Dominance War IV - 3d Mini Challenge

[KaterinaD]

First off, sorry i don't post much, first time on any sort of forum, second, i'm glad to be apart of this forum, you guys are really helpful and last, lets get to the main event and kick butt.

[SR_6274]

This is it. I think this is going to be the final composition that I am going to submit. If there is anything anybody notices that needs to be changed, let me know. I won't actually submit until tonight since my work blocks the site I need to submit to lol.

It has been an absolute pleasure to go to war with you guys. This is the first ever low poly char I have made, and my first real time using z-brush. I just hope I don't embarrass theedy with my noobness. I have learned so much from doing this, and I have to give a big thank you to everybody here for being so helpful and friendly to new soldiers like myself.

Bring on the next comp!!

[animateque]

It's looking real harry for me. I miss read and didn't realize the final image is due today... well I'm puting on my war paint and sprinting to the finish. Hope you like what you see.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/animateque/003.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/animateque/005.jpg
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/animateque/002.jpg

off to work again!

[SR_6274]

No time to stop working and post, get back to it!!!!!

Looking real nice animateque, keep it going.

[IsadistI]

I very much hurry, so it may be something askew and not accurate.
But I hope I could)

[IsadistI]

Horror toster

[IsadistI]

Prompt where to fill the final work?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

there is a link in the first post for submitions.

[McKronic]

Warlock - Thanks I'm glad you like my entry :D, yours is looking very very nice I love the texturing the teeth and gums it looks awesome the design on the hat and jacket are very cool and the color choice is good, the only problem I have is the texture of the hair it is looking a little bit blurry and could be a but more crisp but that could be due to the low res image I'm sure it tightens up more at a higher res. Also the tip of his nose could maybe be a slightly darker color it blends in so much with the hair.

[Warbringerd]

Hey guys everything looks really awesome, Unfortunatley I don't have enough time invested in Zbrush to actually have made a decent atempt. So instead I perused what you guys have been working on and I have been learning the nuances of Zb so hope fully I can have a go at the larger format. Good job and Good luck.

[gfxengine]

I hope im not late took time to re-texture!

heres my final image.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2342/finished1copy.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finished1copy.jpg)

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4040/texsheet.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=texsheet.jpg)

[DaddyDoom]

IsadistI... A W E S O M E!

[r0x_my_s0x]

IsadistI Looks ace man!

Keep up the good work people, last push! :D

[Creos 3D]

IsadistI: Cool work.

Here is my final Render of Viking Queen (maked from Rhino base model)


http://creos3d.com/characters/Viking_queen_final.jpg

[Warlock 279]

Bryand - Turned out pretty nice. You tried shifting the hue over to the 3DT colors just for fun? Anyway, looks pretty cool, looks like you drew a good bit of inspiration from Giger's alien designs, which is always cool.

redonix76 - If you're 80% done, that last 20% should really make this shine. Its looking good now, with the exception of a few "bare" looking areas, probably those which you've not gotten to yet, the chin/jaw, the "clasps" on the straps. Can't wait to see him all finished up.

gfxengine - Thanks, ya, I need to fine tune the fur, there's a lot of detail painted, it's just washing out on the render for some reason. :dunno:

You're fine time wise, don't forget to officially submit it tho. He turned out pretty cool looking, I think I'd still have liked to have seen him dirtied up some, but it looks pretty good the way it is. Nice work.

Mxma - Looks good, you need to get texturing tho, like yesterday! ;) Hope you can get it finished up, this is a pretty sweet sculpt.

SR_6274 - I think the blue helps show his loyalties much better. Turned out pretty nice.

Fixor - Thanks, glad you like it. I don't usually work stylized so this was a lot of fun.

Looks good. I think I preferred the white face paint tho, the black is getting a little lost. Regardless, I still think the way you incorporated the logo is awesome. Nice work. :)

LaMonk - I try to keep up. Your entry turned out great, really solid. You got a lot of nice subtle detail in there, didn't have to go overboard like a lot of entries did. Well done.

Astaroth - Its looking a lot better now, as far as the color issue goes. I think you could certainly get away with what you've got now, tho I'd still encourage you to play with the clothes borders some like you're planning to.

animateque - SR_6274 is right, now time for posting, back to work! [says someone who's neglecting finishing his own piece :wall:] Sculpt looks good, can't wait to see what you do texture wise with it.

IsadistI - Hey, that turned out pretty cool. Looking at the flats, the texture seems so simple, but really there's a lot of nice detail in there. Good job.

McKronic - Yeah, I'm probably gonna have to run a sharpen filter on that fur to get it to show up a little better, even if "destroys" it as far as the way I painted. You're right about the nose, I'll touch that up while I'm messin' with the fur.

Creos 3D - Looks good, I like it. She seems almost ghostly in some ways, with all the soft glowing elements. I dig the eyes. Well done. :)

[ced66]

hey guys :)

good stuff everyone !
thanks a lot Bobo :)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

just a warm up, I'll try abit harder next week:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/DJBiGToE/Dom%20War%204/Mini-Final.jpg

[rawk777]

Done!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

for everyone fighting time, keep an eye on the time zone thread. Don't let time beat you.

[Mxma]

Thx for the feedback guys!
Im running short on time, this is not the final version...at least I hope its not

[Warlock 279]

BiG ToE - Yep, just a little warm up to have some fun. Your entry turned out pretty cool. I think the Adidas logo looks like it fits in much better now, and the clothes in general turned out pretty good.

rawk777 - Yeah, that turned out really nice. Well done.

Mxma - Looks pretty good, you've got about 5 hours left if you I believe. I'd try to get just a little more texture in the skin on the chest and try to define a couple of the edges on the trim around his temple area. Otherwise, lookin' good. :)



Haven't submitted yet, gonna mull it over for a little bit yet. Let me know if you guys see any stupid mistakes that could use a quick fix.

[drawec]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YrBQh5gdC2s/SaxzDot-8iI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Uq8D7OV2uvA/s800/present1.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_YrBQh5gdC2s/SaxjDqlBsMI/AAAAAAAAALs/oIkxfXhDpGI/s800/compile.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_YrBQh5gdC2s/SazgIH2lF-I/AAAAAAAAAM0/J_1dKU4mGAc/s800/Texturemap.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_YrBQh5gdC2s/SazY0u9741I/AAAAAAAAAMs/a5nStiv_MGA/s800/wire.jpg


Just a mini challenge and i am half death~ tooo tire. lol. ~ I saw lots of impressive work~ Well done everyone. Time to gets some sleep
Edit: Add texture map

[ced66]

nice one Warlock 279 !

[Spiderclaw]

Hey all,

Sorry this piece isn't going to get finished - I was in Jersey all last week and haven't had much time on it but I wanted to post where I'd got to in case anyone had any comments. I have a way to go on it yet.

Count me in for the big bash though.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Looking good everyone...glad the due time was set to eastern - just came to check to see if I missed it as I thought I did. Lucked out. Back to work.
Nice one, [B]Warlock[B]. Whatever bits you did really added alot - the profile view looks awesome.
Be back later for comments and submission. Best wishes to everyone pushing for the finish:)

[Puckducker]

Think I might just keep the final submission simple, like this. If people want to see the construction, they can check out this thread.

Let me know what you think, between these 2 what makes the better submission? I just like the cleaner approach more myself.

[Puckducker]

BiG ToE-3DT: Nah, you did fine on this ToE, I really dig the presentation you settled on. Certainly going to be unique in the competition.

rawk777: More solid work rawk. I like the design and the final turned out quite nice.

Mxma: Looks great, especially for how quickly you put it together. I think even if you just went with that, you'd be pretty well off.

Warlock 279: Turned out awesome Warlock. Really clear and clean, you get your design across perfectly.

drawec: Pretty good, I really like the final texture of your guy, especially in the blue metal. I like the background you used in your presentation as well.

Spiderclaw: Hey, just bake out your normals/diffuse and quickly put it on a background and you totally have time to get a final image in. Looks like it was a good start regardless.

[Bryand]

Warlock 279 - Thanks man, gonna call him done and look forward to the next, learned a bunch doing that short piece, been a while since I had those kind of restrictions. Your rabbit turned out great, I like it a lot.

Creos 3D - She turned out nice, still can't believe someone got a chick out of those busts, hopefully the next mini will have some female busts to work with, if not there is always the main comp.

Ok, now to sleep for a couple of days, hehe, great job everyone. Gonna do these contests a lot more, helps me push myself further with so many good people out there.

[bruceape]

Well, I guess i'm going to call it finished. Really huge learning experience for me, I can't wait to do more.
Haha DANG. I just noticed I typo'd "challenge" =|

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/pixeler/final.jpg

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Puckducker: go with the simple one, then submit it.

bruceape: submit it.

Warlock 279: submit before time is up.

[Puckducker]

Hey, making sure we get as many 3D total entries in there, eh ToE? WEll, I got mine submitted. Simple version just seems to look better. Thanks for all the input everyone, I hope everyone is happy with how their final submissions turned out.

I wonder how the voting is going to work. There seems to be too many entries for people just to vote on one/two/three. I feel like everyone should get to vote for one entry per forum, or something like that.

[Tallooriravi]

Best of luck everybody,anyway I finished my final work with lot of struggles, everybody did well, amazing work flow and thoughts, keep it up.Here is my war general goo.


http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/3799/finalj.jpg

[Puckducker]

Pretty cool Tallooriravi, but is that your official entry? It looks like you've got the model smoothed maybe, instead of using the unaltered base mesh.

[Creos 3D]

Here is the final Render 2, of Viking Queen,
I`m just uploaded this to the GameArtisans

http://www.creos3d.com/characters/Viking_queen_final_2.jpg

http://www.creos3d.com/characters/TX_512.jpg

[VinsanityV20]

Hey, making sure we get as many 3D total entries in there, eh ToE? WEll, I got mine submitted. Simple version just seems to look better. Thanks for all the input everyone, I hope everyone is happy with how their final submissions turned out.

I wonder how the voting is going to work. There seems to be too many entries for people just to vote on one/two/three. I feel like everyone should get to vote for one entry per forum, or something like that.

Seriously. I've been scoping out entries for both the 2D and 3D challenges for the last hour or so (and saving many of them to My Pictures, natch!), and I've still got plenty to check out. I've already gotten so many ideas from looking at all the varying styles and designs people have done. There's so much talent involved here; I can't believe there are this many forums competing this year!

Man, screw Christmas. D-War is the most wonderful time of the year! XD

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Tallooriravi: not only does it look like your using a smoothed mesh, your render to really blurry. Hopefully you didn't submit yet, so you can render out a better image and use the correct mesh, so you don't get D'Qed

[SR_6274]

Submitted. Good luck to everybody. I really think Threedy has this one in the bag. The first battle is over, and our enemies are starting to shake in their boots.

[melvinsqualor]

Good times. Good practice.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/melvinsqualor/beautyGeneral.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/melvinsqualor/fourTextures.jpg

[FrZnChAoS]

Not sure if im supposed to throw up my unwraps and texture or not. Regardless here they are in case they are needed.

[SR_6274]

I was just checking out the competition, and I noticed Creos3D's entry in the Game Artisians entries. Don't know if that was a mistake or not, but thought I would put it up here just in case.

[McKronic]

do we have to post our maps?? I didn't show much of my texture work at all

[Astaroth]

i've changed the border color, can you tell what you prefer? i think the yellow one fits a little better

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9851/wip06red.jpghttp://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3423/wip06yellow.jpg

i'm gonna pose and try to get a good light now
is post production allowed in photoshop on the rendered image?

[Warlock 279]

drawec - Nice work. All the blues and whites make me think he'd be at home in an ice/snow environment.

ced66 - Thanks dude. :)

Spiderclaw - Shame you can't get it finished up, its certainly a nice start. At least you're warmed up and ready for the next one tho.

Joseph Pomeisl - Haha, thanks. Mostly just went element by element thru my texture sheet and tweaked levels to get things to pop more, and ran the sharpen filter on the fur probably a half dozen times, rendered him with the new textures and called it done.

I trust you're using the last hour and a half or so to finish your's up? :)

Puckducker - Yeah, the clean one looks nicer, I'm a sucker for breakdowns tho. I guess it comes down to preference. Would have been nice if the rules had been a little clearer as to what exactly they wanted. Seeing as "portrait" would imply a single focused image of your general, yet the nature of what we're doing...and most contests want breakdowns, oh well. Nice work, congrats on getting it finished in time.

I think voting is just a matter of picking the top five from each forum...and then judges will take it from there to decide the overall, I do believe I read that somewhere, could be mistaken tho.

Thanks, I'm glad you like my rabbit.

Bryand - Thanks man. The two mini's will serve nicely for any last minute learning and getting all your ducks in a row for the main one. Don't sleep too long, you don't wanna miss the second mini challenge!

bruceape - Don't fear, you're probably not the only person to make a clerical error on your entry. I always try to leave mine sit for an hour or two, and then proof it. Live and learn. :)

Warlock 279: submit before time is up. ...d-d-d-done! :)

Tallooriravi - Looks pretty good. I've got to wonder the same thing as they other guys are wondering tho. Would hate to see you get dq'd on a little technicality after a week of hard work.

Creos 3D - Who's side are you on? I think you may have uploaded to the wrong team. Your entry is showing under the GA.org entries rather than the 3DT ones.

melvinsqualor - Nice work, congrats on making it to the end in time. :)

Astaroth - I like the orange one...err...yellow...the one on the right! Looks good.

[SR_6274]

Astaroth, go with the yellow, it adds some nice contrast to the darker colors in the rest of the uniform.

[polysmooth]

Well here it is, I'll post wires and textures but this is my final image.:dance:

[BiG ToE-3DT]

times up

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Submitted earlier. Pretty sure I've gone and dq'd myself again - forgot to put the logo in the image; it's on the character twice though. Oh well. I competed in the DomWar mini and all I got was this stupid avatar. It was fun.

[patient09]

great entries all around.

good luck team!

[DeadlyFreeze]

37 entry's kinda skimpy but still decent, I expected more people to finish.

[Pickman]

:wall:Damn I was late by like 1 minute....loser. Oh well at least you guys can check it out. Proud of it either way.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6276/27951127.jpg (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=27951127.jpg)
All that work for nothing.:cry: But thats life.

[AutopsySoldier]

Creos 3D You posted on the GA team...lol, welcome aboard!

[Astaroth]

final for me

i've been able to submit at the end XD
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9575/final350k.jpg

thanks everyone for your help, really great works ^^

here is the texture sheet
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6443/texturesheet.jpg

[redonix76]

Congratulations everyone for a job well done. I know it's been a crazy 9 days. I've manage to submit although I feel like there's still allot more work for me to do, but no more time. I will keep working on my character until I'm 100% satisfied.

If you didn't finish, please do not feel bad, keep working on it and finish it. It's all good practice for the main event later on!!


I manage to optimize the armor down to 494 tris. You'll notice that the top and back or his armor is quite boring and bare. I'll add more details later this week and finish him off for good.

http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee324/redonix76/Remus_BreakDown.jpg

This is my final render and is what I submitted. Hopefully it's good enough toget some good comments even though it's not finished.

http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee324/redonix76/Remus_Final.jpg



Thanks guys for your support and advices.


Redonix76

[Identity3d]

Guys congratulations to you all great work never had time to finish my entry which makes me angry and makes me want to push harder for the next. Keep up the great work and see you all for the next Mini Challenge.

[L3XICON]

congratulations to everyone, a real great display of work! and good luck to everyone who entered :D

If this mini challenge is anything to go by, the quality of work in the main challenge is gonna be mind blowing this year

[Creos 3D]

Warlock 279
AutopsySoldier
I`m made the mistake, that I`m submitted the own work to GA team I`m Primary started with 3D total forums

I`m just mailing to Fredd, with the request to change my entry, to the 3DT team

[Intervain]

redonix76 - wow, love your design!

Congrats to everyone - some nice stuff!

[spoiLars]

Great job, everyone. Due to sudden illness in the family, I couldn't find the time yesterday to finish mine, but I'll try to do so over the next few days so at least you guys can have a look at it. No doubt we have a good chance at taking this one for 3dtotal.

[Puckducker]

I just can't believe how many entries there are, just for the mini-comp. The number for the name comp is going to be staggering this year.

[Creos 3D]

Here is the small reference picture,
how I`m make from Rhino - Queen head :evil:

http://www.creos3d.com/characters/Rhino_queen.jpg

[animateque]

Yeah, I couldt finish mine due to blackout that we had here in a chicago suburb. I had internet on my phone so I watched all thother greatentries roll in during the fnal hours. I'll finish it a post so you can see mydirection as well. congrts to everyone!!! The works are awesome. Let's GET EM... lolThe best of luck to you all.

[grindill]

Good job to all those that competed this year and congratulations to all those that finished. This was a great little warm up to the main competition and a lot of good work came out of it. This is going to be a really tough war this time. Good luck to everyone in the next phase.

[McKronic]

so how exactly does the voting work?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I'll let you guys know when the voting starts.

[angry_monkey]

sounds good.

[Warlock 279]

Joseph Pomeisl - Glad to see you made it in time. I think your general turned out pretty excellent. I really like the stylization of it. Awesome job.

DeadlyFreeze - 37's not bad really, I think that's about what we had for the main war last year, and I know quite a few people who were staying out of the mini's this year in favor of just doing the main War. This was just a warm up afterall.

All that work for nothing.:cry: But thats life. Nonsense. You know what to expect now, you've refined your workflow/honed your skills a bit no doubt, and you're all warmed up for the main event. That's not nothin'.

Astaroth - Nice work, that turned out really nice, I think that yellow really accents things nicely. I think you're one of the few that I saw that did actually "posed" their model.

redonix76 - That turned out pretty nice, even if, as you say, its not completely done. I really like the dark red outlined by blue, that you carried thru-out the textures. I think it really helps to unify the whole piece.

Creos 3D - I figured it was just a mistake, and not that you were jumping ship on us. ;) Looks like they've got you in the right place now, so welcome back. :)

I just can't believe how many entries there are, just for the mini-comp. The number for the name comp is going to be staggering this year. ...Yeah I figured we'd see maybe two dozen at the most from any forum, and maybe a total of 125-150...GA.org alone has over 100 entries. and most of the others are hovering around the half century mark and up. Crazy! War's gonna be epic this year.

[VinsanityV20]

I wonder how many people got DQ'ed, unfortunately. I noticed a few people didn't submit with all the info they need to have, several people didn't seem to submit at the resolutions specified, and a few even submitted 2D work for their 3D and vice versa. There were a TON of entries though, so even with all the DQ's there must be like 5000 entries to look at:)

...

I wonder if I got DQ'ed. I didn't put my textures anywhere on my final render...
Oh well, even if I did, at least I got a workflow down:) That mini comp was great experience, though I personally felt too rushed to listen to any critiques, something I'm definitely going to do in the main comp. Also, not entering the 2D main comp. That should help my time management.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

that's true, I guess when the voting starts, there should only be the people that followed the rules left to vote for.

[VersionThirst]

There's so many really great entries, it's going to be near impossible to vote!

[Joseph Pomeisl]

VersionThirst: coolest name award. Love the hat. Lots of character in the face, but the lips feel abit off for some reason.
Sathe: nice work - packed tons of stuff onto those 500 tri's. Reminds me of Sauron's helm. Only thing is that the basemesh is pretty much removed in the overall - may hurt for final voting.
discmage: neat idea. The eye could've been looking at the camera for more effect. Just a little too shiny for my taste.
Budelis: the low+normal came out well; the two color only texture hurt your piece quite abit.
KaterinaD:cool design. Good to see a lady competing. Just not seeing the 'general' in your character (or logo). Maybe if the specular was a little less glosssy the features would stand out a bit more - kinda washed out on the cheek area.
r0xmys0x: nice colors and character. The double pupils feel off for some reason. Maybe the 'blank' eye would've worked. Like how he has the feel of a general but not in a super-obvious way. Think that not using the necklaces may hurt in final voting.
Cloak: nice textures, the face has neat qualities. Seems like he'd be something the general sends out - not a general himself. Overall has a good portrait appearance.
Woody: seems too much of the sharpness of the hipoly got lost in the transfer. Like that beedy eyeball. Seems like he'd be something the general sends out - not a general himself. Textures could've helped him out alot.
Agent-X: the gold chord on the shoulder pads looks like shoelace. Neat design for the face - smoking's always a plus in my book. Kept the necklaces, but they don't appear to be fastening the cape; they just kinda end. Probably could've left the dogtag out - the pedastal as well, they don't help your character or image.
ced66: we all know how well the normals turned out:) like the colors and style. If anything will hurt in final voting it's that the 'general' in him is abit lacking. I can see it - just feels like I have to tell myself I see it.
heiyu: when Big-Toe asked to see your wires it was with good reason. The notorious point on the base's dome is non-existent. Still, textures and colors and design are pulled off well.
SeveredSon: the facial expression says general but the torso doesn't - could be the tank-sleeve. The wide nostrils are odd - but then again he does appear to be an alien.:)
VinsanityV20: the flames are a distraction from the character. Missing that 'generaliness'.
DeadlyFreeze: that's one odd character. The gas mask seems stuck on, maybe if it covered his chin more. Nice colors.
FrZnChAoS: brains....neat concept and the textures are good - just can't see the general in him. Like the glow of the eyes.
McKronic: I like the idea but it kind ends up all blending together, it's hard to focus on any particular point. Can't explain it too well though.
Fixor: this thumbnail pops the most. Like the style. Looks like a portrait. The grimace on his face is awesome. There's a generaliness about him, but could be more from the tough-guy appearance.
LaMonk: pretty cool, strange design. The textures could've been used to push him in the older, wiser direction.
Bryand: the torso is too repeating - could have used a visual break. He looks to be in pain more than letting out a massive battlecry:)
IsadistI: something instead of the logo could've fit better - like some venting/grill type stuff(logo could go to that dark patch adjacent to the face - made to be more of part of the suit than a decal). Nice job on the face, the nostrils are abit tall though.
talooriravi: the thumbnail pops, but the main image suffers in compression, kinda blurry. Lacking in 'generaliness'. Like the skin and neat design for the face.
L3XICON: nice colors and design. Monacle a plus. Great job overall. Like the progression shots on the right.
BiG ToE: kinda goofy, but that was the point, eh? The textures, especially the shirt, came out well. Why 4 o'clock?
drawec: nice design on the armor. Maybe the fangs would work better coming from the lower lip?
grindill: you got the parrot in there:) Teture on the jacket collar and hat could've used some more highlights. Maybe if his eye was more looking at the camera?
gfxengine: you render with the blend filter? nice design, like that dark eye. Just not seeing the general in him - more of a mercenary feel.
rawk777: it must've taken awhile to put all thoe stiches on:) The texture is too much of the same - some different colors would help to break it up.
Warlock279: looks like a general, smokes like a general. Only thing is that the planes around the collar(for tufts I assume) didn't show up in the render. Nice job on the fur. Congrats on the worst name award:)
Puckducker: nice work, clever turning it upside down. The collar's shininess takes away from it looking like fur. Not using the necklaces could hurt in the final voting. Overall has a good portrait feel to it - the airplanes could've been left out, without taking anything away from the overall.
bruceape: the eyeball seems out of place, as does the logo - could've been more of a design element than a decal. Does'nt come off as a general. Maybe if the blue from the shoulder was present in the holes throughout there would be more cohesion in the texture.
Creos 3D: neat idea. nice textures and colors. The straps have buckles but no end(generally found near the buckle). Could you explain to me how you copyrighted the image?:)
SR_6274: the textures could've used some more attention. The area where the bone shows through is a difficult thing to pulloff- maybe highlight the skin edge to pop it out abit, and the bones could have some shadow to appear more rounded and set back. The lightblue and gold works nicely.
melvinsqualor:neat idea, like the way the textures look. The chest area could've used some more time/different design. The stripe running down his face might work better with a color other than black.
polysmooth: the lighting could have been a bit brighter, maybe if more of the right side was visible. The charcter lacks any trace of threedy colors.
mxma: nice job on the textures, just doesn't come off as a general. The print on the fabric is really nice. Neat design on the mask/helmet.
Lsouthard3D: like the scar on his face. But the textures are abit blurred.
arobbins: the thumbnail pops. Well done on the disign and textures. Just don't remember seeing any wips for this. Not alot of general going on.
Bahamut: Good portrait quality to the image. The necklaces came out great. The gold trim may have worked better if it was ribbed(if that makes sense).
redonix76: nice texture work. Would've been neat if those lights bounced off of the appropriate surrounding areas.
Joseph Pomeisl: you really spent the time to do this? Don't you realize most people have deleted the files already? You're an idiot.

[redonix76]

:hmm: I was so in a rush that I forgot to put the 3DTotal logo and even my own name!! I had a chat with Fred from GA and he said it was ok if we forgot to include your personal information and logo, as long as the logo was on your character. He told me my entry is fine. I feel a bit better!! I would suggest talking to Fred to see if they might have any problems with your entries. He's a really cool guy so I'm sure if need be, he can let you fix "some" things.

BiG ToE-3DT - Maybe you can help others confirm that minor issues could be fine? I'm sure everyone's were all stressed out and didn't realize some of their mistakes.

Warlock 279 - Thanks man, for the kind words. If only I had one more day...but then again, I'm sure everyone feels that way!!

Joseph Pomeisl - Thanks for the crit. I literally uploaded like a minute from the deadline...I totally forgot to add the glow and bounced lights.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Redonix76: that's comforting about the logo thing, at least it's on most peoples characters. thanks for the check-up.

[Warlock 279]

Joseph Pomeisl - Wow, that's quite a lot of words you've got there. Yeah, the fur didn't planes didn't show up so much. I turned them off to test something, and forgot to turn them back on. :hmm:

...and no...I haven't deleted the files yet, there's always a chance I'll polish him up a little more........................someday.

redonix76 - Only one more day? I coulda used a couple more for my entry.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

I'd been meaning to do it, just had the time today. Never liked how everything goes dead once the submissions are. Bummer about the planes.

[redonix76]

Joseph Pomeisl - yeah seem like this thread is dead now...oh well. Do you really have that much more to work on? He looks pretty done to me!

warlock 279 - Oh man, I just noticed those missing planes!!! That sucks dude. Sorry to hear that. they would have been a nice extra touch!! No worries though, I'm confident that you'll be in the top 5.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Me, I'm quite happy with the way he turned out. No more for myself(I'm one of those guys who's already deleted the files):).

[BiG ToE-3DT]

voting starts Thursady, early in the morning. Get ready.

The way it will work, you are alllowed to vote for the top 5 for each forum, 5 for 2d, 5 for 3d.

[Warlock 279]

Haha, no worries about the planes...really. They kinda weren't looking so hot anyway, may have been a blessing in disguise having forgotten to turn them back on.

BiG ToE - Just to verify, we can vote on each forum right? Not just the one we're representing.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

yes.

[SR_6274]

Joseph Pomeisl : Thanks for the comments, I know I really appreciate them. I completely agree with you about the textures. I had originally textured the body, and I thought it looked better, but something happened to the file, and I couldn't get it to convert to a texture, so I had to completely re-do it, and I think I rushed it the second time around.

Overall I'm happy with the way it turned out. Considering this was my first ever low-poly character, I hope it will only get better as I keep going forward.

Good luck to everybody on the voting. You all deserve to be in first place in my book :)

[SR_6274]

This is what happens when I get bored at work :)

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6164/dmcomp.jpg

[FrZnChAoS]

thats awesome

[BiG ToE-3DT]

did everyone vote yet. If Not, get to it.

[SR_6274]

Yup, voted this morning :)

[grindill]

I voted. For all forums. Whew, that was a lot of work.

Joseph Pomeisl: Thank for the crits. I'll definitely be taking a bit more time with the next phase of the competition. Real work got in the way of a few days of this one.

SR_6274: That looks great.

[redonix76]

Man took awhile to vote for all the sites, but done!!

SR_6274 - That's really cool man!!! Thanks for the extra work to represent us!!

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Do we have to vote for every site? Also, something occured to me regarding the cross forum voting...say, if you were a chump(there's quite a few of 'em ou there), wouldn't you just vote for the crappiest ones for the other guys so that when the final judges vote came there'd be a huge imbalance?
P.S.: Please do not do this.
Nice poster!:)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

that could happen, but we are hoping it doesn't happen.

[Agent-X]

I have a question, for those that do not make the top 5, does that mean they can not compete in any of the other mini challenges?

[grindill]

Agent-X: Nope, rules say "- You are not required to enter all challenges. Pick the ones you like, and join."

[Agent-X]

Ah, well the reason I asked is because I noticed it said this on page 1.
- Public voting starts Thursday March 5th to March 8th to find each team's best 5. Each team’s best 5 entries then gather together into a single pool and a grand mini champion chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in June.

I thought only the top 5 voted would move on to the next mini challenges. But I think its great for everyone to compete. I hope everyone can compete. It would suck if only the top 5 voted would move on. Well, that being the case, I am looking foward to the next challenge. I would like to compete again.

[redonix76]

I think each mini challenge will have their own top 5 finalists. So I guess the next mini challenge will just be considered a new caterogry and everyone should be able to do it all over again...I hope.

[DeadlyFreeze]

They really need to rethink how you view these things, kind of a pain in the ass.

1: ced66
2: warlock 279
3: L3XICON
4: redonix76
5: LaMonk

Nice work guys http://forums.3dtotal.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[McKronic]

what if someone votes for their own? are there rules against that??

[grindill]

McKronic: I don't think there are any rules that say you can't vote for yourself. They just say vote for the top 5. If you think you're in there, go for it. Also, if you couldn't, it'd be pretty hard for the forums that only got a few entrys.

Can this thread still be considered a WIP thread? I was just doing a little more practice before the WAR and thought I'd share and try to get feedback. It probably won't get finished all the way, but I'd still like to hear what people think. I'm thinking some kind of a forest spirit. Maybe make the collar out of wood/bark? Ripped and torn flags. Still not quite sure how I would integrate the very geometric threedy logo into it.

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/grindill/DW_MiniCompA/Tunk-01.jpg

[Joseph Pomeisl]

maybe move the antlers further towards the front of the head.

[redonix76]

DeadlyFreeze - Thank you very much for voting for me, I feel honored!!

McKronic - yeah I've looked around to see if there was anything in the rules that says you can't vote for yourself and I didn't find anything. I'm guessing it's fine.

grindill - That's a great idea to keep this thread going as a WIP for people who still wants to keep going or finish. There's still a few people hanging around on here that can help give you crits...until the next one starts anyway!!

You know I'm all for creativity and all that, but I've never really seen a design with those flag things on the back that really works well and is balanced. Personally I think you can do without them because it stands out too much and will only look right in certain angles. I like the antlers and the shoulder piece.

If you are using the front part of the head as a mouth and nose, then the antlers are in the right place. If the nose part is the top of the head and the face will be in the front, then I would agree with Joseph Pomeisl and bring it forward more. Keep at it and we'll help you out as much as we can.

[Creos 3D]

Warlock 279
I`m recently catch sight that your Rabbit smoking... a carrot or prepare to eat this;)
That funny-cool idea.

Joseph Pomeisl
About copyright
When you place (C) with your initials you will already protect Your work as author, second way You can register your copyright rights visit a www.copyright.com

[Agent-X]

I have a question for you guys using Maya. Are there any other ways other than using a Mia_Material_X shader to have two bump maps. Its the only one I have seen that has two bump maps in one shader. The reason I ask this is because i usually use one for normal and then another for tileable detail bump. If you guys know other methods using Maya please share them with me. Thanks.

[redonix76]

Agent-X - A far as I know you can only do it easily with bump maps but when I tried to combine Normal with Bump, it doesn't work. Sorry man, but I'll see what I can come up with.

[Warlock 279]

DeadlyFreeze - Thanks! :D

grindill - Looks like a cool idea. I think I'm with redonix76 tho on the flags. Maybe just one flag, or two that are parallel with the viewing plane, maybe crossed. The logo should work alright on the flag[s] if you keep one/them, otherwise, maybe on a sash? Sashes are kinda cool.

Creos 3D - Yeah, when I think of a General, I think stars, bars, and cigars, [ epaulets as well I s'pose, tho they didn't quite fit the uniform style I went with]. Enough others were already rockin' the cigar, so I figured a carrot would be a suitable substitute given the nature of my character.



If you guys keep this open, I'll continue to stop in. Had a think I might even play around with a making a second general just for some painting practice. :)

[Astaroth]

i've been away for a while O_ò

warlock and joseph pomeisl, thank you for your comments ^^

i've a question: must we vote for every single top five of any forum??? what i mean is that other forum too can vote for our top five, is it right??? ò_O

[DeadlyFreeze]

You can vote for whatever forum you want to and it doesn't have to be the top 5, you can just choose the top one, two, three, etc.. from each or single forum you choose.

[Agent-X]

Thanks Redonix76. I think I found two other ways. Layered Shader and Layered Texture and of course the third is Mental ray Maya Shader Mia_Material_X. I have been experimenting with multiple things. Just watching Gnomon Tutorials here and experimenting, Prepping up for the next competition.

DeadlyFreeze: I wanted to say something to you, I learned something after the contest. I could have probably gotten a better looking normal map if I didnt seperate the model into seperate objects. So yeah, I just wanted to say sorry. I noticed from creating the normal maps with seperate objects on the head and the hat I maintain hard edges seperating the uv shells and normal map. Meaning its not smoothed right there, because I made it a seperate object. If I would have kept it one object, and projected the normal map and just painted my other textures ontop of it I would have not had that hard edged look. So yeah, I just wanted to come out and say that. So um yeah, I guess its all good. We learn something new. I think its good for other to hear that too, it helps them out too. Ill be in the next competition for sure. I am just going to keep studying in the meantime. Peace.

[DeadlyFreeze]

Its cool man I wasn't trying to be a dick and call you out or anything. There is a distinct advantage to using sub-tools like that, you can go from being capped to 3 million polys for one mesh to 12 mill for a mesh with 6 different sub-tools.

I'm sure more people, myself included would have worked the way you did but it was simply against the rules.

[KaterinaD]

does anyone know when the dominance 4 war will begin???

[redonix76]

Hhhmmmm...this is definitely dead now I guess. Any news on the mini challenge results?

[Joseph Pomeisl]

It's only dead if we kill it.

[VinsanityV20]

It's only dead if we kill it.

If it bleeds, we can kill it:)

...

I guess it's immortal.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

This goes out to all you punkass-kids keepin' this thread alive....get a job.

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

i've decided to use this time baking an occlusion from Parkin's Imrod and trying to make a brand new texture for practice reasons

[WARNING - Incoming Epic Fail]

Update: looks like lowpoly Imrod has some ngons and automatically fixing that in Zbrush makes Xnormal flip out while baking ;___;

I'll try that later :( Crysis Core calls :roll:

[redonix76]

Joseph Pomeisl- Yeah!!! You tell em!! Also stay school!!

So I guess Dominance War IV will start March 15th. The second mini wont start until after the main event ends so we have something to do while waiting for the final results. Sounds like a great plan to me!!!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

if the mini starts on time.

[VinsanityV20]

Joseph Pomeisl: You do realize that by saying that, you're helping to keep this thread alive too right? Oh, irony:)

Besides, the whole reason I can even enter this year is because I'm on medical leave from work. Got a lot of free time, y'know? Until the War starts, I can keep the thread alive if I feel like it! March 15th can't come soon enough.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I wish the 15th was the 12th.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

It was a joke. Oh, the vinsanity. Hope you recover well. Enjoy your freetime...

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

oh sweet Jesus, i'm having a jizzgasm ^__^

[damageINC]

It's UP!!!!!!

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/rules/en.php

[spoiLars]

looks great. guess I'll be canceling that relaxing Sunday I ordered and head for the interwebs to steal me some ideas^^

[lampshadehead]

Magical characters, Machines and cybors, or demons?! Nobody can possibly complain now that they can't think of something to fit their style! Bring it on!

[Joseph Pomeisl]

This thread can never die!!!

[Sathe]

Sticky this thread perhaps?

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Absolutely...At least until the winners are announced - still not sure why they couldn't do it earlier.

[Warbringerd]

So whats the deal have the winners been announced yet?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

results will be posted sometime next week.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

All right.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

*cough*never die*cough*

[discmage]

And on the last day, God took Joseph Pomeisl and his final thread to a place called Pergatory where he could push his thread up the hill forever more.

Discmage 3:16

[Joseph Pomeisl]

One can only hope.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

The Results. (http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/mini1/en.php)

[discmage]

that link doesn't work??

[BiG ToE-3DT]

try it now.

[discmage]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[SR_6274]

Grats Ced, Warlock, r0xmys0x, and heiyu. Awesome job. In case nobody else noticed, Ced had the most first place points than anybody else :)

[ced66]

hey cool :)

congrats everyone !!
it's not only a challenge it's a TEAM challenge and you all did an amazing work.
so GO for the main one, we are going to rock on !! ;)

[L3XICON]

the results for the first round of voting on the mini challange have been released.. this is from the public vote - http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/mini1/en.php

I'm not sure why some forums have more final entries than others, but guess its down to some forums having more final pieces than others

Congratulations to the 3dtotal winners and good luck in the final vote!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

the number of final enties corresponds with the number of entries for the team.

[rawk777]

Congrats to the finalists!

Is there a way to know what is our score if we did not make it in the finals?