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Your mission, with the help of a powerful magical artifact, is to enter an ancient forgotten world via wormholes, destroy all rival enemy forces sent by other planets, crush the awakening machines, and bring back the secret of technology in order to dominate all opposing forces, their planets and their wretched citizens once and for all!! Read the full story - Here

DWIII Storyline | The Topic | 3D Requirements | 2D Requirements | The Restrictions

Machines victory did not last... In a final desperate effort, the remnants of the opposing forces united against the machines and created an ultimate weapon that would temporarily disrupt all electrical functions within the galaxy. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong...

It has been 1000 years since the disappearance of machines. All electrical and mechanical systems continue to malfunction and every planet has been cut off from each other, leaving planetary wormholes as the only means of traveling between planets. Only myths remain of how life with technology once was, until recently...

Bizarre creatures have been emerging from wormholes; creatures made entirely of metal!

The ultimate weapon's effects are apparently fading. Everyone must put a stop to this rising menace before it's too late; unfortunately, everyone in the system is already at war! For the past century, an inter-galactic war has been raging between 9 rival planets. As a result, sending massive armies to a new awakening machine world is impossible, so in their place, single powerful units have been summoned...

Your mission, with the help of a powerful magical artifact (read below), is to enter an ancient forgotten world via wormholes, destroy all rival enemy forces sent by other planets, crush the awakening machines, and bring back the secret of technology in order to dominate all opposing forces, their planets and their wretched citizens once and for all!!

Topic:

Create a Powerful Artifact User!

Time period:

Post-apocalyptic futuristic fantasy where magic exists. With technology unable to function due to the remnant effects of an ultimate weapon launched 1000 years ago, a new science has emerged. Formed by residual effects of an ancient ultimate weapon, or maybe an evolutionary step in the universe, whatever it is, this mystical force can now be harnessed by a few talented individuals or can be infused into items to make simple magical items or immensely powerful magical artifacts. As a result, a new age of life has come forth: An age of Magic!

Race:

You can create any organic, demonic or undead race: Alien, vampire, angel, succubus, skeleton, mutant, elf, human, fish, pixy, treant, giant... Anything! Only exception: No robots, metal constructs, magical golums, cyborgs, steam engines, steam equipment or anything with electronics.

Class:

Select one of the following classes (no combinations):

	Invoker	This character type harvests powerful magic to destroy and/or manipulate his surroundings or enemies.
	Clericon	This character type uses magic to heal, strengthen, weaken, banish or bind foes or allies.
	Stalker	This character type cannot manipulate magic like an invoker, but rather, has mastered the art of magic to aid his/her stealth, information gathering, and assassination skills.
	Warlord	This character type is not proficient in manipulating magic, rather, he/she has mastered the art of hand-to-hand combat, weapon(s) fighting and high armored defense. Warlord's may use magical weapons and armor.

Artifact Weapon:

Powerful artifact weapons are needed to defeat all opposing rival forces and to destroy the awakening machines. Your character must wield a single artifact or a pair of similar artifacts (two scimitars, two daggers etc). Artifacts must possess one of these following magical energy types (no combinations, example, no Fire/lava + Vegetation):

		Fire/lava
		Water/Ice
		Air/Lightning
		Earth/Rock
		Vegetation
		Darkness/void
		Light/Holy
		Summoning

Special notes: If you choose to give your character two similar artifacts, you can only have one magical power type. Example, you cannot have one ice dagger and one fire dagger. They must both use fire or both use ice.

Insignia and Colors:

Your character must possess your team's colors and/or your team's insignia (if your team has one). If you don't have the colors or the insignia located somewhere on your character, your entry will not make it into the top 50. Please represent your team properly. This is a team event so make your team proud!

Your creation's budget:

	9000 tris max for everything (everything = characters, glows, effects, artifact, weapons and their effects, steeds, pets, twins, multiple characters, summoned monsters and personal equipment)
	1 x 2048 Color Map 1 x 2048 Reflection Map 1 x 2048 Specular Map 1 x 2048 Specular Color Map 1 x 2048 Normal Map 1 x 2048 Bump Map 1 x 2048 Opacity(transparency) Map 1 x 2048 Glow map 1 x 2048 Glossiness map *Optional Important - You can not break your 2048 sheets into smaller sheets.
	2-sided polies are permitted.
	For all final images, all shaders that ship with UT3, HL2, Crysis, idTech4 and Xnormal are allowed. Standard, non node-based shaders within Max, Maya, and XSI are allowed. No manual HLSL editing via code, and no node-based shader creation.
	Lighting: For the winning pose image, enhanced lighting solutions like VRay, Mental Ray, Brazil etc., are prohibited. You may only use standard lights together with standard shadows. You can use this tutorial here to get you started: www.3drender.com/light/3point.html. For beauty and contruction shots, the above lighting restrictions do not apply - feel free to use anything.

Your Pedestal's Budget:

Create a small pedestal with unrestricted polygons and textures. You cannot put anything on this
pedestal that your creation can use or pick up.

The Deliverables:

	A final illustrated concept of your glorious Dominance War III Character. You can use any 2d software package and/or any traditional mediums like acrylics, color pencils, and oil paints to create this image.
	A black & white or single color (example light to dark blue etc) modeling sheet that shows at least 3 angles of your character. Choices include: Front, right, left, perspective, closeup(s), and/or back view.
	A minimum of 6 black & white or single color (example light to dark blue etc) initial rough draft thumbnail sketches.

Restrictions:

	No vehicles allowed.
	Your character cannot possess digital technology. A simple pistol is allowed, but a laser gun with circuitry is not allowed.
	Organic living pets and steeds are allowed.
	No Teams or groups. Everything must be made by 1 person.
	All sketches, ideas, concepts, models, 3d meshes etc must be made specifically for this competition.
	Keep gore and nudity to a decent level please!
	Artists wishing to enter 3d and concept art categories must create a new idea for each category. No 3d entry and concept entry can look the same.
	Creating a forum thread and showing your work in progress is mandatory. Entries submitted without showing their work in progress will be disqualified. Entries who keep their work a secret until the last few days can potentially be disqualified.

Dominance War III Extension. New date:
April 12th 11:59 p.m US & Canada Eastern Time