SMC #05 "Thirsty" - Your Favourite Drinks

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

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Subject: Your Favourite Drinks
Deadline - 10:00PM GMT Friday 15th April 2011
Description: What's your favourite tipple? Are you a tea drinker? A coffee man? or a juice or smoothie drinker, vodka, whiskey, beer, stout the list goes on. Here's your chance to model your favourites....... and why not have one with you while you model too
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

[bgen]

cool topic. will be instresting to see what people come up with.

[GaretJaxSozap]

I tried to go too big for the look out the window one. I got really disgusted because I'm a noob who wants to be perfect. Anyway I'll spend more time with that. This one looks reasonable for me though. shouldn't be too hard.
Good luck everyone

[lonelymonk]

That's a very handsome render!

[GaretJaxSozap]

I know this is simple... but imagine smallish, three eyed, pink skinned, slugs drinking from these, oh the gas would be for their hover chairs... or something....
Anyway done in 3ds max and did the modeling in 35 minutes

[grafi]

Nice Topic! I'm definitely going to be participating in this one, lots of possibilities..

Also, cool Starter

[rocneasta]

@ GaretJaxSozap - you can always do better by presenting your work better. Look at starters and you'll see straight away what was made out of a simple bottle, idea and presentation wise.

@ CG - nice idea and cool starter

[Edwiersma]

Just to take my mind of work...

[rocneasta]

i expect a lot of cylinders in this competition

drinking tea or warm milk Edwiersma?

[Edwiersma]

Hehe, Tea! It's a little stupid I placed the camera at an angele you don't even see the liquid... It took me quite some time to make a nice Tea-Material but too bad it's not in the render, at least I have a Tea-Material now.

[vicban3d]

Hello everybody! I'll play along in this one, but only have time for one entry so here it is, the Futuredrink, a drink with a temperature regulator.

[Edwiersma]

Inspiration!

[dantrodgers]

Yorkshire Tea it is

[lonelymonk]

I was contemplating a pan galactic gargle blaster. Not sure what one might look like.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Wahey! some nice entries already!

I'm gonna do a classic juice carton drink in a bit, but gonna create the artwork from scratch again like the Threedy SMC (Pepsi Max) design.

Below is the original artwork I created, I wanted to share as i'm really glad with the results. It's been resized as my original artwork is the correct size of 22cm which is 6600 x 2250 in pixels.



If anyone would like the original photoshop file to have a play with, I can upload it.