Maya 2020 fundamentals - modelling the real world
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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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by Acid44
05-08-2011|04:58 PM
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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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by jonamar
01-08-2011|01:37 PM
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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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by THX1138
29-06-2011|08:23 PM
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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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mtmckinley 01-09-2009|11:31 AM
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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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by Jay
27-02-2011|12:22 PM
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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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by Nilla
03-08-2011|08:29 AM
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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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by mastone
03-05-2011|01:43 PM
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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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Nilla 05-10-2011|03:21 PM
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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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Jay 10-03-2011|04:44 PM
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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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by Chirone
27-04-2011|09:36 PM
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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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by Nilla
17-01-2012|01:13 PM
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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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by mastone
05-08-2012|02:44 PM
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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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Jay 02-04-2011|11:01 PM
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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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by Nilla
01-01-2012|02:15 PM
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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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by Nilla
07-03-2012|01:19 PM
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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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by Dango77
17-08-2009|11:52 PM
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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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gster123 19-08-2010|08:40 AM
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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
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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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skippyk39 02-05-2011|07:16 AM
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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
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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
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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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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
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is.............................. Honest Dom!!!! Well done dude, it all looks really good. Really well done. It was excuted just right with...
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Jay 12-02-2011|04:09 AM
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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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gster123 22-10-2010|02:11 PM
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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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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
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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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by Gen
13-09-2012|09:03 PM
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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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by mrock04
14-12-2002|10:36 PM
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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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mc-fleury 11-03-2006|02:55 PM
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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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brian_ellebracht 02-07-2003|06:29 PM
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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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vedic kings 27-08-2005|05:26 PM
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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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by drknow
21-05-2003|02:58 AM
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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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by redrum
29-05-2003|09:03 AM
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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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metallicjet66 16-08-2005|05:58 PM
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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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Pony 04-01-2004|01:19 AM
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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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by t1ck135
02-03-2006|04:27 PM
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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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by t1ck135
03-11-2005|08:46 AM
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Realist I a cool idea ! I m don't have idea for this moment. Comming Soon...;)
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by vim
01-01-2006|03:01 AM
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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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tweetytunes 01-05-2011|07:38 PM
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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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by Dango77
02-06-2009|12:32 PM
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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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mtmckinley 27-10-2007|10:18 PM
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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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by Gen
28-03-2011|02:31 PM
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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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daverave 03-07-2011|11:00 PM
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Oh I`m so in with this one. Ideas already coming to me, hmmmmmmmm
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tweetytunes 28-02-2011|09:18 PM
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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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by t1ck135
31-10-2005|07:50 PM
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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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by murambi
01-04-2011|09:14 PM
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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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by Chris_H
01-01-2004|04:41 PM
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is this the hell challenge?:D
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by anita
01-05-2003|07:05 AM
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This looks cool I'm down. mayafreak3
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mayafreak3 30-12-2005|09:33 PM
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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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by vim
31-08-2005|11:52 PM
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Since there is still not a thread up anywhere that I have noticed ( Jay, thought you were going to post one? ) I decided to get one going. ...
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THX1138 25-04-2010|09:05 PM
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