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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

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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

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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_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: 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: 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: 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: 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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by Dango77

28-02-2011|07:24 AM

Replies: 10

Sticky: February Challenge - Speed Machine | Page: 1 2 3

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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by Jay

27-02-2011|12:22 PM

Replies: 38

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: 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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by THX1138

03-02-2011|09:59 PM

Replies: 14

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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by bullet1968

12-02-2011|04:09 AM

Replies: 8

Sticky: March Challenge - Environment Creation | Page: 1 2

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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by honestdom

10-03-2011|04:44 PM

Replies: 23

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