Paired Modelling Contest #2 - Spacecraft

[Pyramidhe@d]

Spacecraft
Create a spacecraft. May that be a spaceship(a space vehicle), a space station(a space building) or even a simple satellite.

A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo.

• Team consists of TWO PEOPLE. No more, no less. Their roles in the creation of the entry model are not specified.
• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• If a submission does not follow the model submission rules the creator will be disqualified.
• Your submission must be posted before the deadline. The post containing your final submission must also contain the following:
  • An in game screenshot showing your submission in action.
  • The file in the appropriate format.
• You must show at least one unfinished preview of your submission, before the deadline, as proof that it’s yours.
• Your submission may not be started/made before the official launch of the contest.
• Judges may not participate.
• Your final submission must be bug free.
• Must contain the following animations, and more if possible:
  • Stand
  • Death
  • Portrait Animations (whether it's for a camera or a separate portrait model)

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

• Pending
• Pending

Mesh	Vertices and faces	/15
Skin	How well made or how well WC3 textures have been used	/10
Creativity	Self explanatory	/10
Animations	How well made or how well WC3 animations have been used	/5
Mechanics	How well the model works	/5
Effects	Appropriate use of additional effects	/5

• 60 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 40 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

• The contest shall begin on 16 June 2011 and conclude on 28 July 2011, GMT

Contestant no.1	Contestant no.2	Current WIP
Anarchianbedlam	Red_Shift	N/A
Shamanyouranus	Mr. Bob	Current WIP
Fan	LOOKING FOR SKINNER	N/A
DonDustin	darkdeathknight	Current WIP
M0rbid	Frankster	N/A
Izanagi	-Peper-	Current WIP
Pyritie	The_Silent	Current WIP
eubs	The Weird Human	Current WIP

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE

i suggest people to try to acquire themselves a partner ACTIVELY. Not JUST post here but go in chat on regular basis if you can or put a notice in your sig. I will, none the less, put a list of possible participants in this post if they state so in the thread.


If are simply joining with no specific role in mind, it is fine. IF you do have a specific role in mind, PLEASE STATE SO.
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List of possible contestants without specified partner

The_Silent
Dentothor
Pyritie
Deolrin
Thrikodius needs texturer
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ALSO

anyone who asks "is this a spaceship?" will be ignored and perhaps possibly(ie. most definitely) neg-repped depending on the severity of their stupidity/troll-ness. If you dont know how to differentiate between a tree/frog/monkey/soda can and a spaceship, then sorry to say this but you would be hopeless in this contest. If you do know the difference but you still ask the question, then you are just a person who enjoys neg-reps and bans.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

EDIT: me and redshift, that sexy beast

 

[PROXY]

Love the theme, Hope i can find a Partner

 

[D a w n]

Count me in....with somebody...

 

[Red]

YYYES! YES!

 

[fladdermasken]

Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckberg...

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckberg...

racecars, lasers aero-planes..... it's a, duck blur....

 

[PROXY]

Might be working together with Shiik, but I/we are still looking for a concept, and we i are in hurry.

 

[fladdermasken]

Might be working together with Shiik, but I/we are still looking for a concept, and we i are in hurry.

C-c-c-combo breaker D:

 

[-Peper-]

I'm in with Izanagi, already thought a concept...

 

[HailFireer]

Well this will be interesting to see. Good luck to the contestants.

I myself am not that good of a modeler so i wont join and give my partner a heart attack.

 

[Arisato]

I'm in with Izanagi, already thought a concept...

Y-y-y-y-y-yesS!!!

 

[AIagremm]

Awesome theme! =D

 

[Pyritie]

I might be up for animating and adding effects to something. Maybe texturing too

 

[Deolrin]

I'm looking for a partner.
I'm a modeler, I'm average at animating(at best) though I can handle mechanical stuff rather well. I'm not too good at particles\effects though I can do them if needed. I can't texture.

 

[AIagremm]

Pyritie, I hope it wont be Ponyist Occupational Government space HQ.

 

[Thrikodius]

I suddenly felt an urge to make a goa'uld ha'tak.

 

[M0rbid]

Official message.....

I am happy to say that Frankster and me are teaming up to join this contest.

Good luck to everyone else that is participating

 

[PROXY]

Official message.....

I am happy to say that Frankster and me are teaming up to join this contest.

Good luck to everyone else that is participating

Oh godness, that's going to be hell of awsome

Though, I must admit, me and shiiK's concept is pretty cool also

 

[KayS]

I would join, but I haven't got any knowledge about animating models... D:
Good luck to everyone!

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

The contestants list has been updated.
if there is anything wrong with it, please notify me

 

[Thrikodius]

Could you add "needs texturer" to me?

 

[Red]

i am happy to say that frankster and me are teaming up to join this contest

the germanic juggernauts! The teutonic titans!

 

[dragoon431]

M0rbid and Frankster? no fair the master modelers will dominate this competition hands down so good luck everyone,

Well this will be interesting to see. Good luck to the contestants.

I myself am not that good of a modeler so i wont join and give my partner a heart attack.

I agree with HailFireer, joining a partner would probably kill them seeing as i have no experiencing with models other than making parts bigger and smaller.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Soooo since Frankster and M0rbid are the best, you are wishing the most luck on them?

 

[dragoon431]

i see where your coming from, no not necicarily, i know there chance of winning is high but i wish the best of luck to everyone else.... i edited the post

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Soooo since Frankster and M0rbid are the best, you are wishing the most luck on them?

both frank and morbid are great artists in their own rights. but a creative idea or clever composition can often times outshine a model that is simply well made. That is not to say that morbid or frank would ever make something mundane. But i'm saying that everyone is on equal footing here if they just put a little effort into all aspects of their model (like the actual concept, instead of all their effort into the technical stuff)

if anyone took the time to notice that 5 points have been deducted from animations and put into the creativity criteria

 

[-Peper-]

Then creativity is over 9000 animation. Creativity can beat uber Star Wars spaceship.

 

[supertoinkz]

Ampharos_222 (texture) and me (model). Current polycount is 1480 D:.

 

[-Peper-]

Our mesh is complete, over 9000 3400 polies.

 

[Thrikodius]

I just realized I won't have time to finish a mesh in time for a skinner to finish in time. You can remov me from the list.

 

[-Peper-]

WIP of the mesh

WIP

Reduced from 3400~ to 3120 polies.

 

[PROXY]

shiiK doesn't have time anymore, if anyone wants to participate with me, I'm glad I'm looking for a skinner btw.

 

[Pyritie]

Would a large zerg transport unit count? Something like the zerg equivalent of a spaceship?

 

[D a w n]

Would a large zerg transport unit count? Something like the zerg equivalent of a spaceship?

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ALSO

anyone who asks "is this a spaceship?" will be ignored and perhaps possibly(ie. most definitely) neg-repped depending on the severity of their stupidity/troll-ness. If you dont know how to differentiate between a tree/frog/monkey/soda can and a spaceship, then sorry to say this but you would be hopeless in this contest. If you do know the difference but you still ask the question, then you are just a person who enjoys neg-reps and bans.

but to answer your question:

Don't think the actual compitition is started yet, its just a suggestion as far as i can se


Can biological things be spaceships, like zerg/tyranid/alien stuff? (no mean to troll),

hence why i didnt specify mechanical

 

[Pyritie]

okay okay fine

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Pyritie wants to make a Hoppip space ship

 

[HappyCockroach]

Ugh..... I don't like this theme very much.

anyways, me and 4eNNightmare might participate again. not sure, gonna ask him first
something cool can be done if not stuck to sci-fi shit

EDIT: wasn't there half criteria for skin, half criteria for modelling/animating?
cos in most cases it's one skinner and one modeller... and just 10 points compared to 35 for the modeller (5 are creativity of both) I think it's better like that


and if it isnt too much id like to ask another week of duration now, cos my vacations will begin july 20 x(

 

[-Peper-]

Crap, Izanagi will be back on vacation on July 4th. I guess I'm gonna do the texture now. It may look crap, but who cares.

 

[Pyritie]

woo concepts

oh and my partner is The_Silent if you want to put us down

 

[AIagremm]

First one actually reminds me of the scrapped Swarm Guardian unit for SCII, but the tentacles are a nice touch. However, how are you gonna make them grab stuff ingame?
Second looks like a drone and thats kinda nice. Has the evolution feeling.

But wouldn't the zerg spaceship be more of an armored creature with small closed entramnces to keep zerg inside safe and not huge mouths? Leviathan is the only zerg space transport if I recall.

Best zerg spaceship would actually be something like an infested terran ship, merged with a zerg species that is a mix of your concepts.

 

[Pyritie]

First one actually reminds me of the scrapped Swarm Guardian unit for SCII, but the tentacles are a nice touch. However, how are you gonna make them grab stuff ingame?

Just make a guess and adjust the unit's fly height. Dunno how else to do it

But wouldn't the zerg spaceship be more of an armored creature with small closed entramnces to keep zerg inside safe and not huge mouths? Leviathan is the only zerg space transport if I recall.

but everything zerg has to be pointy with mouths and stuff!

Best zerg spaceship would actually be something like an infested terran ship, merged with a zerg species that is a mix of your concepts.

yeah, but I kinda want something that's a bit of a challenge to animate - I've been told I'm pretty good at that part and I'd like to practice some more

 

[AIagremm]

True, zergs do have loads of mouths...

And yea. I guess would be cool if the tentacles would come down and make some undefinite grabbing animation, Stand Load or something. However, it would require triggers to be used =/

 

[Gausslander]

So... about that big tube...

 

[D a w n]

First WIP of darkdeathknight 's and my model for this contest
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll174/DonDustin/DDddkWIP1.jpg

 

[Sky Green]

First WIP of darkdeathknight 's and my model for this contest
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll174/DonDustin/DDddkWIP1.jpg

Err... I don't have any idea what should this be, but it still looks kewl

 

[darkdeathknight]

Heres a basic pic of it. In roasted meaty color scheme-y goodness

Pic

It's an old pic tho so some stuff have been changed.

 

[AIagremm]

Hm, living creatures seem to be quite popular for this contest. Though Id still love to see a space station =P

 

[The_Silent]

Wip. My progress so far:

Screenshots

Edit: These screenshots doesn't really do the model Justice. The tail'y thingy looks like a plain cylinder and the arms lost a lot of detail on the picture. Hmh