Small Character Design Challenge
 

Ok SMers.... sharpen up your pencils for a small character design challenge.

This challenge will be to develope a female character that has a truly unique look and feel. The character can be anime, realistic, or even a cool cartoon. I will be looking for originality not the stereotypical female characters we all see everyday...a design that stands out but is very tasteful at the same time.

Challengers don't have to have amazing drawing skills or talent to enter. Like I said I'll be judging more on concept and idea rather then overall look so don't be shy. If you have a cool idea, enter.

The challenge will run about 2 weeks and the winner will have the character modeled in 3D for an up and coming Simplymaya video tutorial by myself, as well as getting a copy of the final model once complete.

So let's get started and see what you all can come up with.

Kurt

Update on a few points:

1) Most be Human.
2) Most be fully clothed no nudes


Plz post your work in this thread so we dont crowd the Nightmare thread and I can keep track.

A cool inspiration websites

http://www.artbyfeng.com/

Sounds good - i'll see what i some up with - then i may enter.

I have some Q's if i may:

1. How many designs can one post.

2. Aside from the concept image(s), do we have to show progress drawings, or do we just post the final image.

Ciao!

You can post as many as you wish in reason say up to 3... You dont really have to sho w WIP just make sure your character is your's and not copied from someone else.

many questions
 

"This challenge will be to develope a female character that has a truly unique look and feel."

First:
-I'm not sure what is expected.Can clothes make a female unique?If yes could you tell some more points that make a character unique? just to give me and the others some inspiration because at the moment i do not know what i could draw...
-can she also be an female alien btw(humanoid with female proportions)?I'm very unsure about this challenge....

second thing:
Cant the winner get a allowance to download the modeling video/s instead the modeled character?I would more like to model it on my own in order to learn than get the already modeled....i think the other SMers would agree....


Dnn't expect much from me plz because I#m an absolute noob in drawing....but if i find time ill give it a try...

I updated a few points see above.

Most me Human and must be clothed.

As for the question about getting the tut instead of the model. I dont think for this one, maybe for future bigger challenges like this.

The challenge was just to get any members involved in something fun as a side project if they had time. I was going to do a female character on my own but came up with the idea of getting the members to come up with the design for me.


Kurt

Cool. Should we post it here, or somewhere else?

In here PLZ

Just a fast sketch I did for you all to get a idea what im looking for doesn't have to be a finished drawing just enough for me to see whats going on.

Looks like I'm out of ideas lately.... I'll give it one more go a little later, then I'll throw in the towel :)

http://www.xenisis.com/bin/girl001.jpg

maybe we need MORE lace and frills and stuff...... could be a pain to model something like this though.... hmm...... and maybe I could have made the dress longer :o

http://www.xenisis.com/bin/Girl002.jpg:

Good stuff mate....

Ok, in that case I am going to enter the Photoshop drawing I did awhile back! :D I even include "background info." on the character...but you can make it as origional as you want!

Those are really cool. I guess I need to get a scanner then :p.

Should we make a profile and front views for you?

nope dont need to unless you want to Peltra

Yeah I'll do that. (I can't yet draw in perspective :o)

heres mine
 

Sasha Snow, scanner did not pick the sketch up, crap scanner, didn't have much PS time for painting.

Dae

JEEEZ DAE! Cool! - (I still hate you ha ha!)

3Demon - Wow!
What did you do those concepts in??

CGPMaya84
Very slick there - You should upload that to CGchannel

Hey Kurt! Cool little challenge and man I would so like to do a project with you some time. I might see if I can pull something together, but I think the entries in here are pretty awesome already. I will be watching this one!

:D :D

This is a piece from my little Bro (Ninja-Padawan). He saw some of my modelling and i finally got him to do some concept sketches for me. She's called Shiko and I think the main influence is the idea of a futurisic fronteir sort of back-drop. Hopefully if he has the time he will whip it up on photoshop. Enjoy!

oooo....she's cool!;)

Great stuff everyone keep them comming...

cheers Gold_Phoenix

quickly finished it up in photoshop ... i could of done a better job but it shows a possible colour scheme ...

Cool!
looking good

Im not sure if this is what you are looking for , its an old pic but its worth a shot :P ... thts it for me, no more pics ...

Thx

Thanks for the nice compliment surfemcd! :) It took me awhile to do, but I tend to work slow on creating computer-generated images. I want to wish the rest of you luck also! I am looking forward to seeing which one of us wins! :D I may try and submit it to CGchannel. ;)

Surfermcd: those are all done in PS CS.... I'm actually surprised I posted them.

Don't look at the anatomy for them...... especially the second one.

Nice work guys.

I never really go for comps but here's my effort, I think she's a sort of futurisitc nomad type cowgirl/bountyhunter, take your pick!!

I just checked this thread for the first time now and I was wondering how much time is left for this challenge. By the way you have all done fantastic work. Concept art is one of my favorite fields. Please expect an addition to this challenge from me soon

There is about a week left might add a week depending on the turn out and once i finish my next project.


The concepts are looking good everyone...

Whoa! Those are awsome. Well, heres my attempt. Kind of a humanoid character. The scanner I used was about 15 years old :p.

Here is one more character I did... I did both of my characters in Photoshop, but I drew the images in pencil first, scanned them in, and painted in the images and I even painted the outlines around the characters. This is my last submission though for the contest. :p She is supposed to be a female Japanese character.

hehe cool , a libarian / lara croft :D cool

Thanks, hehehe. :p I did not think that it had a librarian look, but now that I look at it, it kind of does look like a librarian. ;) I really love both of your submissions as well! The first looks kind of like an army/tomboyish girl, and the other looks like a seductive vampire! :Ogre:

monster
 

still modelling and texturingwhat you think

okay
 

Welcome to Simplymaya snake77, you got a cool looking beast there, just one problem I dont think it is a female.
(not sure it fits the requirements.)

Dae:)

I think Kurt says it has to be a "Human" female character...so I don't think it would fit the requirements unfortunately....although it is a really good piece! :)

I dunno!! I sort of find her attractive heh heh!
Awesome sketch and concept work!

Ok, here is a rough that I will rework over the next day or two in illustrator and that will be my entry. She is like a WW2 type pilot. Cool

ok,Yawn! I could have spent another hour on this but that is it! I'm going to bed!

Great stuff everyone...... Keep them comming...