THE Sculpting Challenge 017: Biomechanical Hybrid (Nudity Warning)

[M_Cederstrom]

i have three hours left i should have an update by late today or tomorrow. :D

[Freespace-3DT]

thermometer: Keep it up! Looks interesting so far. His hand seems a bit broken, though :)
Cederstrom: Looking forward to your entry, mate!

[H2olt]

Here's my start on my runner hybrid. Went a bit slower than i expected, 2 hrs down now, but i'm calling it a night. I think i'll give this comp a couple tries.

[Longhi]

Hello Folks!!!!

I'm back to this forum, and of course back to this amazing challenge!!!!

very nice entrys here guys, congrats!!!

so, here we go.

4 hours till now maybe, and I have a lot of things to do yet!!!

critics are really welcome!
cya folks

[DELTATHUND3R]

Hi longhi :).
All I can say is its awsome :):)..love the look of him :).Great looking character.

[GMGraham]

Nice starts H2olt and Longhi! I find the time goes so fast when you really enjoy what your modeling...

Here is my 2nd concept so far...just about 4 hours on this as well. Have big plans for the weapon and details, hope I can pull it off in time....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/StaleFlesh/bio_mech_new_concept_GMG.jpg

[Longhi]

thank you guys!

hey deltathunder, how r u my friend?


so, last update before sleep.

more 30 minutes playing around ;)

[oktow]

im in for this chalenge..... i hope i can finish it... cause im so busy..
and this my entry.. please give some crits.. cause im newbie...

[M_Cederstrom]

It not as awesome as every one but i'm happy with it because this is my first full body sculpt/model I have ever done. Most of the time I'll just do the head, well anyways i ran out of time. i didn't get to pose him, i tried the transpose and figure how it work, after the time was up but rule are rule and that was after the time limit. I might try another one. :D

[freakmean16]

Longhi your dude is amazing man, Im really into all of this hard surface stuff right now, buyin some books and gettin some more inspiration, thanks for this challenge 3dtotal, thaaaanks!!!

[babis1]

hi guys ..all Hybrids its very nice..! ok.lets start.. this my hybrid about 1.35 min i hope to finish it... (sorry for my bad english..)

[H2olt]

StaleFlesh - Thx, nice start on yours too.
Longhi - Nice work. the asymmetrical design is nice. Depending on how you read the rules, that separate shader for the mechanical parts may be too much, i think it's color only, if not I'm gonna do the same thing.
oktow - Good start there, looking good for 45 mins. keep at it. the only tip i could give (for these timed comps) is try to develop the whole sculpt at the same time. Don't over develop a small part before the rest.
M_Cederstrom - sure rules are rules but this is the WIP thread, you may not be able to submit the posed version, in the final, but you can post it up here.
Babis - nice start there. if you're running into trouble sculpting the feet like that from the base mesh, try using the clay or clay tubes brush. they work well on non-ideal geometry

Here's my latest update on the runner. I just broke him out of symmetry a bit, and I think i'm gonna walk away and try some other concepts now. If i still like this later I can come back and finish up with another few hrs before final. Let me know what you guys think.

[M_Cederstrom]

Thanks H2olt, i'll post it later when i get home tonight or tomorrow moringing. I think i will start a new one as well. :D o yeah your sculpt, Wow pain, mech, and greatness. :D

[H2olt]

Thought I'd try another concept. It's fun trying to see what weird shapes you can pull out of this mesh. Obviously i got a ways to go on this but i'm gonna see if I can make feet like a t-rex, and some wings from the fingers.

[oktow]

@H2olt>>tnx bro your work is nice but i like your first creature
and this another update 4 hours... fiuh..... and now time for weapon and pedestal...

[KrRul]

hell , thinking of jumping on this one ..... , heres what i got in half time .

dont know what to do next :dunno:

[Freespace-3DT]

KrRul: The pose and his face look awesome, but currently he still looks like a guy in armor. Try adding something that shows the armor is part of his body, not just on top of it. He's not wearing his armor, it's intergrated forcefully into him.

[Fenixy]

great works guys!

KrRul: i agree with Freespace-3DT , first thing that i soght was an armor, but nice sculpt, i realy like chest

And times up for me, i posed it, then i saved it, then i reopened it, and....crap file got corrupted or somthing, i dont have backup files :wall:... blah well,might do somthing new lol

[KrRul]

hey , thanks Freespace , i will make the armor look like its part of him .
Fenixy - looking at ur sculpt , i get the idea on what to do , thanks man , and nice sculpt from u , esp. the mech arm .

[Freespace-3DT]

Fenixy: That looks too good to give it up. Just figure a way to hide or damage the finger. :)

[oktow]

@KrRul>>nice scuplt and yup a think thats armor.. must blend with body... keep it up...
@Fenixy>>owww nice sculpt.... mmm i think your problem come when you smooth and divide... but you can hide it :D

[AlexM]

KrRul- nice sculpt I like it's torso, just add some mechanical gears into it and you'll get biomechanical hybrid:wave:
Longhi- good job man.......

[goast666]

Damn! I leave for the weekend and everyone is going nuts. Anyway, I'll post up some stuff later this evening. Great work everyone.

H2olt - How are you getting the hole in the back of his head? Did you grab the middle of his back and the top of his head and pull them together then clay the hell out of it? If so...damned good idea.

Fenixy - Everytime I see him I think Mr. Freeze for some damned reason. I love the piece either way. And I'm sorry to hear about the corrupted file...always sucks. Incremental saves!!!

[sagiarts]

oh my schedule is sooooooooooooo tight , just chopping off some sleep there and got 2 hrs to work on the mechanical hand and the legs, still need to do the boots ,pose , weapon and pedestal,..GOD help me....
here's my update
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/bio1.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/bio2.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/bio3.jpg

[sagiarts]

Fenixy:thats a real problem bro.....why dont u try some inflate brush on the fingers and then couple of flatten and clay tube brush to get the fingers right.
Ohh, another thing, cud somebody refer me a tutorial or some tips of painting different material on the same model , as I want to seperate the body and the mechanical part of my model.

[goast666]

Sagiarts - We can only use one material on the model.

[Freespace-3DT]

He meant painting the organic parts in one color and the mechanic ones in another. I'd suggest how to do it but I use Mudbox, and I'm sure it's totally different in Zbrush.

[goast666]

Sag - It's easy.

pick a color. Then color>fill object (have RBG on and at 100)
then pick another color, turn off Zadd and Zsub on the brush and only have RGB turned on, then color him where you want the different color.

[Longhi]

thank you guys!

sag - great one man!


more 30 minutes, I hope I can use my 3 hours left on this week to finish this one.

[Jabberwock]

1,5 H to go.
Still a lot fo details to work on! And I have of course to assemble them, pose it and make a nice pedestal...:xx:

[Ghost-D]

wow, some amazing pieces in here. I hope I´ll find some time to enter this one too.

[CHAO5]

awesome sculpt sagiarts

[bryzol]

Some nice new works here: Longhi, Sagitars, Jabberwock, H2olt, Fenixy, KrRul... Keep it that way guys!

I havn't add anythink new but I was plaing with the matcaps a litle and here is what I've got:

[CHAO5]

nice 5* bryzol

[Lynette-3dt]

sagiarts, I just plugged your WIP in the top news bar, so please feel free to collect a Golden Eye award - we wish you the best of luck finishing the character.

Best of luck to all, this challenge rocks!!

[Likuid]

hey brizol, is that fully 3d rendered or the painting like look is from some funky shader? It looks awesome.

[goast666]

Yo, I posted these up over at ZBC as well...but I suppose they make more sense to put them in here. No clue where the dark line on the bottom of the stand came from...doesnt' really matter though. Just playing around.

[sagiarts]

Hi Lynette-3dt,thanks for putting my wip artwork to the forum from frontpage.Thanks to team 3dtotal....and all my freinds taking part in bimech challenge.
Really this challenge ROCKS.
today I sculpted the shoe .....it took me 30mins(10mins to sculpt and 20mins to smooth out the fingers and get a proper shape..probably its the hardest part for me till now)have very lesstime in hand.....I have to work faster...
here is todays update
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/4691/biomechcopy.jpg

[babis1]

very nice sagiarts.!

this my update.. concertedly:5.30 hours

hey guys how to import my gun in my hybrid...??

(sory for my bad english...




http://babiszacharias.blogspot.com

[Jabberwock]

Ok I'm done.
It was a very nice but difficult challenge:)

A lot of troubles during the transpose...but tile limit is time limit!

Other images in the final submission post.

[cok3]

Great looking entries everyone! Just started Mine. An hour into the model, still fleshing the main forms out. Will solidify them in the next hour as I continue to design it while sculpting. Taking a break and will continue at the end of the day.

[oktow]

@babis1>>how to import your gun.... i use subtool so load tool "hybrid" and next load tool again "weapon" and then klik subtool and klik append and then pick your hybrid and now you have 2 subtool

another update and i only have my last 1 hour i dunno what to do next...

[aby arty]

hi guys here 39 mins wrkso far.

i need ur hlp and guidance, as i havent dont hard suface sculpts bfr.

i am having trouble wth sharpening the edges and distinguishing parts.

please c&C

[Jabberwock]

The key for sharpeness is to divide ;)

[GMGraham]

My God there is some fantastic work here. I don't how you guys can model so fast, probablly lots of experience lol. Sagiarts your work is incredible, the level of detail is superb!

I only have 1.5 hours left (actually a bit less than that) I still need to paint this thing, adjust the weapon to fit the back properlly and try to detail/fuse the armour on front chest and arms, I kinda doubt I'll get it done, but will post my results non the less.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/StaleFlesh/bio_mech_concept_2_update_3.jpg

[Freespace-3DT]

Now THAT's one hell of a twin shoulder mounted rocket launcher.

[KrRul]

holy smoke !!!! , now thats a badass weapon !

[paulius-st]

this is going strong. like the entries. awsome jobs. sagiarts - incredible sculpt, so much detail... sick man just sick :)
cok3 interesting start. i like the mutant monster cracters so i'm waiting to see complete entrie. damn i have so little time to speare, even forgot i'm in this one too :( so ill try to give another hour for my model and finish torso with lower body to leave the legs and arms for tomorow.

[babis1]

this my final..8 hours..

[babis1]

i hope you like it..:dance:

[Freespace-3DT]

Babis, please post your final submission in the final submission thread.

[somu02]

This is somnath from india. first time i,m coming in this challenge to learning
how to work a final model with in a short time.
Please give some feedback from all of my friends.

this is my wip work .. i took allmost 2h45min some quick sketck.

1.http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/part_02.jpg

2.http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/part_01.jpg

Thanks:lame:

[polysmooth]

Okay... Finally got a chance to break away from work ( In which I'm
doing mech stuff as well, go figure). I got about 45 min in this guy so
far...Just shaping up proportions at this point. I'm gonna spend about an
hour or maybe a little longer on the organic portions and then I'll bring the
sub-d levels down and work on all the mechanical dressings and such.
I'm gonna call this guy Biomare...I'm not sure what the hell that even means
but thats what I'm calling him.

[sagiarts]

hi somnath,
nice to find u in the contest pal ur work looks excellent !!
As a suggestion I would like to seee more biological object on the character but ur in the right track keep up ur sculpting skill.

[Steban]

hi, i`m new on this, and i want to know if i have to post my progress or only the final model.

[Freespace-3DT]

hi, i`m new on this, and i want to know if i have to post my progress or only the final model.

Posting progress is recommended, because you can get some positive feedback from members, but it's completely within the rules for you to just show up and post the final image in the final submission thread.

[freakmean16]

Really nice sculpts here, specially yours sagiarts, I love your char man, I have a question, on what subd level are you on right now??? and Im sure youve done most of your alphas right???

[varechina]

im in! 45min:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5096/pavocoglione.jpg

[freakmean16]

Thanks for all the support to all you people, this is really my first hardsurface sculpt ever, and my first sculpt on 3DT, this is a very nice community, I think this is a very mindblowin subject so Im plannin onto buyin a lot of books related to biomechs and mechanical design, so Thanks a lot for this challenge...

PS: Im tryin to pull my submission into PS, so maybe Ill post it later..

[aby arty]

@somnath aapka swaagat hai, parjab tak tum mujhe itna jabardast kaam karna sikhaoge nhn main peecha nhn chhodunga :D

[Steban]

hi, i'm sorry for the questions, but how do the judges know which is my final model?

[Freespace-3DT]

hi, i'm sorry for the questions, but how do the judges know which is my final model?

You post it in the Final Submission thread, here: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=67906 . Please read the rules.

[guitar4ever]

Hi everybody! I haven't posted anything since I was a total noob to 3d. It feels good to be back. :smug:

This is my first sculpting contest. I've been wanting to enter one of these for a while and I just couldn't resist this one. I've had a copy of Zbrush for a while now but have never really used it.

This is my WIP. It's a giant genetically engineered hyper-intelligent slug that has been equipped with an energy cannon and jet boots. I've put in 4 hours so far. I'm going to need to put a little more time in on the details of the boots. Any other suggestions?

The SLUGG is built from the weapon base model alone.

[Steban]

well, i'm sorry Freespace-3DT, here there are my first 3h-50min of work.

[Hetfield]

I hope newbies can enter ;)

[somu02]

This is my latest up date for detail part i took almost 2 h 15 min.
hope all like it

thanks

[Maxter1]

Hi guys! some great sculpts here:dance:

I'm in and here's my 3 hours wip...

[dealer2couleurs]

Hi, my name is Nicolas

first time for me in this forum, I 'have discovered the challenge at the beginning of the week. this kind of sculpting challenges are awesome, and the subject give a lot of idea
it's very difficult to manage the time, but it's really a good training.

C & C
http://zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=148301

[gumby666]

Here's my 2 hour WIP.
Only the head so far so I'll be pushing it to get it all done!
Can't believe what some people can get done in 8 hours!
I've got a lot to learn.
My first attempt at hard surface modelling.
Still a long way to go!
Great work by everyone.

[darkmonk]

hi,

Finally got round to working on this comp, Great to see so many different sculpts.

I have worked on this for about 4:30, not sure what else i want to do to this sculpt as i dont want to overwork it,
I think the only thing ill work on further is the pedistal as its very simple just now.
The mechanical scorpian tail is made from the weapon basemesh.

[Hetfield]

4.30h of work

http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1003&pictureid=7146
http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1003&pictureid=7143
http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1003&pictureid=7144

C&C please

[varechina]

heres what i have:

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6144/yeahf.jpg

need to work on proportion, arms and pedestal, only have 45minutes :D

[somu02]

Last update 1h 15min legs part.

[Fenixy]

varechina i dont know if you notised it, but there is somthing between his legs xD nice concept, i like it

somu02 great amount of details, good luck with remeining hour

[sagiarts]

Hi all I finished somehow only 10-15 mins left for me need to show to everybody for final suggestions and any minor corrections...a gr8 challenge here enjoyed a lot and goodluck to everybody...heres my updates:
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8954/p1copyy.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9080/p3copya.jpg

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/954/gunm.jpg

[arthurduque]

hello...this is one of my wips....
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z14/arthurduque/mariner02.jpg
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z14/arthurduque/wepon_01.jpg

[KrRul]

sagiarts - great piece of work , and amazing details , i like it .

[Victor22]

Hi all

finally I have a free time to finish my model
I wait you enjoy it

Many Thanx:dance:

[freakmean16]

Wooow, victor, Im amazed, i think your "frankenstein" deserves the first place, its amazing, wow, and again, wow...

[Maxter1]

Well, here's an update of this guy...I have 2 hours left for pose and pedestal:roll:

[Victor22]

Thanx freakmean16

This guy is a model that I liked to work, your name could be "Cyborgstein" :D
what do you think ?.... rs

Thanks again

[Raul]

wow, i loose track for a couple of days and come back to find really amazing stuff. I was going to upload some images but i dunno anymore. lol

Well, the zombie thing i was doing ealier. I messed it up and i ended up running out of time. So i started a new one. Here is 3 hours of work.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/RaulXpT/challenges/3dT_SC_bioCreature/wretchPreview__001.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/RaulXpT/challenges/3dT_SC_bioCreature/wretchPreview__002.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/RaulXpT/challenges/3dT_SC_bioCreature/wretchPreview__002.jpg

[somu02]

Hi all .. finally i completed my character. for weapon and pedestal i took almost
1h 15 min. so still i have 30min more. any suggestion .

This is my almost final update.

1.http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/Render01.jpg

2.http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/Render02.jpg

3.http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/Render03.jpg

Thanks.

[Spitfire51]

Ive been away for a while so i havnt had the time to sculpt much, last time i did anything was on page 3, the base for my rhino man, anyway i came back and i realised there wasnt much time left on the challange so i started sculpting it up.

Im almost done, minor fixing here and there and the posing.

Here is a test pose

[Maxter1]

Model finished, I hope you all like it!:dance:

[Freespace-3DT]

Good stuff, guys! Some fierce hybrids here.

Remember there are only a few days left, so if you've got an idea let it rip now.

[Longhi]

great work guys!

I won't have time to finish it as I wanted, so, I'll stop it here.
Just a Bust Concept.

Thank you guys, cya next challenge!

[gumby666]

Fantastic sculpts on here!!
Had another hour to play tonight.
Up to 3 hours now.
Need to get him a bit more mechanical!

[arthurduque]

hello,

Now I post the first link for my modelling...
this is the first aprox. 2 or 3 hours of works I dont remamber..rs..

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DimFhD1fvSY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DimFhD1fvSY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DimFhD1fvSY

this is my first test pose:
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z14/arthurduque/nanotech_01_final01.jpg

[meowmeow]

arthurduque do you watch heroes ? i feel like the lady that can absorb any information when watching tv. i feel like that when i watch your youtube video. great stuff loving the design and final product

[maxtx]

Hello Guys!

Greetings to all participants! I love this theme, here's my study for this contest! I hope you enjoy!

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8499/soldier01.jpg

[maxtx]

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8337/soldier03.jpg

[KrRul]

ok , did some heavy tweaking with it .. this may probably be more relevant !


can we post a Best render in the final submission , or only a Preview render ?

[Freespace-3DT]

ok , did some heavy tweaking with it .. this may probably be more relevant !


can we post a Best render in the final submission , or only a Preview render ?

Show me here how it would look, please.

[KrRul]

here ya go ...

[darkmonk]

hi guys, im not going to have time to finish my model so here is a quick test render i did. good luck to all in the comp.

[Freespace-3DT]

KrRul: Looks good to me. :)

darkmonk: Sorry to hear that, but you should still submit it either way. Except for finishing details, it's overall a complete piece. And I love what you did to the fingers.

[DANNYBOY]

Well , here's what I have. Got just enough time to slap some polypaint on and time's up! these challenges sure bring out some wicked talent out there. Keep on sculpting!

[Freespace-3DT]

these challenges sure bring out some wicked talent out there.

That's for sure!

Everyone remember the deadline is in less than a day, so if you're still sculpting, get ready to add your finishing touches and submit your entry.

I'm sure Gnomon Workshop is also thrilled to see such sculpts from our community.

[Spitfire51]

This has been an awesome challange, its sweet to see the broad theme has really been used to its max by sculptors.

Darkmonk: That really reminds me of metal gear ray, awesome sculpt!

[sagiarts]

hi I am done here is a preview, but I have 2 confusions ADMIN PLEASE HELP:
1)Is this kind of shading is allowed for final judgement i.e. shading like steel and sculpy clay together, here I have used total 3 matcaps ,pls define.
2) asFreespase-3dT has told time is less than a day but in gmt site that u have referred is showing 6.33 pm gmt right now while writing the mail so I can post withen any time beteen 12pm gmt that is a bit more than 24 hrs right?(I am bit confused pls accept my entry if its some hrs late 3dtotal freinds pls coperate)
any way admins plas mail me asap so that i can post the final , I am just unable to post as I am doubtful about multiple matcap use other than that I am done with sculpting here is the prefinal look:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8843/prefinal.jpg

[H2olt]

I've gotten a bit more time to work on this. I really need to focus on the feet for the next hour and then get this thing posed and tweak any final details that brings up.

[Jabberwock]

hi I am done here is a preview, but I have 2 confusions ADMIN PLEASE HELP:
1)Is this kind of shading is allowed for final judgement i.e. shading like steel and sculpy clay together, here I have used total 3 matcaps ,pls define.


In my opinion this is not allowed as Freespace said "To differentiate between organic and inorganic, you can use two base colors" So this is just colors and not materials. And if I look at the final submissions thread I think that only one matcap was used in any case.

However great sculpt Sagiarts, and H2olt too!

[sagiarts]

Jabberwock:I also think using various matcaps may arise some problem in judgement....so I used only one material and colour.
Great sculpt by everybody.
Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!

[gumby666]

Hey sagiarts, I came to same conclusion as Jabberwock. One matcap with 2 colours max. I think your sculpt looks better without the shiny metal matcap anyway! I ran out of time to colour mine as well so left mine as a since coloured matcap.

Was an excellent challenge and rad sculpts by all!!!

[carlw]

These are all looking excellent people!

[bryzol]

Ok, I finly found some time at the end of this comp to finish my sculpt. As you can see I've used the second material for the wepon I've made. I also posed her delicately. Nothing very complicated but I hope you like it.

[AlexM]

When I rendered my final entry I forgot about perspective(it was shut off). Of course it'll not change anything moreover I saw Sagiarts work the best of all. But anyway Cremator must looks thus...