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animated giff of the different stages of modeling a camel


Online CG Challenges are basically "realtime" contests, in that one has to create the "Computer Generated artwork" entry during the duration of the contest. you can not submit something that was created at an earlier time.

To make sure all entries are authentic, original creations, participants have to constantly post their progress on a forum thread, along with sketches, screenshots and renders.

These are constantly critiqued/appraised by the other participants and peers.

The judging process varies, but usually involves some form of voting/nomination by the judges, and sometimes the participants as well.
 


-The Journey Begins

-Haunted

-Garden

-Eon: World Within Worlds

-Stylized Animal: Camel

-Strange Behaviour

-Wacky Game character

 
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The Journey Begins: Bug-Bot
27|5|2006
see the hirez image
click for final image and turntable renders

T
his was the first competition entry I did (after work) in May 2006.
The theme was"The Journey Begins".
Here's the competition page at CG Society where you will find step by step WIP(work in progress) renders of the artwork and a 360° turntable render as well. Here's my forum thread be sure to leave a comment .

-Theme Page
- My entry page
-Location: CGSociety
 
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Haunted : Graveyard
14
|9|2006

click for lasrger view
click for final image
This cg competition entry won a consolation prize (yippee). The theme was "haunted" and the challenge was on for 29 July - 15 Sep 2006. This time I won a consolation prize.

-Theme Page
- My entry page
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Location: CGArena
   
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Garden : Hydroponics(WIP)
21
|9|2006

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The theme for this challenge was "Garden" and it wason from 21 Sep - 15 Nov 2006.

Couldn't finish in time, coz of spillover work at my day job and other time constraints. Will try and finish it anyway. You can see the progress here.

-Theme Page
- My entry page
-Location: CGArena

Drop by and leave a comment in the forum.

   
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Eon: World Within Worlds
07|10|2006

Eon WIP

The theme for this challenge was "Eon: World Within Worlds" and it was based on highly acclaimed SF writer Greg Bear's novel Eon.

In this challenge we got to role-play as the creative genius behind the visual interpretation of what could be a blockbuster film based on the book.
The mission wass to interpret script-to-screen and dream up ways to best portray the story (or parts of it) through visual narrative. The goal was to convey maximum impact and engagement to the viewer in a very short time.

The Challenge was on from 04 October 2006 to 31 January 2007. You can see the progress here.

- Theme Page
- My entry page
- Location: CGSociety

Latest Milestones:
-Purchased a copy of the book and have read through it. (Trying to locate the sequels : Eternity and Legacy as well.)
-done a few sketches of vehicles
-concept sketch: trying to show a scene where the russian paratrooper/cosmonaut/commandoes drop down on a city.

-started blocking out scene
-modelling vehicles
-modelling buildings
-doing the texturing

Drop by and leave a comment in the forum.




   
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Stylized Animal Challenge: Camel
Feb|2007
camel
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Each month Threedy Forums will select an animal and post some images as reference. All you we to do is create a 3d render of this creature in a stylized/abstact/cartoon style whilst keeping the creature instantly recongnizable.
February's animal is the camel.

This is a very informal forum, everyone just posts their images in the same thread.

My character is called Hubble the camel. he's just landed on another planet, and is off exploring.

Drop by and leave a comment in the forum.

click here to see the challenge page and all the other entries.






 
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Strange Behavior
June|2007
entry page
click here for turntable and still renders

The theme for this challenge was "Strange Behavior ".
25 June 2007- 30 October 2007

Ended up spending more time on the bike than the rest of the models. . ran ot of time, and had to quickly finish it. Not too happy with the final image, but atleast now i have a decent bike model to do other stuff with.

Here's my forum thread be sure to leave a comment .

-Theme Page
- My entry page
-Location: CGSociety



 
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Wacky Game Character : winner 3rd prize
wacky
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The theme for this challenge was "Wacky Game Character " and it was on from 21 Sep - 15 Nov 2006.

The prizes were interesting even though the timeframe was tight. The sponsers were the makers of the iZ3D monitors, hence the goal was to create an image that will work well when viewed in 3d vision. This time i won the 3rd prize.

-Theme Page
- My entry page
-Location: CGArena

Drop by and leave a comment in the forum.

 
 
 
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