[mtmckinley]

Mythical Creatures!

Take any creature from myth, legend, fairy tale, etc. and create your own version in 3D!

1) Provide a link to an image and information about the mythical creature you've chosen.

2) Be creative! If doing something fairly common (ie. a unicorn or something) make it unique! Like... a more beast-like unicorn or whatever. That kind of thing. Something out of the ordinary!

3) Show concepts! Show wires!

4) Texturing, animation, rigging, etc is NOT required, but the more you're able to do, the better your entry will be recieved!

5) Feel free to have a go at a game art model! Let us know what kind of polycounts you'll be shooting for.

6) Label your thread thusly:

June - 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.

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

8) If 5 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 June 30th!

Feel free to post questions here.

[Fallenswordsman]

Another single month challenge - lol, it'll take me that long just to put together design sketches! Sounds like a fun contest though! *Goes off to look at Brian Froud books*

[Techi]

i wont be entering for a few months, i need to learn more, i wasnt happy with my last effort, it just happened to be in the area of my next test model, low poly human.

[Krull]

Well im gonna try out for this one I only have 6 days to complete it as school will be out and I wont have lightwave for 30 more days .

I still haven't decieded what to do. Im thinking a Minotaur or maybe a Kracken or then there is the Griffin, the Pheonix, Onx,
but Im leaning torwards Talos ( one of my favoirte mythical creatures)

but then again I could always do Predator J/k

[Krull]

predator

MOD EDIT: Image too large.

[dae]

If I had time this month I would enter a Unicorn and use endmorphs to go from a pure white one to a pissed off pitch black one with red eyes, that sort of thing.

Dae

[kumar]

Hmm,, interesting dae... i however was thinking more along the line of recreating the classic fellow they all come to love and hate,,,,,,, someone called Diablo the Lord of Terror. Hmm now to see weather i have the time for this one.

[dae]

to much Diablo for you Kumar, to all the guys who are competing in this challenge, take some time to look at the mayans and there models during the challenge and good luck.

Dae

[Fallenswordsman]

Blimey! Awful lot of Mayan's competing this time! Must....start.....concept sketches....

[Sharp]

hi nice topic you picked there, i dont think ill be completing this time and if i do it will only be to learn and i probably wornt finish so i wornt post that im entering,

if your haveing a very lot of difficulty finding a creature to pick try this out gives you information and a picture on a mythical creature but you have to answer questions.
this link

sorry the link seems to be down it was working this moarning 6 hours ago :/

o well heres a good link anyway lists types of creatures but not names etc

[sspikedudley]

if anyone is stuck for a creature try typing kirin into a search engine kirin is a unicorn who was the guard of the centre of somewhere or other there are 4 others that guarded the north, east, south and west but i will have to revise these sorry for not knowing where they guarded

[mtmckinley]

We've come to the half-way point! Let's start seeing those entries take shape!

[Zeeman]

i was just wondering whether there's an age limit to any of these contests?

[mtmckinley]

nope. Not yet, anyway.

[mtmckinley]

Time's running out! Get those finals in there!