Aug/Sept Challenge Rules and Guidelines!
 

August - September Challenge!

Dinosaurs!

To celebrate the SM T-Rex DVD, we're going to have a big, 2-month challenge featuring Dinosaurs! Here are the rules and guidelines:

The goal: Create a dinosaur! The catch? Create a NEW dinosaur! You can make it serious (Ultra Mega-saurus or whatever) or humerous (the Dog-a-saur! ).

1) Show concepts! Show progress!

2) Texturing IS required. Rigging, animation, etc however is NOT. If you want to pose your dino, you can model it in the pose. Otherwise, you'd have to rig for posing. But either way, posing is not required, but can make an entry look cooler.

3) BONUS goal: Create an environment for your dinosaur! This goal is secondary and should only be attempted once your dinosaur is finished and you have a lot of time left over.

4) Label your thread thusly:

Aug/Sept - Norm or Noob - Your name

Choose to classify yourself as a Normal or Noobie class entry. Whichever class you choose is the class your final submitted entry will compete against! A winner will be chosen from both classes.

5) Mods and Admins can enter, but are inelligible to win and do not count toward the Grand Prize consideration of 8 entries mentioned below. If a mod chooses to participate, choose "Mod" class rather than Norm or Noob.

6) If 8 or more Normal entries finish among the 3 Simply sites participating, a Grand Prize will be rewarded! Regular VIP point prizes will be awarded to both a Normal and Newbie winner, regardless!

The due date of the challenge is September 30th!

The GRAND prize (should there be enough normal entries) will be:

1) A voucher for a free copy of the first SLW DVD!
2) A Lightwave book of your choice!
3) 25 VIP points!

Normal and Newbie winners will both recieve:

1) 20 VIP points for downloading tutorials at any of the Simply sites!

cool this one sounds like a good one :) and the funny thing is i watched jurassic park last night :D ill have to watch it again now

now iv'e just gotta decide which one to go for

Wow dinos a? this should be fun ( and scary =)

wow! well i said i would enter this comp no matter wot it is.. so
ill ava go. :O

I hate you. :(

http://www.xtimports.com/graphics/dragon_22.jpg


(not really, but I've had enough of dino-saurians for awhile... )

maybe you could do a sabre-tooth tiger-type? Mammoth? Doesn't have to be straight lizard. :)

i have a question.... its my second time i didn't finished a challenge...( 2 unfinished 1 finished )don't i may enter the challenge for some months or something??? i thought i read that somewhere at this forum... not sure about that...but well.... please let me know!!

i wants to join this one... ( and finish it )!!!

I'm not sure I understand the question. This challenge is a 2-monther, so maybe you'll be able to finish this time. :)

i think he thought that if u fail to complete so many challenges that you cant enter for some time

nah, everyone can enter.

i was wondering if a cartoony dino would be allowed?

sure!

can you do 2 dinos and do it in a scene instead of just 1?

Nice one Mike,,,, glad to see a 2 month challenge. At first i was thinking of doing raptor,, from the rugrats.... or the dino that mario always rides on.... but now thinking harder. Hehe :)

One question however, LW UV stuff is real bad... so i was thinking can i model in LW and import to Maya and do the texturing there? If not then i will stick to LW all the way. Hmm maybe i should.

Post some links to find some reference would be nice?

Good Luck to all,
Kumar

Sure, I guess that would be ok.

Oh, character concepts. I suck at those. Oh well. Maybe.

Might be helpful:

http://www.newtek.com/products/light...ino/index.html

Also very helpful if you need to learn to model animals!

http://creativedigital.bizhosting.co...orialsPage.htm

yeah this is what i thought...but glad i may join the challenge again :)
seems to be a kick-ass challenge this 2 months!!!
good luck everyone!!

--btw...sorry S2-speedy, i put this message also in your challenge topic. hope the moderator will delete that post--

I also remember reading sumthing like that...

no worries bullet, they took it out now :D

that link was much helpful colto. cheers .

:) that first dinosaur was one of the first things i learned to model

yea me to altho when i fished it looked more like a bird lol

if we created the bonus scene, would that count toward the judging etc.? Or...?

It'll help, but quality is the main thing that is considered. And the creature must be complete if an environment is present. If the dino's quality was sacrificed for making an environment, it won't help.

Ive come up with a slight problem. I don't have photo shop... :( ....
will this disqualify me? I have paint ( which is just so lame) I notice my textures don't compare so should I drop out? or continue with what I can show?

Don't drop out of the race just because you lack some applications. You don't need Photoshop to create your textures, after all, the applications we use are simply tools. If you're stuck using MS Paint though, I'd look for another painting package. Try taking a look at the free version of Project Dogwaffle for instance:

http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm

yeah, plenty of free programs out there. Might not be quite as robust as PS, but should be better than MS paint. :)

Thx Mark Dogwaffle is much better then paint. I only got one question does it have layers? I tried the help file it was bad ( Guess ill have to try every button =) ill post some tests. thanks again.

Would Gimp be an option for you, Krull?

http://www.gimp.org/

Surface a Raptor
 

Hey guys! Here is an awesome tutorial on surfacing a raptor.;)

i just looked at the rules agen, and i wanted 2 warn u guys. i duno if u 4got but 1 rule sez CREATE YOUR own dinosaur. most i have seen are raptors or other dinos wot used 2 exsist. i know most of u are modifiying raptors or t-rexs which is cool if so u can ignore this. lol. :D gud luck

Okay, i have 2 Questions:

1. Is it too late to change dino concepts? And the entire dino itself?

2. Are we allowed to create completely mechanical dinosaurs.

If i can change and i can make mech. dino's, then, i'm back in the run...:)

i changed my idea and my original was a cyborg so i guess u can

Sure, go ahead. One month to go!

just a question...do i may take digital photographs and use them for textures??? or does it al have to be photoshop??

earth to mckinley, earth to mckinley!! :D

hehe just kidding, I think you didn't read my question!! here is it again:

i like to get an answer for this :)

Oops, sorry!

Yeah, photo sourcing for textures is fine.

hehe dont worry mckinley!!
glad i may use some photographs :)

Don't forget, folks, because of the increased time span of the challenge, we're going to need 8 final normal entries from the Simply sites to award the grand prize! (for example, 3 from SL and 5 from SM or vice versa)