Modeling Contest #21 - Chess

[Dionesiist]

So uh yeah.

 

[moyackx]

Here is WIP of my Queen.

Hmmm, I was thinking in THIS white queen

 

[Dionesiist]

Mmmmyeah.

 

[HappyCockroach]

@dio: that shemale is looking really sexy!!! no homo



remade the mesh... the other one had bad topology for animating

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

@HappyCockroach : how many poly is that?

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also. here is mein

 

[Deolrin]

That's some sexy texture-work, Pyra.

 

[HappyCockroach]

@HappyCockroach : how many poly is that?

1412 poly high and rising. guess ill end up with around 2000 when i have the head, the accessories and weapons

 

[Dionesiist]

If you struggle you can reduce a lot in the body itself. It doesn't really need all those loops.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

@HappyCockroach : how many poly is that?

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also. here is mein

so the helghast are buying fuggin BMW brand mechanical grasshoppers now?

 

[The Weird Human]

Alright let me show you what i have, its not much.... Needs more brainstorming.

 

[Gausslander]

you should make the face stand out more, it looks to much like the body right now.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

Oh. HappyCockroach. I've made you a revised contest theme page.

Revised version

ROOK

Contestants should create a unit which is a cheap and unoriginal imitation of either Rook or Anarchianbedlam's Odin

• 0 % of the winner will not be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s) and instead will be determined by the incredible flood of "omgwtfbbq this model is imba. just like odin" votes.
• Even though judges score will count for 0, we are still judging it out of 50.
  • 50 points for awesomeness and how much it looks like Anarchian's odin or Demigod's Rook.
  • 0 points for creativity

 

[shamanyouranus]

I would be laughing if it wasn't so depressingly true.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I would be laughing if it wasn't so depressingly true.

this.

 

[-Peper-]

I would be laughing if it wasn't so depressingly true.

Third'd

 

[HappyCockroach]

ok.. but before we go too drama llama about it, everybody is free to be as (un)creative as they like. so... lets just keep our hopes that more people will use their brains to think up cool stuff and finish their thingies.

btw. wip time...

wrap is done, now i need to make a texture to this bitch

 

[AyeKantSpel]

Reminds me of a drow for some reason...
I love it.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

half drow + half spider = drider.

the wrap looks good. nice and clean
will be interesting to see how you are going to decorate it.

 

[AyeKantSpel]

half drow + half spider = drider.

the wrap looks good. nice and clean
will be interesting to see how you are going to decorate it.

That's what I was fishing for, the details will be lovely I bet.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Well here's my submission. It's supposed to be for a white pawn.
Ill make the black pawn as well, but probably not for the actual contest.

Pic

These are the "Wips", but there are pretty similar to each other, and i don't have an older wip.

Wip

if you noticed the 600kb texture filesize, dont worry, as the skin is for 2 models and is only 256x256 512x512 (wtf did i do it so big?) for the contest.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

inb4 racist 'looks more like a black pawn to me' comments

 

[-Peper-]

Looks more like a black pawn to me.
Hey hey, I'm not racist. But where's the essence of white?

 

[darkdeathknight]

Looks more like a black pawn to me.
Hey hey, I'm not racist. But where's the essence of white?

The Black pawn has a darker wood colour, black spots and the crocodile equivalent is going to be predominantly black.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

The Black pawn has a darker wood colour, black spots and the crocodile equivalent is going to be predominantly black.

so what you're saying is that the only way anyone can tell that he is suppose to be a 'white pawn' is when he is put side by side, and compared to, a BLACKER version of himself?

 

[darkdeathknight]

so what you're saying is that the only way anyone can tell that he is suppose to be a 'white pawn' is when he is put side by side, and compared to, a BLACKER version of himself?

Pretty much. I can't make a 'white' black guy. Also, I'm not doing some European Rifleman.

 

[Dionesiist]

You can make an albino black guy.

 

[-Peper-]

You can make an albino black guy.

This.

 

[Dionesiist]

Though there's the issue that albinos are [or were, I dunno] considered evil and all that crap, especially among negros.

 

[HappyCockroach]

The Black pawn has a darker wood colour, black spots and the crocodile equivalent is going to be predominantly black.

so, apparently the color of the piece isn't part of your concept. if that is the case, I think you'd do better just name it 'Pawn' with no specific color.

 

[Arisato]

Is it too late to join in?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

so, apparently the color of the piece isn't part of your concept. if that is the case, I think you'd do better just name it 'Pawn' with no specific color.

what darkdeathknight means that these tribesmen substitute the two different pawns from two opposing sides of a chess game.

he isnt taking the whole black and white thing literally.

cos he does have 2 tribesmen planned as a pair of sort.

and he is using the adjective "black" to represent one opposing force

 

[Arisato]

If I'm allowed to join here's the WIP
(Just made today(in 2 hours after reading the main post))

WIP

It's a white bishop

Whoops, i put the name Izanagi(Lol it's my old name)

 

[Skycraft]

It concludes on the 17th of October..
Of course you can join.

 

[HappyCockroach]

If I'm allowed to join here's the WIP
(Just made today(in 2 hours after reading the main post))

WIP

It's a white bishop

Whoops, i put the name Izanagi(Lol it's my old name)

that looks like anything but a bishop to me...

 

[Arisato]

It doesn't look like a bishop? i don't know what a bishop looks like.. i'll check google

EDIT:
WIP2:

WIP2

NOTE:
Changes:
-Added a cape and made the cape animated along with the bishop
-Added a pair of gauntlets for the bishop
-Optimized the model for smaller size
-Attack 1,2, Spell,stand ready, fully custom animated.
-Revamped death animation with spear piercing the ground

 

[Deolrin]

That looks more like some kind of spearman or imperial guard, not a bishop. A bishop is a holy man(e.g priest). This is Arthas with a spear.

 

[-Peper-]

Added portrait to mine, fucking exam made me busy.

 

[HappyCockroach]

It doesn't look like a bishop? i don't know what a bishop looks like.. i'll check google

EDIT:
WIP2:

WIP2

NOTE:
Changes:
-Added a cape and made the cape animated along with the bishop
-Added a pair of gauntlets for the bishop
-Optimized the model for smaller size
-Attack 1,2, Spell,stand ready, fully custom animated.
-Revamped death animation with spear piercing the ground

lol... i find it really funny that you actually call your model a bishop

this

 

[-Peper-]

5 points for creativity? Wtf is this some kind of a joke? We were need to create some units which is an "artistic interpretation" of a chess piece, the word 'artistic' should lead in more creativity points.

 

[darkdeathknight]

5 points for creativity? Wtf is this some kind of a joke? We were need to create some units which is an "artistic interpretation" of a chess piece, the word 'artistic' should lead in more creativity points.

It's unfair for the people who made rooks if you raise it.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

no one complained about it at the start. should have complained earlier.

 

[-Peper-]

It's unfair for the people who made rooks if you raise it.

Oh.
Just realized.

 

[Garfield1337]

That looks more like some kind of spearman or imperial guard, not a bishop. A bishop is a holy man(e.g priest). This is Arthas with a spear.

In my country, the bishop piece is called hunter lol

Also

This theme is subjective. You don't need to ask "DOES MY ENTRY QUALIFY AS A CHESS UNIT?"

So i think it's fine.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

xcuze me, is dis teh rooook competishun????

take a rook at dis

 

[The Weird Human]

Oh great, everbodys going to make rooks now.

 

[shamanyouranus]

Oh great, everbodys going to make rooks now.

This is news?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Note: Theres no problem if many people pick the same piece as a reference. Everybody is free to pick whichever they want.

GUYS, SERIOUSLY... why all that drama around the rook?

5 out of 24 contestants are modeling the rook.
1 out of 6 chess pieces types is the rook.

almost the same proportion.

apparently people here want some drama to entertain theirselves

 

[HappyCockroach]

IF EVERYBODY AGREES, THE JUDGING CRITERIA WILL BE CHANGED TO:

• 10 points for mesh (how good-looking and functional is the geometry)
• 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, ribbons, etc.)
• 10 points for creativity (how unpredictable and consistent is the base concept and the details made)

REASON FOR CHANGING PROPOSAL: This is an openly interpretative contest with a heavy artistic factor going on. Creativity can't weight 5 this way. Note that creativity isn't just the base concept, but how imaginative is everything, even how clever are the details thought.

You can notify me by PM, VM, chat, posting here, etc.

Agreed:
- ike_ike
- Revilo
- HappyCockroach
- pyramidhe@d
- arisato
- RDZ
- The Weird Human
- Ampharos222
- Suselishe
- Fan
- Wandering Soul
- DonDustin
- darkdeathknight
- -Peper-
- epsilon

Not Agreed:
- skrab

if any contestant with WIP/entry submitted gives no answer, the criteria will remain the same.

(I double posted so this appears in the first post of the page for those who have 15 posts/page [most of the people])

 

[Arisato]

Uh...
It's based off kael, not arthas...... welli changed the texture to arthas

and i agree, creativity is the most important thing IMO

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

I'm not in this to win it, so I don't care about the judging criteria.

\m/ Rook on! \m/

rooking skyward