Modeling Contest #19 - Water Units

[anarchianbedlam]

Contest Theme: Water Units

Contestants are to create an water unit. A model that is primarily found in the water. Be creative and have fun

1. No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
2. You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
3. You may make as many models as you want, however pick only one for the final judge's evaluation.
4. To qualify for entry, you must post your model(s) in .mdx format, and an in-game screenshot of the model.
5. You must post your entry before the deadline expires and attach it to a post.
6. You must make the model for this competition, which means that you cannot use old works.
7. Your model must have these minimum animations:
   • Attack
   • Death
   • Stand
   • Walk

• 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

• 60 % 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 (verticies 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 well does this model work ingame)
    • 5 points for effects (appropriate use of particles, particle saturation, etc.)
    • 5 points for creativity.
• 40 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.
• Final Score = (Judge's Score)*0.6 + (votes/(total votes))*40 = (score)/100

All submissions must be complete and submitted 5 weeks after the contest is started.
The contest shall begin on Tuesday, 8th Febuary and conclude on Tuesday, 1st March, 11:59 PM, 2010 GMT
The contest will close on the deadline as long as we have 3 entries. Or extend until at least 3 entries are submitted

Tell us if you want to judge!

1. Mr. Bob
2.

I will list the participants here as they enter

Anarchianbedlam	Finished Entry - "Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean"
Pyramidhe@d	Finished Entry - "PufferMine" Finished Entry - "The Floating Rock"
Shamanyouranus
Ike_Ike	Concept / Texture WIP
Dondustin	Finished Entry - "Riderless Hippocampus" Preview
Pyritie
Thrikodious	WIP
Fan	WIP
Callahan	Concept
Walle	Concept / WIP
M0rbid	WIP
The Weird human	Finished Entry - "German Diver"
Debode	Finished Entry - "Ramming Galley?"
Vermillion Edict	WIP

 

[Direfury]

Screw it, I'm in.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Screw it, I'm in.

?

I mean, i wouldnt, but maybe thats just me, i dont really care for hairy girls
/me plays adam's family song

ON TOPIC: contestant list updated

 

[Deolrin]

I'll be joining this one, hopefully. ^^
Good luck everyone.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Interesting theme, looking forward to the entries.

 

[Tleno]

Oh cool. Water unit contest. Well I'm kinda sure we'll have A LOT of ships and some random creeps and other melee units that swim...

 

[PROXY]

Whow, couldn't await this, since I didn't enter in the last ones. Already got an awsome idea ♥

Edit:

Can't decide though, mega heavy battleship or little, agile motorboat.

 

[D a w n]

oh, great to see that the theme got changed a bit to something broader
might evven participate now if I get a good concept

 

[Pyritie]

I might join this, we'll see how it goes

 

[D a w n]

you'll just create another pokemon pyritie :>

 

[Gausslander]

Haven't we already had an elemental-themed modelling contest? We need a pr0n contest for reals.

 

[PROXY]

Here's my first WIP:

ShitloadofWork

 

[Dionesiist]

Haven't we already had an elemental-themed modelling contest?

It's not about elementals, it's about stuff that swims.

 

[Ganondorf]

... love that face of Thaddaus ^^

However worst modeling theme yet IMO.

 

[Gausslander]

... love that face of Thaddaus ^^

However worst modeling theme yet IMO.

I strongly disagree. With enough models, we could create an all-underwater RTS game that would rock sox.

Regardless, there is plenty of room for original thought here, such as mind-controlled squids and dolphins, or amphibious bears or bandit mermen.

 

[Direfury]

First mermen, then merwomen, then mersluts, then merchildren, hmm?

 

[Pyritie]

you'll just create another pokemon pyritie :>

HOW DID YOU KNOWl

 

[Deolrin]

I might be going for a Submarine, some kind of a fish or a really big boat.

 

[Gladius_Tito]

Someone make the Kraken from Clash of the Titans.

 

[D a w n]

HOW DID YOU KNOWl

telepathy.
oh and my contest will contain a Horsea Seahorse :>

 

[Ganondorf]

telepathy.
oh and my contest will contain a Horsea Seahorse :>

LAWL, Horsea ^^

 

[Callahan]

Paint Concept

I'm gonna make a snail octupus sea monster.

 

[Cavman]

I'm gonna make a snail octupus sea monster.

View attachment 97597

glorious.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

I might be going for a Submarine, some kind of a fish or a really big boat.

Good idea, im starving

... love that face of Thaddaus ^^

However worst modeling theme yet IMO.

How so? I would think that something so open to interpretation would be GOOD.

 

[67chrome]

Someone needs to bring out the frickin' sharks with frickin' laserbeams attached to their frickin' heads (because that would be awesome)

Seems like an interesting theme, I'll be watching this contest.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I'm gonna make a snail octupus sea monster.

View attachment 97597

this guy joined. this contest will be competitive.

btw, three cheers for paint concepts!

 

[darkdeathknight]

Hip, hip hooray! Crappy Paint!
If you make fun of it, I'll have you know that the child in that picture has no legs, and you will be shamed in society of making fun of the disabled.

 

[Skycraft]

A water model contest? Someone should do this!

 

[darkdeathknight]

and then make a Ruddkip

 

[Thrikodius]

I have a concept at the back of my head. Think I'll try it out.

 

[Dawn Whitelighter]

a mermaid would be great.. mermen vs naga..

 

[Thrikodius]

A little too much of a naga feeling right now as the texture hasn't been made yet. I'm considering shrinking the head so it's more like a short snout.

 

[darkdeathknight]

It reminded me of a Mon-o-War, but I have a feeling im completely wrong.

 

[ike_ike]

my concept is that of a primal fish god, a king of the sea, as it were.

at the age of thirty three the fish gods evolve into a more ferocious form. being mighty swimmers they swim against river currents and even up waterfalls, and with their head mounted horns can bore holes in solid rocks.

it is also rumoured that these "sea kings" can manipulate humans to an extent, as numerous records exist stating that humans scream "FUCK YEAH SEA KING" when in an 100 metre radius of these noble ocean dwellers.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Add a horn on it and your finished.

 

[Direfury]

Is anyone else getting hungry?

 

[Tleno]

Fish monster sounds like a cool unit...

and I hat eating fish, so no, not hungry.

 

[Direfury]

They're good with some batter and lemon juice.

And fries.

And burgers.


...Fuck.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

a quick day's work, anims are all done, just need to do particle emitters.

 

[Direfury]

automated depth charges?

 

[Tleno]

automated depth charges?

But those don't really have any move animation... but that would be cool!

 

[baassee]

If I only could model why can't more people learn to code so we can host more contests

 

[Mr. Bob]

If I only could model why can't more people learn to code so we can host more contests

Because modeling is funner. :3

 

[Animalpower]

I suggest a kraken that looks like from WoW squid-like. Neptulon the Tidehunter model or Deep Sea Murloc model.

 

[D a w n]

this is how my model could look like once I am finished.

 

[Pyritie]

deciding between a vaporeon, lanturn, or gastrodon

vaporeon because sexy
lanturn because favourite
gastrodon because that could either be fun as hell to animate or hell to animate

though on the other hand I want to make sure I get it done

Spoiler

I'm leaning towards either the slug or the angler fish

 

[HappyCockroach]

this is how my model could look like once I am finished.

watch the anatomy... that neck should make sense with the creature's spine and tail... existing animals anatomy as references are always good (even if they're different references to each bodypart)

 

[anarchianbedlam]

deciding between a vaporeon, lanturn, or gastrodon

vaporeon because sexy
lanturn because favourite
gastrodon because that could either be fun as hell to animate or hell to animate

though on the other hand I want to make sure I get it done

Spoiler

I'm leaning towards either the slug or the angler fish

The truly soul crushing part of that is that you werent kidding about the vaporeon thing....

 

[Sage Chow]

Wow, so many good modellers around. Should be a fun match, I may try to make a model up once the stress of the race-building contest is gone. Right now I'm thinking Jaques Cousteau with a harpoon, Magikarp (with a useless flapping animation) or the thunderbird 4... Maybe even a diving mc feegle, as i'm dying to make a race of those; "Crivens! whut aboot us ye daftie!" (+rep to those that get the ref)

@67chrome: The shark made me laugh! If you can combine the crappy lego shark appearance with the lazors of dr evil then that is a pure win in my book. Who wouldn't want to use thát in his map

@Pyritie: Make Marill instead! You could use those legendary facial expressions you used on the hoppip model. But, yeah you already proved you can do that, so go for the lanturn one, it will have the most interesting animations for sure. I could only consider something like Quilfish to have the facial animations aswell as some cool attack/spell animations (shoot stings/blow up etc)

@all the paint-artists: keep the stuff coming, the force of paint is stong in théé

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

Finished

The Puffer Mine

An self propelled explosive that can act both as a torpedo and a mine.

the special effects are mediocre/shit but what can i do. meh.

View attachment Puffer Mine.mdx

PS: Yes, it is the same preview as my last pic. but ive animated this one now.

PPS: Sham has agreed to redo the particle emitters for the version going in the model section but this is my entry as it stands now.

PPPS: yes. the model is sideways on its default pose. Deal with it.