comp 23 IDEAS

[BiG ToE-3DT]

toss out ideas for the next comp here. If you want, we can even revisit some of the older comps we had, and give them a new twist.

[Chung Wong]

Mini dom wars!!! I want to make up for a pretty lame entry. Something high so we can really sink our teeth into it, character of course.

[funkdelic]

I was thinking about PSP/DS specs... Mini DW with this specs would be fun!

[poopipe]

thoroughly agreed - mini dom war!!

or - and here's a cunning one. take concepts from the dom war 2d category and build them in 3d.

[Chung Wong]

That sounds interesting too, I think the spec should directly affect the time limit. If its the high spec, a month sounds good, low spec two weeks. But I think that has been happening for a while really. Which is good.

Poopipes idea is brilliant! I would rather do it with high specs though. Do you think we would have to ask for permission though?

[poopipe]

I could handle mini versions of the 2d ones - we would have to ask permission but I'd be very surprised if anyone said no

[omnicypher]

how about an environment comp, like a castle, a forest, or a waterfall?

[poopipe]

strip club?

[funkdelic]

I would go to a high spec if we use the 2d DW entries, cause they´re really awesome, and deserve some really nice details

[Chung Wong]

I agree. Also it would be a excellent opportunity to network with people. I don't think a low poly model would make the same inpact as a really good high poly model would.

[poopipe]

what about both ?

one next gen version, one handheld version

[funkdelic]

wow we´ll need like 2 months to finish :P but I love the idea!

[Chung Wong]

I wouldn't mind that at all. I think one after another though. High first:)

[baratation]

i think i wont pass the handheld version but...BRING IT

[rockafella06]

sounds like a great idea doing one high and the other low, but im not sure about the using 2D dominance war concepts. i'll have a think for some ideas that would work.

[-IdanI-]

great ideas i would also go for the mini dom war and the idea of taking the 2D entries and turn them into 3d but i think the specs should be high about 4000-5000 tris ;P

[Chung Wong]

Yes yes and yes. Infact, I wouldn't mind going higher. In fact I'd be happy with orignal specs. But as long as its high enough to produce a next gen model, I'm happy.

[funkdelic]

cant wait to the next comp!! :wall:

[-IdanI-]

yep cant wait untill the next comp will start the mini dom war idea would probably be our best yet. :smug:

[defaultalias]

Mini Dom War was done over at game artisans already. I like the idea of a complete game mock-up, levels, characters and pickups, or maybe a game de-make. Both not unlike the ones held over at Pixelation. PSP/DS specs would be nice but not necessary, N64(not DS, it's different) would be pretty cool.

[Chung Wong]

I think if we were to go ahead with this, it would be nice to say you can use the 2d concept art from the main comp or use your own concept art.

When does the poll start?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I'll wait till the middle of next week, just incase some others have ideas they want to throw out there.

[Chung Wong]

Sweet. I won't be able to start until a couple of weeks anyways.

[revanto]

Mini Dominance War, huh? Do you mean Chibi-size dominance war characters? That would be cool. Original characters but chibi-size would be funny, too.

[darkyien]

I was thinking about PSP/DS specs... Mini DW with this specs would be fun!

I'm pretty Ok with this one!

[lordpisang]

mini Dom War , was great idea in chibi size! And im ok with Idani to have more tri in this comp!

[Chung Wong]

Maybe we could keep it open ended. For example, if we were given 9000 tris and a 2048 map size, you wouldn't have to use that. I'm sure we are talented enough to spot a great model a mile off. I wouldn't vote for a average next gen over a brilliantly modeled ds speced model and I don't think you guys would either. That would cater for everyones needs I think.

[the_bromox]

lol I was all excited this morning because I dreamt that the competition was create your own character for Guitar Hero or Rockband using next game specs. Haha i'm gonna do it anyways. Be cool to see it as a subject!!

[funkdelic]

ooo please bring the pool on!

[Osky]

What if us who enter onto the next competition, model, texture, and rig our low-poly game characters, whatever the topic may be.

But we all put our characters into an engine such as unreal or sandbox, like Funks character was in.

I don't know we could have our characters created, and make them interact in some way as tests to actually see our models in game.

Could be more work than we all have time for though......

[ThEoNeAnDoNlY]

I'm relatively new so I've no idea (and I feel that I'm missing out) what 'Dominance War' is all about - hint hint someone explain :P

But how about we make the best Alien? It can be cartoony, it can be sadistic, realistic etc. the best alien you can think of? Has this been done? I know its not all that original but it gives people a chance to be creative.

[Perversonality]

What if us who enter onto the next competition, model, texture, and rig our low-poly game characters, whatever the topic may be.

But we all put our characters into an engine such as unreal or sandbox, like Funks character was in.

I don't know we could have our characters created, and make them interact in some way as tests to actually see our models in game.

Could be more work than we all have time for though......

Not everyone would have access to those engines so a standard free one would have to be picked, and that could limit what you can do. Not a bad idea, but I think it's probably a little impractical.

Low poly dom war sounds fun though I would prefer to use my own design rather than someone else's from the official contest

[defaultalias]

Also, you'd need permission from the original author of the concept to use it, right?

[Chung Wong]

ThEoNeAnDoNlY. Basically, its an yearly comp based on character designs. You get a different brief each year, after that, its down to you style wise. I'd call it the champions league of 3d character modelling. Check this link out.

http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/index.htm

[obibok]

im not realy into dom war (mainly since the same comp was done sometime ago on gameartisans ....) maybe we could make a model of oursefves for a fpp game.... like unreal etc

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I know Game Artisans did the whole mini dom war already, but this is Threedy, we do everything, better. Thats why we are number 1, 2 years in a row when it comes to dom wars.

[obibok]

i know that were much better :D but that dosnt mean that we have to copy their ideas ;)

[funkdelic]

yeah I do agree with that,

but the idea of do some of those 2d character is really tempting

[-IdanI-]

but we are not copying there ideas. they had to do a low spec character using the DWII theme. we are going for a next gen character using the DWIII theme :shy:

[funkdelic]

I just want another comp asap =P

[aby arty]

well we could just play with basic primitives ,i mean innovation with a cube .
or may be low poly show design.

[TonyClifton]

PSP/DS specs<< what does that mean exactly?! I have no idea...hehehe

[Perversonality]

PSP/DS specs<< what does that mean exactly?! I have no idea...hehehe

From memory, DS is a maximum of 2000 triangles on screen with a very small texture memory, so low res texture maps, such as 128x128 with diffuse and alpha only. PSP is more forgiving with about 30,000 triangles on screen at once, but again there are limits to texture memory space.

Think ultra low poly and you are there :D

but we are not copying there ideas. they had to do a low spec character using the DWII theme. we are going for a next gen character using the DWIII theme :shy:

Er, no, we are talking about doing ultra low poly DW. DW is a high poly (for games) contest, so doing a next gen character would simply be redoing DW again!

[katana]

Stylized Bionicles....

[ThEoNeAnDoNlY]

Hmm... Dominance war looks a bit over-done, how about we do a 'Prevalence war' - set 2000 years in the future? so kind of like Dominance war, but futuristic, rather than Dominance's swords and daemons kind of thing?

Think 'Warhammer' Space marines, meets the dark gritty style of Dominance war and we're on the right track

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Lets make love, not war.

[funkdelic]

we could take an old model, the we did some time ago, and remake it...

[aldryn]

we could take an old model, the we did some time ago, and remake it...

doesnt really work for those of us without old models :hurt:

summers on now so im hoping to participate in this one n improve myself :dance:

[Tetsuya]

Domination? considering threedy won the dominancewar, why don't we show off our big guns... or weapons.. or unicorns? =) or show that we are the kings of the 3d world

[katana]

Maybe describe a world with a fair amount of detail and then the task would be to make something that would fit into that world, beings, vehicles, buildings..ect...that way it is open ended with a theme.

[funkdelic]

Mexican female wrestler and start the pool for God sake =P

[BenniKImmel]

I like the idea Katana came up with about describing a world and we figure out what to populate it with

[defaultalias]

Dom war is all but played out now and I'm tired of always seeing overly masculine space marines and alien super-models. How about something fun and lighthearted?

A few ideas:
Art test from a prospective studio (find an old piece of concept art and pretend you're applying for a position)
Dr. Seuss style environment
Main character of Nintendo's next killer IP
Baddies from Nintendo's next killer IP

[TonyClifton]

I could think of supporting characters, like there are those typical characters that defaultalias is referring to, and there could be like the assistant supporting characters. A little bit like the sideshow bobs of the low poly world.

[funkdelic]

Main character of Nintendo's next killer IP

nice one

[Perversonality]

If people are looking for something more light hearted, why not have a deliberately vague interpret-this-theme-yourself kind of contest. Something where you have three words and you have to make model(s) based on the theme; earth, wind and fire being the classic example. Would give everyone the chance to simply have a play around with their imagination for a change ;)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

what sucks is, you guys waited till after I posted the poll to start giving out the really good ideas. So now I don't know if I should cancel the poll, or just save these new ideas till next time.

[ThEoNeAnDoNlY]

How about we make the main character for a game idea we come up with ourselves? so we hand in the finished character, and a small brief on the game?

[Perversonality]

what sucks is, you guys waited till after I posted the poll to start giving out the really good ideas. So now I don't know if I should cancel the poll, or just save these new ideas till next time.

Tee-hee! If you think some of the suggestions are better, redo the poll. Might be worth waiting another day or two to let everyone get the current contest out of their veins too just in case there are some more killer suggestions?

[poopipe]

I like the nintendo bad guy idea

This is probably going to clash with my 2 weeks in greece and house moving so I bow out of voting :)