Hey guys, just for any confusion, the challenge ends as of midnight (-8GMT) my time. Therefore after this post, which i posted at 8.. you have 16 hours left. Try to get your final renders in before that time.. if both people get there final renders before the end of the day, the voting can start then :). Once this rounds got all the final renders in, i will update the tournament chart, as its hard when theres 8 people.. i will do it more frequently when theres 4. Great work so far to all of you.

(MASS MESSAGE)

Today was a hard day for- started all over again:D.
Now I modelled a very special version of a goldfish:).
http://www.morpher.de/pics/maya_battle/fish_003.jpg
I tried to compose it a bit:
http://www.morpher.de/pics/maya_batt...water_fish.jpg

I hope that you like my fish.
I will trie to work a bit more on the bumpmaps and then I will post my final_render:)

lol...you used the windows 98 background :P

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This is my final render for this battle. I hope that it will be good enough to enter round 2. I don't have any more time tonight for working on the bumpmapping:(.

CU morpher:
http://www.morpher.de/pics/maya_battle/final.jpg

the bump looks really nice. is that the default lights?.. they look good too... I cant seem to get goo shadows when I create my own lights :(

good luck!
H!

both finals posted..I made my vote

I created 3 spotlights to light the scene. I used the default maya renderer.

Mumbos looked really good. bur motphs just seemed to look cleaner... except the fins seemed a little hard.. but i liekd it anyway:)

I had no time for the fins- I will work on them after this battle again:)

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My goldfish had been caught by an icecube...:
http://www.morpher.de/pics/maya_battle/452.jpg

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And another render with the icecube:D:
http://www.morpher.de/pics/maya_battle/4533.jpg

My vote goes on Mumbo´s if he works on lighting.

can we vote for ourselves ? did you morpher ?
its me at school

Great work for both of you.. both came out exceptionally nice! This will be a toughy to vote for! Anyways, you are free to vote now, as both final renders are in.. see you when the poll runs out of time (some time tommorow)

Wait, mumbojumbo, you have 2 accounts? If i am not mistaken that is not allowed.. i will be talking to admin users about this.