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Sticky: Super Villain Challenge | Page: 1 2 3 4

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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by ColdWave

01-09-2009|11:31 AM

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Sticky: Final Supervillain Entries | Page: 1 2

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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by Dango77

17-08-2009|11:52 PM

Replies: 19

Sticky: Horror Challenge | Page: 1 2

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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by gster123

19-08-2010|08:40 AM

Replies: 16

Sticky: 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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by s2-speedy

22-10-2010|02:11 PM

Replies: 13

Sticky: Egg Challenge Prize

The Art of Brave, looks really nice! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mz0nNTIsL._SS400_.jpg

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by Nilla

04-07-2012|10:37 AM

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Sticky: New Challenge - The Egg Challenge | Page: 1 2

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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by mastone

05-08-2012|02:44 PM

Replies: 24

Sticky: 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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by Nilla

17-04-2012|06:33 PM

Replies: 5

Sticky: New Challenge - Things that fly | Page: 1 2

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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by Nilla

07-03-2012|01:19 PM

Replies: 16

Sticky: December Robot Challenge - Final Entries | Page: 1 2

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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by Nilla

17-01-2012|01:13 PM

Replies: 22

Sticky: SimplyMaya December Challenge - Robots | Page: 1 2

http://simplymaya.com/images/tutorials/large_images/miscellaneous/robots_challenge One of our instructors on SimplyLightwave said a few months...

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by Nilla

01-01-2012|02:15 PM

Replies: 15

Sticky: Final Entries - My Dream Office Challenge | Page: 1 2

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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by puneet.3d

05-10-2011|03:21 PM

Replies: 24

Sticky: New Challenge: My Dream Office $500 First Prize | Page: 1 2

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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by Nilla

03-08-2011|08:29 AM

Replies: 18

Sticky: Challenge Winners - My Favorite Toy | Page: 1 2 3 4

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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by jonamar

01-08-2011|01:37 PM

Replies: 52

Sticky: Final Entries - My Favorite Toy Challenge | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

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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by Acid44

05-08-2011|04:58 PM

Replies: 78

Sticky: New Challenge: Favorite Toys - $500 1st Prize! | Page: 1 2 3

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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by THX1138

29-06-2011|08:23 PM

Replies: 42

Sticky: April Challenge Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Page: 1 2

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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by mastone

03-05-2011|01:43 PM

Replies: 23

Sticky: 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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by skippyk39

02-05-2011|07:16 AM

Replies: 11

Sticky: 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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by Gen

04-04-2011|04:57 PM

Replies: 14

Sticky: 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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by Nilla

10-04-2011|10:18 AM

Replies: 5

Sticky: April Challenge_Lo Poly game character (New design) | Page: 1 2

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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by Chirone

27-04-2011|09:36 PM

Replies: 20

Sticky: March Challenge Final Entries | Page: 1 2

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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by tweetytunes

02-04-2011|11:01 PM

Replies: 20

Sticky: 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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by Jay

09-03-2011|09:39 PM

Replies: 1