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Final Entries - My Favorite Toy Challenge
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Please post your final entries for the May/June challenge in this thread. As it's a bit late and summer holidays are on we decided to give you until...
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So finally, we have the pleasure of announcing the challenge winners at last :) On behalf of SimplyMaya & SimplyLightwave we want to say thank you...
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Super Villain Challenge Let's get back to doing some character-based challenges and let's do Super Villains! You can make an existing character!...
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New Challenge: Favorite Toys - $500 1st Prize!
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The theme for this challenge is favorite toys and you can make any sort of toy you like. It can be a classic toy from your childhood or something...
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February Challenge - Speed Machine
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Ladies n gents start your engine(s)....... This months challenge is called Speed Machine and its purely modelling. The idea is to model a...
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New Challenge - The Egg Challenge
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New Challenge! The theme is based on egg photography. The subject of the shot must be egg, however, you can model props and build your scene from...
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Final Entries - My Dream Office Challenge
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Please post your final entries for the challenge in this thread. We noticed that there's a few things left to do for a lot of you and as we're...
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April Challenge Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well its clobbering time again for the challenge!! There were some really good entries and a fair few participating which was great!! I pretty...
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March Challenge - Environment Creation
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Well you all wanted it by the look of it, so you got it!! :D Yep time to go let loose those imaginations boys and girls, so go an create an...
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Please add your finals for the robot challenge here before the end of January 12th, add as many images as you like and a link to the WIP thread,...
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Hey all despite not announcing a winner as yet for the March challenge until more entries are in, I thought I'd launch the April challenge. So......
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Hey All well the end of the March challenge draws to a close in a day or two. Looks like some serious work has been going on too and those...
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Final Supervillain Entries
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Post your final entries here! Keep the images a manageable resolution (no 1600x8000 portraits or anything). Feel free to post wireframes and textures...
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New Challenge: My Dream Office $500 First Prize
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Challenge This time we'd like to see you create your perfect office space complete with gadgets and knick-knacks! It can be something realistic or...
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Hey guys, let’s get a challenge going! Clallenge Theme - Horror Model and texture a character that would be seen in a horror film or game,...
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Time for a new challenge, the theme this time is things that fly so it can be mechanical flying machines or any other things found in the sky....
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http://simplymaya.com/images/tutorials/large_images/miscellaneous/robots_challenge One of our instructors on SimplyLightwave said a few months...
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March Challenge Winner
Hey all Well its time to announce the March winner, but before I do, thanks to all who entered even if you didnt pass the finish line, it was a...
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Final Entries - January Challenge -Before and After
Okay dudes The Grim Reaper is in the building - time to give up your work for judgement!! If you could each put the before and after images in...
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Finals Entry
Hi All, Please place your final images in this thread, with a link to your WIP so everyone can see the development of the models. Remember the...
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April Challenge Final Entries
Hey All Place your final images or vids in here, once the bell tolls!! Can you put your final poly counts in too cheers!! good luck to all ...
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February Challenge - Prize
The prize for the challenge winner this month will be a book on one of the great movies last year; "The Art of How to Train Your Dragon" :)
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January Challenge Winner....
is.............................. Honest Dom!!!! Well done dude, it all looks really good. Really well done. It was excuted just right with...
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Final Challenge Entries
Please post your final entries for the flying challenge here before the end of April 15th. Cheers and good luck, Nilla
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April Challenge - Prize
This month you can win a hardback copy of "The Ballad of Rango". Looks like an excellent book to me, the movie was great :)
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March Challenge - Prize
So I thought to post up a prize a bit earlier this month :redface: For March we decided to go with a book from another great movie for the winner -...
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Egg Challenge Prize
The Art of Brave, looks really nice! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mz0nNTIsL._SS400_.jpg
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November Competition Here
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Welcome to November´s Competition Thread! As I was watching today Episode II (for the 30th time already), and seeing how there´s a widespread...
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June Challenge - Brian Ellebracht - Normal
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Guys I am really busy, but as you know, I can't pass up a challenge like this! I Have set a goal to make sure that it will be turned in before the...
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Jan/Feb - noob - mc-fleury
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i try this challenge .ill try to model a gorilla head.i will try as a noob so i have more chance to win !
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April Challenge Pony normal
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even though I do not have a computor to run Maya yet I am still coming up with concepts. Let me know what you think. C+C
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March/April - Noob - metallicjet66
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ok im thinkin of going along the lines of a robot that can do many things at once, im taking the 4 mechanical arms of doc oc from spiderman 2 and...
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March Challenge - Brian_Ellebracht - Normal
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Hey guys, been gone all weekend but I am back! Everybody seems to be getting into this one, so I think I will to!! Can't wait, Not sure what I am...
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Ok, this is going to be fun:) Story, There are two brothers. One is Todd a trouble maker and the other Sam a devoted Christian. Sam is always...
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Nov/Dec - Creature - SciFi - Pony - Normal
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Ok I think I will try this one. for the Creature I will do one of the horses. Looking over the movies again to see exactly which one. And if I have...
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Nov/Dec - Norm - vIm
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Realist I a cool idea ! I m don't have idea for this moment. Comming Soon...;)
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is this the hell challenge?:D
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Oh hell yeah you know I'm in this one!!! :D The God of Death has returned! :D I'll hopefully get some sketches done tomorrow but I'll tell ya what...
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Couldn't wait to get started on this challenge so here's a brief description of what I'll be going for: A race of giant telepathic Grubs from...
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July Challenge: Kurt: Mod
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Dont think i'll have time to finish but if i do, my beast will be a small monkey like creature like a spider monkey or gibbon.
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This is the first time I enter in a contest... So, I'm a little affraid. But I felt the good mood from people here, and I decided to try. The game I...
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Hi all, I'm thinking of modelling a polar bears head (reminds me of the dissertation I wrote on them at uni). I'm going to start with the base...
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Hello, this is the first time to post my wip on internet.:p This is the basic modelisation of my projet.
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I'm in :) I've been looking at this for ages now... and am going to stick with games I've played in the distant past. 1st choice was the 'Spy vs...
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Dango77 Virtual Cityscape :Patchwork House
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Hi to all, only just joined and am new to Maya and the whole 3d modelling world but have been looking for a project to work on so i can practice,...
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I'm in :) Had a lot of ideas... 1. Gandalf as Madonna 2. Gollum Captain of the Enterprise. 3. Orc runs for President. 4. Gollum at MadHatters...
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This should be fun:) Going for Gollum as Bruce Lee, enter the dragon style. Hope to animate him too (as I really didn't do enough last time round)....
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Hello. Unless you can tell me another way of signing off, then I am stuck right now as speedy. I am at work and I can't access my cookies on this...
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This looks cool I'm down. mayafreak3
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Well - Time to cut my teeth with these comp's. Gonna try... my perception of what a croc would have evolved from? and gonna try them in sub d's...
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Well i'm in. Think i'm going to do a Pirate, kinda like one of Davey Jones's crew as it should be a challenge! I'll just be doing a bust, rarther...
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Ello all, I'll have a bash at this - going to do a minotaur - hopefully not just a run-of-the-mill beast but a more stylized model - maybe a war...
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