SMC #08 "Hadouken" - Street Fighter

[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.
These images must be uploaded to our servers using the "browse" button on the forum reply page.
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: Street Fighter
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 6th May 2011
Description: The Street Fighter games are the most successful video games of it's genre. It's creator's Capcom set the benchmark recipe for future beat 'em up games. If it wasn't for Street Fighter they would never have been Mortal Kombat or Tekken or a whole host of other fighting games. The blend of beautiful & colourful stages, diverse (albeit stereotypical) characters & excellent sound effects and music with lightning fast gameplay made this a must for all kinds of gamers. It had everything from 100 hand slapping sumo's & electro shocking beastmen to yoga elasticated enthusiasts & martial arts masters. The series is now 20 years old and as a tribute this is your chance to model anything featured in any of the Street Fighter games, this could be a stage, a character, a prop or even the title logo. You are free to interpret/re-interpret any of the above as you like. Oh one more thing.......... HADOUKEN!
Modelling Time: 90 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

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[timberwo7ves]

ahhhhh sweet starter :D

[rocneasta]

loving that hair!!! awesome

again a world of possibilities and high goal and standard you've set with this challenge

[bgen]

great topic and starter CG !! :evil: :drool: !
I have a great idea for Blanka :dance::dance: can't wait to execute it. !

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Great :) I wanted to do Blanka but had enough troubles with Ryu's hair, Blanka has chest, arm and a huge head of hair. Might do something else later in the week.

[SherifAlaa55]

I'm not great with char. Modeling i think ill go with the stage design

[ocin]

nice topic!
I have a question: If I model a character and built a basic rig to pose him is this rigging and posing also part of the modeling time?
cheers

[paulius-st]

just jizzed in my pants. when i saw this theme a little boy started to rumble in side of me. :) definateley in. and i think i'll do more than one entry. just cant deciede witch characters to do :) ryu, m bison, zangief, blanka... damn there are so much of them :)
CG - i like your aproach to ryu :) . good clean modeling. waiting for more :)
good luck to all participating .

[timberwo7ves]

I'm starting mine tonight; I know someone else is going to do the same thing in about 15 minutes and do it better, sigh, so at least I'll get first :P

[paulius-st]

nice topic!
I have a question: If I model a character and built a basic rig to pose him is this rigging and posing also part of the modeling time?
cheers

you can do what you want for the beauty render - even animate it if you want . just ceep your clay and wire renders untutched by all this rigging and extra work :) thats how i understand it.:)

[timberwo7ves]

you can do what you want for the beauty render - even animate it if you want . just ceep your clay and wire renders untutched by all this rigging and extra work :) thats how i understand it.:)

I think Ocin wanted to make the char in a t-pose, and have the clay posed nicely using his rig :D

[capitan_popo]

wooooohooooo!!!! dont think I will be able to participate cause of DWV but I hope to see a BUNCH of entries!!!

[paulius-st]

I think Ocin wanted to make the char in a t-pose, and have the clay posed nicely using his rig :D

so whats the point of clay and wires then? the better we can see the structure of the model the better we can see how its made. some and most poses hide lots of technicly valuable visual info that is given by wires and clay :) . thats why we have beauty renders - in these reders you can show your model from a best perspective you can think of and go wild with post processing. i may be wrong, but its my personal opinion :)

[Slayer89]

might actually have time to participate in these now that classes are over for the semester

[newhere]

If i wasn't in the dominance war i would do this challenge.

[pables]

Wow Cg, that's a really cool topic! I can imagine great entries coming! Happy modelling mates!

[timberwo7ves]

I learnt a new term: 'pixel aspect ratio correction' :S sorry for the dodgy renders.
0 marks for clean modelling; inside faces and unnecessary edgeloops.

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added a textured render, probably won't have time to do it nicely this week, so that's it til next SMC. can't wait to see everyone elses :]

[ocin]

hey paulius! i get your point and I think your right! I will just model in t pose and then rig it for the beauty shot! (when I hopefully find some time to participate ;) )

nice entry timberwo7ves! we want to see it colored! :)

cheers

[timberwo7ves]

thanks ocin, hopefully this will be a good one on which to learn unwrappingm quite boxy :D

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Really pleased with such an early positive reaction. I might have to model the arcade cabinet myself, I remember playing Street Fighter I and playing a Ryu with red hair and it being quite hard to progress. Then Street Fighter II came along and I went for Ken who was like a psycho ryu character and fell in love with he game from then on. Having to learn the six button combo's and special moves was a challenge but a great game. Especially in the school's youth club and doing the winner stay's on trying to defeat the best players there. Alot of the girls playing the game would opt for the bash any button effect and strangely win alot more as they would go as the only girl in the game Chun Li and skank (slang for cheat) by repeatdly pushing the hurrican kick move. Unless you were Ryu, Ken or Blanka you'd lose. When Street Fighter II turbo came to the Snes that was when I was in my element and remember playing it long into the night at various levels to try and get better. I also remember an arcade version that was at a fair that was hacked called the rainbow hack which allowed mid air attacks and fireballs, so much so that on guile's stage you could walk on top of the jet wing and on top of the baths in e honda's stage, and there was a cheat that allowed you to go behind the fence on Vega's stage, so all you needed to do was hit vega a few times and leap behind until the timer ran out to win :) For some reason the Japanese version had character names changed, either that or the european names were changed as Bison was the original name for Balrog, and Vega was M Bison etc etc, also I remember vividly a arcade cab at a kid's club that had Street Fighter II World Warrior with Akuma unlocked, which must have been hacked as he was a hidden character in the Championship Edition.

Anyway off to model something else, maybe a mashup of a famous character dressed as a street fighter character lol.

[rocneasta]

Well John you really justify your nickname :)

Although i'm nowhere near to your standards of gameplay, i've have an excellent concepet for this onr, hope it turns out as planned and as good looking as it's in my head...

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well John you really justify your nickname :)

Although i'm nowhere near to your standards of gameplay, i've have an excellent concepet for this onr, hope it turns out as planned and as good looking as it's in my head...

Yeah i'm fairly knowledgable on the subject..... although i'm not sure i'm 100% accurate.

[SherifAlaa55]

my first entry in this SMC ...

i tried level design
The best i could do in 90 mins ...

hope you like it ...:D
Done in Max ... took 87 mins and around 8 mins to render

[SherifAlaa55]

Waiting for you comments :D

[timberwo7ves]

cool entry SherifAlaa, and welcome to the SMCs :) it's 1am for a lot of the regulars here so may have to wait till tomorrow for comments :D

[paulius-st]

SherifAlaa55 - nice work :) . but what soft did you use? :) . and i see some bugs in a house: 1. a streatched polygon in a top rigt corner that is wery well seen. 2. and another bug in left windows right top corner.
timberwo7ves - cool entry :) . remember the days we with friends spent with this one doing tournaments :D .

[SherifAlaa55]

SherifAlaa55 - nice work :) . but what soft did you use? :) . and i see some bugs in a house: 1. a streatched polygon in a top rigt corner that is wery well seen. 2. and another bug in left windows right top corner.
timberwo7ves - cool entry :) . remember the days we with friends spent with this one doing tournaments :D .

Thanks. I honestly have no idea how that happened ... ;)
ill be more careful next time

[vicban3d]

Hi! Cool entries so far, unfortunately I didn't have any time to take part in the last challenge although I did have some nice ideas...Hope I'll be able to squeeze in an entry this week.

[Trash]

My favourite Player was always Vega. But i've not enough time to create the whole body. (it takes at this time 2 days for me ;))

The mask and the weapon will do it ;)

[timberwo7ves]

remember the days we with friends spent with this one doing tournaments :D .

I was of the generation which saw Tekken as the primary standard bearer of beat-em-ups; I wish we had more arcades nowadays (that weren't so expensive :P)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

I was of the generation which saw Tekken as the primary standard bearer of beat-em-ups; I wish we had more arcades nowadays (that weren't so expensive :P)

Oh yeah, the latest games on arcades would be brilliant! I for one would happily hand over a few coins to play them.

[timberwo7ves]

I for one would happily hand over a few coins to play them.

How many coins? http://www.bespoke-arcades.co.uk/arcade-machines/evo-arcade-cabinet

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

How many coins? http://www.bespoke-arcades.co.uk/arcade-machines/evo-arcade-cabinet

Oh my :dance: i'm guessing out of my range lol.

[paulius-st]

How many coins? http://www.bespoke-arcades.co.uk/arcade-machines/evo-arcade-cabinet

now thats a "must have thing" :D . brings back to good old days :) .

anybody maybe knows some free screen camera programs?? want to capture some of my concepting and modeling work. remember there was a link in old speedsculpting comps but dont remember in witch one . thanks in advance.

[rocneasta]

you have camstudio, i'm using it for my work and i'm happy with it - set the codec to xvid and you're good to go :)

[Slayer89]

Wanted to compete with the other Maya user :haha:

http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1935&pictureid=13195
http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1935&pictureid=13196
http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=1935&pictureid=13198

Beauty kind of pixellated when taken out of photoshop. Might do another entry if I finish up my project.

[paulius-st]

Slayer89 - nice one :) .
rocneasta - thanks man :) .

[timberwo7ves]

Wanted to compete with the other Maya user :haha:

Niice I was hoping someone would, so I could compare and see how to improve mine :D good job :]

[astroAJ]

My quick one :)

[paulius-st]

astroAJ - nice one :) .

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

astroAJ - Very nice entry, well modeled :)

[astroAJ]

paulius-st, ClassicGamer-3DT: Thnx :)

[paulius-st]

so here is my first entry :) - RYU . for beauty render this is just a place ceaper - will pose it and maybe if i wont be lazy i'll texure it :) and rerender in better qualitie :)

[rocneasta]

cool!!! you're really quick and efficient at organic modeling - would like to pick your brain one day :)

i'm going to go for blanka with a special twist, hoping to make it cause i'm really motivated for it!

[paulius-st]

rocneasta - thanks man :) . its all in how you split you mesh in parts and how you can cut some corners. i think i'll make blanka too :) , and as allways - cartoon style :). and if i'll have enough time i'll capture it on video how i do it from concepting stage to modeling.

i have to confess -blanka allways reminded me of I.R Baboon :D

[rocneasta]

now that you mention it :p

[astroAJ]

plz do a time laps vid of ur model I love seeing how others approach a task :)

[paulius-st]

astroAJ - i'll try :) . hope it wont slow down my pc .

updated my entry with a new beauty render. have to lear to compose my renders with ps one day :D.

[bgen]

haha I.R. Baboon as Blanka :D brilliant !!
awsome entries so far. really like the beauty render u did paulius !

[paulius-st]

bgen - thanks :) .
have captured first 30min of my blanka's modeling but encountered a problem :( .now trying to reduce the file size from 1.2 gigs to something more resonable. and only windows media player shows video rigt , other players just dont show without any bugging. :( hrrr.

[rocneasta]

one thing paulius did you find good reference of blanka - i'm looking for front and side view but i can't find any... just loads of fan art and in game pose... will be hard to model if i don't get the reference just right

[paulius-st]

one thing paulius did you find good reference of blanka - i'm looking for front and side view but i can't find any... just loads of fan art and in game pose... will be hard to model if i don't get the reference just right

well i rarely use blueprints and there is not much of reference for blanka so i made some little sketches my self but they are kind of chaotic directional and suggestive doodles on paper that show some key areas of character . and my blanka is stylised :) , so mostly it is modeled in freestyle depending only on imagination and intuition :D .

but here are all i use for it. maybe they will help you.

[timberwo7ves]

bgen - thanks :) .
have captured first 30min of my blanka's modeling but encountered a problem :( .now trying to reduce the file size from 1.2 gigs to something more resonable. and only windows media player shows video rigt , other players just dont show without any bugging. :( hrrr.

I use formatFactory to convert my video files - you can set file quality and dimensions which should help reduce a lot :) (dunno how much from 1.2GB though :P)

[Edwiersma]

bgen - thanks :) .
have captured first 30min of my blanka's modeling but encountered a problem :( .now trying to reduce the file size from 1.2 gigs to something more resonable. and only windows media player shows video rigt , other players just dont show without any bugging. :( hrrr.

You got Quicktime Pro on your machine? Load it in there and export it as Quicktime movie with an H264 codec. Optionally (Without having quicktime Pro) you could use a program like Adobe Premiere or any other editing program even After Effects to export with the same settings, you still need to have the normal quicktime player installed.

I know you work on Windows but with Mac Quicktime has a build-in recorder that saves to H264 with about 650kbit/s on a 1280x800 screen its still clear video and only 20MB for a 4 Min video.

SMC:
My model just crashed, I was making a (too) high-poly fence and I started duplicating, at some point I had 1.2Mil polygons selected and pressed duplicate while the option where still set to: create 20 duplicates. Then it crashed... Now my machine has trouble doing anything...

[paulius-st]

timberwo7ves, Edwiersma - thanks for tips guys. if i'll get the same s**t for my 2'd video i'll try them. here is a video of first 30min of modeling. realy sorry for bizare qualitie but this is what i've got . srunk the file from 1.2Gb to 140mb. just wanted to sucker-punch the guy who made a tutorial about timelaps setings for cam studio(a total moron he is hrrrr). i'll try xvid codek this time.

Edwiersma - <puts a hand on his shoulder and taps it a few times> i know exacteley how you feel - done this mistake a few times making my model have 30mil. polys and crashed :( .

http://vimeo.com/23203557

[rocneasta]

Paulius - xvid rocks!

[paulius-st]

Paulius - xvid rocks!

yeah - rocks.... have to learn how to use this camstudio properly cause i have made another 30min modeling sesion and allmost finished my blanka and had a crash while this program tried to save the file :wall: . i'll try to recover the video cause i dont want to go back and redo the modeling sesion. :(

can you post some setings you use ? i think i set my settings wrong .

[dantrodgers]

paulius-st bit late.. but Any Video Converter (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/) is free and pretty good, couldn't be much simpler to use. I use it quite often for converting .mkv's to play on my xbox.. cool video too, pretty impressed with the amount on detail in such a small amount of time, look forward to seeing this finished, Blanka was by far one of my favourite characters.

[paulius-st]

dantrodgers - thanks man. its realy useful link :) .

so here is my final model. spent 80min on it. i was p%$# off that my video file was coroupted so i finished it without capturing on video. hope it all will be ok in my next entry.
beauty render will come latter. have to pose and do some renders for it. i'm thinking of comic style or something like that :D . hope nobody will be against a little over paint in beauty renders .

looking forward for your works guys :) .

[rocneasta]

here you go paulius - this works best for me and camstudio - before i got corrupted videos but mainly they didn't attach audio properly that was important in my workflow

this works excellent

[paulius-st]

rocneasta - thanks man :) . i'll try it.

[rocneasta]

rocneasta - thanks man :) . i'll try it.

hope it works as fine as it did for me.

[paulius-st]

it must work :) . i have plans for it . :D

so how your reference searching is going???

[rocneasta]

don't remind me, have two days of interviews for a tv show, and i'm getting rid of red tasks in Outlook - nothing related to 3D and creativity, just burning afternoon oil. But will get on it around midnight - everyone asleep, me in action and blanka in the making :)

[Ojah]

Awesome topic!

And some great entrees already here, but all i can say is: "Go home and be a family man!"
modelling: full 90 minutes. made in 3ds max 2010.
Worked my ass off to finish this in the time given and still loads of details I wanted to put in, but quite happy with the result. Will rig, pose and render him soon enough but wanted to post.
edit: updated with renders and some more wires.

[dantrodgers]

Awesome topic!

Very nice entrees too, but all i can say is: "Go home and be a family man!"
modelling: full 90 minutes. made in 3ds max 2010.
Worked my ass off to finish this in the time given and still loads of details I wanted to put in, but quite happy with the result. Will rig, pose and render him soon enough but wanted to post.

hahaha, this is awesome. Daaammmmme

[paulius-st]

Ojah - haha, good one :) . i like its expresion - true guile :D

[lonelymonk]

I'm probably going to have to give this one a miss, too much on. Loving the entries so far though, really nice toon modelling with lots of character.

[paulius-st]

lonelymonk - its a pitty that you cant participate. it would be interesting to see what you would come up with :) .

so here is my 3'rd entry . M.Bison. with a little twist :D. his uniform reminds me of those sado mazo folk with their lether wips and latex cloth :D.
beauty will come latter

edit: finaly got camstudio settings set right and uploaded the second modeling session of 35min to vimeo . here is a link http://www.vimeo.com/23264210

hope to make one decent modeling session of making a character from start to finish with voice (hope nobody would fall asleep listening to it) so people, that find organic modeling hard to do, would have some visual info how to aproach it.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Some excellent and talented entries coming in.

What are your thoughts to an extension for this SMC?

[GaretJaxSozap]

personally I would love to have this challenge extended... Everyone is doing amazing work, I especially love the guy in camo... sorry never played any of these games and therefore know no names.:ugh:

[rocneasta]

i'm flexible :)

[paulius-st]

Some excellent and talented entries coming in.

What are your thoughts to an extension for this SMC?

just dont know. not much going on here. only a few entries. :hmm:
ofcourse still waiting for roc's blanka :) .
but if it will be extended i think i'll come up with another character :D .

[timberwo7ves]

but if it will be extended i think i'll come up with another character :D .

Agreeed, if it's extended I'll try a character (such as it may be!), but would rather move onto new one weekly :D

[dantrodgers]

.........but would rather move onto new one weekly :d

+1

[Honki]

agreeed, if it's extended i'll try a character (such as it may be!), but would rather move onto new one weekly :d

+1

+2

[Neil_F01]

cool subject.. just saw that this one was up...
doh...

[Ojah]

Thanks for all the kind words guys!

About an extension, I'm not sure.
With domwar 5 and polycount brawl close to finishing it might be possible more people show up if extended.
But I think the topic itself might not give as much freedom as some other smc's, which could explain the low amount of entries. (a complete character or stage is quite hard to finish in the time given)

Btw, I dont think I have the time for another entry or a new smc next week, but I would like a bit more competition and see more Street Fighter art.

[Neil_F01]

you know.. my only problem with this comp.. is the time limit.. i know its a speed modelling comp.. and you time frame is a thing...

but for a subject like this we need to look more realistically i think at thing.. like say maybe 4 - 6 hrs.. of work...

as in 4 to 6 hour.. i bet most people would take a stab at the a character...

and no offence to the toon guy.. they look cool...

its just an opinion.. nothing more..

i'll carry on. i'm bored.. its 6am.. long night of writing.. but anyway...

when you did the comp for the drinks.. 90 mins is a good enough time to produce something that could win..

but say if we did a comp.. say.. for like... miniture tech robots.. 90 mins is no way enough to really get kinda models that people wanna see up on the walls.. right.. you;d want at least 120 - 240 mins of time.. perhaps.. its a more realistical time frame.. for the models your expecting or hoping to see in the comp..

[Neil_F01]

i mean at the moment.. i'm stumped for ideas.. i could either spend some time.. trying to create my own fireball.. or sonic boom blast.. with particles.. i mean thats a 90 min job..

but i couldnt make a character that i could feel happy with in that time frame..

[Neil_F01]

dont take it personally.. or anyhting.. i'm not being nasty about anything... i'm just merely pointing out something that might have been over looked..

which is the question.. what are you hoping to see people create. in this comp..

[rocneasta]

Trouble with "speed" challenge that has a time frame of 4-6 hours, is that very few people would enter. Only due to the significant time that they don't have and need to spend on modeling. There would also be a significant difference in model complexity because organisation and research would be as important as the speed in modeling.

Perhaps you're right about the limit beying small, but in my opinion it moves most of us (except paulius) out of our comfort zone, and that's the only way to progress!

[timberwo7ves]

but in my opinion it moves most of us (except paulius) out of our comfort zone, and that's the only way to progress!

I agree, it is difficult, but it helps you improve on planning something before you start, as time is so little, and also while you're working, discovering shortcuts that you could potentially use in a larger-scale project to knock hours or days off overall.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

They are called challenges for a reason friends :)

[astroAJ]

I like the short time limits becuase I have so much other things 2 do... so dont go changing them :P

one other thing completly of topic, why doesnt my protfolio button show up under my Avatar?

[rocneasta]

I like the short time limits becuase I have so much other things 2 do... so dont go changing them :P

one other thing completly of topic, why doesnt my protfolio button show up under my Avatar?

i know there been some changes of the rules about number of posts vs showing of the signature and portfolio button, but you can always ask in the portfolio thread LINK HERE (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=59516&highlight=portfolio+button) or message Tom about it

[astroAJ]

thnx rocneasta I will add somthing to he protfolio thread ;)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Righto well i'm currently working hard on the brief artwork, brief text and later my starter for the next SMC going live tonight...... I think it's a good one.

[rocneasta]

if i don't start and finish my entry for this one i'll be really ************************************************** ************* off. still sorting a few workloads :(

[terry1337]

Vega
moddeling 86 min
texture 12min
3Dsmax 2011
zbrush for hands and the feet

[Edwiersma]

I'm trying to get my entry done but Modo just crashed 3 time within one minute, I'm afraid something is wrong with my project or my laptop just can't handle it :(

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Vega
moddeling 86 min
texture 12min
3Dsmax 2011
zbrush for hands and the feet

I'm afraid your entry will not be allowed as Z Brush is not allowed in the Speed Modelling Challenges.

[terry1337]

i have misread that nooz>_< aw wel it was fun making it XD

[Peas]

Hi everyone :). This is realy nice challenge but I had no time to finish it. I modeled something on monday bud I didn´t finish it. This is it :-). As we can see Vega is realy one of the most favourite characters in the challenge :D. About 45 min of modeling in 3Ds max :-). Good luck guys.

[Rachel vd M]

nice entrys sofar, too bad that i didnt found the time to participate in the challenge this week (and the 2 before...)

i hope ill be able to join in for the next week's challenge

[bgen]

nice entrys sofar, too bad that i didnt found the time to participate in the challenge this week (and the 2 before...)

i hope ill be able to join in for the next week's challenge

second that.. so much stuff to do right now :ugh::hurt:, hope i can participate in the next one.

[Ojah]

Nice vega's!

I like the short time limit btw, any longer and competing is no longer a spur of the moment thing.
Competing in smc's has improved my modelling a ton, made me think of modelling tricks and simply improved my workflow. So what i want to say with this is even when you think you need 5 hours to complete such a model. To just model it and analyze what you did afterwards is still a very valuable experience.

[lonelymonk]

Nice vega's!

I like the short time limit btw, any longer and competing is no longer a spur of the moment thing.
Competing in smc's has improved my modelling a ton, made me think of modelling tricks and simply improved my workflow. So what i want to say with this is even when you think you need 5 hours to complete such a model. To just model it and analyze what you did afterwards is still a very valuable experience.

Agreed, I've only done a few of these and it's really made me reappraise my workflow. I took the time to learn the new graphite modelling tools in max to try and improve my speed for these and I don't even use the old tools anymore. I think the time limit is about right.

[rocneasta]

this is a first for me, but i can't start and finish my entry for this SMC. Just came home and still have a few reports to fill in before I can start to relax with some modeling.

I will give a promise to finish this idea, so will let you know via my improvement thread.

Great entries and once again i'm sorry... I failed this time

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

this is a first for me, but i can't start and finish my entry for this SMC. Just came home and still have a few reports to fill in before I can start to relax with some modeling.

I will give a promise to finish this idea, so will let you know via my improvement thread.

Great entries and once again i'm sorry... I failed this time

...... and the award for being too hard on yourself goes to........

seriously dude don't sweat it.

[h2k1]

hey CG, so there is no use of Zbrush allowed, but what about Mudbox on texturing?

[DragonChild]

Ok so this is my first challenge. And like an idiot I didn't know we couldn't use Zbrush.....so I did. Anyways....I posted what I got. I know it doesn't count...but I worked hard for that hour and a half. LOL I made the base mesh in 45 min in modo and 45 min in zbrush shaping and texturing. I ran out of time on the hair.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

hey CG, so there is no use of Zbrush allowed, but what about Mudbox on texturing?

Used for texturing purposes yes but no z brush or mudbox for modelling. Although you can normally create fairly descent bump and normal maps without needing sculpted information..... I may be wrong I dunno.

[JAPO]

My entry for this week - Dhalsim! :D

Modelled in 3Ds Max 2008 in 84 minutes.
The cloth and its simulation were part of modelling time.

This has been a speed challenge week for me in real life, so please excuse the untextured arm. I have been very close to skipping this weeks round. But then... when I finally got the idea about the entry this afternoon, I just could not let go :)

[timberwo7ves]

My entry for this week - Dhalsim! :D


bahaha! I saw the image first before reading it was Dhalsim, and was struggling to find the connection, but LOL :D good job

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

OK this challenge is now over, the next challenge will be live momentarily.

[h2k1]

Used for texturing purposes yes but no z brush or mudbox for modelling. Although you can normally create fairly descent bump and normal maps without needing sculpted information..... I may be wrong I dunno.

cool, yes, you can paint normal and bump info with mudbox

[Edwiersma]

Just opened my laptop and it resumed on my entry, I modelled 70 mins and I totaly forgot my project :wall:

I might just post a render to show you guys on what I was working...

[paulius-st]

nice new entries. especialy i like dhalsim :D . made me smile.
as fro time limit extension - 90 min is enough. from my own experiance i can say that this is very resonable time limit and smoetimes (ok most of times) a client wants to see some progress on the concept in about 1-2 hours. so there is no talk about the qualitie of the models but the main reason is to try to push your concept of given task as much as you can so you could show in what direction you will move it. most of times these 90min are what you have to get the job.

[rocneasta]

...... and the award for being too hard on yourself goes to........

seriously dude don't sweat it.

:) if you only knew the length i sometimes go... way too serious

tnx for the oscar :p

[astroAJ]

sounds like there are quite a few zbrush ppl on the forums who are in need of speed sculpting challenges. Will we be seeing the speed sculpting challenges return any time soon, like the good old days?

congrats 2 all who finished :)

[Edwiersma]

Inspired by:
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http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8nhpfcrtStjlXsbg6SES-eA38vLYXIyzQ50IxKPn6gGObQxwf (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs47/f/2009/173/8/5/Guile_Stage_by_sith_x.jpg)
This was my try, still now it's not finished got 17 Minutes to go, I thought I should show it anyway.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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