Modeling Competition #10 - Elementals

[donut3.5]

STORM, EARTH, FIRE, HEED MY CALL!


Contest Theme: Elementals

Each contestant must create an elemental.
What is an elemental?
An elemental is a magical being composed of one element, be it lighting, air, earth, or even more imaginative!

Contest Rules And Conditions

1. No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
   
2. The model must follow the current theme. If any model does not fit, a moderator will tell you ASAP as to avoid confusion.
   
3. Must contain at minimum the following animations, the rest is up to you:
   • Stand
   • Attack
   • Walk
   • Death
   • Portrait Animation (whether it's for a camera or a separate portrait model)
   
   
4. You have to make sure the model is fully and correctly functional in-game.
5. You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
6. You may make as many models as you want, however pick only one for the final judge's evaluation.
7. To qualify for entry, you must post your model(s) in .mdx format, and an in-game screenshot of the model.
8. You must post your entry before the deadline expires and attach it to a post.
9. You must make the model for this competition, which means that you cannot use old works.
10. Please PM your FINAL model to me once you are done. This makes it a lot easier for me to pick out the finished models from the WIPs.
    
    

Prizes And Winnings

First Place: 50 reputation points and a special award icon. Second Place: 35 reputation points Third Place: 20 reputation points

Contest Judging And Voting

• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
  • Score shall be taken out of 50 points,
    • 15 points for mesh (verts and faces)
    • 10 points for animations (or how well Blizzard animations have been used)
    • 10 points for skin (or how well Blizzard skins have been used)
    • 5 points for mechanics (how good does this model look ingame)
    • 5 points for effects (appropriate use of particles, effect geometry, etc.)
    • 5 points for creativity.
• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.
• Final Score = Judge's Score + (votes/(total votes))*50 = (score)/100

Contest Dates And Deadline

All submissions must be complete and submitted 1 month and 1 week after the contest is started.
The contest shall begin on August 25th, 2008 and conclude on
October 2nd, 2008 0:00 AM, GMT​

 

[Ghan_04]

Let the contest begin!

 

[Just_Spectating]

i wish i could model. i just suck at it XD

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Might enter, if I get any ideas that could bring home the first prize. Good luck to all contestants though, good theme.

 

[Hawkwing]

Wow! Finally someone who can make decent rules for a competition.

Ya, I'm in. I'll think of something eventually. I can guarantee myself in the bottom three, but I'll just do it for fun.

 

[SuPa-]

Oh helz yeah, biznitches
I'm in dis one, foo'

Good luck to all participants!

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Bacon elemental.

 

[FrIkY]

want... to learn how to model!

 

[TDR]

then go do it instead of posting here in hope of attention.
I might enter because I haven't made a model for wc3 in months.

 

[SuPa-]

Yes, enter, I COMMAND YOU!

 

[Dionesiist]

He probably wont.

 

[SuPa-]

Meh... but that doesn't mean you shouldn't

Anyway, I have a pretty good idea (or a few of them) of what I'm going to make

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Totally making a turtle ancient.

With glowing nature energy. So it's an elemental, k?

 

[Elenai]

I could give it a shot I suppose.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Wow, how the hell did this get up before the texturing compo, lol, you have failed me THE_END. Maybe I will try and make something for this even though I suck at modeling.

 

[Devine]

yea this is ma moment

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

First WIP!

This is simply the geomerging, eventually the entire body texture will be changed to resemble the Ancient of Wonders.

 

[Hawkwing]

I guess that qualifies as Elemental. That's basically what an ancient is. Pretty cool, I like the textures.

 

[Callahan]

According to wiki elementals desciption.Everything is elementals.
Considering a human is composed of 70% water are human elemental of water?

 

[Dionesiist]

Yeah, I noticed that part too, Callahan.

 

[Hawkwing]

Maybe we can all make Wiki accounts and remove that part. We can put it back after the compo.

But seriously, that's not necessarily the best source.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I think we're mostly going with "the physical representation, or avatar of a certain element".

Basically, Wc3's elementals.

 

[Hawkwing]

Well I think it's obvious what he means. Anyways, I'm still thinking of some ideas for this. But there are so many choices, I can't decide what to do.

 

[FrIkY]

These could be some of the elementals: Chaos, void, nether, arcane, sun, sand, felfire, crystal, plasma, psyhic, tornado, gold, silver, iron, forest, soul... and fire, earth, water and air ofc.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Another WIP

Just need to clean it up a little, add a geoset or two to make it look more coherent.

 

[Hawkwing]

Haha! That looks awesome.

 

[FrIkY]

Amazing job! That is going to look good!

EDIT: You should move head a bit up

 

[AirHead]

haha good job but it's head is a bit big other than that i thinks it pretty good.

I think I'll enter this contest, it looks like a lot of fun.

and those who want to model for this but have no program to do so just use WarForger you can model and animate and just a hint: press 1 and 2 to switch between move and rotate. check modeling section of forum, it's a sticky.

 

[FrIkY]

and those who want to model for this but have no program to do so just use WarForger you can model and animate and just a hint: press 1 and 2 to switch between move and rotate. check modeling section of forum, it's a sticky.

Where, WHERE! Where is it?! Want, want want... want! Give me a link, I am to retarded to find it on my own!

want.. want want...


EDIT:Ahh, I'm actually not retarded after all... my parents lied to me after all. I foundz it http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f276/warshape-warforger-good-free-animation-tools-guide-download-here-nasrudin-34028/

 

[CombatTheWombat]

I started a metal elemental earlier today and got really frustrated and gave up, I might try workin on it some more though. Wish I didnt blow at modeling. Also wish I had some programs other than oinkerwinkles tools and wc3 viewer >

 

[Hawkwing]

WIP #1 - Naaru

The elementals are potent and volatile elemental spirits of pure elemental energies

I suppose a Naaru is potent, volatile, and pure. So that's what I've done. In this picture I haven't welded any of the vertices in the middle or fixed up the scaling, but it's the basic mesh.

I've noticed all the scaling value issues here, so don't tell me about that.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

awsome..

 

[HappyTauren]

Naaru is just a pile of random geometry. Looking good though, now find textures *uberwhitesplash*
And will's one is awesome, just needs better wrap for limbs, and a head moved a bit.

 

[Hawkwing]

I might just make a custom texture. And chances are I wont stick to this. Either way I'll finish it eventually and do something with it.

 

[Just_Spectating]

well thats not so creative since its in WoW.

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes, that's why I'm most likely not using it for the competition.

Edit: I'm still drafting ideas for my real submission. Just in case I take too long to get that done I decided to work on this instead.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

New WIP, worked on the belly and head.

 

[Just_Spectating]

made me lol.

 

[Hawkwing]

Brilliant. Besides inside that mouth.

 

[Devine]

i might enter with this so this prolly is a WIP!
needs some real work, i know ... i might make a disapated animation and edit mesh a lil bit... This is some sort of light/holy elemental.

 

[frostwhisper]

Interesting how you decide to use the exact same concept as Elenai.

 

[TDR]

I'm gonna make a death elemental...no idea for the body yet

 

[Devine]

Interesting how you decide to use the exact same concept as Elenai.

... he told me after i showed this image ...i tought he was kidding D:
guess il be doing something else

 

[Dionesiist]

TDR, you're being a bit unoriginal here. Either that, or your Efreet was getting lonely.

 

[Devine]

haha new WIP, MY IDEA, MY idea!!!
Elenai you keep the stupid stag coz this is imba
magnet elemental !!! so much for the originality

 

[Dionesiist]

Holy shit Megaman!

 

[Wolf.]

Hawk, you might want to edit the bit in the middle of your naaru a bit. Because if you look at the Naaru in WoW the little circle on your model is where their heads are.

Naaru

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Dude that magnet elemental looks freakin awesome.

 

[AirHead]

NOOOOOOO. TDR that was my idea, mine will be ,however significently different so i guess it don't matter that much. ok mine will be a death elemental ... TDR and his mind reading but you can count on it being a very different death elemental than you are accustomed to.

and since TDR is much better at modeling he will beat me anyway

 

[TDR]

TDR, you're being a bit unoriginal here. Either that, or your Efreet was getting lonely.

yeah, you're right :-< ...I'll make something else. Lucky you, AirHead.