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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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April Challenge_Lo Poly game character (New design)
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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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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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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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March Challenge Final Entries
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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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SimplyMaya December Challenge - Robots
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Egg Challenge Prize
The Art of Brave, looks really nice! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mz0nNTIsL._SS400_.jpg
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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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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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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 - 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 - Jamesepoo`
I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish before the 30th but I couldn't pass up a challenge in which I bring objects to life; I have also worked with...
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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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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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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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July/Aug - normal - vedic kings
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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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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 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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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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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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Jan/Feb - Norm - T1ckL35
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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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Realist I a cool idea ! I m don't have idea for this moment. Comming Soon...;)
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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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April Challenge-Low Poly Character-Tweetytunes-Ada from Parsite Eve
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I am going to do the lovly Ada from Parasite Eve 1+2. One of the most underrated games I have ever played - and still the only ever game I have...
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Dango77-Spaceship Challenge-The Unity (Of Grubs...)
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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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October Challenge - HPorter - Normal
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I am in dammit! I havent got to play with Maya for way too long :D This looks to be one of the best challenges yet. <--- takes a big breath and...
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Ruins! Yeah let's give some kind of environment challenge a try. The object of this challenge is to create some sort of ruin. Whether it be...
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March Challenge - Environment - Some Guy
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City of the Monoliths Sup Dudes My idea is an all natural environment, large stone structures and an overwhelming feeling of size. Im thinking...
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I used to collect and paint war game figues, I have not found the exact war elephant I painted but will still look but for the mean time here is one...
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Oh I`m so in with this one. Ideas already coming to me, hmmmmmmmm
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Nov/Dec - Character - martial arts - Chris_H - Norm
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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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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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So I read the challenge description and something popped and stuck right away. I'm leaning towards a home on a deserted island. A scenario that has...
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is this the hell challenge?:D
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This looks cool I'm down. mayafreak3
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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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