The Naruto Challenge - Results are in! [Archive]

FredH

11-13-2007, 02:05 AM

Congratulations to the winners of competition #3, The Naruto Challenge!

Naruto Challenge Results:
View 3d finalists:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/competitions/3/view_entries.php

View Concept Art finalists:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/competitions/3/view_entries_2.html

To read what the judges had to say...
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/competitions/3/judges/index.htm

Congrats to the winners and a big special Congrats goes to GameArtisans' New Elite Artisan; Marco Mazzoni!! (http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/galleries/index_artist.php?uid=1057)

~

Gavin

11-13-2007, 02:12 AM

Congrats to all the winners and combatants, there were a lot of great entries :)

Gav

Chasarsis

11-13-2007, 02:13 AM

=O Awesome! Nice job you guys, it was great watching!
And thanks for another fun comp Fred :D

Kerepres

11-13-2007, 02:18 AM

Yay, congrats to all winners!!

Yung

11-13-2007, 02:24 AM

Congrats to the winners! It had been a great competition! There was lots of strong entries and some showed stronger progression. Thanks for the comp FredH!

YdoUwant2know

11-13-2007, 02:27 AM

Congrats to all the winers, amazing results.
i cannot wait for the next comp!

Kerepres

11-13-2007, 02:40 AM

So when is the next one? :P
Ooops saw the date on the main page :)

scorn-maniac

11-13-2007, 02:55 AM

Big up to all winners and finalists. Great comp to be in and of course awesome one to watch all the entries. ^__^

xvampire

11-13-2007, 02:56 AM

congrats to the winner! you all great entry!
I learn a lot from most of the entries here, all the winners are great.!

btw for Zann! you were a great rival! hehehehehe ....!
awesome entries ur texturing skills are scary! bow bow bow ..>.>

and for All ICG clan, cant say anymore I kind of surprised with those skills, I never seen them before in ICG ..., jutsu level up !!

and finally,
Tryforce, thanx for cheering us up! with those references and support

ThatDon

11-13-2007, 03:01 AM

Can we get better judges next time, gezz what a bunch of noobies, especially that FredH guy ;)

Congrats MoP & Tully, Top notch work.

vied

11-13-2007, 03:15 AM

I'm amazed by all the artwork in this competition :ack:
thanks for for providing great artworks for us to enjoy..
great competition indeed

Congratz to the winners !!!

xvampire

11-13-2007, 03:19 AM

I just realized most of entries having kind of

"peace" hand pose lolz .... ^^

zann

11-13-2007, 04:00 AM

Woh congrats to all winners & participants, great & fun comp! :thumb:
I sure learned a lot to be stronger! :cool:
Thx for the judges kind words as well :lucky:
xvampire ~ haha thx, still got a long way to go, n lets work tat out together ;)

3dsquid

11-13-2007, 04:19 AM

congrats to all the winners! i'm sure many artist here (including me) learned alot from this competition. And I wish there will be more to come for us to participate :D

Tully

11-13-2007, 05:44 AM

Congrats to Marco! I thought it might be close but that your illustration would have pushed you over the edge ;) It's very good indeed. Also to Asstornado, who did a great job. I loved seeing your final!

Fred, in the judging section your comments on my entry seem to be about clueme's :S *wants to read what you have to say*

Job well done to everybody :)

miezis

11-13-2007, 05:55 AM

some really awesome entries both in 3d and 2d categories!
MoP and tully, you've really made Tenten look hot as hell! :eek: excellent job, and congrats to all!

Mike_inel

11-13-2007, 06:21 AM

Congrats to the winners!
Looking forward for the next comp!

-JL-

11-13-2007, 07:26 AM

Congratulations to all! :)

Looking forward to the next one, I might even be able to participate. :p

FredH

11-13-2007, 08:39 AM

Tully, oops, fixed:)

-JL- I think everyone would be able to participate in the next one. It's an extremely fun and simple comp for the holidays;)

ThatDon --> Hey! (hand reaches over for the destroy member button... lol) :p

MoP

11-13-2007, 08:46 AM

Woot! Great contest, I had fun working on it ... hehe I notice all the judges said they didn't really like the face on my entry, whoops! :p

Congratulations to everyone who finished, there's a lot of great work to see there!

One thing about this contest though, something I think might be worth considering as a rule change for next contest... I noticed a lot of people doing final renders using things like VRay or Mental Ray and various high-end "photoreal" renderers with HDR and all sorts of fancy bounced lighting etc.

Since it's really about game art, I don't think it's fair that some people render in very advanced renderers. I see a lot of entries which were improved by a "high-end" render which seems a little unfair on people who don't have access to VRay or Mental Ray.

I liked the old rules on CGChat where you were only allowed up to 3 shadow-mapped lights, and no raytracing or global illumination.
It means the assets must be presented in such a way that they will look if they were put into a game. There are some entries here which I think wouldn't look so good

Just my opinion ;)

I look forward to the next one!

clueme

11-13-2007, 09:28 AM

Ah~~ competition is finished.
gameartisans member are all very kind, analysis, a scholastic spirit, passionate…

I’m pleased at the result. I’ll make a greater efforts.

FredH, Josh Singh, Ancient-Pig, Deto, Snowfly, Marcus Dublin, Donatello, 3dsquid, dsolo, TryForce, Zann, Mogster,zabuza2k, Chasarsis, iceblazer17, Kerepres, Yung, Enma, Eclipse, Shadowbreeze, ALW-DaSilva, Mike_inel, Blaizer, dkvdeeto, typhus22, neophensiline, ThatDon, onelung, HntrLuc, Sorenson, Vresu, _tdc_, 3d_er, b1ll, brickwallfish, Darksun, yuri, necromanthil, Thank you~~~

Yung

11-13-2007, 09:33 AM

Ah must remind myself no Vray for the next comp. Got to beat the game artist with their tools! :P

TryForce

11-13-2007, 09:39 AM

Haha thats awesome :)

those 3 have been my top 3. THanks for the Awards there :) though, how do i get the price o_O ? Check your PM FredH

Congratz to the winners :)

Hito

11-13-2007, 09:58 AM

congrats to all the people who participated! Great round of entries, very inspiring!

Spark

11-13-2007, 09:59 AM

Awesome job guys, and congrats to all those who entered the competition:) Some great pieces came out of this and went into my inspiration folder, so a win win all around. Looking forward to the next competition, and hopefully I can join in on this one.

Spark
www.bbriley.com

Amethyst

11-13-2007, 10:18 AM

Hurray for the winners and warm congrats to the participating artists. You all, may I say so, entertained us on the "highest level".... Also, I want to congrat Tryforce for his community award. His knowledge of Naruto is incredible and he shared it generously with everybody. Again, thank you all and I can't wait for the next challenge.....

asstornado

11-13-2007, 10:24 AM

Hooray!

The contest was a blast, I was on the edge of my seat during the judging. Great job to everyone who entered. Congratulations to Marco and Tully, realy kick a*@ inspiring stuff. All of you guys on the forums definetly made it alot of fun. I'll be participating on these forums alot more now. Next competition!

kipiripi

11-13-2007, 10:33 AM

Congrats to all the winners .there are really nice works both category.

typhus22

11-13-2007, 10:36 AM

wow congrats guys! im not surprised at all, i had the top 3 picked though i had to scratch my head for a bit when i saw yung and Zann'z final pieces. anyhoot, i hope the next comp is as fun as this one ^_^

awra

11-13-2007, 10:58 AM

I really enjoyed the comp, its been fun with all you guys here :D can't wait for the next one.
and Congrats for all the winners ! ^_^

IronHawk

11-13-2007, 11:36 AM

Great job everyone! Grats Mop!

FredH

11-13-2007, 12:41 PM

Mop, suggestion noted. For the next comp, we will try to get a max file and a maya file up with a 3 point lighting system so that everyone is on the same page.

Marcus Dublin

11-13-2007, 02:31 PM

Big congrats to all of the winners and a special thanks to all who entered the comp, it was a blast to follow and hopefully we can keep the momentum going with the next one!:D By the way I have some thoughts on the final rendering methods and lighting setups, hopefully we can reach a middle ground. I posted a thread in the Support and Suggestions section: http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1295

Masakari

11-13-2007, 03:56 PM

Congrats to everybody who finished and participated. I do disagree on the results, as seems usual (lol), but in the end that doesn't matter much.

shadowbreeze

11-13-2007, 04:39 PM

Congrats to everybody who finished and participated and to the winners, it was a excellent comp.

and i special thanks to the 2 judges that gave me some excellent and open comments/feedback which i shall take note of and Endeavor to improve on in the next comp:thumb:

WhiteGuardian

11-13-2007, 07:26 PM

Wow, that's really cool. Congrat for all the winners. You're awesome.
Can't wait for the next challenge. :)

Ged

11-13-2007, 07:35 PM

a very very impressive competition and some deserving winners, well done :)

keo

11-13-2007, 08:15 PM

congrats and thanks to all, we're attracting more and more skilled artists with every new competition. :thumb:

dudidam

11-13-2007, 09:21 PM

hwaaa.. congrat to all the winners! they deserve it! :thumb:
it been a lot of fun. thanks to all who has been supportive with the comment. i will push myself harder next time.
anyway, i agree with MoP suggestion about rendering standard :D

siilv

11-14-2007, 01:30 AM

Wow~! i checked just now.:)

After all there are many good pictures, i got the 3th winner.

so i'm very happy now.:lucky:

Congrats to everybody who finished and participated and to the other winners.

Thx for kindness people and a congratulator.

Im going to try better next work.

It was really good experience for me.

Thank you :D

K_Sheriff

11-14-2007, 03:35 AM

Great work all, and grats to the winners. Very inspirational work. It's work like this that brings the best out of me. I'm pretty geared up for Nov 22.

Marco Mazzoni

11-14-2007, 04:29 AM

Wow, I have to admit, after I saw Tully's latest beautiful render, and asstonado's energetic drawing, I was sure I could hope for 3rd at best :lucky:

Thanks to Fred and the gang for setting up such a great challenge. The strong competition really forced me to push my skills harder, and I learned so much as a result. All the participants in both 2d and 3d did a fantastic job. I'm proud to be a member of this community :thumb:

Bring on round 4!

TryForce

11-14-2007, 08:50 AM

geez FredH, atleast answer on my PM ._.

FredH

11-14-2007, 09:39 AM

Check your pm's now:thumb:

iceblazer17

11-14-2007, 01:00 PM

wow....you guys rocked on this comp!

Chi

11-14-2007, 01:25 PM

Both Concept and 3d pieces are fantastic. Well done all.

blankslatejoe

11-14-2007, 02:15 PM

GREAT WORK EVERYONE! I was floored by some of the entries here. Fantastic work

As for the lighting thing--personally I liked the basic 3-point light setup, but limiting the rig to JUST three lights is tricky--sometimes you really need that fourth or fifth light to highlight something or toss something back in shadow.

But I agree with prohibiting GI/radiosity/light-array solutions.

FredH

11-14-2007, 03:44 PM

Might just prohibit GI and post effects for the winning pose shot and leave the beauty shot as is.. basically, an anything goes type of thing.

Still thinking about it:think: There have been some great suggestions.

typhus22

11-14-2007, 04:13 PM

dude it be great to have a light setup done by one of u guys. im crap with setting up the lights and i think it would be a great thing to see how u guys are doing it. just my 2 cents

Parnell

11-14-2007, 11:12 PM

I'd prefer the 3 point light...I see your point Joe about the 4th and 5th, however in most cases a 3 point light should suffice. I guess what I'd really like to see are the entries posting a screen of just HOW they rendered the scene. I'm pretty crappy at lighting (i prefer to leave it to the game engine)...so any help seeing how those with awesome lighting skills do it would be a big bonus in my book. I mean we post our textures, wireframes, etc why not post a screen of where the lights are or something.

I like Fred's idea of posting a max/maya file for people to work from. Kinda standardizes things.
B

poopinmymouth

11-15-2007, 12:33 AM

Fred and I have talked about this, and I have plans to create a small tutorial, and provide max/maya files with 3 point light setups with a variety of keyframes to try out position, color, etc. I just have to get around to it this weekend or next. :-)

http://www.mr-chompers.com/images/poop.gif (http://www.poopinmymouth.com)

Parnell

11-15-2007, 01:55 PM

Thx dude!
I love to see how people light shiz.
I'll make sure to bug you to do it.
;)
B

iworkat

11-15-2007, 08:06 PM

All the winners are definantely deserving... A special thanks to Joe [Blankslatejoe] Mirabello for the special note in the judges comments...
I hate to sound like a Batman villian, but you guys won this one, but I'll be back.. be sure of that, I'll be back next time... Hahahaha

--iworkat

andrei313

11-23-2007, 04:46 AM

So when is the next one? :P
Ooops saw the date on the main page :)

It's November 23... just curious, will the next one start soon? (like... this week?)
Thanks :)

miezis

11-23-2007, 06:30 AM

yup, was thinking the same thing! my hands are just itchin' to start something new!

Beartastic

11-23-2007, 07:18 AM

I imagine that when 22 was chosen that nobody realised it was Thanksgiving and all the mods would be too filled with turkey to do anything :lol: I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. I wish we had a parallel in Australia.

Joe said he'd be away but try to be back on on Friday and I imagine Fred might be in the same boat.

blankslatejoe

11-23-2007, 02:12 PM

mbt - im still away, im just stopping in to say hello. I'll be back for good on monday/tuesday. But, the main comps are Fred's baby---so I'm looking forward to any announcements as well. :)

FredH

11-23-2007, 03:48 PM

Yeah, those crazy Americans. The 22nd?? Why did they have to go and put Thanksgiving in my schedule:brick: I had no clue it was thanksgiving.

I will start the comp tonight, but I can't list the prizes until they are confirmed next week:)

miezis

11-23-2007, 05:01 PM

who cares about prizes, it's all about hippie fun! :) we care only about community love and flowers!

p.s. that ps3 sure looks fine though :)

YdoUwant2know

11-23-2007, 09:22 PM

Prizes are great and all, but i just want to know what the comp will be... very cruel to post the 22nd then just leave us hanging...

oh well, it was Thanks Giving and all so I can't be too mad. I'll just chalk it up to food coma. :D