SMC #28 "Play That Funky Music" - Jukebox

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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Subject: Jukebox.
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT 14thth October 2011.
Description: A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a specific selection of music. The first jukeboxes would contain the latest and greatest LP's/Records, then as the years went by CD jukeboxs arrived. Here is your chance to model any style of jukebox new or old or even try a new fangled mp3/internet based version, the choice as ever 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




Ran out of time with my starter so there's quite a larger amount of details missing that I would have liked to have added. Such as artist/track names for the playlist, records/CD's, jukebox titles/text, buttons text and a whole host of other items.... Oh and I think my render looks crap lol

[timberwo7ves]

the clay looks nice

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Yeah but the render was rushed

[timberwo7ves]

good for a rushed one lol! Also that's why the forum king invented the edit button

[Daye]

Been looking at references for these. Not going to be easy. They have a LOT of damn detail.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Well for me i'm trying to make a better one.... a CD based jukebox that used to be played non-stop at my local pub, lots of 80's, rock & power ballads on repeat.

[astroAJ]

Might have some time to enter this week... when I finish playing the Battle Field 3 Beta

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Had another go at this, opting for the CD based jukebox system. Ran out of time again trying to get smaller detailing included. Slightly happier with the render on this one.

[lunarion6]

50 pence for 3 plays, 1 pound for 5 plays? xd

Anyway nice starter ^^

[Daye]

Okay. This thing kicked my ass in more ways than one.

First, these things are works of art that play music. As such, the damn things
are full of intricate detail. The shape is easy, the detail is what really makes
them stand out though. Unfortunately, this makes them damn hard to model
quickly. ( For me anyway )

I like big flowing curvy shapes. Not eye-bleeding levels of detail

Anyhoo, this is the best I could do in 90 minutes. Most of the reference
material seemed to have a pretty common style. No way on Earth I could do
one of these things justice in 90 minutes. In retrospect, I should have laid off
the filet's and gone with a chamfer instead. It wouldn't look so ' puffy '

In my opinion, it resembles an ancient radio more than it does a jukebox.

Rhino @ 90 minutes

Ugh.

[Sinbad]

My first speed challenge... i Know its simple but it needed to be if i had any chance of finishing in 90 mins... hope you like

[Daye]

Originally Posted by Sinbad

My first speed challenge... i Know its simple but it needed to be if i had any chance of finishing in 90 mins... hope you like

Before the wrath of the forums comes down upon thee, allow me to help:

1) Submit thy entry via the 'Manage Attachments' button. ( found within
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from the competition.

2) Aforementioned images must be paired. Sized no larger than 1280 x 1024
with a maximum of 195k file size. Clay render and unsmoothed wireframes
being acceptable offerings.

3) State the software utilized as well as time spent modeling.

Full commandments can be found at the beginning of each challenge. Cast
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[sarN]

Oh this is too cool... I am going to be away all week so time to do a quick concept and see if I can bang something out tonight before I leave tomorrow!

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Sorry i've not be online much but it's pandemonium at home here, we are having our windows replaced, all 11! and a new back door and lots to do and say and listen to etc.

[Sinbad]

"Before the wrath of the forums comes down upon thee, allow me to help" -Daye aka Nehumanuscrede

Thanks and a thousand pardons to thee Oh forum master....
I'll try once again.
My first speed challenge...I Know its simple but it needed to be if I had any chance of finishing in 90 mins... hope you like...
3DS max / Modelling time 70 / Texturing Time 15.