SMC #14 "Old MacDonald Had A...." Farm Life

[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: Farm Life.
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 25th June 2011
Description: This challenge is a big one as you can make this as hard or easy as you wish, you can choose to model a Farm House, Animals such as Chicken's, Pigs, Cows, Lambs, Geese or Farm tools, Farm vehicles or just a field in the sun with lots and lots of modelled wheat and barley. You can create traditional farm items or stylised.... heck even alien farm worlds where human's are called cows. As always the choice is yours.
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

Still working on my starter, it will come later.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Right.... got an early start... any questions i'll answer asap tomorrow.

[agamer]

Count me in, sounds fun! might even do two if i get the time :)

[Pablo Ferro]

Hehe! Sounds real fun!:haha:

Here is somthin´ to get choo all in tha mood :D

♩♫ I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8) ♪ ♫ ♬

[Mr. Bluesummers-3DT]

Very exciting- might have to participate in this one!

[rocneasta]

Hehe! Sounds real fun!:haha:

Here is somthin´ to get choo all in tha mood :D

♩♫ I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8) ♪ ♫ ♬

:dance::dance::dance::dance:

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Sorry i've not uploaded my starter yet, not had much access to the laptop.

[chichiri]

Happy to see those smc there, here is my entry:

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

chichiri - Excellent entry, really great, clean modelling!

[pables]

This is a great topic indeed, one of those to remember, I totally have to participate in this one. Great choice John.

Pd: Already thinking and gathering possible references!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

:)

[bgen]

This is a great topic indeed, one of those to remember, I totally have to participate in this one. Great choice John.

Pd: Already thinking and gathering possible references!

indeed. i allready gathered my reference and will start modelling right away.

chichiri - Awsome goose btw. nice to see some people use blender.

edit: here is my model. a quickie to start of the day.

[pables]

Chichiri- Great model! It's a shame you didn't make a beauty render, would look cool with a nice lighting.
Bgen- That self-feeding cow is really a funny and creative entry matey!

[Vitrux]

Hello Guys! This is a nice challenge, i like it very much, so much that i already made my entry hehehehe :dance: !! I decided to make it yesterday Sunday before the start of the week... so I just now need to make the textures and render it after work! and i'll post it when finish!! :D

Good entries Chichiri and Bgen !

[bgen]

cheers pables and Vitrux :D, i wanna see ure entries !!

[noyb]

been a looooooooong time since my last smc... glad to see they're still going strong :wave:

Modeled in Solidworks 2010 until the buzzer went off at 90

rendered in max 2012 / mental ray (not a great render, I'm a bit rusty)

[bgen]

hey noyb - great model !! i especially like the tires !!

[pables]

Welcome back to speedies Noyb! And with a great model!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Absolutely LOVE those tires!!

Well i've finally made the transistion i've been converted i'm now a mac owner! I'd bought a imac 21.5" 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache, 500GB (7200 rpm) hard drive, AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory. It'll be great when it comes! I'e already had one sent out to me but the firmware got corrupted I was told it was a 1 in 1000 chance and I was the lucky winner, only had the thing a day and did that, so now waiting for my replacement.

What I saw of the imac I was very very pleased with, the speed, the display, everything in HD was brilliant.

If I ever need windows on it i'll get VMware Fusion 3 i'll not bother with bootcamp, I'd rather have windows running within osx rather than a dual boot.

Also just got a new phone..... after years of having a crappy Nokia which was about 8 years old i've got a lovely HTC Wildfire on Android :)

[Vitrux]

Hello.. Here is my entry, hope you like it ! Cheers:dance:

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[ocin]

wow nice entry Vitrux! really like it.
:dance:

hopefully I find some time later to participate...

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Wonderful scarecrow!

[astroAJ]

I love the scarecrow,very well modeled and textured :-)

[Vitrux]

Thanks Mateys!! :dance:

[RoDr1]

Hello.
Here is my entry,I hope you like it!

Nice scarecrow Vitrux!!!!

[Vitrux]

Thanks mate!:)... Cute cow!:dance:... Nice flower in the grass, i wanted to make a carrot in my ground but the time ended up quick:(

[bgen]

Vitrux - the scarecrow is a beauty !
RoDr1 - awsome cartoon cow !

[silverflame]

Nice models so far, especially like the scarecrow, reminds me a bit of Vivi from FF9.

Here's my contribution, felt like making a cute cartoony cow. Never really done anything cartoon style before but quite happy with the results.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

The 2 cow entries are superb!

I'm now the proud owner of an imac :)

Loving it.

[bgen]

The 2 cow entries are superb!

I'm now the proud owner of an imac :)

Loving it.

Have fun with you're imac, u have to tell me how it is to own one. I am think of switching myself in the near future, since i mainly use modo,maya,c4d and zbrush. but i am still a little afraid of the OS system, it seems confusing to me. :wave:

[astroAJ]

Would like to know how well the imac disperses cpu heat while rendering images?

Great cow entries so far :) cvcv

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

My first impression are great. I was a little reluctant as I wasn't sure if i'd get cinema 4d working or photoshop. And i really didn't wanna have windows on it as that was one of the main reasons i switched. So far so good, i've got C4D and Photoshop running they are mega fast loading and rendering is significatnly quicker, on my windows computer a typical scene takes 4 minutes to open, i can hardly move around in the viewport and i get 2 render buckets, on the imac it opens as quickly as i can open the scene, i can move around in the viewport seemlessly and with open gl on and i get......wait for it........... 8 render buckets!!

As for heat, it all excaspes quietly out the rear of the monitor, it does get a little warm, but that's to be expected as most pc's do. i'm really happy.... and for £999 you can't beat it.

Thanks to DaddyDoom for persuading me to change, it was the best thing for me.

[rocneasta]

too bad you can't get 3ds on Mac OS :( but you can install Maya :p

[pables]

I am sorry but I wont be able to do anything for this smc, it's been a busy week for me, and only could find little to no time. I even had my folder for this smc created and with some refs on it. So maybe next week.

I've seen you made great entries, I thing the smc level is getting higher again, and thats good.

[JAPO]

Next week is fine :) This competition is for 2 weeks

[rockstar2022]

heres my first ever wntry so shout at me if i do i wrong its the only way i will learn XD
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k554/Matthew_Lowe/Compotition%20entries/coworegglow.jpg
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k554/Matthew_Lowe/Compotition%20entries/coworegg.jpg
thanks

[pables]

Next week is fine :) This competition is for 2 weeks

woho! I didn't realize, I'll try luck next week then!

[noyb]

Great stuff! Liking all the cows.
Vitrux, that scarecrow is fantastic :)

[Vitrux]

....8 ..buckets ... nice machine, classicG!!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

yeah i'm loving it, just got steam installed and enjoying back to the future game parts 1 to 4 and looking forward to the final 5th installment next week.

[SherifAlaa55]

just wondering ... who judges these entries...
also where are the results of smc 10, 11, 12, 13?

just wondering .. ;)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

I judge them & and all the results are in.

[Neil_F01]

shame i missed the last one.. was some great entries in.. but hell.. i do this one instead...

[lonelymonk]

Hurrah, I finally got time to enter. Fancied doing a small scene for this one so I did a henhouse (based on a trailer design I found online) with a chicken. Nothing fancy modelling wise - had to keep it simple to do the entire scene within the time.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Cool entry! Love that ground texture! superb modelling.

[ocin]

Finally found some time!:dance:
I modelled a typical american barn with a silo. the grass was done with max hair and fur.

Hope you like it!

[Vitrux]

Nice entries lonelymonk and Ocin ! :dance:

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

ocin - very good!

[ocin]

thanks Vitrux and ClassicGamer! the textures could need some more work but I got bored and just wanted to finish this stuff ;)

[Garner]

lonely monk :o) amazing entry not only great modelling but a fantastic presentation of your work too, love the background and textures

[AndreasOlsen]

Hoped that i would get some time to give the scene some materials, but that dident work out, so it has to go with a clay render :)

Gl to everyone

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Hello all, i'm afraid i've run into a slight problem here at home. We are currently having our house renovated and de-cluttered and the brand new imac i've purchased is lovingly back in it's box so it is not harmed. My Dell laptop is on 10% battery life and the power cable has been misplaced at the moment, so I cannot charge the laptop.

I am currently in my local library internet access typing this very message, so i'm afraid unfortunately I am unable to work on the next SMC #15!

I'm afriad they'll have to be a slight delay of a day or two (hopefully much less) until the next challenge goes live.

I apologise as this eventuality wasn't planned for.

With a little luck i'll be able to get this sorted sometime tommorow even if it means temporarily setting up my laptop in my bedroom.

Lots and lots going on here, so forgive me if i'm not around to answer any questions. It's unlikely I will be online again today, so all being well i'll see you all and answer questions sometime tomorrow.

Again sorry guys.

John.

[JAPO]

No worries ClassicGamer :)

Aaaaand I am finished and wrapping it up. And this time its special. In my books for sure.

Thanks Ocin for making a building. I thought I would be the only one with building this week :)

[ocin]

you'r no alone my son!:haha:

[Pablo Ferro]

House improvement hero too :haha:

Been up to my eyes lately with that .... this means I have one more day to try and make an entry!?

[JAPO]

Here is my entry for this fortnight.
Ancient Egyptean farm on banks of the river Nile - located on a hill to stay away from annual flooding.

Only what is on clay and wire picture has been done in allocated time.
Created in 90 minutes in 3Ds Max 2008.
Rendered with Vray, vegetation and sky created with Vue 7,5, composited in Photoshop as my pc is not that strong :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Thanks for the continued support guys.........wow have we got some crap! we don't like a throw anything away in our house lol.

Message via My HTC.

[Vitrux]

Don't Worry CG ! ! We understand.. :dance:

[agamer]

Here is my entry,but i think i need to step it up though, there has been some really creative and impressive work for this challenge!

I actually modelled this on the first night of the comp and was hoping to fully texture it but as always never found the time!

Its an old rickety barn, i was going for the odd bits off wood and miss shaped planks to show the age and hopefully cast some interesting shadows inside.

p.s. dont worry cg life always comes first, its the way it is...
and yes i am V jellouse of your new mac! ;)

edit - for some reason my .jpeg's completely change when i up load the, the off line ones are not at all blue / green like the ones posted and the images are much lighter!
Does anyone else have any issues? are you guys using jpegs too?

edit - 2 - Ok i've changed them to .gif and i think they are better now... hopefully!

[Edwiersma]

Dahm, hows that with the time difference do I still have 1 hour or not? If not could this be my placeholder?

[agamer]

I make it 8:56pm here in the UK wo i think you have just over an hour :?

I think the cut off is 10:00pm UK GMT

[Edwiersma]

Here is my entry for this week:

(I know I got smoothed wires, I'll update that ASAP along with a beauty render).

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Edwiersma - Love That entry! great shape and style.

[Edwiersma]

Not that happy about it. This should have gotten way more attention then it got now.

Anyways (1st), what about the deadline? Friday 25th of june? would that be today or tomorrow?

Anyways (2nd) new beauty update: On my entry (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?p=863613#post863613)

[timberwo7ves]

Anyways (1st), what about the deadline? Friday 25th of june? would that be today or tomorrow?


good eye :D It would have been 2 hours 46 min ago; they always end on a Friday, so the 24th :)

Nice entries everyone :D

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well technically this challenge is still going on, I will hopefully have the new challenge for you today.... all being well... need to do some more cleaning up, shopping and need to vaccum my room, install my new bed and setup my new PS3 and i'll be with you.

[Edwiersma]

Well technically this challenge is still going on, I will hopefully have the new challenge for you today.... all being well... need to do some more cleaning up, shopping and need to vaccum my room, install my new bed and setup my new PS3 and i'll be with you.

Modelling your room would be a nice next SMC :P and we have to go though the whole forum archive to find all the details about your room :P

[ints]

Yah, a lot of beautiful works!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

We could have that as the next challenge..... but not room as it needs decorating.

But maybe a room modelling challenge next or soon.... watch this space :)

[Neil_F01]

ah keep this one going.. just a little longer.. i have actually made something this time.. but urrr... but my render machine is still rendering soething else..

[rocneasta]

Installing a new bed :) that's always fun to test out

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Got my bed sorted out, it's very very comfy with hollowfibre pillows too, i'm gonna sleep well tonight :)

Shall we say a Sunday new SMC then? That'll give me all day tommorow to get everything sorted out.

[Jacky Adam]

Awesome Information, thanks for the great Post. I will come back later . :dance:

[ints]

Bedrooms challenge is not bad! :)

[Neil_F01]

cool.. cheers for the extension till sunday...

its not my best work i know.. but ah well... its definatly not as good as that scarecrow from virtux.. damn thats a cool entry..

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well better late than never, this challenge is now closed and the new one is live.

Thanks for being patient with me guys and see you in SMC 15!

Cheers,

John.

[dantrodgers]

pretty gutted i didn't get chance to finish my model for this topic.. I had started to model a wind-pump and silo scene, but im moving out of my flat this week so i just didn't get time to finish.

I think RoDr1's cow is my favourite this week, closely followed by Edwiersma's harvester thing..

[Edwiersma]

I replace the smoothed wires with unsmoothed wires.