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ClassicGamer-3DT
26-08-2011, 09:03 PM
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/ClassicGamer-2DSMC23BriefArtwork.jpg

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.
C). A Clay Render of your models.

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: Radios.
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 2nd September 2011
Description: Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. The meaning and usage of the word "radio" has developed in parallel with developments within the field of communications and can be seen to have three distinct phases: electromagnetic waves and experimentation; wireless communication and technical development; and radio broadcasting and commercialization. Many individuals—inventors, engineers, developers, businessmen - contributed to produce the modern idea of radio and thus the origins and 'invention' are multiple and controversial. Early radio designs could not transmit sound or speech and were called the "wireless telegraph" then many years later the radios were known as the wireless for the 30's, 40's & 50's and so on. Radio really came into it's own with the pirate radio stations transmitting the latest and great pop tunes out at sea, then when this was outlawed and BBC Radio 1 was born and the rest is history. This is your chance to model any style of radio since it's inception, this includes car radios, cb radio's, antique radio's, clock radio's, , modern radio's & portable radio's :)

Modelling Time: 60 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

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/WireframesInfo.jpg
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk208/classicgamer-3dt/RenderClays.jpg

Everything is shader based, no textures used apart from the speaker cloths :)

Edwiersma
26-08-2011, 11:47 PM
Oh nice one :D

sarN
28-08-2011, 06:23 AM
what a great starter! really wish i could have participated in last weeks... hopefully can get something in this time

ClassicGamer-3DT
28-08-2011, 02:05 PM
Thanks guys, i'm working on another entry at the moment, going for a car radio..... but it's harder that it looks :)

JAPO
28-08-2011, 08:02 PM
I hope I will be able to make it this week. I can say already my entry will be either FuG 7a or FuG 16ZF or ZS. As those types were used in one particular airplane, I intend to use it in that project I mentioned last week :)

MStandar
28-08-2011, 09:33 PM
Nice one CG :)

Is it ok to model some kind of military Communications Radio?
I know its not a usual radio but i hope its ok.

ClassicGamer-3DT
28-08-2011, 11:16 PM
Yeah sure, as mentioned in the first post, any radio from it's inception :)

ClassicGamer-3DT
29-08-2011, 07:06 PM
A warm welcome to the forums, and a pretty good start for someone only just starting out into the world of 3D! The texturing is pretty good i'm not sure if the radio stations are meant to be mirrored or not but either way it looks good. I look forward to seeing more from you in this & up and coming SMC's :)

..... Just a few things though, you can have 2x composite images for your clays, beauty shots and most importantly what you entry is missing... wireframes. So please ammen your original post with the images to have this entry allowed ok :)

TheBat
30-08-2011, 09:00 AM
Great starter and fun subject!

I'll be participating this week as well! Have some spare time planned in to do at least 1 entry! Guess i'll do something in the JVC Boomblaster area :)

Neil_F01
30-08-2011, 12:36 PM
hey all.. am back... hows everyone been?/

MStandar
30-08-2011, 03:33 PM
I have choosen to model the Swedish Armed Forces, Communication Radio 180

i ran out of time on the modeling so thats why its so low poly and i only modelled the top side. I will update with a beauty render if i get time.

Updated with a super fast beauty render :)
Maybe i get time to do one object more this week. And do it better that time.

Aleg8r
30-08-2011, 04:53 PM
First one (oops i forgot the time)

benne
30-08-2011, 05:41 PM
Hi everybody,

Yesterday I posted my entry of this SMC here and today, without any warning, i saw i was banned forever from this forum due to spamming. (I was only one day active here)
I don't know what i've possibly have done wrong and I don't recall I was spamming.
Maybe I did something wrong without realizing.. (I'm not so familiar with forums)

Anyway I have no intentions of causing trouble or spamming! I just want to follow this forum, compeet with the challenges (not for winning but for learning, since this is a place where there are a lot of 3D artists from who i can learn to improve my own skills since i'm a self learned and i'm only working with 3dsmax for about a year).

I hope i can start with a fresh slate and have my fun with the awesome challenges :)

benne
30-08-2011, 05:59 PM
So this is my entry :) a Siemens StandardSuper e9. I couldn't finish it whitin the time limit so this is what i could make in the 60min. :) the Texturing took me a little longer cause I've never unwrapped an object before, so I had to figure it out first. And yes the radio stations are mirrored cause the reference image was not complete so i had to improvise and i did this per accident :D

http://forums.3dtotal.com/picture.php?albumid=2101&pictureid=14132

ClassicGamer-3DT
30-08-2011, 06:55 PM
Dunno what happenned there benne sorry to hear that, certainly wasn't me that banned you. The entry looks great by the way.

benne
30-08-2011, 07:20 PM
oh well I'm back and hopefully i can stay here a little while :)
Maybe it was 'cause i posted an html link to a site from where i got my inspiration
anyhow
I look forward to the other entry's :) I see that there are already two nice ones ^_^
(my speed modeling is probably not fast enough for now XD )

MStandar
31-08-2011, 05:42 PM
Here comes entry #2
This time i choose to model a Philco 90 Cathedral, it was a pretty good radio back in 1931. nut sure how it is today :P

Well ran out of time on this, No knobs or frequency meter. but everything else is done, Pretty easy design to model but it takes some time doing splines for those rounded parts.

It was a fun one, so I will continue to work on this. And post a finished one in the modeling section later on.

Antor
31-08-2011, 06:23 PM
Here's my entry.
Software used: Softimage XSI; Modelling time: 60 minutes; Texturing time: 20 minutes.

ClassicGamer-3DT
31-08-2011, 06:50 PM
Great modelling MStander & Antor :)

infinity3D
31-08-2011, 09:23 PM
Hi all, haven't done a challenge in ages. smoothing not quite done on the handset but I ran out of time. Hope you like ....

benne
31-08-2011, 09:24 PM
WOW antor! that's modeled in 60 min :o I have a long way to go from where I am :D just looks amazing!

MStandar
31-08-2011, 09:52 PM
Great entries everyone.
Oh man, Antor that looks awesome. I have no idea how you manage to create something like that in 60 mins. I take my hat of for you, Respect, respect man :D

Thanks CG, Will see if i can try to rattle something more together. Well i have to work some days now, but this was a fun one :)

benne
31-08-2011, 10:10 PM
I'm trieing to figure it out and a lot of things can be achieved by mirroring and copying some already modeled parts. But even then all i can say is respect, antor!
It's all about looking at an object and figure out a way how to make it without wasting time on repetive parts.
The other entrys look awesome too!
I'm already learning from all the entry's :)

kogen
31-08-2011, 11:37 PM
This challenge is soooo cool!
"Is there anybody out there? Please give me a sign! Are there any other survivers out there? Pleeeeaaaseeeeee..." :D

Here is my entry. Though I have to admit that I was very mad about Silo's crashes it's still the fastest program when it comes to modeling for me. Well, not fast enough cause there was no time left for the belt-clip at the back of the radio but I'll add this later. I also have to admit that I had to mess around with the topology cause it was quite little time.

-S.

astroAJ
01-09-2011, 05:39 AM
Been a while since my last speed model. I had fun making this old radio but ran out of time and didn't even get to smooth some of the objects. Don't have the time to texture my work lolz

Antor: that is amazing!!
Infinity3D: very clean model, I like the details :D
Sadone: Great work, I like :)

kogen
01-09-2011, 07:15 AM
Hey astroAJ good work... I really like that old stylisch radios. Cool job.

Antor
01-09-2011, 03:42 PM
Great modelling everyone. I like your style of polygons arranged, Sadone
MStandar, benne, is not so well. Rendering looks good because the light and texture cover ugly things.
The model hurry shows. And I not stopped to correct throughout.

benne
01-09-2011, 04:02 PM
Thaha :) i know mine's a bit off, antor. i'm not that handy in speed modeling yet since i'm only working in 3ds max for about a year and i'm a self learned
But i see this as a practice to improve my skills and to learn from you guys and your models.

I wouldnt know what to model.. So on the SMC it says radio and i can test myself making a radio and trying to learn from it.

infinity3D
01-09-2011, 05:03 PM
Cool update Antor.
Thanks for showing your workflow on those items. A lot of nice tips in there

kogen
01-09-2011, 07:17 PM
Haha, Antor, you're kidding, the polygon arrangement is ugly as hell but thanks for the fish :D
Nice breakdown of your construction.

MStandar
01-09-2011, 09:17 PM
Well Antor, i guess your right,
But you know what they say, if it gets the work done and looks good then it is good :P

Thanks for showing your workflow, its interesting to see how different artist tackle objects, everyone have different techniques.

TheBat
02-09-2011, 05:45 PM
Great entries came in this week!

Thanks for sharing some of your tips and tricks Antor, quite insightful how you break down some of your parts.

My entry didn't turn out this well this week. I had a bit of a hard time of keeping the roundness in the cylinder part. I also ran out of time and forgot to cap the backside of the cylinder, which looks rather stupid. It was a good training excercise though. Looking forward to the topic of next week!

ClassicGamer-3DT
02-09-2011, 07:22 PM
Gonna have to close this challenge an hour early today, hopefully everyone is ok with that, so you've got till 9pm, which is just over half an hour away, meanwhile the next SMC is live and ready to go.

JAPO
05-09-2011, 06:59 AM
Those are totally awesome jaw-dropping entries.

I wish I had time to compete, but I finished work at 22 UK time on Friday. I mean work, not entry. Maybe next time...

newhere
05-09-2011, 06:38 PM
Wonder what frequency she is listening to?

ClassicGamer-3DT
21-09-2011, 07:28 AM
Results (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=87234)