Modeling Contest #32 - Poll

[Vinz]

art by Botos Vlad.

Create a model of a unit riding a mount or vehicle of your choice. Classic submissions only.

The mount can be anything, as long as it handles all the displacement for the rider.

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• Trying to manipulate the poll in any form is not allowed.
  If you're aware of ip-sharing with any voter, for any reason, you should contact the staff.
• Harassment towards others to influence the result will lead to punishment.
• A neutral recommendation to take part at the poll isn't problematic, though.
• Voting for yourself is not allowed, and will lead to a malus by 5%.
• Participating in the poll will not prevent one from being disqualified.
• Judges are not allowed to vote.

You are very welcome to make a short statement what you like the most, so contestants get a bit of public feedback!

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• 1st place: 55 reputation points.
• 2nd place: 40 reputation points.
• 3rd place: 25 reputation points.
• Entry: 10 reputation points.
• Judge: 10 reputation points per entry.

The three winning teams will receive an award icon representing the winning entry.

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Contestant	Entries
Maximal	Ancient Sandlord
Stefan.K	Bandit Mage
Mythic & Murlocologist	MM20 Stormforger
PROXY & A.R.	Illidari Felreaper
BoatyMcBoatface300	Panda Wukong
Direfury	Gnome Dragonrider

Download All Entries!

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• @Mister_Haudrauf
• @The_Silent

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Mesh	How does the mesh look aesthetically? How are its proportions, its balance and scale? How coherent is polygon distribution?	/15
Skin	How good is the wrap? Are custom textures appealing? How adequate are the in-game chosen textures? Are they blurry/stretched? Do the tones go well together?	/15
Animations	How natural, smooth and appropriate are the animations? If they're custom, how well are they executed? Do they have physical coherence? Do they have character/personality? If they are imported, how appropriate was the animation choice? How hard is it to relate it to the original in that case?	/15
Effects	How adequate are the particle/ribbon/etc effects? Do they contribute to the model? Are they impressive? Are they added in good measure? Did the model need more?	/15
Theme	How well does the model fit the theme? Is there a clear distinction between the rider and the vehicle/mount?	/15
Mechanics	How well does the model work in-game? Are the animations recognizable in-game? Does it feature attachments/footprints/collisions/etc? Is it fully selectable?	/10
Creativity	How original is the general idea? How inventive is the execution?	/15
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Results calculation

• Judgement: 70%
• Poll: 30%

FinalScore = (30*Reached_Votes/POSSIBLE_VOTES) + (70*Average_Judge_Score/POSSIBLE_SCORE)

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The poll shall begin on 23rd May 2020 and conclude on 6th June 2020.

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Assigned Staff: @Mythic

Contest | Results

 

[knight26]

I just want to say, no matter who wins this contest, I wish I could vote for them all. It's honestly one of the best contests in a long time. You're all victors, congrats!

 

[Kyrbi0]

Excellent submissions, all. Good luck!

 

[StormKnight]

Good job to all of the contestants, these are some awesome additions.

 

[Veritas 117]

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a contest with this many truly great models. I honestly don’t think I can vote for one. I am seriously trying to come up with storylines and reasons to add some of them to my campaign. They are that good. Good job everyone.

 

[frostwhisper]

It's been a long while since I've looked at a poll on this forum and I have to say the quality of these subissions is through the roof.

 

[Stefan.K]

I literally changed 4 new scratch made entries until I uploaded this one. I want to hear some opinions whether I was wrong by going with this idea or I should've finished some of these models and submit them as an entry.

Spoiler: FIrst

Spoiler: Second

Spoiler: Third

And the undead "little Timmy" 'riding' the meatwagon.

Spoiler: Timmy

Spoiler: Meatwagon

About the other entries, just like everyone said all of the entries are nicely made and I'm glad everyone made it to submit their entries! This was a fun contest.

 

[Veritas 117]

@Stefan.K
The second one is pretty awesome. But I think the one you submitted was the best.

 

[Vinz]

@Stefan.K the meat wagon looks interesting.
My favorite is the second. I adore the texture usage, especially the Myrmidon's for the Murloc. I think I'd have preferred it over the mage.

 

[Stefan.K]

@Stefan.K the meat wagon looks interesting.
My favorite is the second. I adore the texture usage, especially the Myrmidon's for the Murloc. I think I'd have preferred it over the mage.

I changed that naga texture for the murloc. Used Hydra's one instead.

 

[Heinvers]

Best of luck to you all :]

 

[knight26]

@Stefan.K You had an undead little Timmy riding a meat Wagon, and you thought that's not brilliant???? I feel like you dropped the ball there man, and deserve some negative rep. ))

 

[Stefan.K]

@Stefan.K You had an undead little Timmy riding a meat Wagon, and you thought that's not brilliant???? I feel like you dropped the ball there man, and deserve some negative rep. ))

I think that does not matter now, since all of the entries are better then mine.

 

[Xelos]

@Stefan.K

Štefan i vote for third version , your can call him kulak hunter,

 

[IcemanBo]

Good job guys, the results are really good!

 

[PROXY]

I just want to say, no matter who wins this contest, I wish I could vote for them all. It's honestly one of the best contests in a long time. You're all victors, congrats!

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a contest with this many truly great models. I honestly don’t think I can vote for one. I am seriously trying to come up with storylines and reasons to add some of them to my campaign. They are that good. Good job everyone.

It's been a long while since I've looked at a poll on this forum and I have to say the quality of these subissions is through the roof.

I totally second that. I'm proud of all of you guys, this contest was amazing and so much fun! I'm also super glad to see veteran modellers and "newer" guys both submitting entries. I see a bright future for the next contests Let's hope the themes are as accesible as well.

I literally changed 4 new scratch made entries until I uploaded this one. I want to hear some opinions whether I was wrong by going with this idea or I should've finished some of these models and submit them as an entry.

About the other entries, just like everyone said all of the entries are nicely made and I'm glad everyone made it to submit their entries! This was a fun contest.

As many others said, the second one is my favourite (although all of them are great). I'm a sucker for clever face texture usage and the mount is also really unique. Third one was great too, but the texture quality was not amazing (not your fault really).

Still, the bandit mage is awesome too, so don't sell yourself short, dummie.

 

[matin45]

I hate to say this, but I don't vote
Why you didn't allowed multiple votes? at least 3 choices needed for this contest.