Myths and Legends - Matte Painting "Dragon's Lair" - Public Voting Open

[Suirebit-3DT]

Voting Time has come!

Here's how it's going to work, initially there will be a public vote to decide the top 5 places.

To qualify for voting you must have at least 50 posts to your name or be a competitor of the challenge you are voting in (must be the same stream too, so a matte painter cant vote in speed modelling for example, unless he has over 50 posts)

Please choose your top 3, your first place gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, and 3rd gets 1. We will use these final entry threads for public voting also.

Public voting will be open for 1 week and will end on the 7th of the month at 2400 GMT.

Then the top 5 will be judged by a panel (to be announced) to decide the final places, this will happen during the second week of the month and end and winners will be announced on the 15th!

Ok people, get voting and [b]good luck to everyone!!


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Myths and Legends Challenge: Dragon's Lair

Please post here only your final entries for Dragon's Lair competition. Keep the thread clean, no questions, no discussions.

When posting please include the following:

- Your name
- Link to your WIP thread
- Final Image

Thank you and looking forward to see what you come up with :)

[matellis]

Matt Ellis

W.I.P Link (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71324)

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5103/dlmpfinal1800.jpg

[dges]

Dges (Florian de Gesincourt)

WIP Link (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=751125#post751125)

http://www.dges.fr/cfsl/mp/MP_DragonsLair_2k

[unity95]

WIP link (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71391)

http://www.atash-studio.com/shervin/Unity95 Dragon Lair Final.jpg

[OpiNelZ]

Mattia Mazzucchelli a.k.a. OpiNelZ

wip link (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71398)

http:///www.opinelz.net/files/wip/dragons_lair_by_OpiNelZ_2000.jpg

[Matty Milburn]

Matthew Milburn

WIP LINK http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71521

[valley]

Valley (Andy Collis)
WIP LINK (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=752397&posted=1#post752397)

[miledream]

miledream (Franklin Chan)
WIP Link: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71602

Mystic - Dragon's Lair

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7398/mattefinal.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/i/mattefinal.jpg/)

[somu02]

somu02 ( somnath)

wip link
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71554
Final work
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/munmun1979/dragan_final.jpg

[snwbrdr]

snwbrdr / Harald Schipper

W.I.P. thread (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71155)

http://www.haraldschipper.nl/images/threedy/final/dragons_lair_-_harald_schipper_1920.jpg

[abumomo]

Manuel Keser

wip link (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71212)

[Claw]

claw (Chris Law)

Wips http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71290

http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu66/lawc/DragonLairfinalImage1.jpg

[frenchygraphic]

Frenchygraphic
wip :http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71584


Final work :

http://usera.ImageCave.com/lilguyone/mattepainting/dragonslair.jpg

[andreasrocha]

Andreas Rocha
WIP Thread (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71363)

[eyecon]

WIP THREAD : http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=752894#post752894

Reference Images are shot by me and some by Alvin Cruz.
Dragon courtesy of the NET and Google. (unfortunatelly the image had no author attached to it)

Original Working Resolution: 5000 x 3333

Final Images

I Could not decide which color is better so I'm Posting both here...

VERSION 1
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7051/dragontrapfinals01.jpg

VERSION 2
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2708/dragontrapfinals02.jpg

WIP SHEET

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/372/wipsheet.jpg
Some full Res Zoom
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1838/dragontrapscreengrab.jpg

[szaszgbr]

szaszgbr
WIP: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=752734#post752734

[denniz]

Dennis Fraser (Denniz)

WIP Thread (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71171&page=2)

http://thedungeoneer.com/DL_finalHR.jpg

[shanmatte30]

shanmatte30

wip link
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71651

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1360/dragoslair03.jpg

[KernAttila]

Kern Attila GERMAIN
Wip thread (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71159)
wip sheet (http://www.kern-germain.com/forums/3dTotal/dragons_lair/wip_sheet.JPG)
High resolution (3000px) (http://www.kern-germain.com/forums/3dtotal/dragons_lair/final_image_high.jpg)

http://www.kern-germain.com/forums/3dtotal/dragons_lair/final_image_1200.jpg

[Dr.Rno]

Hi there everyone, taking the challenge 5 days before its end was very very short and I didn't manage to finish my matte...

Anyway here is my final entry....

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4147947933_6126717377_b.jpg

WIP thread : http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71669

If there is critics from jury members it would be great....
Peace

[matohan]

W.I.P- http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71338


http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6874/dlairfinal1.jpg


http://www.sketchroom.org

[vellum]

Here is my final image

[vellum]

Vellums wip:http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71484

[yaRa]

ya

[Tom-3DT]

Voting Time has come!

Here's how it's going to work, initially there will be a public vote to decide the top 5 places.

To qualify for voting you must have at least 50 posts to your name or be a competitor of the challenge you are voting in (must be the same stream too, so a matte painter cant vote in speed modelling for example, unless he has over 50 posts)

Please choose your top 3, your first place gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, and 3rd gets 1. We will use these final entry threads for public voting also.

Public voting will be open for 1 week and will end on the 7th of the month at 2400 GMT.

Then the top 5 will be judged by a panel (to be announced) to decide the final places, this will happen during the second week of the month and end and winners will be announced on the 15th!

Ok people, get voting and good luck to everyone!!

[blackmoondev]

Robert Podgorski - blackmoondev

WIPs (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71777)

[bryzol]

eyecon
somu02
miledream

[Daye]

1) Denniz ( entry # 17 )
2) Miledream ( entry # 8 )
3) Matohan ( entry # 21 )

[snwbrdr]

Would be nice to have a 'Competitors must vote, but can't vote for themselves' rule.. Or does everybody vote for their own piece?

[RHedendahl]

1:Denniz (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=752876&postcount=17)
2:valley (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=752398&postcount=7)
3:somu02 (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showpost.php?p=752603&postcount=9)

[Suirebit-3DT]

Would be nice to have a 'Competitors must vote, but can't vote for themselves' rule.. Or does everybody vote for their own piece?

that goes without saying :) Don't worry, we know to keep an eye and will keep things right :)

[miledream]

guess I should cast my vote as well:

1. Andreasrocha
2. Dennis
3. Vellum

[snwbrdr]

that goes without saying :) Don't worry, we know to keep an eye and will keep things right :)

Thanks.

Here's my top 3 then;

#1 - Matellis
#2 - andreasrocha
#3 - Somu02

[Munkybutt]

1: miledream, really tells a story, can almost hear the dragon asking "who the hell is that?"
2:eyecon, love the cheeky hiding place man!
3: deniz, the perspective is daunting, gives me vertigo just looking at it.

[denniz]

My Votes:

1. Miledream
2. Valley
3. Matellis

All are awesome and it was a difficult pick. I hate judging, now I am going to feel bad for the rest of the day.:xyz:

[KernAttila]

Hi, there are my prefered ones :
#1 - Matohan - I love this feeling of the unreachable dragon's lair, and that snowy and stormy weather. The two horsemen are great too. You should have worked a bit more on the foreground snow on the rocks...
#2 - Eyecon - That's what I call a matte painting! Nice atmosphere, and peaceful composition.
#3 - Unity95 - I do really love your mountain in the background.

[matohan]

My Vote

#1 - Denniz
#2 - somu02
#3 - MattEllis

[pogimonz]

1 - Miledream
2 - Denniz
3 - eyecon

really blown away with the enties, I wish I knew how to do what you guys do..

[thefmilyofblood]

Hmmm.... So very hard to decide...

1. eyecon
2. mattellis
3. somu02

[frenchygraphic]

1-Mattelis
2-Denniz
3-Andreasrocha

[washka]

1-Vellum
2-Dges
3-Valley
First place for Vellum because there I can feel the dragon inside, Dges for lightning and atmosphere (maybe you shouldn't have put a dragon there), and Valley because I like the concept and the humoristic tone, it look like one of the guy is asking to the other one: "Hey! Maybe we should go back...?" and the other one answer: "Nah! Let's go in!"
Those from Denniz and Andreasrocha are quite awesome, but I'm not judging the technique tonight :) I can't feel da dragon inside.
I also liked matohan's, KerAttila's, my originality prize go to YaRa.
It was really hard to decide myself, so much interesting works...

[MatejaPetkovic]

1. Andreasrocha, very artistic, excellent execution, cool pov.
2. Matohan, simple but effective. Love it
3. Denniz, same quality as Andreas, but you have some texture problem(some strange color pops

Eyecon, cool work my friend, but didn't feel "dragon lair" until i saw detail shoots.
Kernattila, very cool, like the idea.

[szaszgbr]

1.Matohan
2.Matellis
3.eyecon

[MStandar]

1: eyecon
2: somu02
3: denniz

[andreasrocha]

1. Matellis
2. eyecon
3. unity95

[inveni0]

1) Denniz
2) Matellis
3) MileDream

I had a hard time placing these three. In the end, first place was between Denniz and Matellis. I went with Denniz because of the mood in his piece. Technically speaking, however, Matellis' piece was the superior matte painting. It just didn't provide enough mood. Great paintings, though. I was really impressed with this competition.

[Matty Milburn]

My top 3 are

1. Denniz
2. Dges
3. Unity95

[Dr.Rno]

Hi there, so....

1/ Miledream, for the skills, the technique, the originality too, I like the capsule space-ship, that make sense, that bring the Sci-Fi side just quietly..... nicely done
2/ Unity95, for the originality, but I got too subjective on the color tones, It works great on the scene, the comp is good, but I prefered the warm and mystic hue on Miledream's one.....
3/ Eyecon, I rather like the first concept sketch, but the final is quite nicely executed.....

Ther was also Denniz and Matellis, but in Denniz's one I didn't feel the dragon that was not that, and Matellis' one was quite THE one BUT unfortunetly, the dragon looks too much paint or draw and the contrast that it gives to the scene wich set is quite perfect of realism make me troubled, that doesn't match.... the dragon's on the up right of the comp was cool, they match because they're "silhouette", they match in the atmospheric pers.... why a big dragon in front?????? lol

See ya....
Good luck....

[eyecon]

For those who voted for me a HUGE THANKS!

You guys have a point, But my matte was more on taking the idea and concept to a different level, I know everyone would jump on the idea of Rock and spikes and cliffs... for me that has been all and done. I want a twist and a story to tell at the same time a huge contrast. As you can see my matte is all serene yet if you look deeper you would see that the dragon has destroyed the city (recently) and made it his own lair. That's the twist.

now enough of that LOLz...

My judging is based on execution and story telling

Here is my vote and small critique:

1. matohanan : well done you got the idea right and the ice dragon is a nice twist, only comment is, the snow is a bit to painterly for me and the idea that its a blizzard environment, I would have loved to se more snow covering than usual.

2. Matellis : Well executed, amazing angle, the only thing that separates me is the tree. I felt distracted somehow and my eye keeps on going back to that spot.

3. Adreas Rocha : Amazing work as usual, consistent with your amazing gallery, its just a bit too painterlly for me though sorry

Denniz has a good cocept too, unfortunately looking at the threads, Andreas got to that concept first that's why you fall to 4th for me. (sorry)

Mateja : no problem man, each to his own opinion :)

[rap]

1. eyecon
2. matellis
3. andreas rocha

great work guys!

[shanmatte30]

my votes are.....

1.matellis

2.denniz

3.eyecon

[yaRa]

1.matellis
2.shanmatte30
3.somu02

and I also like:

mildream (I think, his matte painting have the same quality and stile as somu's)
vellum - very mistery
unity95 (but I think, his matte painting out of a theme about dragons)
claw - has nice matte painting too
)))

[Thiago_Pires]

1. denniz

2. matellis

3. somu02


also excellent:
andreas rocha, miledream, matohanan, unity95, eyecon


It was really hard to choose between so many amazing images!! Congratulations to all participants for the high quality work on this challenge!

[OpiNelZ]

1. andreas rocha
2. Miledream
3. unity95

[M_Cederstrom]

my vote:

1.vellum
2.matellis
3. sombu02

[quisirbu]

I accept with information:1: miledream, really tells a story, can almost hear the dragon asking "who the hell is that?"
2:eyecon, love the cheeky hiding place man.

[Suirebit-3DT]

The finalists are:

1) Mattellis 31pt.

2) Denniz 29 pt.

3) eyecon 22 pt.

4) Miledream 18 pt.

5) Andreas Rocha 14pt.

Now the judge panel will decide the winners which will be announced next week.

Thanks for your participation and cya at 2012 challenge!