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DW IV - Mini#2 - 2D - War General Pet Portraits
Judges are currently hard at work judging all final entries. While we wait, to conclude Dominance War IV, we are keeping this final mini challenge easy, fun and creative. So this year’s conclusive worldwide 2d mini challenge topic is:

War General Pet Portraits!

The rules are simple – Artists are to render a single pet in a picture-framed 2d Illustration. No multiple creatures in one image and don’t include any part of a master/owner in the image. Pets can be a dog, a small dragon, a multi-headed worm, a bear, a pet demon, an undead pixy, a small cute robot, basically anything that is smaller then a bear and can fit into a house. A pet giant robot is not what we are looking for. Pets can be from any time period, any race and any unnatural race (undead, demons, robots etc). Your pet must include your team’s logo somewhere on his body or on his accessories. How you incorporate your team’s logo into your entry, we leave this up to you.


You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Create a single illustration in full color.
- You can use any software package to achieve your final result.
- You MUST include a picture-frame in your final illustration.

Additional Notes:
- Artists cannot switch teams during challenges. If you were on Polycount’s team in our first mini challenge or main event, you must remain on Polycount's team during this mini challenge.
- As always, entering a mini challenge is optional. It is not required.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit ONE 1000x1000 (up to 1000x1000. Smaller dimensions are fine) 350k final image and this image must include your team’s logo, your War General Pet’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.
- Yes, entering both the 3d and 2d sections of this challenge is fine.
- 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 June 3rd and ends June 7th. When public voting is over, each team’s best entries are gathered together into a single pool and a grand mini champion will be chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in mid June.

Start date: Friday May 22nd 2009 - 1:00am Eastern Time
End Date: Monday June 1st 2009 - 11:59pm Eastern Time

2D Submission link:
2d: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...cghub_2d.html

Good luck to all those who enter!

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DW IV - Mini#2 - 3D - War General Pet Portraits

Judges are currently hard at work judging all final entries. While we wait, to conclude Dominance War IV, we are keeping this final mini challenge fun, easy and creative. This year's conclusive worldwide 3d mini challenge topic is:

War General Pet Portraits!

The rules are simple – This is a sculpting/modeling challenge, no textures or coloring. Artists are to model the upper body of a single pet in 3d. No multiple creatures in one image and don't include any part of a master/owner in the image. Pets can be a dog, a small dragon, a multi-headed worm, a bear, a pet demon, an undead pixy, a small cute robot, basically anything that is smaller then a bear and can fit into a house. A pet giant robot is not what we are looking for. Pets can be from any time period, any race and any unnatural race (undead, demons, robots etc). Your pet must include your team’s logo somewhere on his body or on his accessories. How you incorporate your team's logo into your entry, we leave this up to your imagination.

You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Everything for this challenge must be made from scratch. A base model will not be given to you by Dominance War organizers. No preexisting ideas or body models can be used. Starting with a standard primitive object is fine. A sphere, a cube, zspheres, etc are all fine.
- No multiple colors allowed. Everything must be in a single color. Dark and light shades of that single color is acceptable.
- Only show 45% maximum of your pet. Do not create the entire body. Your pet's head, shoulders and arms or front legs are fine. You must blend your pet's remaining body into your pedestal.
- You MUST include a pedestal in your sculpture. A pedestal is not a floor.
- You have unlimited Polygons to create your 3d sculpture.
- You can use any 3d software package on planet earth to create your entry.
- You can use any 3d software lighting package or set up on planet earth to light your entry.

Additional Notes:
- Artists cannot switch teams during challenges. If you were on Polycount’s team in our first mini challenge or main event, you must remain on Polycount’s team during this mini challenge.
- As always, entering a mini challenge is optional. It is not required.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit ONE 1000x1000 (up to 1000x1000. Smaller dimensions are fine) 350k final image and this image must include your team's logo, your War General Pet'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.
- Yes, entering both the 3d and 2d sections of this challenge is fine.
- 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 June 3rd and ends June 7th. When public voting is over, each team's best entries are gathered together into a single pool and a grand mini champion will be chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in mid June.


Start date: Friday May 22nd 2009 - 1:00am Eastern Time
End Date: Monday June 1st 2009 - 11:59pm Eastern Time

3D Submission link:
3D: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...cghub_3d.html

Good luck to all those who enter!

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You can find the original postings over on the GA website:
2D Mini http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/s...ead.php?t=9256
3D Mini http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/s...ead.php?t=9255

[Widgeon]

should we post our WIP etc in this thread like the previous thread? http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=638

[Ludwin]

yeah, good question.

[aco2099]

Are we allowed to join this mini challenge If we did not take part in the first competition?

[Pmel]

Originally Posted by aco2099

Are we allowed to join this mini challenge If we did not take part in the first competition?

Well ... are we? Must we be in a team?

[boybalasa]

nice follow up topic to the first challenge

[ahbeejieh]

Cute mini challenge. I echo the question of where to post the WIPs and Finals for the CGhub team.

[admin]

Like the first mini challenge, please post your submissions to the 2D and 3D threads, respectively.

Participants should post their entries to this one thread only, and not submit an individual thread as in the main challenge (at least until we hear differently...)

2D submission thread

3D submission thread

To our knowledge, you may enter the mini challenge even if you didn't do the main event or the first mini challenge, as long as you haven't submitted any entry under a different team (ie. if you entered Dominance War IV under CG Society, etc., you must stay with that team through the end of the challenge.)

[Noukah]

Hmmm... Tempting.. Tempting indeed.

[Ludwin]

yeah come on! join in! you know you want to! :-)
it's lonely in the 2d war general pet wip thread :-(

[weggebrecht]

I am in for sure..

[adro]

I was going for cute with a bad temper. This pet would be owned by a demon lord. Let me know what you guys thinks. I am going to keep working on it till its time for submission.

[admin]

Great entries everyone!

Please make sure that you submit your entry to the correct team, we have noticed that several entries have been submitted to the game artisans team instead of CGHUB.

The correct submission threads are:

2D Submission:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests..._cghub_2d.html

3D Submission:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests..._cghub_3d.html

[Ludwin]

hey hubbers!
i was just wondering if anybody who entered last years dominance war, knows how long it will take approx. for the winners to be anounced?
i know it might be completely different this year, but can anyone tell me how long it took the judges last year to come up with the "cut to 50% list" and then the "final 50 list". same thing for the mini challenges.
thanks in advance!!
(i'm just sooooo curious to see who made it to the final 50, i can hardly wait!!)

[Colin-Ashcroft]

You all probably know already but it looks like the voting has started on the pet portraits! Get over there and vote for your Fave's!

[Ludwin]

thanks mate!
i'm off to vote!