Dominance War Mini: War General Portraits

[blankslatejoe]

3D Challenge

It's time to gather up your creativity, pull together your talents, and get ready for a new kind of warm up competition in the Dominance War series - Mini Challenges! Although the theme is separate from the main epic event, world champion standings are assured for the best mini comp entries!

To commemorate a new class of competition, we will be using a modified theme from Dominance War I. So this year's first ever 3D mini topic is:

War General Portraits – SDK!

The rules are simple - artists are to take one of the pre-made unwrapped models and finalize it with details, colors, background and/or an expression. Your war general portrait can be from any time period and any race. As long as he/she/it looks like a war general, has the appropriate team war logo somewhere on the body/clothes, and has the appropriate team colors (gold and black for GA), everything is good!

click on an image to download a .rar file containing the mesh.

Here is the logo you guys should incorporate into your designs

Backgrounds are optional. Presentation is optional. Posing is optional. Basically... everything is optional. This challenge is here for those desiring to practice their art before the main event. So keep it easy, keep it quick, and keep it real.

You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Use only "1" of the base unwrapped meshes supplied to get you started. Altering its form before texturing is NOT ALLOWED. Once you are finished with colors and details, you can then pose the head and alter its expression for your final presentation.
- 1024x1024 of ANY and ALL texture sheet types. Example, one Normal sheet, one Spec sheet, one Gloss sheet, one Glow sheet, etc.
- You are allowed to alter the uvs of the base mesh.
- Zbrushers and Normal Mappers: you can push/pull verts for the purposes of generating a normal map, but be careful--you must bake that normal map back onto the unaltered (except for UVs) basemesh, and if you push it too far you'll run into trouble. No extra geo should be added to the base mesh.
- Optional 500 tris for extra gear like a hat, hair, helmet, etc.
- All lighting solutions from any software package is permitted.
- All shaders are permitted.


Additional Notes:
- Artists can only join 1 team for any event during dominance war IV. If you start with polycount, you cannot enter another mini challenge or the main event with gameartisans or cgsociety.
- You are not required to enter all challenges. Pick the ones you like, and join.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit one "up to" 1000x1000 350k max final image. 200w x 1000h is fine. 999w x 500h is fine. This image must include your team logo, your War General's name, and your personal name and/or contact details.
- Only 1 entry per person. Do not create or try to create multiple entries with different user names.
- Final submissions are final. If you upload your final image 4 days before the deadline, do not ask us to change it. Make sure you are happy with your image before you submit it into the system.
- Public voting starts Thursday March 5th to March 8th to find each team's best 5. Each team’s best 5 entries then gather together into a single pool and a grand mini champion chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in June.


Final Submission link for GameArtisans team Members:
- http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...tisans_3d.html
Final View Entries page for GameArtisans.org:
- http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...sans_3d_1.html

DEADLINE: The deadline for this challenge is March 2nd Monday Night 11:59 Eastern time. Voting Starts March 5th.


Good Luck to all those who enter!

[Draxxuss]

whooo hooo... LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

[Aftermath]

Indeed! Let the battles begin!

[seven]

slick noodles.

[blankslatejoe]

Just to highlight: PARTICIPATION IN THIS THREAD IS ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY!

[YdoUwant2know]

Sweet... It's finally here, Let the war begin!

[Hearshotkid02]

I guess now is as good a time as any to start posting. I registered a long time ago and forgot about the site for a good while Just started looking around again a few months ago. I think this challenge is a good one to make my first. Hope I can get the time to participate is DW this year.

[aymar1]

yay it start time to begin i guess ill stay on ga team

[nesnerosx]

New guy gonna give it a whirl...

[aymar1]

you talk bout me right

[sinz]

woot! starting tomorrow well later today.

[jandaku cintaku]

Great!!!
one silly question...about finalize it with details, does it means that we can edit the basemesh \base model a bit..???

[chaosblade]

oh yeah. Finally going to stop lurking and enter something on this forum. Btw, it looks like the alien_priest rar has the UV template for the alien_bust; not really a problem tho.

[NiGHTS2o06]

This might sound a bit dumb but...whats the team logo? (First Dom War here). Also, can we modify the mesh in Mudbox/ZBrush to create a high poly for the normal map?

[aymar1]

um i think the logo is game artisans how it is above
um so u can alter the bust when??

[sinz]

This logo if im not mistaken:
BLACK AND WHITE

[jandaku cintaku]

NiGHTS2o06 the team logo is ga logo, and you can add detail in zb or mobo to create normal maps...
but the question probably how far can we alter the basemesh....

[Mrpearlzildjian]

In the words of Shang Tsung... IT HAS BEGUN!

I didn't think I would have time for the first mini, but it's looking like I just might after all. I was preparing myself for the main comp. But this has my blood boiling. WHOO.

[Hellmouth]

Well, time to download the ZBrush trial again. :P

[Duncan Fraser]

HAHAHAHA. Let the good times roll.