - LOL fair enough, would be boring if we all liked the same thing :) Thanks!

Emeth - really cool expression!

[D@niel]

I LOVE THESE CHALLENGES !:)

Batman!!!.. hey.. isn't that name already taken? Naaa never heard it before :P

[mike_k]

awesome D@niel! I must ask - what is your render settings and material used? They look great!

[Aleks]

Wow you guys,so many great entries :) The voting is gonna be really tough this time ;)

Intervain: Great to see you here and awesome work on the sculpt :)

Emeth003: The model reminds me A LOT of another model based on some comic character (Sam and .... or something like that). The hair do and expression are very similar.Maybe you were the one who made that other model? ;) Great work nevertheless.

[D@niel]

Mike _k: The matcap is called 'toxic paper wax' I found it in a thread with lots of free matcaps in zbrush cental. I dont have any render settiing, its just a half sizeAA screen grab. :)

[mike_k]

cool thanks d@neil, I tested out the toxic paper and also this other fairly cool orange one:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/WolfRenders.jpg

Are there any constraints to what material we can use for our final images? I'm leaning towards the orange one, even tho it is a bit weird :P I guess it's recommended to use more along the lines of grey and desaturated, or does no one really care :D?

[Aleks]

Are there any constraints to what material we can use for our final images? I'm leaning towards the orange one, even tho it is a bit weird :P I guess it's recommended to use more along the lines of grey and desaturated, or does no one really care :D?

You can use any material I guess. Just make sure you don't "poly paint" the model ;)

[M_Cederstrom]

Great Stuff Guys. :D

[Aleks]

What's the hold up,guys? :D

Man I want to make another sculpt but I have two exams this week :cry: I hate Power Engineering! :wall:

[mike_k]

I'm thinking about doing a horned lizard man for a new one or maybe a toad :P

[Aleks]

I'm thinking about doing a horned lizard man for a new one or maybe a toad :P

A toad man could be fun ;)

[oliver1]

here's my final images;
more 40 minutes of work,thanks all! good luck to all!

Alex Oliver

http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_1.jpg
http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_2.jpg
http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_3.jpg
http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_5.jpg
http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_7.jpg
http://www.alexoliver.art.br/gallery/img/6/pigman_final_8.jpg

[Crab People]

I changed the material and did a few close up shots thats all :)

[funkdelic]

really cool alex! bring some more to us =]

crab people: scary man, cool details! =] why dont you do a crab man?

[GROWit]

WOW!! It took me a while to get through all of those posts, but WOW pretty much sums it all up.

I can't wait to see what the judges say on this competition. Good luck to them!! ;)

Future winners, you have a lot to look forward to! I'm sure you will be ecstatic to see and feel your own models once we have grown them.

For those of you who do not win a free model, you can always purchase them for as little as $50, I’m sure all of these models will look great! They may not all be 3.5" tall, because they are pretty solid chucks of material compared to a full figurine of the same height, but I’m sure they will all look amazing even as 2-3 inch figurines.

Good luck to all of you in the future competitions as well!

[M_Cederstrom]

I had the day off too day and couldn't get any work don't I'm deffenitly going to start one tomorrow. :D

later guys. Keep posting.

[Crab People]

funkdelic Thanks for the complement. I actually attempted a Crab character a little while back for the Dominance War III comp.

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=56870&highlight=Crab+King&page=3

[AA-ron]

Awesome updates since last I checked!

My Manimal WIP, the Cubicle Sloth! (this is for all those slow workers out there...myself included :) )
Heres some quick cheap concept comps I assembled to get the idea together and where I am in the sculpt. I couldnt stop laughing when I took a break from this guy...sloths crack me up so much lol.
So far, a little over 2 hours I think.

The suit and tie are just blocked out, but will probably be slimmer, with a lot more detail. Haha, I have decided on whether to use the regular pose, or the happy-squnity eye pose. Still a WIP.

[Freespace-3DT]

The happy squinty eye is pretty funny, AA-ron. :)

[AA-ron]

Haha yea thats kind of what I was leaning towards :)
Another update, right around 3.25 hours...eee, better decide whats most important. Fun challenge.

[pap87]

Here's my try.
After 2 hours I came up with a female and with another 2 hours tried turning her into something catlike but I'm not sure she even looks feminine any more. I wish I had some more time to put more details but it passed much faster than I expected.

[omnicypher]

if you pulled the bottom of the nose, mouth and chin backwards and smooth out that jawline a bit, point the nose up a bit, make the cheeks a little less wrinkley, and shrink the width of the shoulders, and maybe bring the brests up a bit, it would look more feminine. the composition is cool, it makes it look like the first 3 are about to sing.

[pap87]

Heh, it does look like they're about to sing.

You bring up some valuable points, thanks. Although my four hours is already up, I'll make the modifications anyway. Thanks!

[Medusa]

After working another hour and 8 minutes, I finished the Malephant in 3 hours and 8 minutes :D

I have to admint that if I hadn't seen all these beautiful entries, I wouldn't have started sculpting too soon. so... thanks everyone :)

[mike_k]

Ok I've started on another one... Toad Man! I've gathered some reference pics, but I'm 55 minutes in so far and torn on what direction to take him. I'm feeling this sort of fat/obese form, but maybe it would be cool to twist it and make him old and wrinkly, like some kind of old wise toad ^^

Anyway I could really use some advice, here's where I'm at atm at 55 mins in:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/55mins.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/TOADREF.jpg

[neolith]

I started another one,2.5 hours so far,i'll continue it in a couple of days,'cause school gets in my way :(

[gumby666]

I've given my Hammerhead a rest for a while as I kinda got to a dead end with him. Might get back to him later.

This is my new one (4th sculpt with ZBrush) and I tried making a woolen jumper for this guy as I have never tried clothes before.

Tried to get more expression on this sculpt and work with less symmetry. Idea is that he's screaming as a giant maggotlike parasite bursts from his eye socket all Alien like and eats sucks his girlfriend's brains out. Inspired by Starship Troopers!

Crits would be good, particularly any clothing pointers. Also, how can I save masks? Do I need to save them as Alphas? How do I apply UV then so this is possible?

Mike-k: love that toadman!!! Great froggy feel to the scuplt!!

http://www.brokemerecords.com/Maggotman.jpg

[goronking]

I'm at about 2 and a half hours atm. A sea turtle-esque woman. had i realised how many people had done that already i'd have though of something else, but oh well.
awesome work everyone, few too many too give individual shout outs as it were. voting will be hard for this one :)
any hints where to go with this would be good, i got to this point, and have just sat in zbrush making strokes and undoing them for about 20 mins now :D (i suppose i could actually sculpt the back, that could be a plan :D)

gumby, for clothing (ignore my jumper on this, as its a bit pants), I tend to get some reference, then make it from a shaped torso. then obviously smooth it out so that its more jumper shaped, then model in the folds. For crits, I think you could do with dropping down a level or two and smoothing the face out a bit, then define the msucles a bit better. good concept tho, and a good starting implmentation, keep going at it, should be good.

[Freespace-3DT]

After working another hour and 8 minutes, I finished the Malephant in 3 hours and 8 minutes :D

I have to admint that if I hadn't seen all these beautiful entries, I wouldn't have started sculpting too soon. so... thanks everyone :)

Hey, that's an interesting sculpt. Why's he a cannibal? :) Nice to see more women joining this. :wave:

[aby arty]

hi guys

heres a wip give ur feedback please

this is arnd 1 hr of work.

and could someone tell me how do we reset the zbrush settings ,my symmetry is berserk as u my notice in this wip.

please tell me where is the reset option in zbrush.

[erikaessae]

Hello everyone!
This is my manimal, hope u like it!:smug:

[bgen]

15min sketch so far - u can see where this one will go... :wave:

[Macku]

Looks like im out of competintion - zbursh crashed while saveing and i lost an hour:( But i made an imageof it, so here is my manimal after 3 hours. BTW Any tips or yricks about horn sulpting?

[bgen]

well here is the next final entry.

squidman - in all his hmmmm fishy glory ? :crazy:

[koyima]

i like squid man good job bgen

[0202742]

Is it ok to retopolize the mesh to get rid of the base models ears?

My apologies pap87 but my sculpt is heading in a similar direction to yours.

[RHedendahl]

Really nice sculpt everybody. here is my sculpt,
Have 30 min left. Having alot of problem making the big feathers on the head look good, So if anyone have any tips I would be greateful

[AA-ron]

bgen - Nice work, the sculpt looks awesome!
Kirgan - Id say youre heading in the right direction, its looking good.

[otas32]

kirgan, great job man :)
Is the beak a different color? Be careful with that, re-read the rules if necessary.

bgen, that's a really nice twist on Davy Jones (I hope you take no offense, it's just that he's a character burned deeply into the collective subconscious - I can't help it :( ).
Anyway, very nice texturing!

[bgen]

bgen, that's a really nice twist on Davy Jones (I hope you take no offense, it's just that he's a character burned deeply into the collective subconscious - I can't help it :( ).
Anyway, very nice texturing!

no worries mate i hardly stake offense - he is also burned deeply into my subconscious, that's why when i thought of a squid somehow Davy Jones came into my mind while duing this sculpt.

AA-ron - cheers mate, i like ure character that u are making. he's a funny one :blah:.

[lythtis]

guess i messed up on saving. i saved as a document and now i cant do anything. is there a way i can still work on this or am i screwed and have to start all over? yes i am new at zbrush.....what is the right way to save?

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2364/15686969jv7.jpg

[Osky]

Lythis,

I made the same mistake when I started using z-brush.

You have to save your progress as z-tools. So that they can be loaded again later so you can continue your progress.

As far as saving the document, I don't save them, at all.

[Medusa]

Hey, that's an interesting sculpt. Why's he a cannibal? :) Nice to see more women joining this. :wave:

Thanks, Freespace. My intention wasn't to make a cannibal, but it seems I made one without wanting it :)

[Aleks]

kirgan: That looks pretty cool. Using that eagle tutorial at ZC eh? ;)

Keep posting,guys.If I pass my exam tomorrow I'll try to make another entry.Have this pretty cool idea that I just want to get out of my head...

*getting back to studying* :ugh:

[RHedendahl]

AA-ron:Thx
otas32:Thx, and yeah my bad, forgot to remove the masking.
Aleks-3DT:Hehe, Why do you think that? :P, Thx

[Aleks]

Hehe, Why do you think that? :P, Thx

Don't know. The way you made the feathers reminds of that eagle picture,that's all :)

[mr_lemon]

hi guys,sorry if i bother you,i'm trying to do something for the sculting contest but suddenly I ran into a problem,someone can tell me how to work with torso mesh without affecting the teeth? there's maybe an easy way to select them separately?

TIA for the answer :wave:

...ok...learnt how to use polygroups,sorry again guys,that's my fourth sculpt after at least 6 years (earlyer version of zbrush and loooong ago),i'll show something soon

[DT_art]

Here's what I have after 2 hours.
I'm fairly pleased with him, but let me know what you think need work.

[gumby666]

hi guys,sorry if i bother you,i'm trying to do something for the sculting contest but suddenly I ran into a problem,someone can tell me how to work with torso mesh without affecting the teeth? there's maybe an easy way to select them separately?

TIA for the answer :wave:

...ok...learnt how to use polygroups,sorry again guys,that's my fourth sculpt after at least 6 years (earlyer version of zbrush and loooong ago),i'll show something soon

Hey mr_lemon I was wondering the same thing with the teeth. You mentioned polygroups. If you've got a spare sec can you let me know how to isolate the teeth as I had the same question as you.

Thanks!

[pap87]

Ok, my 4 hours is definitely up now. I spent about two minutes making some adjustments following omnicypher's advice. This one's final.
Might make a male manimal this time.

[pap87]

@gumby- If you go to the polygroups section in the tools menu and click "auto groups" while the body subtool is active it will separate the teeth from the body and you will be able to hide them by ctrl+shift clicking on the body in the canvas. Hope that helps.

Edit: and to unhide everything quickly just ctrl+shift click on an empty part of the canvas.

[Aravindan]

Holy manimal there is some crazy talent this time around, well here is my Saber-dude after 4 hours, hope you guys like it.... ;) It sucks that i cant vote :( good luck to all! :wave:
- Aravindan

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj75/RedDragon03/Speed%20Sculpt%20Challange/SpeedSculptChallange2.jpg

[M_Cederstrom]

Well Here going to be my last one I think:D. I went with an Elephant on this one. I think I'm going to need a fast Stick on RAM for my computer it started slow down on this one. I had to keep sub div to make the trunk work.:wall:

Animal: Half-Man / Half-Elephant
Time: 3:45
Name: Master Elephant

Later :)

[spaceboy412]

while i'm in the process of trying to recover all my files over the last 6yrs from my HDD (including my giraffe girl)i'm just reading up and seeing some awesome entries.

Macku, i don't think you should be penalized for losing an hour of work due to a crash, considering you still have the model at its 3hr stage i think you should just continue on for one more hour, its only fair.

lythtis, a complicated way you could recover your model if you still have the document would be this. grab the doc as an alpha, then use the make 3d function in the alpha palette, they you will have a rough approximation of your model as a tool. then load up the contests base mesh and append it and divide a few times, use the move tool to get it to be the shape and size of your alphamesh, then use the projectall function in the subtool palette, you should set a morph target on the contest mesh before you do the projection becaue spikes may occur, once you do the projection, hit the switch button in the morph target menu, and then use the morph brush to paint in your projection detail. this is of course if you dont' wish to start anew.

[goronking]

she's done, around 3 hours 30. as i said earlier, got kinda lost on it, so its abit of a mess, but meh, here we go, turtle girl.
great work everyone, and well done to the mods for running these :)

[lythtis]

Osky- thx for the tip ill try that next time

spaceboy412- aaaaa english pls j/k :p......i think it will be much eaiser to start over since i have no clue what u are talking about. i need the pratice anyway. thx for the tip, one day i will understand what u just said.

[Medusa]

Holy manimal there is some crazy talent this time around, well here is my Saber-dude after 4 hours, hope you guys like it.... ;) It sucks that i cant vote :( good luck to all! :wave:
- Aravindan

But you CAN vote, even if you have less than 20 posts, because you're participating in the contest ;)

I like your Saber-dude very much... makes me want to go practice sculpting :D

[mike_k]

Nice one cederstorm. Could be cleaner, but yeah it's cool :D

[disco stew]

a buddy wants to participate too bu when he wants to register he cant see the verification number the one with colours in the background he sees the colours but not the numbers in sveral browsers has anyone maybe got a solution thanks

[M_Cederstrom]

Thanks Mike_k. It could definitely be cleaner. :D

[Aleks]

a buddy wants to participate too bu when he wants to register he cant see the verification number the one with colours in the background he sees the colours but not the numbers in sveral browsers has anyone maybe got a solution thanks

Are you sure your friend is not colorblind? :eek:
On a serious note though,I'll ask admins about this.

[MonteCristo]

Let me know his details with a Private Message and I'll add him.

[Aleks]

Tom said everything should be working fine now :)

[disco stew]

hehhe h aint colour blind as far as i know ty for the replies

[el.tintop]

yeah.i'm on.
thy,aleks/monte christo.
will post some first shots later...

[Aleks]

hehe welcome aboard :)

[koyima]

elephant is great, catwoman and "sabertooth" lion guy are also very good

[el.tintop]

that's what i do.c&c welcome.thy.

http://www4.picfront.org/picture/cHH8Lj5FH/img/CharacterStrip_wipKopie.jpg

[disco stew]

nice one tintop :dance::dance::wall::dance::dance:

[gumby666]

Thanks paps!! I only had 2 seconds to try it out but those pesky teeth are gone. I assume it works the other way and I can hide the body and just show the teeth by repeating the process but clicking on the teeth? Wish I'd known that before I spent 2 hours sculpting ol' maggotman and affecting his teeth. Have to sleep tonight but will hopefully get back to sculpting tomorrow. Maybe those troublesome teeth will have to become more maggots. Maggots for everyone!!

[CHAO5]

He guy's..... my dogman-orger's final version.
http://www.pic-upload.de/20.05.08/tecaeh.jpg

[IRONMONKEY]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/Sharkmanside-2.jpg


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/Sharkmanbottom.jpg


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/IronmonkeyMG_2007/Sharkman-1.jpg

[grommie]

Hello folks.
This is my first post here, so I'll appreciate if you comment my work.
Its unfinished yet, but I think tonight (here in Brazil) I'll finish it.
I've spent 45 minutes on this model, so I think I have about 2 hours yet.
this is a Sneak Man.
Thank you guys.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/grommievp/1-8.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/grommievp/2-9.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/grommievp/3-10.jpg

[Aravindan]

Hey Medusa, :wave: thank you for letting me know about the voting, im happy knowing i can vote and im glad you liked saber-dude :haha: once again thank you very much.

[Knut]

Hey Medusa, :wave: thank you for letting me know about the voting, im happy knowing i can vote and im glad you liked saber-dude :haha: once again thank you very much.

It wouldn't be fair to not let the contributors vote eh? :)
Welcome to the forum, that also goes to all you other new ones, hope you like your stay here at Threedy!

[DT_art]

Some many awesome sculpts here.
Added a little more detail and changed the shader.
I think the veins on the chest might be too much, I'll probably smooth them down some.

[Freespace-3DT]

Some many awesome sculpts here.
Added a little more detail and changed the shader.
I think the veins on the chest might be too much, I'll probably smooth them down some.

The veins are a bit much, and you might want to define more the chest muscles as well.

[disco stew]

this is my entry. its FISHMAN!!!! 2h 20 so far i hope i find more time today
http://www4.picfront.org/picture/RHT6jYLpR/img/3dtotalfishman.jpg

[DT_art]

Thanks Freespace,
I smoothed the veins out some and added some muscle to the chest, I didn't want to add too much because I want him to be kind of scrawny, I think I need to try and add some boniness to his chest.

[disco stew]

heres a turntable of the current fishman. just to show generall shapes.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=VrJQhD8M5iI

[Intervain]

haha - really diggin' that fishman, quite fun :haha:

[Ordibble Plop]

Hey, some great and fun work here. I hope no-one minds me crashing the party so late but I've had some trouble trying to register for the past few days.

The Chameleon doesn't like going to the movies with girls who want to sit up the back because the hormone surge resulting from even the first hint of making out causes him to transform into an ugly beast. He especially dislikes drive-ins because of the moths.

A couple of hours in - so rusty, so slow. It's all a bit smooth and most time has been spent going back and forward trying to capture the shape and expression. I'd like to make him even more human and wonder how far I can pull him back without losing the chameleon aspect.

[el.tintop]

today i worked a little bit on the face and my character (bearman) transformed more to a kind of dogman or catman??? i dont know.what do you guys think about?

here's a turntable: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=QVsLk485nWA

- by the way, nice fishman, DISCO.and thy...but, some work has to be done on the left of the mouth and the back

http://www4.picfront.org/picture/WgFN0WuV/img/ZBrushDocument_face.png