View Poll Results: Who do you think should win the challenge?
THExDUKE 21 41.18%
MrTerminator 8 15.69%
puneet.3d 17 33.33%
djbrede 2 3.92%
Eomer41 3 5.88%
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# 16 16-10-2011 , 09:08 PM
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I went with the Duke, for some reason it looks to me it would fit perfectly as some sort of motivational poster or something in the workplace. Clean, vivid, calm.


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# 17 17-10-2011 , 10:14 AM
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Any new challenges coming up..... feel like really diving into one

# 18 17-10-2011 , 09:26 PM
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Any new challenges coming up..... feel like really diving into one

Sure thing, we'll come up with something over the week. Any inspired ideas? We'll definitely make it a bit less time-consuming than this one, perhaps a clean modeling challenge. I just finished a great book, so I've got the challenge prize figured out!

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# 19 18-10-2011 , 07:00 AM
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I dont know I feel like instead only pushing skills in modeling, rendering or lighting by actually giving static topics it would be maybe interesting to also try to encourage people to their creativity.
Why not just giving them a single word like "SPACE", which could be anything from the tiny narrow mousehole to the big universe. I think that would be a great alternative to the standart :" model a car or model a house " contests, which are of course also great in order to learn the tools. But Im somehow missing the creative part in the contest, at least in "smaller" communities and battles. Just a thought.

# 20 18-10-2011 , 08:36 AM
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I like that open word idea, could open some damn good ideas up

# 21 18-10-2011 , 10:55 AM
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yeah me too waiting for next challenge. but please Miss_Nova next time judges panel should be there instead of voting.

# 22 18-10-2011 , 11:36 AM
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I dont know I feel like instead only pushing skills in modeling, rendering or lighting by actually giving static topics it would be maybe interesting to also try to encourage people to their creativity.
Why not just giving them a single word like "SPACE", which could be anything from the tiny narrow mousehole to the big universe. I think that would be a great alternative to the standart :" model a car or model a house " contests, which are of course also great in order to learn the tools. But Im somehow missing the creative part in the contest, at least in "smaller" communities and battles. Just a thought.

I agree about the creative part, it's a good idea. There's an old thread where someone suggested a word generator which is quite funny combining an adjective and a noun, and you can just click through until you get a combination that you want to create something from. How about that?

https://www.creativityforyou.com/combomaker.html

We could generate the combinations and you could pick from a list, but that way someone might get stuck with a combination they don't like so maybe better to let people generate their own.

There's also random oblique strategies, I like to use it to get ideas for writing but it's very abstract and could be a bit difficult to narrow it down to a manageable concept for creating a piece of 3D art.

https://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/

Let me know what you guys think and if you're up for something like that.


@puneet.3d: I see your point, there's issues with both ways though. We'll do a smaller prize this time around and maybe who wins won't be such a big deal. But yeah, judges can decide on the next one if that's what people want.


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# 23 18-10-2011 , 04:28 PM
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Hey, I've been following the challenges for a while now. I was wondering what it takes to get in on the action for these contests. I'm not completely new to 3D software, but I'm not an expert yet. The SimplyMaya tuts have really helped me, and I'd like to try putting my creativity to the test.

# 24 18-10-2011 , 05:09 PM
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Miss_Nova,

I like the idea of the random generator but the competition would be to open, I think, to just let everyone choose their own phrases.

Perhaps you could integrate the random phrases into a single topic like (Space, Water, Steampunk, ect...) so for instance if I get something like "tender corruption" I would have to somehow use that phrase in the topic Water.

I also think that the judges should be the ones to judge this contest though I do like being able to see the polls perhaps you could do the prizes where Judges top pick the top two and then the community favorite via poll gets a third place or something like that.

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# 25 21-10-2011 , 11:16 AM
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the result is out?

# 26 21-10-2011 , 12:26 PM
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Thanks for the reminder, I was going to post it up yesterday but I'm slow these days user added image

The poll results (adding the very modest one from simplylightwave) are:

THExDUKE - 23 votes
puneet.3d - 20 votes
MrTerminator - 9 votes
djbrede - 4 votes
Eomer41 - 4 votes

I posted a winner announcement here.

Jake, thanks for your thoughts on the next challenge, much appreciated. We'll see if we're creative enough around here to come up with a theme, but you're right maybe there's a few too many options available if you generate your own word pairs. I quite like clicking that button though!

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# 27 21-10-2011 , 02:41 PM
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Lol yea the randomness is incredible I could waste a lot of work hours clicking that button user added image


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