The Coming of the Ice: Abominable Snowman

[Freespace-3DT]

The Coming of the Ice: Abominable Snowman

Welcome to the Twenty-third Speed Sculpting Challenge. Whether you're new to sculpting, to the Threedy forums, or you're a seasoned veteran, come and join in on the Sculpting madness – there's plenty of fun and learning to be had by all!

1. The competition will run until the 28th of February 2010, 11:59 PM GMT+0 (For information about GMT click here); the time between now and then will be allocated to creating and submitting the entries, followed by several days of judging and voting for the entries.

2. You will be supplying your own base mesh for the competition, from which you will start sculpting. You can create your base mesh in any application ( 3dsmax, Maya, XSI, Cinema4D, Zspheres in Zbrush, etc ) using any technique, with no limits. Do not use an already made base mesh, you must build it specifically for this challenge.

3. There is a fixed time limit for your sculpting. Do not exceed the time limit, it is part of the challenge.

4. Do not add any meshes other than those sanctioned in this competition brief.

5. You will have to supply a wireframe screenshot of your base mesh/meshes along with your final entry image ( see rule 7 ).

6. No rendering, texturing, lighting or rigging – let's keep it all about the high-res sculpt! What we are looking for is the quality of the sculpt you can produce. If your entry is not complete, you can still post as long as it's recognizable and on topic.

7. For your final entry, post a screen-grab from your software with your finished work in it, along with your screenshot of the base meshes used ( see rule 5 ). It's fine to present this stuff nicely, with nice labeling etc., but do not add excessive post-production to the images themselves that may alter their aesthetics. These images must be uploaded to our servers by using the "Manage Attachments" button on the forum reply page. Do not link to external image files. Larger than the maximum size or posts containing links to external images (other than for reference materials) will be removed and the poster disqualified.

8. You can create multiple sculpts, but you can have only one final entry for each competition.

9. Do not create your own WIP thread. Simply post all WIP screen-grabs in here and your FINAL entry in the Final Submissions thread here.

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



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Time limit: 10 hours

Start Date: 1st February 2010

Deadline: 28th February, 11:59 PM GMT+0 (For information about GMT click here)

Subject: Abominable Snowman

The ice age has come and painted the whole planet white with snow. This marks the emergence of the elusive abominable snowman. Known to some as the yeti, the abominable snowman is mythological creature of unknown origins. It is said to be over 8 feet tall and have the strength of well over 100 men. Notorious for being a man eater; yet identified as a friendly vegetarian. With all the rumors, it’s hard to say what is real, or just rumor.

Is the Abominable Snowman truly a ferocious killer, or is it a shy lonely creature? It is up to you to sculpt it and define its personality and traits. How do you imagine this creature looks like?

For more information on the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, read further on Wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abominable_snowman

As before, there is no limit on the number of basemeshes, just on the time you spend on them and the sculpt itself.

As always, you can choose a realistic style for your sculpt, but you can also try your hand at a stylized version as well. You can do a head or a bust, but a full body sculpt is extremely recommended.

Let's try this out:
Download the free application CamStudio here, and record your progress on the sculpt ( set it to save about one frame per second ). You will not have to display it to the public, only to the judges in case you qualify in the top three. Of course, you don't need to complete the whole sculpt in one sitting, so just resume recording whenever you return to the sculpt ( multiple video recording files are acceptable ). Feedback on this idea is welcome!

Please read all the rules and brief carefully. If there are any further questions, ask and they shall be answered.

[MightyReg]

Great! I will probably try to participate to this challenge, even if I have no chance of winning since I just started with Zbrush, might learn a lot from this. Been following this challenge since Myths and Legends, a lot of good sculpters here.

Doing a Yeti sure is going to be a challenge tough, have no idea how to sculpt fur in Zbrush...Anyway hope to see some nice design out there!

[anima3d]

great topic

[TerraBite]

I think I'll try this out

Can we submit a concept sheet as part of the entry or for opinions?

[Freespace-3DT]

MightyReg: Sure the prizes are cool and having an award is nice, but what these challenges are really about ( I like to think ) is having fun and learning. So welcome aboard!

anima3d: Glad you think so.

TerraBite: Sure, please do submit concept sheets for opinions. You never know where some good feedback can come from.

[Longhi]

Originally Posted by Freespace-3DT

MightyReg: Sure the prizes are cool and having an award is nice, but what these challenges are really about ( I like to think ) is having fun and learning. So welcome aboard!
.

Totally agreed.
My first one was like 1year and a half ago.
I had no chance to win at all, but was really nice to be with the amazing people around there...I learned a lot watching and receiving tips on my model.
Come on man, let's sculpt and have fun...this is what I'm talking about here!

That's great 3dtotal staff...
Congrats one more time for all this challenges...
Freespace, you're doing a really nice job around here...keep rocking
I loved the theme.
I'll try to find some time again and join this one

[anima3d]

Originally Posted by Longhi

Totally agreed.
...Come on man, let's sculpt and have fun...

yup... thats the point

[TKSDeadly]

Longhi is right, after seeing super entries of Longhi and others, i myself started to participate, i have just completed my second sculpting challange (hence i am not a 2d artist i have to sculpt with the mouse not good with pen and tablet


But particapating is fun and will surely sharpen your skills.


Hope to take part myself in this wonderfull episode too


Regards

Good Luck to all !!

[GrantCeruloNYC]

Hey FreeSpace, has anyone used a good equivalent other than 'Camstudio' that is compatible with Macs for recording their progress?

Camstudio is pc only.

[Freespace-3DT]

Originally Posted by tksdevil

hence i am not a 2d artist i have to sculpt with the mouse not good with pen and tablet

I'm not a 2d artist either, but I find a tablet really comes in handy when doing the detail pass of your sculpt. It's really worth it to train yourself into using the tablet, your sculpts will look more refined for it.

I sculpt with a mouse up until the 3rd-4th subdivision, and then I go at it with the tablet for the finer touches. Very hard to do at first, but after a few weeks of practice, it should work great for you.

[MightyReg]

Hey thanks for the welcome, of course my main goal is becoming better at sculpting and to gain speed in my this domain (I only did 2 sculpts before so I am really a beginner ).

Did a quick sketch for an hour tonight when I came back from work, and here what I was thinking. I always like to put things on paper before starting something in 3D, feel less lost when I start. Still thinking about things I could do to differenciate it from a gorilla and make it more yeti-like. Some feedback about this would be great. (sorry about the size of the pic)

[Intervain]

that's an awesome topic - must think on it - good luck to all the participants!

[Stoneking]

Great brief for this contest!
I'm going to be in this one for sure,
I believe there's no better way to learn then this contests,
Wy? because is the most similar situaton then having a client,
With a brief and a time limit,
Thanks 3DTotal
Good luck to all
AND again thanks Longhi for introducing me this amazing comunity and contests
Fernando

[Maxter1]

Here's mine!


I couldn't avoid it, this was a sculpt I did for the previous challenge about mythical creatures. I'll try to make another one!

[hulahuga]

Sounds interesting, I'll see if I can scrape some time together :-)