Hosted Hive SD Modeling Mini Contest

[MasterHaosis]

Greetings ladies and gentlemen!
I planned to host some contest for some time (besides I am donating monthly money as hero) for additional support of the site and some modellers. As there is no old Donation button to donate, and I have no paypall account so far, but I got an idea! Here we can promote banners, our projects.
Then I got an idea to buy that banner for project to host some mini modeling contest, banner of 60$ but to last 7 days (20$), which means 20$ to the site and 40$ to the winner! Win-win situation for everyone, site receive some money, plus people get stimulated to join contest, more views, more activity due to this etc etc...

But I have to create this thread first so we can proceed as Ralle needs link to get attached to the banner itself. Those images you see above are the ones I had to create for banners as it forced me, can't be empty.

THEME OF CONTEST: Scary Monster (from Media)
Initially I planned classic horror monsters, but then I decided its better for this time that you can make any famous or less famous monster you wish from any movie, tv show/series, old/new/classic/modern, any visual media or online book except games. No game-specific monsters, definitively no Pitlord, Dreadlord etc.. anything introduced here.

RULES: Well thats up to moderators/staff as it will be discussed and expanded, but right now here is this:

• Model for Wc3 SD, not Reforged HD. Must be approved as Recommended at least like any regular model in Hive. No substandard, just recommended.
• Must be exclusively made for this contest, that means that it can't be downloaded anywhere else before this contest. Must be either your work from scratch or can be based on any stock WC3 model we got in the game, as recommended models have right as well. But you cant use someone's else model even you have permission. Must be either your scratch made model or Blizzard's as base.
• Animations must be at least basic ones: Stand, Walk, Attack, Spell, Death, Decoy Flesh and Bone, Dissipate and Portrait. The more you have the better for you I assume. Portrait can be built in already or can have separated portrait file as always. Yes, despite some model or characters uniqueness, some anims can be absent such as dissipiate or talking portrait, or decay flesh/bone. You do not expect some rock monster or skeleton to have flesh for example.
• Custom skins - I am not sure about that its questionable we will discuss this as people propose. I am in favor of ingame textures, but I saw many good modellers here preferring to have their own skins so this can work as well.
• Picture from any media (poster or screenshot) you took idea from. Yes, we all know that SD model can't match movie quality of course, but this should resemble your screenshot character to some extend.

PRICE: 40$ should be for winner. Also, plus perhaps some icon awards for 1,2,3 place and reputations as it always like with this, but I cant guarantee that. Its up to staff.

VOTING SYSTEM: Unfortunately, as this supposed to be mini contest, for now must be popular vote, one user-one vote as we do not have judges and I do not want to force anybody into this. So this must be DEMONCRACY for now. For limited time people will have to vote for winner, and who wins the most votes he will win. Now if you disagree and have different proposals, Okay, maybe some people will volunteer to be judges meanwhile, we shall see, but now I cant afford judges myself, cant find them or pay them. And definitively I am not going to force staff or Ralle to find judges for this.

TIME: If everything goes so far (I did not have any problems for all these months with transactions) if this goes well, once funds is transferred, we can proceed with this. For now we are communicating.

 

[Deolrin]

Fun idea! It's unfortunate you're excluding games from your list of scary monsters though. I think we've had some amazing and interesting creepy creatures from gaming.

 

[MasterHaosis]

Ok, we wil lsee about this thank you for commenting man! The point is to make something different as people remake game models all the time, maybe games could be allowed as well but definitively not warcraft as we had tons of those.
I edited one word in post, I misspelled ,,public vote" should be ,,popular vote". Voting could be secret to avoid manipulating and biasing of course.

 

[Villagerino]

Yea, a fun idea! I like watching contests and it's cool that your generocity takes part it in. Since some monsters in Warcraft are also made after monsters from media I'd just set this simply as "any scary monster but not lore related".

 

[MasterHaosis]

Yea, a fun idea! I like watching contests and it's cool that your generocity takes part it in. Since some monsters in Warcraft are also made after monsters from media I'd just set this simply as "any scary monster but not lore related".

Thank you Villagerino! I am glad to see you here! But why just watching thread, why not join contest yourself? As far I know you are pretty much capable of modelling this level.
,,any scary monster but not lore related" what zou just wrote will be considered definitively, but not many monsters are made from media directly. If you go to my thread in signature you wil lsee that many of them I had to recreate myself due to lack of any present in our model sections. You do not have classic Dracula recreated, no Wolfman (although there are werewolves), no wicked or any witches on broom, no single invisible man, phantom of the opera, Dr. Jekyll Mr Hyde, King Kong and many others. And some that are made, most of them are made at least once, one version at all. You got one xenomorph, two Predators (one is ancient) and so on, so yeah, media related monsters are pretty much low at choice here, with many popular characters nonexistent in model section at all.