SMC #04 "Take A Look Outside" - A Room With A View

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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The Challenge Rules

1). Each challenge we'll post a subject for you to model along with a time limit on how long you should spend on it. Spend no longer than the allocated time then post a render of your model. No cheating, we are relying on your honesty here and the idea of speed modeling is to simulate a "real world" environment. If you are working on a project and asked to show a concept model you'll need to be able to get somewhere near the target in the allocated time. Your submission should be a model created especially for this challenge and not one you have stored on your hard drive. How you interpret the brief is up to you as long as the final model conforms to what we have asked for. Any images of models that do not match the brief can be removed and the poster disqualified.

2). You may enter as many times as you like as long as each model is completely new and uses no components from other entries. Entries using models which are not original will be removed and the poster disqualified.

3). Your entry may contain as many views of your model as you like and must include a clear and easy to see wireframe of the mesh before any smoothing/subdivision has been applied. Wire renders/ Cell Shaded or Screengrab wireframes are acceptable. Any wireframes we cannot see correctly will be disqualified. The key is for us to be able to see the wireframes clearly to ascertain how you modelled the subject matter.

4). You MUST include the following details with each submission:

A). Software used
B). Time spent creating the model.

Any further information is voluntary but posts not containing the required information can be removed and the poster disqualified.

5). Post TWO images per entry which must be no larger than 1280x1024 pixels in either landscape or portrait format with a file size of no more than 195k.
1 image for your wireframes and 1 for your clay combined with a optional beauty render.
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Do not link to external images files. Images larger than the maximum size or posts containing links to external images (other than for reference materials)
will be removed and the poster disqualified.

6). The creation of displacement maps, normal maps and any splines drawn out in an external program other than your modeling software are to be included in your modeling time.

7). Time spent on rendering or texturing or building a scene in which to display your model is not included in the allocated period to allow those with slower machines to participate on an even playing field. What we are looking for is the quality of the models you can produce "under pressure". If your model is not complete, you can still post it as long as it's recognizable.

8). Posting the same entry twice in a challenge is considered to be double posting and will result in a disqualification. When asked to fix a previous post due to DQ or any other reason, you must fix the first post, or delete it altogether and create a new one.

9). The Winner must email jo@3dtotal.com to claim their prize.

10). Only 1st place & 2nd place (i.e. the runner up) can claim a prize.

These rules apply to everybody taking part there will be NO exceptions!

Subject: A Room With A View
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 8th April 2011
Description: Here's your chance to model the best view you'd like to see from a window. You could model a view out to something or a view into something, for instance a view to an alien world, a beach coast a view to a spy's base, an assassin's hideout, a landscape garden, an old shed, there are literally hundreds of possibilities here, so get modelling the best scene you'd love to view!
Modelling Time: 120 Mins.

Prizes:

1st Place - £30 worth of 3DTotal downloadable products & a gold award badge.
2nd Place - £10 worth of 3DTotal downloadable products & a silver award badge.
Honourable Mentions - Bronze Award Badges

Above All Else Have Fun & Good Luck!

My Starter

My starter will come when I get my new system sorted out.

[Neil_F01]

well i know what i want to see outside my window..

either will do.. i'm not fussy.. both would be ideal though.. :evil:

[rocneasta]

if that's you're window view CG i must say for the first time in my life i'm envious at something. Damn i would like to have that view.....

i am a fan of the city, but concrete slabs, thousands of people all around me is at times not me - i like the outdoors

[pables]

CG- just to be clear, we have to model the view, but, is it also mandatory to include the window?

I think is a great topic, it can be looked from different styles and topics, is going to be a very creative one :D

[Trash]

...but concrete slabs, thousands of people all around me...

is that, what i see out of my windows.

but perhaps i create some surrealism. my hometown has a nice habour.

many ideas and a weekend on work :/

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

It would be nice to have the window included but not essential, as the challenge is a "room" with a view, so it could be an opening, windows or doors etc. Oh and the window is from google! I wish I had a view like that too lol :)

[Vitrux]

I suppose this can be any kind of windows, isn´t it? like vehicle windows...

[Leonheart]

Nice one :)
Im really looking forward to start this one
But what about the previous challenge, how do we know the winners :)
And is my second entry qualified ??
Thanks and good luck for all

[rocneasta]

Nice one :)
Im really looking forward to start this one
But what about the previous challenge, how do we know the winners :)
And is my second entry qualified ??
Thanks and good luck for all

previous challenge will be judged when CG get's a chance to take some time and makes a decision.

your second entry is ok, since it was posted prior to CG's post that said the challenge is over.

[lonelymonk]

I suppose this can be any kind of windows, isn´t it? like vehicle windows...

I had the same thought.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Anything you class as a "view" I suppose :)

You are free to think out of the box if you wish :)

[dantrodgers]

:grr: got sooo much work to do this week its unreal, but im determined to get an entry for this topic.

Thinking something Twilight Zoney, whats behind The Scary Door??

http://www.haunted-woods.org/img/Twilight%20Zone%20Front%20Door.jpg

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

I'm liking that idea :)

[Neil_F01]

sadly looking at it, i dont think i;m gonna get the time to enter this time around... i'll keep an eye.. as i look forward to some cool entries.. :D

[rocneasta]

same here, deadlines are closing in on me while i was ignoring them without a care in the world. BUT i would hit my self with [See Image Below] before not entering one...

[Neil_F01]

everyones quiet... hopefully someone will come up with first post soon..

[rocneasta]

so many competitions going on currently :) but i have 2 ideas in mind that's are not hard to do...

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

I've been having a nightmare with my new laptop, Cinema 4D wasn't working properly..... actually at first it wasn't even installing and it turned out i had to update the Intel chipset drivers on a new system lol. Then finally after hours of painful crashes in cinema 4d found out that open gl needed to be switched off to be stable. So finally...... very nearly back to normal....... it's really weird going back to a laptop after having a 20" screen for the last 6 years, I might end up plugging in the monitor and having a dual screen system.... but I do like having a widescreen display :)

[bgen]

allready got a idea sketched out for this one, gone model it later today.

CG - seems like all C4D version have problems with the open gl / viewport problems.
when i used v9 i had problems with driver, and even now that i have R12 is still have the occasional problem, just recently i finally found a driver that works well with R12 and the rest of my CG programs.

[bgen]

well here is my entry. hope ya guys like it.

[Vitrux]

Yeaah! The first one! that is so cute.. Like it:dance:

[rocneasta]

reminds me of my son - just that he's constantly pointing at dogs and barking :)

[pables]

Hey! Nice model, good idea and I like the lighting a lot!

[Neil_F01]

cool

[bgen]

cheers for da comments guys. wanna see your entries :p.

[lonelymonk]

Nice model Bgen, I love the retro saucers. There's something kind of sweet and sinister about this image, is this a friendly visit or an invasion?

Really itching to enter this one but I don't have any free evenings this week. Hoping to have a go in my lunch breaks, not ideal though.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Great to see an entry for this SMC!

Really cool entry too :)

[bgen]

Nice model Bgen, I love the retro saucers. There's something kind of sweet and sinister about this image, is this a friendly visit or an invasion?

Really itching to enter this one but I don't have any free evenings this week. Hoping to have a go in my lunch breaks, not ideal though.

lonelymonk - cheers, should be a friendly visit, but now that u mention it - it has a sinister atmosphere about it..
hope u will have time to enter this challanged, i really like ure entries in the last one.

cheers CG :haha:.

[rocneasta]

ok i got 4 ideas formed, most of them researched - reference gathered 50% - of in 4 hours to buy summer tires for the car, and in 10 hours from now i reckon i can start transitioning those ideas to virtual reality :)

[lonelymonk]

So far I have managed to model 1 plank. Time is definitely short this week!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Gotta be the poorest turnout for a SMC this week :( ......... at this rate it won't be hard to judge! Anyone wanna challenge bgen's entry?

I totally understand why, there's alot going on with Atomhawk & DW ongoing. Here's hoping the next SMC will be back to normal, we will be returning to the 60 mins time limit on the next one. I'm drawing up artwork & brief text now.

[Vitrux]

Would be better, 2hours is too much for a SpeedC... and didn´t have the time this week for that!

[dantrodgers]

Well gutted i couldn't do anything this week, lost my glasses on a night out on saturday and specsavers wont give me any contacts till tomorrow (something to do with them being c*nts), that mixed with loads of uni work has meant i haven't really been able to sit at my comp for longer than a couple of hours without my eyes burning heh.

Hopefully ill get some contacts tomorrow morning and try and get a submission together for before the finish time..

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

specsavers wont give me any contacts till tomorrow (something to do with them being c*nts)..

That's the quote of the month right there :dance:

[pables]

I'm going to try to do something after dinner, can't promise but I'm sad to see a great topic like this ends almost desert. Hope somebody else can join.

[bgen]

indeed very quiet.
pables com'on pull a rabbit out of ya're hat :D.

[Vitrux]

I have some time and a cool idea ! im gonna try it now

[Trash]

my entry will come as soon as possible... last beauty render takes only 12 hours.... and contains some mistakes *gnarf*- next is nearly complete, i'll post it tomorrow

It's the third attempt - the others had problems in the mapping and not enough time ;)

PS: but before it's to empty, i can post the clay & wireframerender ;)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Course you can post the wireframes and clays, the beauty shot is an optional one anyway (although everyone enjoys making them). :)

[RockstarKate]

Started mine last night, hope to post it tonight! Looks like I picked the right challenge to make my come-back, the competition is sparse around here :)

[newhere]

Ummm....i don't think you want to see what's outside my window when i look out of it.

[pables]

Hey Kate, long time no see you in the SMCs. Wellcome back!

Well, as I said, I gave it a try after dinner, I'm really sorry but I'm not going to make a beauty render, I would like to, but I have no time for it. The idea is a "window", I mean, the view from the cockpit of a spaceship, someone discovering a new world, that's my personal interpretation to the Smc title, "take a look outside".

Hope you like it, and I hope to see some entries before time is out.

[RockstarKate]

Hi Pables! Nice model! Good to see so many familiar faces around here :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Stunning modelling there, and a very clever take on the subject matter :)

[Trash]

here's the spoken entry - some Problems stay - but i hope you will enjoy it.
for the wireframe the windows are clear and the curtain in the rights side not extrude - in the clayrender it's all grey^^

[Trash]

And this was the first idea... but not enough time for mapping ;) or to many ideas^^

[RockstarKate]

Here's mine. Imagining a serene, relaxing view.

90 min modeling
1-2 hours of half paying attention materials and rendering (mental ray)

[pables]

Hey finally some nice entries!

RSKate, have you ever been in CinqueTerre, Italy? I say because your image is almost exact to the views I had in the bed and breakfast I was when I went to that wonderful place. It instantly reminded me the sole window trough which you only could see the sea, and from time to time, a little boat.

[RockstarKate]

Nope, never been to Italy. Wish I was there though!
I was looking at lots of pictures of Greek islands though, so I guess I got the general area of the world correct :)

Thanks!

[bgen]

nice to see some other entries. :dance::dance::dance:, but i am ready for the next SMC :D.

pablo - nice cockpit - the perspective reminds me of the good old xwing game i used to live and play alot.
RSKate - indeed as pablo states, your picture has a feel of italy, some bed and breakfast(the cheaper ones :D)
have only a little windows through which u can see the ocean. realy nice model.
Trash - really like the seaport model - more than the other one.

[rocneasta]

sorry for the delay, had 4 ideas, not sure if i can do much more than this one - my kid got some stomach viral thing, and so he passed it on to me and the pregnant missus - the fun :) we all are loving the bathroom right about now.

on a more non disgusting note - he's my first entry

(if you see too many wires on doors, windows etc, it's because i just made one object than detaches parts and transformed it to glass, so not to create separately, and didn't have time to clean up the mesh...)

beauty would be worth of making - will see if i can do anything on a pc

[pables]

You know? I can't remember if I played Xwing... I remember playing Starwing, Rogue Squadron and Freespace. Now I started watching Battlestar Galactica (a bit late, I know) so I got influenced by all that kind of images. For the cockpit itself, I searched for plane references on google.

[bgen]

rocneasta - nice composition, definitly worth making a proper render out of it. hope u and u're family get's soon better.

pablo - i have played all those games as well :p. Battlestar Galactica any good ?, never seen it. was more the trekkie.

[pables]

Roc- Hope your family will get better soon. The model looks great, but the render is too dark I think.

Baldur- Battlestar Galactica is really great, I'm loving it. Don't expect big battles, but the plot and characters are just great.

[rocneasta]

rocneasta - nice composition, definitly worth making a proper render out of it. hope u and u're family get's soon better.

Roc- Hope your family will get better soon. The model looks great, but the render is too dark I think.

Thanks for the wishes and comments guys, no time to fiddle around with the render atm :( will wait if my kid goes to sleep - then i'll probably do another entry

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Fantastic entries coming in today!

Worked on textures for my starter entry in the early hours this morning from about 11pm till 2am, gotta start on the model later today.

Hope things get sorted out for you soon roc.

[rocneasta]

tnx CG - right now we're all pail zombies going from bed to the bathroom and eating dry bread :)

[Trash]

Trash - really like the seaport model - more than the other one.

thx bgen but the seaport has the same problem as i always have. to many polys and as an bad effect the mapping is always distorted. I've taken it into my "Trashfolder" (:)) for later, when i know more about uvw or better mapping

[pables]

thx bgen but the seaport has the same problem as i always have. to many polys and as an bad effect the mapping is always distorted. I've taken it into my "Trashfolder" (:)) for later, when i know more about uvw or better mapping

Don't worry, Speed Modelling Contests are ideal for the purpose of training and learning a lot of techniques. So just go on and participate :) you also can sometime ask some mate how he/she did something, people here sure will be pleased to answer you.

[Trash]

Don't worry, Speed Modelling Contests are ideal for the purpose of training and learning a lot of techniques. So just go on and participate :) you also can sometime ask some mate how he/she did something, people here sure will be pleased to answer you.

I Know, that's the fun for me - in evening , if i'm at home again from work I'll post something into the helpforum

[Neil_F01]

good to see more entries.. looks cool..

[lonelymonk]

Phew, I just about made it!

Great stuff so far.. glad to see some more entries have gone up.

Here is my entry, I did the beauty render as a third image - couldn't remember if that was allowed or not.

[bgen]

lonelymonk - just brilliant - an ewoks home :dance:. ye beauty render is allowed.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZJIII74zuT8/TS6k-MhKNUI/AAAAAAAAHVU/RutCrVjvANs/s1600/endor.jpg
http://socialmediahansolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/chewbacca-ewoks.jpg

[Neil_F01]

yeah great job.. lonelymonk

[Vitrux]

Wow,, what a nice entries guys !

I couldn´t finish mine:ugh: had no time.. but waiting the next one:dance:

[Neil_F01]

having said that.. now i've seen lonely monks entry.. i have a half desire to just try and squeeze in an entry... although the comp ends today does it not?

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

it does indded, you've got about 3 hours to go :)

[Vitrux]

lonelymonk that ewok view its just awesome ,nice work !

[Trash]

really great entries so far

[lonelymonk]

Thanks for all the kind words folks :wave:

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

OK guys & gals this challenge is now over, the next one will be live very shortly.

[Neil_F01]

cool

[heaton1]

yeah great job.

[heaton1]

cool idea!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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