THE Sculpting Challenge 006 - Archangel ( Nudity Warning )

[Freespace-3DT]

http://209.85.55.5/test_server/tac/ftpupload/image/TheSculptingChallenge/comp06poster.jpg

After a short hiatus, welcome to the sixth challenge of THE Sculpting Challenge. Wether you're new to sculpting, to the forum, or you're a seasoned veteran, come join the Sculpting madness, because there's a lot of fun and learning to be had.

The Rules:

1. The competition will last one week, which will be allocated to creating and submitting the entries, followed by several days of judging and voting the entries -- at which point the next competition will start.
2. The moderators will be supplying a base mesh for each competition, from which everyone will start sculpting. This is so we all get an equal start and it keeps us on topic. This week's basemesh was originally provided by Crimson King for the previous challenges, and was edited to include wings and a few more edgeloops at the arms and chest.
3. There will be a time limit for the sculpting. Spend no longer than the allocated time limit, then post a screen-grab of your model. No cheating, we are relying on your honesty here.
4. Do not add any meshes other than those sanctioned in this competition brief.
5. As the base mesh shows, the sculpt is a shoulders, torso, wings and head sculpt only, do not attempt to extend this into a full-body sculpt.
6. 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.
7. For your final entry, post a screen-grab from your software with your finished work in it. It's fine to present this stuff nicely, with nice labelling etc, but do not add any post-production to the images themselves. These images must be uploaded to our servers by using the "manage attachments" button on the forum reply page. Do not link to external images files. Larger than the maximum size or posts containing links to external images (other than for reference materials) will be removed and the poster disqualified.
8. You can have multiple entries, but you can have only one final entry for each competition.
9. Do not create your own WIP thread. Simply post all WIP screen-grabs in here, and your FINAL entry in this thread (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=650812).

These rules apply to everybody taking part, there will be NO exceptions!
We've attached the base mesh at the bottom of this post. Take it and go subdivide.

Prizes
A hard cover copy of Digital Art Masters: Volume 3. For further information on Digital Art Masters series, look here (http://shop.3dtotal.com/product_info.php?products_id=226).

Time limit - 4 hours
Start Date: 22nd July, 21:00 PM GMT +0
Deadline - 29th July, 21:00 PM GMT +0 (For information about GMT click here (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/))
Subject - Archangel.

Archangels, the supreme messengers of holy righteousness and divine judgement over all acts of evil and wickedness. They are mighty stalwart warriors at the front of the winged army.

So what this challenge requires from you, the competitors, is to sculpt a winged warrior. Head+torso+wings. Personality is a definite plus, as has been noticed in previous challenges, so give your character some unique traits, keep note of his/her backstory when sculpting, add an expression.

And yes, you can go the Archangel of light path, but you can also make a fallen Archangel, a dark brooding winged warrior, ready to take vengeance. Just don't make it a demon. We're looking for winged warriors from the Heavens, ready to smite all in their path.

As before, we're giving you the option of having eyes, there's a separate .obj file provided or you can add eyes yourself as sub-tools (or software equivalent) but you have to pick one or the other of these options, not both.

Archangels assemble! :halo:

[Puckducker]

Sweet, interesting topic of choice Freespace. Should create a good verity of entries, especially being a bust with 2 appendages that are larger than the bust themselves. Can't wait to get started.

[Intervain]

yay! it's on :) - I'm in for sure!

[RockstarKate]

I'm going to give it a try... with my 2 weeks ZBrush experience! Prepare for awesomeness:o

[Freespace-3DT]

Puckducker: I definetely hope the wings are going to set these sculpts apart. :)

Intervain: Welcome aboard!

RockstarKate: Unleash your Zbrush awesomeness, Kate! We're ready.


Because wings are quite tricky to make, and they will make or break your sculpts, here's a reference I find extremely useful:

[bgen]

a finally - great idea looking forward to the results.

[ryvick]

another really interesting idea. hmm... never done wings before lets see if i am to par.

[Aleks]

I might give it a try as well :)

[gnome]

Great theme, looking forward to some awesome sculpts. Good luck everyone!



Because wings are quite tricky to make, and they will make or break your sculpts, here's a reference I find extremely useful:

hmm, that doesn't quite look like the full story. Here's something I've come across recently:
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6219/birdwingtutor02yh1.jpg :D

[capitan_popo]

CANT WAIT TO SEE SOME ENTIRES!!!! SO SAD THAT I WONT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE!!!:hmm::xx::ugh::hurt::cry:

[Loafie]

ah christ, puckducker is going to smite us all \o/

[M_Cederstrom]

Just Wip :30 Min's in (plus or minus some 2 Min's), going with a Futuristic Archangel Knight. :D

[Loafie]

nice! I like the Rocketeer-esqe cross-breast look you've got going

[M_Cederstrom]

Lol, thanks Loafie, I hope I can pull it off. The wing design is going to be the hard part. :D

[skullbeast]

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[superclops]

here's some wip after an hour and bit

[Loafie]

WIP 92 minutes.


"The Fallen angel."

Creepy satan! Awesome job for 92 minutes

[gumby666]

I'm in for this one too!!
I've been away for over a month in Japan so need to get my hands dirty sculpting again. Will try and get a final submission in this time. Do I follow the path of light or darkness????

[superclops]

if you could get those 3 bodies hanging out of the mouths skullbeast that would be awesome

[skullbeast]

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[Loafie]

that would be brutus, cassius, and judas in the middle

[skullbeast]

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[Korda]

I had trouble with the last challange and been looking forward to this one for ages. I think im going to try to go for a modern looking angel.
Skullbeast thats a pretty cool sculpt but it looks very demonish to me and not very angelic freespace said "And yes, you can go the Archangel of light path, but you can also make a fallen Archangel, a dark brooding winged warrior, ready to take vengeance. Just don't make it a demon. We're looking for winged warriors from the Heavens, ready to smite all in their path."

[skullbeast]

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[Freespace-3DT]

I had trouble with the last challange and been looking forward to this one for ages. I think im going to try to go for a modern looking angel.
Skullbeast thats a pretty cool sculpt but it looks very demonish to me and not very angelic freespace said "And yes, you can go the Archangel of light path, but you can also make a fallen Archangel, a dark brooding winged warrior, ready to take vengeance. Just don't make it a demon. We're looking for winged warriors from the Heavens, ready to smite all in their path."

Good point, Korda. However, Skullbeast's reference stands as proof that it is in fact Lucifer the fallen angel, so it's allright. It has demon traits, but it remains an angel, a dark one too. :) Looking forward to your sculpt, too.

[skullbeast]

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[Loafie]

Interestingly enough, all demons are actually fallen angels in a biblical sense, and satan is called both the highest fallen angel, and the prince of demons, so it's kind of a blurry line, haha. But before we get into some crazy religious discussion lets see some more sculpts!

[skullbeast]

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[JHarford]

Looks like a horned demon to me. The challenge seems written to avoid creatures and demons. But hey, your free to interpret anything anyway you like.

Good work freepsace on getting this up :) ... i'm sure it will spawn a ton of great work.

[Freespace-3DT]

I definetely hope so, Joe. It had a slower start then other comps, though.

[JHarford]

Well people aren't checking back every day to see if a new comps starts, they stopped that 2 weeks ago. Give it a few days and people will start to notice it.

[Pedro Jatobá]

Cool entrys until now , maybe I'll join you guys...

well done everyone..

[Sandpiper]

All right! Archangels!! What a complete opposite from the challenge. It's good exercise to change up the subject matter.....I'll try to squeeze something out!

[NeoGeo]

yaay sculpting challange is back

45 min in 30 of those were spent on the wings OMG who modelled those :P sorry they are great :D

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5573/archangel2tt9.jpg
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8849/archangelhj6.jpg

[Dunric]

Hello everyone !
WIP , 1h , 10 min .

[Loafie]

About 90 minutes deep. Need to get better at this.

[RockstarKate]

So would it be okay to add a subtool (or equivalent) for hair or other small details, or must everything come from the base model? I was trying to get that head into the shape of long flowing hair last night and having issues :)

[NeoGeo]

no but you could use the eyes or teeth shape that into hair

[Dunric]

3 Hours ...

[grommie]

YES! I really love this theme....
Come on guys!, Lets sculpt!

[funkdelic]

thats pretty cool, gonna give that a try

[skullbeast]

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[JHarford]

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[NeoGeo]

1h 40

[kazmamurat]

cool starts guys,

superclops; i liked face style,

skullbeast; great work, impressive start,

here s my start, about 75-80 min. now, i don't think 4 hours will be enough this time, i guess i ll have a little trouble about wings.:) i'll continue later,

just added a timelapse video of progress, in members sculpting videos topic.

[slangford]

Well guys I thought it was time to join in on all the fun. Here is were Im at after about 20mins of figuring out what I was going to do.

[bgen]

great work everyone so far. i am likein this challange a lot.

here i am min 60 min so far.

[Freespace-3DT]

great work everyone so far. i am likein this challange a lot.

here i am min 60 min so far.

Dang, that's one happy Archangel. :)

[bgen]

well he lives in heaven what do u expect ? :D would u be happy in heaven, i say "would I , Hell yeah" :D ?

[Sandpiper]

dunric: yours has a nice soldiery feel to him. Very romanlike....

kazmamurat: I'm digging the serious face she's got. Nice forms already.

slangford: I like your entry's expression and flow. Could look very peaceful and heavenly once you're done!

bgen: yes, being an archangel in heaven would make me smile too.....




Here's my entry after about 70 minutes. I'm going for the archangel who's leading a charge against the ol' mean demon dudes.....

I hope the stumpy arms come out ok in the end, otherwise it looks like he's saying "ow my freaking arms are gone!!!".....

[gnome]

I hope the stumpy arms come out ok in the end, otherwise it looks like he's saying "ow my freaking arms are gone!!!".....

that's more a matter of the expression on his face. Just make sure his face says "AAAGH! go back to hell, demons, or my rapier will pierce your black hearts!" and not "AAAGH! teh pain!"
(I see a rapier in that pose rather than your average sword ;))

[ale3dfx]

Hello Artists,

I liked the theme I will try to participate good luck to all!

Until more Alessandro.

[RHedendahl]

Nice to see that your alive and kicking bgen :).
Great work so far all.
Here is my sculpt, about 2 hours, will probably not do anything more on it.

[MrHappy]

Quality contest this week, well worth the delay. Hopefully I will get a chance to give it a go tomorrow evening. Good luck all :)

[VersionThirst]

Are things like creating alpha maps in an outside program, other than the sculpting program, included into the 4 hour time limit?

Also, would it be a legal move to create something like a feather alpha map, and use that when creating the wings?

I'm at 2 hours now, and want to plan out the next 2 hours, working on the wings.

Thanks.

[bgen]

yo kirgan ye i am back and kickin in 3d. will pretty soon update my model.
u should work 2 more hrs. on ure sculpt looks ace so far.
likin the wings - they rock.

VersionThirst - as far as i know comstum alphas are allowed.

Sandpiper - looking really great. u shouldn't have mention the cut off arm. now i see him allways shouting in pain..... :P

[Loafie]

about 2hrs. 10min. in

[Puckducker]

Ah, it's great to see you in the competition Superclops. Get to put those zBrush skills to get use finally.

A lot of good starts so far. Here's my initial work, 1 hour in. Going for a slightly androgynous look, since angels are supposed to be neither male nor female....think the sculpt is leaning towards the male side a bit too much right now.....

M_Cederstrom: I like the cowl on your guy. Probably going to help separate him from the other entires.
skullbeast: Nice interpretation. The face looks great, hopefully you'll be able to get a good balance with the rest of the sculpt.
superclops: Good to see you in the competition Superclops. The face and hair are a good start, and I like the giant wings. The giant wings look cool too, you going to pose them at the end?
NeoGeo: Looks like a pretty clean start. The neck area is already looking pretty solid though.
Dunric: Nice to see a little armor on your guy, good start.
Loafie: Great idea, I love the design on the back of the wings. I was actually thinking of blindfolding my angel too, but you've got a pretty good start so I think I'll leave the idea with you. Nice start!
kazmamurat: Already looks weighty and well developed (uh, the entire sculpt that is...), good job.
slangford: Elegant start Slangford. I like how you've already got the hair gestured in there, it looks like it's going to flow really well in your sculpt.
bgen: Indeed this guy does look pretty happy. Maybe try to curl that smile down just a tad (or flatten the middle on the mouth), I think he's maybe grinning a bit too much.
Sandpiper: Nice pose to start things off. I'm always so tempted to pose things right from the start, but I have difficulty sculpting that way...you've seem to got things under control pretty well though. Looks great.
Kirgan: Great work, I think it does look just about finished. You've gotta give it a pose though....just something so it's not entirely neutral looking.

EDIT: Added latest update....2 hours of work now. Going for a bit of a constantine look in the clothing.

[Korda]

sorry Skullbeast I'm not a very religious person but what you said made sense I just didn't want you to go through your entire sculpt just to find out that it would be disqualified.
Anyway I was just playing around with trying to get some wings that looked alright and ended up doing the full thing I think I will try again to make a better one though. Id still like some criticism or advice if you wouldnt mind though so i can improve the next one.

oh yeah it took around 2 1/2 hrs

[Freespace-3DT]

Korda, your character has a good expression, and he looks like some sort of superhero. What I would comment on is that the details are washed out, you could make them clearer, more crisp, better defined.

[VersionThirst]

1st go at the subject. Put in 4 hours and didn't have time to add another subdivision to get rid of the jaggies in the wings, and wanted to pose it too. Oh well, I might try another one later.

Really cool stuff so far, it's interesting to see everyone's different wing styles.

[Loafie]

wow, i like how it looks like the wings are armored as well

[kazmamurat]

kirgan; good work on wings, like it!

puckducker; i like your style really, only thing that i didn t like is form of neck, looks like two pipes and a hole. good work!

bgen; happy archangel idea, haha, awesome! i think maybe you can rotate arms to inner side a little,

versionthirst; nice armor and wings, nice one!

[RHedendahl]

Bgen: Thanks, will problably pose it like Puckducker said, and fix the face a little :P
Puckducker:Thanks, Nice cloths, the big fold looks a little strange though
Kazmamurat: Thanks. Totally missed your sculpt, looking really good as always.
Versionthirst: Looking good, nice armor and wings.

[NeoGeo]

3h 5min
i think i posed him to early i wanted to fix the corners of his mouth but i didn't work well cause the symmytry mode is useless with a posed model :(

45 min left for details in the wings and face
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6105/archangel3az0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[chai]

I'll call it done, lovely comp !
http://www.svartberg.com/wip/3dt_archangel.jpg

[bgen]

kazmamurat - glad u're likeing the idea.

Here is my Final - the wings where a pain in the ***.
But i like how he turned out.

[NeoGeo]

looks awsome daydreaming angel :p

[bgen]

Cheers NeoGeo.

couldn't help but go doing this. This image was stuck in my head :D

"They were looking towards heaven ,their salvation - heaven the place where they, the righteous can be angels of the most High. Seing the Salvation is close a huge smile appeared on everyones face :smug:"

[Dunric]

I think that is ! I'm pretty happy with results .

[Dunric]

Sandpiper Very angry Archangel huh ? I like him :) .
kirgan Nicely done Wings !
VersionThirst Armored wings , very original .
bgen Awesome happy face and cool helmet .

[Freespace-3DT]

VersionThirst: Good job, I'm loving how you made the wings look like organic armor.

NeoGeo: You got the anatomy right, and the dynamic pose helps, but I think it needs "character", "personality".

chai: Anime Archangel, never thought of it. Great job, it's a simple sculpt but has a lot of personality. I like how you treated the wings, especially.

bgen: He's still a happy dude (being in heaven, I guess ;P), and the amount of detail shows you really spent time and effort on the wings. Great to see you've kept coming back on each challenge.

Dunric: Hey, this is a cool representation of a medieval Archangel. The wings and armor turned out sweet.

[kazmamurat]

Bgen; like final version, good work,

Dunric; very clean sculpt, i wish wings were little bigger, good work!

here is more 55 mins of sculpting, progress is slow, it seems like this one won't finish in the end of 4 hours,

[Banaan]

pretty new to sculpting, heres my go at 2hrs30 ;D

[gumby666]

Great stuff by everyone!!
Here's my attempt 1 hour in.
It was meant to be a cute little cherub like archangel but seems to have developed into a naughty little child of lucifer fallen archangel. I'm going to attempt some flowing locks but have never sculpted hair before. Probably sculpt it from the eyes as a subtool.
Wings will be mini cherub style wings.
Do all fallen archangels have their wings cut off? Hope not!
http://www.brokemerecords.com/Archangel01.jpg

[M3N7H0L5]

i've been away from threedy for quite awhile now..been busy with my sleep schedule..man,i need some workout or drugs..:P
here's my 1:40 of sculpting..a lot need to be done here..just showing you my idea of infected archangel..zombified fallen archangel..wth..

you guys are all awesome..i am too lazy to credit each one..but,all i can say is all archangels here are superb..certainly the same thing will happen,difficulties in voting..

p/s:my archangel got plastic surgery for his chin,but it went wrong..LOL:smug:

[Sandpiper]

Man, this was quite the difficult one to hit under the 4 hour mark! You can tell I had to go minimum detail on the wings (you can see the blatant use of clay tubes! ha!). I spent way too much time on the body and had very little time for the hair, teeth, and wings. So some of it just got simple strokes. I guess at first I was still under the same pace of flow (unlimited time) as we had on challenge 5! Lesson learned....

So remember, this guy is leading charge against the evil ones. I tried to give him a look of saying, "chaaaaarge!!" I wish I could still work on his face a bit but hey I'm just glad I'm done. :)

[Dunric]

kazmamurat I wished to make him more canonic looks like , in the ikons they were with small wings , cause angel flies not by means of their wings , but more with divine power . That how i see it . And awesome female angel , keep it up .
Sandpiper Cool dynamic pose .
Good luck to all !

[kazmamurat]

Sandpiper; amazing result!

Dunric; it s okay, you re right about wing thing, great work.

and after some time waste about wings, they looked really really bad, i have 25 min. left now and there s nothing about wings.

here she is; archangel "balance",

[Sandpiper]

nice job kazmamurat! I hear you on the wings. Pain in the butt on my entry too. As usual, you pulled off very nice forms for your character. The bumps on her arm make me wonder about what happened to her....some sort of story going on there about how she's transforming....very cool

[NeoGeo]

it's two face angel :P nice one kazmamurat

here is mine 3H 50M the back fo the wings got ruined when i was sculpting the front :( but i hid it nicely :p
i tried to get a dreamy look like he was flying trough heaven with nothing but his own toughts

[kazmamurat]

here is final, i m not happy about wings, 4 hours wasn't enough this time and it s not really finished.

Archangel "Balance"... I thought that strongest of angels must be both good and evil, so he/she can rule all of other angels.

[Crispy4004]

I absolutely love the theme. Wish there wasn't something else I've been itching to work on.

Oh well, guess I already did the whole winged person from the last challenge.

[kazmamurat]

some fun :)

[bgen]

Sandpiper - nice work , i like the allover work of the muscles.

kazmamurat - ace as allways, to bad u couldn't finish the wings. one more things said. i love you uniques sculpt style. i just love it.

Dunric - lookin good mate. has a very tradition style to it.

[Loafie]

How do you get such amazing lips?

[slangford]

So heres alittle update at about 1 hr. Any crits?

[VersionThirst]

Really cool sculpts so far

slangford - the wings wrapping around is a really nice touch.

kazmamurat - really fun idea and top notch execution as always. It's funny how the good side doesn't show nakedness, but the evil side is all about it :evil:

Sandpiper - Expression is really cool, definitely has character to it.

M3N7H0L5 - really awesome. Are you using the skull underneath for reference or is that part of the eye or teeth sculpted into a skull that will be in the final?

bgen - expression is cool, and so is the style and texture of the wings


Seems to be a constant theme - people spending too much time on the bodies and faces, and not enough time left to work on the wings.

I think I'm going to try another one, but this time, start with the wings first, make sure they're detailed out, then go into the body and face... wondering if that strategy would be worth it...

[Sandpiper]

slangford: really looking nice so far. The wings stand out and have a great form as they wrap around. I like that you've given the wings the attention they deserve! :) I'd like to see another hours worth of work cause there ain't much else to say right now. It's looking like it could be totally sweet.

versionthirst: thanks for the kind words on my entry. :) If you have the energy to do wings twice, then go for it! I'd love to do another entry, but the thought of failing another attempt at making feathery wings makes me shiver....hehe

[Freespace-3DT]

sandpiper: Excellent, simply superb expression. It's like the moment of the charge, the strike. You've got my vote so far, let's see what other sculpts we get. The wings however, I find to be a bit over-bulged.

NeoGeo: Yeah, you hid that error nicely with the angle. Maybe try another sculpt these days, could turn out better, and without the damaged backside of the wings. :haha:

kazmamurat: Sweet sculpt, I love the duality of your archangel. I also like how the evil version is topless, seductive.

slangford: The pose is great. Poetic, angelic. Crit would be the arm is a bit too fat, considering the rest of her body is thinner. Also try to create a better contrast between hair and skin ( especially in the neck area ).

Great sculpts, people! Keep 'em coming. Let's get these challenges back into the spotlight.

[DELTATHUND3R]

Awsome sculpts by all.really nice..
Very hard sculpt this was.I sketched mine before hand so it made the process a little easier...
Heres my arc angel,well just a tiny bit :):) at 3hours 34 mins...I havent added eyes yet and he needs a little clean up. my remaining 26 mins is so precious. .. fun challenge...
Archangel , heavenly wars.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c371/DELTA-THUNDER/knightz.jpg

[thee]

Great sculpts, people! Keep 'em coming. Let's get these challenges back into the spotlight. maybe a plug from 3dtotal not just the forum?
bgen- hahahah if you imagen heaven was filled with that guy smiling everywhere hahahaha
kazmamurat- I loved all what you did in the sculpting challenges, keep on going!
Sandpiper- I like his expression and muscle flow chest to arm. It reminds me of the fall of the angels by Rubens. When i first thought of an angel I saw those serene faces before me. Would be strange if they kept those during a fight:)
slangford- I can't crit anything yet before you define your hair more(and maybe a less glossy material?)

hope to join you soon, Thee

[ale3dfx]

Hello Artists,
I did this angel of war, I hope you like it, took 3 hours.

[chai]

ale3dfx: cool start, but I'll strongly advice against using the red wax material in zbrush, it's too easy to miss out on details with that material - try switching to the basic white materials, the grey mats, or check out the RS 2 pack (though not free), good luck :)

Sandpiper: awesome gesture, did you take it out of symmetry after you sculpted the basic form ?? or did you just broke symmetry in a layer and switch that off when you want to make symmetric changes ? very cool :P

[grommie]

Hey alessandro....great start my buddy...like chai said, change your zmat...the red wax one is horrible...be careful at the anatomy stuff, but I can see that you`re on a great evolution comparing with the others sculpts that you had done.
keep it up dude...see ya

[chrisskinner]

The sculpting challenge is back! Great theme and enties from everyone.

Here's my fallen angel at 1hr 30min (time for bed now I think) :) Obviously still alot to do, especially on the wings.

[Sandpiper]

ale3dfx: Welcome to the challenge man! You've done some good work so far. I would strongly suggest you have a good lookin' over of a good anatomy book or check out some bodybuilder photos to get some good reference. It'll give you a better idea of which muscles flow where and into what other muscle, etc. Also, try using another brush other than inflate. I've really got accustomed to using the clay tubes and smoothing technique. Then I use the magnify/inflate/move to puff out necessary parts. Also, keep an eye on the falloff of your brush too. Very key. Anywho, keep up the energy! :)

chai: I actually formed out the pose first but not on a separate layer although that's my usual technique. If I needed to get something to sculpt symmetrically, I would just use the posable symmetry right under the activate symmetry options. It's kinda tricky and it would sometimes switch off if I used different brushes or changed levels of subdivisions. I'm sure I did something weird to make that happen, but anyway, it's a handy thing to use. It basically bases the sculpting action on your model's topology. So if your model is perfectly topologically symmetrical, then it'll work great. It doesn't do the inverse of the world space coordinates that the regular symmetry does.

And actually, I didn't use it a whole lot because I needed to address a lot of things asymmetrically. So that meant a lot of work!! ha!! Thanks for asking!

freespace: hey thanks man! I bet if I had another 2 hours I could knock those wings right out. :) I agree that they are kinda bulgy.....ha!

[Ordibble Plop]

Cool work so far. I'm hoping I might get some time this weekend to have a go.

It's kinda tricky and it would sometimes switch off if I used different brushes or changed levels of subdivisions.

If I recall correctly, you have to reapply posable symmetry every time you switch subdivision levels. I guess it's not like a symmetry map and has to refind symmetry if the mesh 'changes'.

[Puckducker]

Ah, the time constraints on this one are tricky for sure. Was hoping to get some hair on my guy, but I didn't think I had enough time to get it done properly, so I just left him bald for now. Like everyone else, the wings proved a bit of a challenge, again, wish I had more time to explore different ways of creating them.

A model I may go back and revisit later down the road to revise some items. But for now, these are my final submissions. I've also included the roughed out hair I had started. Was going to make it with a sphere, and then project the head out into the sculpted hair/sphere.

[Puckducker]

Thanks for the comments from everyone. Some pretty solid work here, though I'd hope we'd get a few more people in this week's competition. I guess the hiatus might have left a few people wandering off....

VersionThirst: Really nice armored look you have. I think my only recommendation for the future is the wings looks pretty flat, they could use a bit more volume and form. Great sculpt for 4 hours though.

chai: Nice anime inspired sculpt!

bgen: I think your smiling angel concept ended up turning out quite well. Actually, the face looks pretty solid, I'm really digging the smile now.

Dunric: The final bronze look is really nice, definitely has the classic archangel look about him.

kazmamurat: Final turned out quite well, as you always seem to be able to achieve. I only wish you could have had more time to perhaps pose it out a bit.

Banaan: For being new to sculpting, that's not bad at all. Try maybe following the flow of anatomy a little closer, especially around the chest/shoulders. I like the face quite a bit though.

M3N7H0L5: Nice concept. I hope you have the time to bring the whole thing in line with what you have so far, it's looking pretty solid.

Sandpiper: The final turned out great, exactly what you were going for I think. Totally nailed the pose/expression.

NeoGeo: Nice pose. Yeah, I screwed up the back of my wings too after sculpting the front...just be careful when fixing the back, cause I messed up the front then when I went to do that.

slangford: No crits. Love the pose, very angelic. Can't wait for the final result.

DELTATHUND3R: Nice armor design, a you've done a good job incorporating it into the sculpt.

ale3dfx: Pretty serious looking angel. He looks a little bubbly though. Have you tried using the clay brush? I find it gives me a really nice look, without getting the soft bubbly effect that the standard brush tends to give.

chrisskinner: I like the mask, and the giant wings look great.

gumby666: Not a bad start at all. Just be careful not to make it too demon looking.

[skullbeast]

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[bgen]

skullbeast - nice style. i like his expression is like "u want to **** me off or what ?" really great.

Puckducker - i am glad u digg the smile now. :D you model turned out nice as well and i like the structre of the wings.

chrisskinner - they even have superheros among the archangels huh ? :D looks great so far.

ale3dfx - nice going - certainly see him holding a big gun if archangels even need 'em

DELTATHUND3R - bgen want to see more of ure sculpt. looks nice dough the helmet, that is.

slangford - very classy, i imagend her short after the started off for a fly. enjoying the air by lanuching her self up into the ari. nice pose 2.

[DELTATHUND3R]

Hi all:):)..
Puckerducker ty :):).
So many great sculpts in this challenge.too many to mention...Alot of you impress me with your skillz.
bgen =heres some more piks.Im at 3 hrs 54 mins.So im finished with it.I might try make another and choose which i like best..I didnt add eyes just used the archy obj.No time:(...I decided too try polish armour alittle in what time i had left..
The tech I used too make armour is mask,magnify pinch,smooth.
Wings i just used a feather alpha....I did make a heap of feather alphas but used feath07 from a organics alpha pack,i downloaded somewhere wich i lub. but due too subdiv i could get them too look perfect.I had troubles with the pitty heads on his armoured shoulders.alas no time too fix.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c371/DELTA-THUNDER/archangelcloseup.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c371/DELTA-THUNDER/aarchsideclose.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c371/DELTA-THUNDER/archasholddetails.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c371/DELTA-THUNDER/knightz2.jpg
i hope some of u like this 1 :).

[thee]

2hr 30m body and mouth area still need a lot of work

[pogimonz]

I went with a lil anime style.

[bgen]

pogimonz - i hope it's not finished yet, looking good there but why not use the rest of the time to refine the googles and eyes.

[kazmamurat]

puckducker; like your unique style, good work!

pogimonz; what a cutie, if i m not wrong, secondary circles of the eyes are there for shining or specular like anime character eye classic? good work!

skullbeast; I m very curious about final version of this one, it looks great!

thee; i like it, but maybe you can smooth a little, she looks very old this way.

[thee]

smoothed it down a bit, zbrush crashed again 3hr35min

[M3N7H0L5]

Impressive!everybody is doing a terrific job!

VersionThirst,the skull is part of the trick,i used upper teeth..
Puckducker,thanks,i hope i can make some drastic changes to my sculpt since i've wasted a lot of time playing around..and the wings are seriously annoying..

Here's my lil update on the sculpt..a lot had run on my mind but all left less than an hour..i'll define some of the details and i'm not sure about any hair..maybe this one got hair loss problem..or he shaved it because some of the feathers grew on his head:smug:

let me know if u got any suggestions or comments..

[ryvick]

VersionThirst, chai, bgen, Dunric, kazmamurat, M3N7H0L5, Sandpiper, thee, NeoGeo, chrisskinner, puckducker and the rest i cannot remember right now but wow these sculpt are coming out very nice. i will comment later with detail when i have somethign to show as well. great encouraging work people.

[Dunric]

Some great sculpting added here ! Very impressive works in minimal time limit , keep it up , guys !

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Looking good guys, some truelly incredible sculpts again this time around really amazing stuff :)

CG.

[WildWire]

Great challenge, i like the theme.
Here is my interpretation of an Archangel.
Hope you like it.

Ralf Stumpf

[kazmamurat]

wow, awesome work!!

[Sandpiper]

yeah, cool stylin! The head design gives it some nice flavor.

[M3N7H0L5]

clean work, Ralf!superb job!
the head looks kinda familiar to me..i can't remember..

[Tuss4]

Wildwire, that is off the chain, man.

[Crispy4004]

thee, I love you you approached the wings.

M3N7H0L5, great job with the muscle flow.

WildWire, I really like your unique style.

slangford Absolutely stunning. Your sculpt is definately one to keep an eye on.

[Crab People]

Here is my sculpt at 2hrs30min.

[Crab People]

Here he is with his cloak. I used an eyeball mesh for it, hope that's okay. Still have to add details to his cloak.

[Crab People]

WildWire - That's some awesome work! I love that material you are using, is that yours or did you grab it from somewhere? I wants....

[Freespace-3DT]

Here he is with his cloak. I used an eyeball mesh for it, hope that's okay. Still have to add details to his cloak.

Yeah sure, you can recycle teeth or eyes for add-ons to your sculpt. That's an awesome fallen angel, by the way!

[Aleks]

Geeze,Crab People, can't you make a sculpt that isn't packed with all kinds of stuff? :D Nice work

Good stuff,peeps :) I'll probably make something myself tomorrow.

[WildWire]

kazmamurat: Thanks, I hope you got your Mr. Incredible 3d-print.
Would be interresting to see a photo with it.

Sandpiper: Thanks.

M3N7HOL5: Thanks, for the design I take a little look at the Hellboy 2 Dark Angel.

Tuss4: Thank you.

Crispy4004: Many thanks.

Crap People: Thanks. For the material I work on a new MatCap-Set
for Gnomonology and maybe this is one for the new set (still not ready,
I test every new material with every of my models and make little
changes on the shader balls and the modifier values).

later

Ralf Stumpf

[grommie]

A lot of amazing works here guys...
Here is my little angel, still have to work some more, but I still have 2 hours, so I hope I can finish this one.

[DELTATHUND3R]

MMm im seeing some real quality sculpts.Ralph your works nutz,i love it.. :):).....
Grab people WT...are ya crazzzyyyy thats very crazzy good :)..
Sandpiper your expression is awsome,muscle flow really good very well done :):).
All sculpts are looking great.

[Dunric]

grommie Impressive start man ! I'm sure that 2 hours is enough for get this done . But pay attention on the plumage direction .

[Helioz]

Many great sculpts so far!
Here is my take on the archangel. My idea was to make her look like a piece of a larger broken marble or stone statue. But I spent too much time on the face and hair and did only have time make a rough block in of the wings and make them look like damaged. They look way too wobbly and soft. Oh well, this was my first challenge and I at least had a lot of fun doing it.

121333

[gnome]

Dang. I was just about to comment every single entry, but my browser killed everything I had typed. ****ing ****. Oh well. Great work everyone! :smug:


--Edit: Helioz, you need to use the forum's attachment feature to post your final entry in the other thread. (I post this here to keep the final entries thread clean.)

[Freespace-3DT]

Dang. I was just about to comment every single entry, but my browser killed everything I had typed. ****ing ****. Oh well. Great work everyone! :smug:

Happened to me at times. That's why, when making LONG posts, I make backups of them in Notepad before posting them, or every 2-3 minutes. Call me paranoid, but you just saw how it sucks.


Helioz: Welcome to the challenge. You said you spent most of the time on her face and hair, and it shows. It turned out really cool. Too bad for the wings, though. However, once you've submitted the four hour sculpt in the final section, nothing's stopping you from continuing your creation, and even showing us the progress here. :wave: Looking forward for more sculpts from you.

[RockstarKate]

Here's my 2 hour mark. I was going for cute baby archangel, but I'm ending up more with precocious child archangel :eek:
Oh well, The face is kind of funny even if it has many issues.
Will try the wings next, but don't expect much- I am too new for this speed sculpting :o

[gnome]

Happened to me at times. That's why, when making LONG posts, I make backups of them in Notepad before posting them, or every 2-3 minutes. Call me paranoid, but you just saw how it sucks.

Yeah, that's a reasonable thing to do. I know it from my university's email - it logs you out after 15 mins of inactivity, or 15 mins typing without reloading. It sucks baby monkeys, I wonder what the deuce they were thinking. :wall: :D
Firefox can actually restore closed tabs with all the text entered, but it didn't this time. :hurt:

I already said it, but it can't hurt to do it again: really impressive work in here. If I had more time I might learn how to sculpt :D

[Loafie]

nice cherub!

[Crispy4004]

Awesome job Helioz and Crab_People.

RockstarKate if it's any help I've got a cherub from the last competition (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=646246&postcount=21). I may even have some reference photos somewhere on my comp.

[Helioz]

gnome: Thanks for the heads up, but I did upload and attach it. If you check the image properties the image is hosted on 3d-total, don't know why the "Attached Images" text did not show up.

Freespace-3DT: Thanks! Yeah I might continue to work on it if I can find the time.

Crispy4004:: Thank you!

[gnome]

RockstarKate: Looks good so far, no crits right now, keep it up!

gnome: Thanks for the heads up, but I did upload and attach it. If you check the image properties the image is hosted on 3d-total, don't know why the "Attached Images" text did not show up.

You're right, never mind then. Weird stuff going on there. *scratches head* ;)

[grommie]

I wish I could have more time, but it`s ok
and thanks dunric for your help =D
see ya guys, good luck for all

[Davee]

Sandpiper - love the expression, love the pose! Awesome sculpt!

VersionThirst - I'm digging the medieval armor, nice one!

bgen - his blissful expression is fantastic, i wonder what he's dreaming about

kazmamurat - great idea with the half good half evil thing, very solid sculpt as usual

M3N7H0L5 - cool idea with the bone showing through, looks tight

slangford - i like the shape of the wings and the emotion her pose evokes, good job!

WildWire - incredible, so crisp, sharp, and polished. the head design in particular is wildly imaginative, love it!

Helioz - cool idea to use the lack of arms and lower body to make it look like it was broken off of a larger statue, nice one

Cool sculpts everyone, lots of inspiration to be drawn from this forum

Here's my interpretation. The helmet kinda kicked my butt, the head topology didn't want to play nice with pulling those prongs out. Had a hell of a time trying to keep them straight and sharp. Ended up taking away a lot of time I could have put elsewhere like the wings and face, but I was determined to make them work. In retrospect it might have been easier if I used the teeth meshes for em. Anyway, here it is:

[skullbeast]

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[Pedro Toledo]

The helmet was extracted, is this ok? If not, I don't think I am going to start another one... Would it be ok if I keep posting updates here just for fun? Out of the competition?

Anyway, about two hours of work so far.

[Korda]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Pedro but it is my understanding that extracting mesh is not aloud as it amounts the same as adding new mesh or using a different basemesh the point of this challenge is that everybody uses exactly the same starting point. Im sure no one will stop you from posting though as your work is looking pretty good. Who knows maybe theyll make an exception.

Skullbeast I think that might be my favourite so far

I started trying to to a female angel. I havent done a woman before so it has been interesting im at 1.45 so far and havent started the wings. I think i might use the gums for hair. I really should start using some references anybody no any good free sites? (that arent 3d.sk)

[pogimonz]

Just finished and submitted my ArchAngel sculpt. I wanted to make a low poly version of it, so I can bake normal maps on to it and maybe texture it.

I'm not able to continue my retopology.

I began retopologizing the mesh in zbrush, Zbrush crashed (no surprise). I loaded the retopo tool I luckily saved before the software crash (img below), the problem I'm having is that I'm not able to continue drawing my retopo, Is there ceratain steps I'm supposed to make when working on an unfinished retopology in zbrush?

thanks in advance.

[pogimonz]

nevermind, I just figured it out. =)

[DaddyMack]

Wow! Killer sculpts here already... Great looking basemesh

I'm in this time fer sure

[Shahin_fj]

Very impressive works here
Ok.. I decided to participate in this one...
Here I am after 90 mins:

[Intervain]

really good stuff guys! Helioz - love the energy and movement in your sculpt!

[M3N7H0L5]

Crispy4004,thanks.i used my own body as a lil reference..:)
WildWire,oh yeah..the one that got eyes on the wings..i didn't watch the movie yet..
Davee,thanks..I really like the way u make that wings.awesome!
Korda,i used 'naked women photography' sites..similar to rated pics in deviantart..might not get figure accuracy though...

[Freespace-3DT]

The helmet was extracted, is this ok? If not, I don't think I am going to start another one... Would it be ok if I keep posting updates here just for fun? Out of the competition?

Anyway, about two hours of work so far.

Hey Pedro, sorry but extracting is not allowed in the competition. Instead you can use the provided eyeballs or the teeth for additional objects like accessories and helmets/armor.
If you don't want to redo the sculpt from before the extraction, sure you can still show us updates of your progress. Just don't submit it in the final entries thread, cause you'd just give me some work. :)

[vongn]

damn! these challenges grow so fast. 10 pages already. so many great sculpts and they just keep coming too.

heres mine, almost 4 hours about 3 and a half. mostly mudbox then zbrush for hair and pose. fiddled around with snake hook tool, cool tool but i used it really badly.

used Monica Belluci for some reference mostly lips. kinda just winged the rest.

[Shahin_fj]

Well, after 210 min I came up with This, and I think it is my final submission.
Hope You Like it:

[skullbeast]

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[Milan]

So many serious work.
this is my try
2 hours 40 minutes. a lot to detail. It is hard to finish in given time

[platypus_green]

2.5 hours into the sculpt, still needs a lot more work.
Will have hands added soon.

[skullbeast]

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[Breakneckspeed]

How do I take I high res screenshots in zbrush 3.1 ?

Anyone ?

Its kinda urgent

[skullbeast]

How do I take I high res screenshots in zbrush 3.1 ?

Anyone ?

be sure to double you doc size (or x4), then draw your tool. I use a third party drag and draw screen capture.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

hit the print screen button on your keyboard, then past into photoshop

open photoshop, then go into zbrush, hit printscreen, then go into photoshop, open a new file, the width and height will be automatic for your swcreen, then past. Crop out areas you dont want seen. Save.

[Breakneckspeed]

Thanks guys its for a project

[platypus_green]

How do I take I high res screenshots in zbrush 3.1 ?

Anyone ?

Its kinda urgent

I use the document>export function since that exports the canvas at the full resolution rather than the screen resolution.

This way you can render off very large images;

by doubling the canvas size a few times,
then clearing it,
Zooming out to the canvas extents,
then redrawing the current tool on the canvas,
resize tool to fill the canvas and position/rotate to what view you want,
then use the document>export button to save the full resolution render off to a file.

[skullbeast]

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[Aleks]

Here's a "how to take a high res screenshot from ZBrush" :roll:

1. Decide how big you want your image to be.
2. Make the document size twice as big as you planned "final image".
3. Draw your model onto the canvas.
4. In the "Zoom" menu,click the AAHalf button.
5. Go to the "Docment" menu and click export.

It's pretty much what platypus_green said :)

... "fair and loyal MOD's".
You'd better not be sarcastic there ;)

Well,there is absolutely no difference between pressing "PrtSc" and exporting your document - it's still a screenshot.What we don't allow is using "Best" render in ZBrush.
Oh and skullbeast,you do realize that we will disqualify you if you post those images in the final submission thread,right? There shouldn't be any effects on the image,those are the rules.You are free to post this kind of stuff here,in the "WIP" thread, though.

[skullbeast]

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[Aleks]

no sarcasm. just curious. the smaller ones are renders but the larger ones have no alterations on them. Is there a preferred material? these are sathe's matcaps

Remove that fire effect (and smoke if you have it there) from your bigger images,and you are good to go.
As for matcaps,no restrictions here.But it would be nice if people used something simple.Yours looks ok,don't worry.

[skullbeast]

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[Aleks]

No worries ;)

[DELTATHUND3R]

Hi guys.I submitted my final.
Good luck...
Hope some of you like it.Great challenge, another learning experience:).

[Pedro Toledo]

Thanks for making it clear guys, I should have checked the rules before start sculpting :o

I decided to keep running :) I'm restarting the helmet using the eye geometry.

[Korda]

Hi all,
I ran out of time again but I managed to get most of what I wanted done. I think I will continue on it to try and make her look more feminine. Here it is

[Freespace-3DT]

Korda, a start in making her more feminine would be a smaller nose and ear, shorter neck and less defined muscles. Good to see you've finished your sculpt. Don't be shy and show us, here in the WIP thread, if you take the sculpt beyond the four hours.

[juhone]

Hi all!
Here's my first try on these challenges.
81 minutes so far. I really have to start working with the wings.

[axelproxie]

hey guys iwould to say hi to everyone this is my 1st time in this site and the 1st doing a comp so be gentle :D nah just kidding be as hard as guys wont

anyway heres my 3hrs and 58 mins sculpt
i had a timer hehehehe

fallen archangel

[vinaykr]

Hello to all the sculptors out here...........

Grt stuff going on here...........here is my entry taken nearly 4 hrs to sculpt....

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f301/cg_artisan/FrontAngel.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f301/cg_artisan/perspangel-2.jpg

[axelproxie]

i have been looking through this thread and im so exicted that there are so many willing to participate in this and there some real good stuff here too cant wait for other speed challenges like this one

keep them comming !

[gumby666]

Here's my updated fallen angel.
Hope he's not looking too demon like to qualify for this challenge?
I am trying to keep some humanlike quality to him but also have him twisted by the dark side.
My third Zbrush sculpt and first attempt at hair which was fun (even if it is a Michael Boulton hair cut!). Made it from the eyeballs which I turned into a subtool. Couldn't work out how to delete one of them so just moved it inside the other.
This is 3 hours in after a lot of time wasted trying to work out how to get stuff to work properly. Not that happy with his wings. Teeth and eye balls to come.

One question, you can only use the eyeball obj. file as a sub object once can't you? I can't bring them in again to use as his actual eyeballs. Pretty sure you can't but thought I'd check.

All the sculpts posted have been amazing!! Great stuff!

http://www.brokemerecords.com/Archangel02.jpg

[Freespace-3DT]

One question, you can only use the eyeball obj. file as a sub object once can't you? I can't bring them in again to use as his actual eyeballs. Pretty sure you can't but thought I'd check.

Only once, sorry. :) Would be pretty redundant if you could use them 20 times.

[lythtis]

ok i and messing around in zbrush and now i cant fig out how to get this darn thing back to normal. i was trying to hide some parts and lifted the wrong key and i did this mask thingy. all i can edit is whats in the gray spot. i can make a bigger gray spot but i would like to know how i can get it back to normal instead of creating more spots....?????

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm149/ieatp/Untitled-1.jpg

[Aleks]

ok i and messing around in zbrush and now i cant fig out how to get this darn thing back to normal. i was trying to hide some parts and lifted the wrong key and i did this mask thingy. all i can edit is whats in the gray spot. i can make a bigger gray spot but i would like to know how i can get it back to normal instead of creating more spots....?????

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm149/ieatp/Untitled-1.jpg

You have your stencil turned on.Go to the "Stencil" menu and turn it off.

[lythtis]

thx learned something new

[Crispy4004]

Wow, there are some really strong faces in particular on these last few pages. They give me a real sense of purity and/or demonic nature. Good work everyone.

[WildWire]

I spend some time to make better wings. It's not for the finals but maybe interesting.
The wings are from a new base mesh. I cut the old one from the sculpted mesh
on level one, closed the mesh in Maya, and project the details on the new one.
Now I had the body the wings and the eyes as different subtools.

Hope you like it

Ralf Stumpf

[DELTATHUND3R]

lol Ralph I love your work ..That rocks.He looks awsome..
his bodys wikked.His freathers and wings are the best ive seen for this type of sculpt...Ralph Send me your Z mojo...:):)

[biano3d]

kazmamurat:Another great model,,,
Pedro Toledo: Nice work pedro, realy like the antomy of the boy...
WildWire:Clean sculpt and nice color base.

I´m trying to make a old fallen angel, used 1:30 h...

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w302/biano3d_2007/old_angel_wip1.jpg

[Diego.Floor]

Hi all!

wow, there's a lot of great and creative works here!

mine is much more simple, just an old 'bald battle archangel'.. at least that was the idea :)

it took me 3 hours until i ran out of patience :D hehehe I think I'll leave it as it is..

<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/?action=view&current=archangel_diego2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/archangel_diego2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/?action=view&current=archangel_diego3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/archangel_diego3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/?action=view&current=archangel_diego4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/archangel_diego4.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/?action=view&current=archangel_diego1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj253/Diegofloor/archangel_diego1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[Crab People]

Here is my finished sculpt at 4hrs. I made the material in zbrush... my first attempt at MatCap. Hope ya'll like him.

[skullbeast]

I spend some time to make better wings. It's not for the finals but maybe interesting.
The wings are from a new base mesh. I cut the old one from the sculpted mesh
on level one, closed the mesh in Maya, and project the details on the new one.
Now I had the body the wings and the eyes as different subtools.

Hope you like it

Ralf Stumpf

great work man! top notch!

[Intervain]

Ralf - great job!

crab_people - really love that one, one of my favs so far!

well the loser that I am I just realised that there's only 2 days left 0_o...not sure I'll do something :o

great job everybody! Enjoying the thread!

[bryzol]

Kazmamurat, M3n7hol5, Sandpiper, Bgen, Pogimonz, Wild Wire, Grab People, Davee, Skullbeast, Deltathunder3r - GREAT WORKS!
Here is my entry, mayby I will try something else later.

[DELTATHUND3R]

Ty Bryzol.
Wow yours is amazingly good.I love the hair flow and the wings look great.The whole sculpt is really good.
crab people yours is very good love the detail and his small detailed crown is really good..
great sculpts by all excellent work..

[M3N7H0L5]

wildwire,that is superb!im speechless..
crabpeople,hey,your archangel looks familiar..does he eat apple all the time?lol..anyway,great job!one of my fav so far..
thanks Bryzol,your sculpt looks great..i really like it..the wings,the body,the expression..great work!

keep it coming guys and girls!

[Crab People]

Hey, thanks for the comments everyone!

-Intervain, I really hope you can enter, your work is always impressive!

[karyB]

Here is mine:

http://www.karyblack.com/wip/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mrsmorningstar1.jpg
http://www.karyblack.com/wip/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mrsmorningstar2.jpg
http://www.karyblack.com/wip/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mrsmorningstar3.jpg

Last one isn't an entry image -- has ZB's shadows for interest.

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Glad I saw some other people's work on a previous challenge, I didn't realize there was an active forum here :)

Some great work on this competition, and such variety. Great amount of personality in that length of time on Byzrol's, Crab People's is just wild -- definitely fallen, and that's just this page. Wonderful stuff :)

[Ordibble Plop]

well the loser that I am I just realised that there's only 2 days left 0_o...not sure I'll do something :o

Yeah, me too - I just took it for granted it was the usual 2 weeks

I worked for 3 hours on a sculpt at the weekend but hated it so much I sent it back to the digital pearly gates. I thought I'd have another go this weekend, but I guess not :(

Well, good job to all those who finished and good luck with the voting.

I won't be able to vote but among the great work I particularly like the expression of bgen's angel (is that smug contentedness :) ) and the design of WildWires with the halo.

[gumby666]

Just about finished my sculpt and was pretty happy with it.
Was playing around with the teeth subgroup and accidentally hit the Make Polymesh 3D button. All that was left was my teeth :eek:
Couldn't undo it either!! Won't be doing that again.
Hopefully I'll have time to go back and do it all again.

Crabpeople - Great fallen angel!! Maybe he can teach my one a thing or two about being badass!

[Diego.Floor]

But you still got time, Ordibble Plop! There's only two days left, but you only need 4 hours! :D Why don't you give it another try? from what I understood of the rules, you can make as many '4 hours models' you like. (but only one final entry, of course)

I didn't like mine too, but it's been so long that I don't play around with anything artistic anymore, that it really made me feel good.. and it didn't take too much of my time. hehehe I'm going to participate more often with these 4 hours challenges.

[Aleks]

Just about finished my sculpt and was pretty happy with it.
Was playing around with the teeth subgroup and accidentally hit the Make Polymesh 3D button. All that was left was my teeth :eek:
Couldn't undo it either!! Won't be doing that again.
Hopefully I'll have time to go back and do it all again.

Your sculpt was still there...ZBrush just automatically selected that new polymesh tool,that's all.All you needed to do was go to the "Tool" menu and select your original model.

[manny]

great work bryzol love the hair, lips and lets not forget the boobs lol. great job man really nice i really like how the lips came out very cool. keep it up

[juhone]

I'll go with this. Around 3.5 hours. It sure was fun.

[ale3dfx]

Hello Artists model could finish my hope that you like, good luck to all participants.
http://forums.3dtotal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121576&stc=1&d=1217272214

[Freespace-3DT]

Hey everyone.

Just a friendly reminder to all participants that the competition ends in about 24 hours. So if you still haven't submitted your sculpt in the Final Entry thread, please do so in the given time.

[Sandpiper]

juhone: I'm digging your peaceful angel of serenity. :) Just what I think of in an angel. Nice and clean sculpting....

[Fellipe Lopes]

Hi All!!! I hope you like!!!

[Freespace-3DT]

Hey Fellipe, that's a great facial expression you gave your Archangel.
Interesting approach to wings, too. Alpha maps, right?

[chrisskinner]

Hi everyone, the level of work on here has been outstanding! And you can see improvement in everyones work with each new challenge.

Here's my Executioner Angel. Sent to purge souls that do not abide by the timeless rules for the dead and protect humankind from their evil... (Cheesy I know)! :)

Full 4 hours were used.

[Fellipe Lopes]

Oh Thanks FREESPACE-3DT!!!! Yes I used alphas to make the wings.
And Cool wings Chrisskinner!!

[grommie]

Not for the finals of course, but I'm still working on mine, so I wanna hear of you guys wot do u think about this...Hey fellipe, your expression is great buddy...see ya on msn
great work guys...maybe the best challenge...

[Abelion]

Hi guys! That's my first entry.
My character seems but to a Cherubim angel but since I had never modelled a boy I thought that this could be a great occasion to try it.
http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm371/ollas1000/ArchangelRogerLisoP.jpg

[Loafie]

Here's what I entered for my final image. Wish I had spent more time on the wings

[Sandpiper]

Obviously, this one WILL NOT be entered for the final voting, but here's another couple hours working on the wings and teeth. :) I got inspired to finish him off so he looked more final to me. This is what I had intended to achieve if I had not spent so much darned time on the muscles! HA!

This turned out to be a great challenge even though it started a bit slow early on. It's gonna be a tough vote as always! Great sculpting everyone - it was fun....

[gumby666]

Your sculpt was still there...ZBrush just automatically selected that new polymesh tool,that's all.All you needed to do was go to the "Tool" menu and select your original model.

DOH!!! Guess I learnt that lesson hard!

[get2anbu]

hi everyone .. am a newbie actually .. just joined 3dtotal forum today and found this challenge interesting, hope I will make something worthy to post in this thread .. happy modeling :)

[dalton_muniz]

Hi all! Here is my archangel! Hope you like!

[Freespace-3DT]

Sandpiper: Yeah, you worked those wings. :)

get2anbu: Hey there, welcome to the forum. I'm looking forward to your entry in this challenge, but you only have 11 hours until the challenge is over, so hurry!

[clee101]

Hi all, finished mine just in time. Lots of great stuff here. This was alot of fun.

[slangford]

Ok... so I got about 1 hour left till Im out of time, so Im going to wrap this up at lunch. Any comments before then?

[Sandpiper]

looks great sean! Obviously finish out the wings (maybe just the parts we can see) and I would then focus on her face the rest of the time. Take that peaceful look on her face an iteration further because she's so close to looking, well, angelic. ;)

[DELTATHUND3R]

Slangford..Looks good.love the facial expressiona nd pose nicely done.
dalton_muniz....Great sculpt wikked pose..kinda reminds me of a 60s rockstar:):)

[bgen]

slangford: nice pose and beautiful touch on the wings. i love it.
clee101: love the armour. nice sculpt bro.
dalton_muniz: awsome sculpt. don't like the boobies dough :o:o :smug:

just seen the Movie yesterday and i was amezed :D so i had to do something.
2 1/2 hrs. so far will use half hr for body then 1 hr for the wings.

[chrisskinner]

slangford - great pose! Looks like she is rising from the ashes.

dalton_muniz - another great pose, love the way you manged to get those arms out of the base mesh as well.

clee101 - the style looks like a nice cross over of anime and realistic, nice clean sculpt as well.

bgen - nice Hellboy sculpt!

[jayjartog]

i'm new here. is Geometry HD allowed?

[jayjartog]

anyway, i'm going to start now. hehe.

[bgen]

ye ure allowed to sculpt HD as far as i know. but i will be tuff to get into that grade of detail in 4hrs.
unless ure a beast it's hard to get into that stage. :evil:

[Freespace-3DT]

Anyone still sculpting, there are 200 minutes left until the end of the submission part of this challenge. So get to it. :)

[bgen]

so this my 4hrs are over. i would have loved to spend more time on it. i personally think it's one of my best Zbrush Sculpt by far.

it's not in the competition dough cuz it's hellboy with wings :D but netherthless i had great fun sculpting him.

[Freespace-3DT]

so this my 4hrs are over. i would have loved to spend more time on it. i personally think it's one of my best Zbrush Sculpt by far.

it's not in the competition dough cuz it's hellboy with wings :D but netherthless i had great dun sculpting him.

If it's not for the comp, then don't stop after 4 hours. Keep at it, it looks great so far!

[bgen]

i will i will :D. but just wanted everyone else to see what i have done till the 4 hr. mark

[slangford]

Ok guys, heres the final. I might keep going, though. I wanted to spend alittle more time on the face and finish up the wings.

[Sandpiper]

ahhhh, so angelic. :halo: great job with your entry slangford! Very impressive all around.

[get2anbu]

hmm.. definitely am no where compared to the rest to the submissions in here, but am happy on what I got in 3 hours duration. I started learning Zbrush some 2 weeks before .. Dont know how long it will take to sculpt like you guys .. anyhow this is my first entry for a challenge ever in any forums online .. am happy :shout::o:o

[Shuggie]

A couple of angles of my angel :)

[Freespace-3DT]

Competition's done. Get to the voting thread here (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=652872) and cast your votes.

[creandofx]

Hello all my name is Salvador CUETO! maybe this entry is off the competition! i see this challenge today! :P but anyway, I just want to show my work and my vision of an Arcangel, I hope you like it! I spend 3.5 hours + render setup, done in zbrush, ADIOS AMIGOS :D

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9903/arcangelbf5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9903/arcangelbf5.cf4b17c733.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=523&i=arcangelbf5.jpg)

[Puckducker]

Nice sculpt Salvador. Yeah, it probably won't be counted, but it looks pretty cool anyways.

Though, if you're looking to enter again, you should know that you're not supposed to be doing any rendering. Pretty much a straight screen cap from zBrush is all that is allowed.

[clee101]

-bgen- Thanks for the kind words. Yours came out nicely too. and I like the head sculpt on the hellboy.

-chrisskinner- Thanks. Yeah, I wanted to go for that feel. I was inspired alot by Soul Calibur 4.

Good luck to all on the voting!

[creandofx]

hey Puckducker, I know about the render! but i wanted to present it with some lights!, thank you for your comment! I´ll be prepared for the next challenge.

[ianchaos]

Gah....I see I just missed the deadline

well here is my entry anyway

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/ianchaos/both.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/ianchaos/side.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/ianchaos/front.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/ianchaos/Top.jpg

[Freespace-3DT]

creandofx & ianchaos: Sorry guys, next time don't leave it to the very last 10 minutes to submit your sculpts. :) Better luck next time.

[Davee]

I know I missed the deadline but here's another one I did, this one's at around 2 hours, just thought I'd share. The arrows are made from the teeth meshes. Good job everyone who submitted.

[Freespace-3DT]

Davee, that's a beautiful sculpt. I love it! Too bad you were a couple hours late. Shame this wasn't in the entries thread.

[Korda]

So I made some changes to mine that I thought I would share thanks for the help on it. Next time I am definitely going to use some references. I cant wait for the next one.

[Davee]

Thanks Freespace! It was still fun to make and good practice. Actually, I think I may redo the wings and refine the rest and turn it into a portfolio piece. Looking forward to the next comp, maybe I'll actually get something in on time!

[embryo-365]

can i still post?

[Freespace-3DT]

You can show us what you have, embryo, it's just that it won't be in the competition, because the deadline is up.

[embryo-365]

im still gona post, just cause it's my first sculpt evr. ^^
i hope you enjoy.
i had some issues with the wings, i didnt know how to make them high def.
took me about 3.5 hours.
thanks

[Freespace-3DT]

Well that's a pretty interesting sculpt. I like that you've got a good grasp on anatomy, but I think the wings looks pretty freaky, more like something that you took out of a dog's mouth. :) You've got skill, because my first sculpts looked much worse that this, but try keeping this hint in mind on your next sculpt: Always sculpt in the larger details first, at lower subdivisions, then as you increase subdivisions, go for the smaller details. Always keep reference around.

Looking forward to your entry in the next challenge!

[thee]

I'm looking forward to the next challenge too, when will it be?

[Freespace-3DT]

We've set the theme and the mission brief is being written by a fellow mod. Should be on in a few days. :D

[Neil_F01]

I have been looking at these sculpting challenges and must say the pictures are well cool..

anyway, had a few thoughts for future challenges last night so thought i should just put them up.. (granted i can't really take part yet as i'm still in the novice section of zbrush).. but as soon as i know what i'm doing with it i'll definatly be taking part..

Anyway with out too much rambling..

(1).. Monstors -- i.e. (frankenstin, warewolves, minatours, orcs, goblins etc0.
(2).. A & E -- ( mostly looking body deformations, pretruding bones from skin, scars, etc)
(3).. celebraties -- (i.e. a nice sexy pose of keira knightly or the chick from spiderman would be good.. lol)...

Anyway.. Keep up the good work..

:dance:

[platypus_green]

Decided to spend an extra hour cleaning up the sculpt. Also added another cloth piece from the one of the teeth meshes that I ran out of time to do for the challenge.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2382/archangelreduxis7.jpg

[M3N7H0L5]

superb platypus_green!the wings are just phenomenal!i like em!

[Freespace-3DT]

Amazing feathers on those wings! I should have set the timelimit to 5 hours, dammit. :)