[admin]

Description

She appears in your dreams, lives next to you, or in another world.

She could be human, alien or even a ghost, the only thing you know is that for you she is living representation of beauty.

It's not about sex, so no provocative entries.

Here it's all about harmony and attraction.
and don't forget that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you want to create a vehicle or environment, follow these same guidelines but replace "she" with what you are interested in creating. So if you are creating a vehicle or environment, think harmony, attraction, and appeal.

Definition of beauty:

The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.

Prizes & Recognition
The first place winner will receive a Hellgate: London The Female Templar sculpt from Weta Workshop and the runners up will get swanky CGHUB badges to display on your pages! First place winner will also receive a prominent display of winning work on our front page main banner!

Deadline
Starts November 11th
Ends December 29th

How to Begin Your Entry
Create a WIP thread under the 3D Jams Forum with the title the title 3d
Jam #3: "name of entry" - "username"
ie. 3D Jam #3: Project Title - Admin
Post a sketch or short description of what you'd like to create.
You are required to post WIP images as you go along, so your fellow artists can give you feedback and learn from your techniques.
Most importantly, HAVE FUN!

Deliverables
You will be judged on your final renders or screenshots. Since this is a modeling contest, textures are optional. You can render the final image in any program, or take screenshots from zbrush or mudbox. Please give us several angles of your final.

Above all else, the moderators and staff of CGHUB want you to have fun
with these challenges while growing your skills, and sharing your
artwork with the rest of the community. If ever, there is anything we
can do to improve these challenges, feel free to share them in the
challenge forum or contact any of the
following people with your suggestions:

Your 3D Challenge team by alpha, Danny Williams, Jeff Miller, and Rodrigue Pralier.

Special thanks to Jeremy Engleman for the allowing the use of his amazing artwork in the banner for this challenge!

Grand Prize

http://www.wetanz.com/the-female-templar/from/brand









Due to the high cost of shipping outside our region, please note that for those living outside US, Canada or Mexico, you will be responsible for covering the shipping charges of the prize. We accept payment for shipping via paypal or credit card only. If you have any questions please let us know! If for some reason the prize is out of stock or unavailable we will try our best to get you a prize of equal value.

[harpreet]

nice .........

[mindrot]

ooh lovely topic... might just enter... again.

~M~

[phrenzy84]

Is it ok to enter something you were already working on?

[admin]

Originally Posted by phrenzy84

Is it ok to enter something you were already working on?

Your entry needs to be original as much as possible phrenzy84, otherwise it would make for an unfair playing field for everyone else who is starting from scratch for this challenge!

[Ritorian]

I think I'm goin to enter this one. could use some practise with modeling females.

[e2m]

contest is open only to sculpt or a complete model with textures?

[phrenzy84]

Originally Posted by admin

Your entry needs to be original as much as possible phrenzy84, otherwise it would make for an unfair playing field for everyone else who is starting from scratch for this challenge!

oh alright then. Why does everyone have to play fair ugh...

You say original though? What about translating, say an illustration that isn't widely well-known that portrayed beauty in a fashion far superior than I ever could?

Either way i think im gonna go for it whatever the answer, just want to be crystal on a few things first, though we will probably know who will win from the first few entries of their thread so really asking these questions seem pointless in a way.

But contests like these provide much needed motivation/competition and encourgaement (even when your rubbish ).

And like you said, really its all about growing your skills, and sharing your artwork with the rest of the community... So rock on, as illustrated by this floppy banana

[AdanVC]

This contest is gonna be awesome!, good luck to everyone! i wish i can join the contest, but im still a newbie and my skills are not so good to a great contest like this but anyway, good luck

[admin]

Originally Posted by e2m

contest is open only to sculpt or a complete model with textures?

You may submit a sculpt only or a textured and rendered version if you wish. Your work will be judged for overall quality, so if you don't have time to do a textured and rendered version, it would be better to not rush that part and submit a high quality sculpt instead. But we want you guys to go all out, so the sky is the limit...

Originally Posted by phrenzy84

You say original though? What about translating, say an illustration that isn't widely well-known that portrayed beauty in a fashion far superior than I ever could?

This would be fine, when we say original we mean not re-using work you have created for previous models or projects. We want your work for this project to be original, but you may get your inspiration from other sources as long as the 3d model is created from scratch by you.

[Intervain]

now that's really tempting and a nice award too I might join in this time

[Bad_Koala]

Hello everyone

Welcome to our new 3D Jams!

I can't wait to see all the cool models you guys will create!

[irobert]

Yep, I think im joining too. Such an irresistable subject. I cant wait to see all the good pieces.

Good luck to everyone!

[morphdivision]

such a contrast to the last and so soon, me likes.

[First-Keeper]

Nice theme, hope I'll can to join ather my vacation.

[phrenzy84]

Originally Posted by admin

Deliverables
You will be judged on your final renders or screenshots. Since this is a modeling contest, textures are optional. You can render the final image in any program, or take screenshots from zbrush or mudbox. Please give us several angles of your final.

If this a modelling competition then shouldn't textures not be allowed? I can easily think of models that seemed..... ok at best but once the texture was applied it was clear that artist was much better at texturing than modelling and the model itself seemed much better than it actually was.

Equally if someone doesn't feel their texturing skills are up to par or lighting skills for that matter, when they submit their entry with a regular boring grey shader wont the ones that are textured and have interesting lighting have somewhat of an automatic advantage?

The opposite also applies, a bad texture can make a good model look bad.

The hardcore modelling challenge on cgtalk has had this problem in the past, just wondering if its a different situation here?

And since this is a 3d jam and not hardcore modelling session, why not have another category of best texture? An ok model with an amazing texture that elevates the whole piece shouldn't go unnoticed.

All of this is my opinion and therefore doesn't have to be taken too seriously.

[o-MM-o]

great idea.

one question.

can this be a mix of 2D and 3D ?

like a 3d/2d illustration ?

[admin]

Originally Posted by phrenzy84

If this a modeling competition then shouldn't textures not be allowed? I can easily think of models that seemed..... ok at best but once the texture was applied it was clear that artist was much better at texturing than modeling and the model itself seemed much better than it actually was.

Equally if someone doesn't feel their texturing skills are up to par or lighting skills for that matter, when they submit their entry with a regular boring grey shader wont the ones that are textured and have interesting lighting have somewhat of an automatic advantage?

The opposite also applies, a bad texture can make a good model look bad.

The hardcore modelling challenge on cgtalk has had this problem in the past, just wondering if its a different situation here?

And since this is a 3d jam and not hardcore modelling session, why not have another category of best texture? An ok model with an amazing texture that elevates the whole piece shouldn't go unnoticed.

All of this is my opinion and therefore doesn't have to be taken too seriously.

Please remember that this is a "3D Jam" which encompasses all aspects of 3D (Modeling, lighting, rendering, surfacing and textures), so we don't want to limit what artists can do with this challenge. Modeling and sculpting are the foundation of these events, you can't do the rest without a great model and the most weight will be given to the modeling/sculpting portion of your entry. Cgtalk may run a "hardcore modeling challenge" but that is not what we are calling these events. While there is fine print in our description that says 3D modeling challenge, if you feel that label implies the wrong thing we can consider using different terminology that better describes the event.

At the end of the day we want the best entry to win, if it was achieved 60% through texture and 40% through model, then so be it, but so far that has not been the case and we don't want to limit the "3D Jams" to a modeling/sculpting only event if you wish to go further. We want these to be fun ways for artists to try new things and take some risks that they might not get to do in their daily work.

You bring up some great points that we should address early, this is only the 3rd 3D jam we've had so far. If you take the last one for example, several artists went all out and did textures, but the winner was an untextured piece.

For the 3D Jams competition, the judges will be evaluating the overall quality of the work submitted as a whole. Perhaps we should add a requirement that all final entries should also submit an untextured version of their model so that judges can factor that into their evaluation of the work?

If you choose to invest all your time in making a great model, that will be recognized by the judges and be evident in your final work. If you choose to texture, you are going to have less of your schedule to invest in modeling, so it might suffer. So you will have to figure out how to balance your workload to get the most bang for your buck. If you are a great modeler and don't want to texture, invest your time in refining your model to perfection. If modeling isn't your strength but you still want to enter the challenge, work on the model till it satisfies your requirements and then start texturing. All this will be taken into account by our judges when they evaluate the work at the end of the challenge.

Since the judges that run the 3D jams are all working professionals who do this exact work day in and out, we are trusting that they will use their knowledge and experience to pick the best work. They understand how long things take and what the strengths and weaknesses of each piece are since they do the work daily.

All that said, we are considering adding other competitions to CGHUB which might be modeling only if there is enough interest. Thanks for taking the time to bring up your concerns, if you still have ideas, questions or suggestions for the 3D Jams please let us know so we can make sure that everyone is clear about the criteria for these events!

[phrenzy84]

Originally Posted by admin

Since our judges that run the 3D jams are all working professionals who do this exact work day in and out, we are trusting that they will use their knowledge and experience to pick the best work. They understand how long things take and what the strengths and weaknesses of each piece are since they do the work daily!

Then really i would just have another catagory of best texture work. Like i said, ive seen awful models that were really well textured and vise-versa.

But of course if you have that, it would look a bit weird on its own.

Might be fairer/easier/simpler having something like, Best Model, Best Texturing/Lighting, Best Overall.

When it comes to 2nd and 3rd runner up. I don't know how they would feel when compared to someone who had "best model". In my eyes the runner-up part will always feel a little redundant, because it says you were good but not good enough to warrant best model or texture.... you were just a runner up.

Either way I do want to see textured models, but i also want it to be judged fairly (on both sides). My mind is at ease with that now.

[RedRepublik]

This will be the hardest challenge we have had so far. Good luck to everyone