Modeling Contest #14 - Morphing Units

[Pyritie]

Hive Workshop Modeling Contest #14!


Contest Theme: Morphing Units

Contestants are to make a unit that can transform or "morph" in some way. Whether morphing from a mortal to an elemental form or something completely different, the unit must transform and roll out!

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
   • Stand Alternate
   • Death
   • Death Alternate
   • Morph
   • Morph Alternate
   • If your model has a building form, then you must have a Decay anim. (If this building form is the form the model is created in, it also must have a Birth anim.)
   • If your model has a unit form, then you must have a walk and an attack anim for that form.
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.

Prizes

• First Place: 50 reputation points and your entry on an award icon.
• Second Place: 35 reputation points and an award icon
• Third Place: 20 reputation points and an award icon

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 (4 weeks) after the contest is started.
The contest shall begin on Sunday, June 7th and conclude on Wednesday, July 20th, 0:00 AM, 2009 GMT​

Judges

- DonDustin
- Mechanical Man

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Morphing units?

I think this might be too much to ask.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

FUck YEAH!!! this is gonna be one hell of a contest

Edit: No poly limit?

 

[Kwah]

Difficult.

*rushes off to finish exporter*

 

[-Berz-]

I'm not a modeler, but this is gonna be a w00t, two models in one!

 

[Deolrin]

Hmm.. I might join.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

I'm in

 

[BlinkBoy]

Morphing in which sense? Does it have to change shape/form? or could it be a change of battle stance(like from using sword to bow)?

 

[D a w n]

bad theme in my opinion.I could transform a murloc into a giant lazor of doom and it would still fit the contest theme :/

maybe I will take part in this contest........

 

[Pyritie]

bad theme in my opinion.I could transform a murloc into a giant lazor of doom and it would still fit the contest theme :/

maybe I will take part in this contest........

It wouldn't make much sense, no, but it'd be eligible.

 

[HappyCockroach]

What if the units flies when morphing, but with no mesh changes?
You should be quite more specific with morphing...myrmidon/royal guard are morphing models... (they submerge)

Also,
10 points for animation is too little, imo. they are essential for a model to look good.
how about 10 for mesh, 10 for unwrap and 15 for anims?
animating is the hardest task among these...

 

[D a w n]

What if the units flies when morphing, but with no mesh changes?
You should be quite more specific with morphing...myrmidon/royal guard are morphing models... (they submerge)

Also,
10 points for animation is too little, imo. they are essential for a model to look good.
how about 10 for mesh, 10 for unwrap and 15 for anims?
animating is the hardest task among these...

you could also use blizz anims which would end up into a overrating for this part.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Maybe add an extra few points to scratch (and good) animations?

 

[anarchianbedlam]

I AM JOINING

Omg I cant wait for this contest. I am going to go all out on my model.
so damn excited

And to Don Dustin's point, I agree. I think that there should be a separate category in the scoring as to it's overall "cohesive theme" like "does it make sense" for 10 pts

An air plane morphing into a robot would make more sense than a kobold morphing into a giant candle tower :/

Also i think we should increase the score for either the "mechanic's" or the "animations" scoring section seeing as how it SHOULD morph well since that is the theme, e.g. "how good does the morph animation look and does it basically make sense?"

for example: Compare the transformation of the tinker tank (mechanical parts flip out of his backpack) to something like the uproot for the tree of life (it just stands up)

the morph should not be too basic, but at the same time, it should look good

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

i thought the term morphing, along woth pic of optimus, was pretty self explanatory
a unit that changes into something ELSE
a tinker is a morphing
druid of talon and claw are morphing
obsidian destroyer is a morphing (well kinda)
murloc into a giant lazor of doom. yeah, why the hell not

not change in stance
not like footman
not like naga myrmiadon
not like crypt fiend

 

[Thrikodius]

Hell I'm in. Just have to come up with a nice morphing concept.

 

[Rizz_Boomer]

If it is allowed to use an older concept and redoing all
the work i allready spend on a model i would join this contest.
And believe me
It will be a usefull Goblin!



oh and please:

No Powerrangers!

 

[anarchianbedlam]

BUT IT'S MORPHING TIME >

 

[Mr. Bob]

I'm in

Holy crap, this is gonna be awesome. I'm am so in.

 

[skrab]

I don't really have any ideas for this contest.

 

[Devine]

Even though the godfather of modelling and the god of transforming wc3 units are joining, I'll give it a shot
I'l sketch something ... so you know my concept ... it's exams so I won't use my pc that often.
EDIT: okay I decided what to make.
A skeleton that an collect flesh en use that flesh to turn into a human ... So he has muscles so he can hit harder more healthpoints etc the flesh rots and he turns back ^^

 

[HappyCockroach]

I'm so in. I'll do something crazy and awesome xP
Devine, this concept sounds interesting!

 

[Hawkwing]

I think we can safely say that this will end up being Wc3:Transformers in no time.

 

[Mechanical Man]

I'm so in. I'll do something crazy and awesome xP
Devine, this concept sounds interesting!

Hey, you were supposed to do a cockatrice!!

 

[HappyCockroach]

Hey, you were supposed to do a cockatrice!!

I was supposed to do a lot of things... lol
Can a cockatrice fit morphing?
Critter chicken => demon cockatrice thing?
xD

 

[Xatoga]

I guess I'll try thinking up something. This could turn out a really great contest or a really fail contest.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

I think we can safely say that this will end up being Wc3:Transformers in no time.

is that a bad thing or a good thing ?

 

[NhazUl]

Well. I'm in. I'll choose one of the concepts that I thought of and make it.

 

[Pyritie]

I changed the required animations section a little bit. Anarchianbedlam was asking about a building form, so I changed the rules slightly to allow that.

 

[ike_ike]

Haz mai concepts:

Clicky!

Clicky me too!

But I apparently have exams ... coulda sworn I did them all already, but y'know ...


Ima gonna scratch modul the bits and pieces in gmax, then vertex assign them to my secret model animation sets =O

 

[Deolrin]

Ike, thats cute... and dangerous too. Quite awesome idea, murloc that morphs into a puffer fish-like(forgot name... it's "abunafha" in Hebrew, perhaps in English too? :S) creature using his armor. Neat.

I'm in with a bat-->vampire, probably.

Noonestealmahideakthxbai

 

[Gilles]

I think puffer fish is what you're looking for debode.

 

[Deolrin]

I think puffer fish is what you're looking for debode.

Oh, right, thanks Giles.

 

[Thrikodius]

I'm making a troll. Those who don't already know what the morphed form is will have to wait untill the WIP is submitted.

 

[Devine]

Concept...
Stuffed himself with flesh ... rottin

 

[Gilles]

I'm making a troll. Those who don't already know what the morphed form is will have to wait untill the WIP is submitted.

Jacek?

 

[HappyCockroach]

I think I will do a demon wizard. It's a normal wizard, but when morphs his robe rips in many parts, it gets many spikes and a scary face.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

mine is a robot in a pyramid shape with two different forms

 

[Rizz_Boomer]

Heres first WIP.
I know its made fast, but i thought about it as a Tier 1
Meele unit so: less is more (for now):
The Gobin Bruiser!

 

[Kwah]

I reckon I'm going to have to go with an epic robot.

 

[D a w n]

maybe a WIP. Not sure if I participate with it though.
Ignore the proportions as they will be fixed as soon as I have finished the mesh.
Will be some kind of sea dragon which will morph into something, but I don´t know what yet :>

 

[General Frank]

Damn, I should have posted here already, sorry. Count me in.
I come up with the tank I'm doing for this compi.

 

[D a w n]

Nice blood elven autobot tank GF

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Damn, I should have posted here already, sorry. Count me in.
I come up with the tank I'm doing for this compi.

DUDE that is one kickass tank, i saw it earlier but this angled screenshot is much better. and im sure that you started it close enough to the contest start date for it to be ok.

^^ omg that thing is so huge and epic! the blood elves can pretty much destroy anything now

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

Damn, I should have posted here already, sorry. Count me in.
I come up with the tank I'm doing for this compi.

holy cow! General Frank joined!
no sleep for me tonight. must work harder

 

[Xatoga]

I'm maybe doing a tauren druid, if we don't have any of those in the download section. I figure even if it doesn't win it'll be useful.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Damn, I should have posted here already, sorry. Count me in.
I come up with the tank I'm doing for this compi.

Franky, the model must be made for the compo. Didn't you start it before the compo started?

 

[General Frank]

Franky, the model must be made for the compo. Didn't you start it before the compo started?

Nope. I heard Pyritie talking about it so I made up my mind.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Nope. I heard Pyritie talking about it so I made up my mind.

So, you did indeed start the model after the compo was started?

 

[General Frank]

So, you did indeed start the model after the compo was started?

Well, actually yes. But parts of the mesh, which has been altered now have existed before.