Army Of Small - Results!

[doylle]

Another competition has come to an end. We had 34 great entries, and gave our judges the task to find the best piece. Now, a week later all the results are in. So we are happy to announce the winner of our 14th competition, Crazyfool. Closely followed by Lord McGoat, Syros and Chris89. Congratulations!

Crazyfool will be awarded with 3 books of choice*, offered by ballistic publishing.
(*Excluding all limited and special editions)


Meet the judges...



The Results...


Winning piece:



Runner up:



Second Runner up:





Comments from the judges

Originally Posted by Dmitry Parkin

Crazy Fool :
Looks very good - solid and harmonic. A good combination of a pure insect and sci-fi like machinery!

Lord McGoat:
I like his collor and material decision! Very good execution. final render looks great.

Dynast Blade:
This is truly an insect-character, it has a good balanced form, and readability of the silhouette. All details are looking neat and soft. The character looks as the good toy soldier, not as 3d. I want to catch him and put him into my jar

Originally Posted by Teahoon Oh

Chris89:
Chris started of with a unique and fun concept with his mantis. It looks like you did allot of reasearch for your manits. Finally you modelled it witha proper number of polygons and I love how you posed your small character. This character has an outstanding weapon on his left forehand (it's needle). It's plus aspect as well. However it would be nicer if you had more time to work on the normal map a bit more (ie wrinkles on belly and middle body).

Crazyfool:
You have a good sense of capturing what a character should have it. The concept is pretty general but your modeling and texturing is simply awesome. You made this character with years of experience i think. On the other hand, it would be cooler, if you put an occlusion map into color map and specular map. but overall it's my favorite choice.

Funkdedic:
I love your honeybee concept. and you also have a big sense of humor on your texture and modeling . You put some mechanic texture on eyes and face, which looks neat. You made this honeybee more like a warfare style. You did make it a bit to clean though. It would've been more fun and inspiring if you made it a bit more dirty.

Originally Posted by Ben Clark

Syros:
You cant really get more out of 1000 triangles than that. The texturing and presentation beat of any of the other entries. Beautiful use of colours, specular map and lighting to make this pop and contrast with the black underbelly. Also a cool pose that makes this guy look like a maniac. Best all round entry and winner for me

Crazyfool:
Really good modeling made for a great normal map, that works really well on the low mesh. The background for the presentation stopped this from placing higher though as it washes out the textures and stops the yellow of the wasp from popping

Reeke:
The best use of specular of all the entries and a nice clean presentation that really compliments the models colours. I love the MC escher look to the biomech details Very crisp for a 1024 texture and my favourite diffuse map of all the entries. A very close 2nd place

Word of thanks.
And last but not least, it's time to thank everybody who helped make this competition possible. First of all Ballistic Publishing for sponsoring this competition. Another thanks go to our judges Teahoon Oh, Dmitry Parkin, Ben Clark and Rick Colesar, for helping us out with the judging.

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[Titus]

Congrats!!! Comrades!! You create awesome creatures!!!!

[Syros]

I can't believe this!!!
Congrats to Crazyfool, Lord McGoat and Chris89, you really rock guys! keep your good works up! and of course other dudes out there in the contest for huge helps they gave to me for making this!
Thanks to all of you guys, to GA.net admins and especial thanks to judges! see you soon in forum!

[crazyfool]

thank you everyone, especially GA.net staff and judges. I have been biting my nails all week for the results and am so happy right now I really thought it was between a couple of us and the results show just how close it was. very well done to all that entered

[giles]

also wanted to say Congrats to the winners! nice job

One question -- Is it possible to get one or two sentences feedback for each participant from one or all of the judges? It seems that a lot of people invested a fair amount of time in their entry and this feedback would be extremely helpful in helping them understand where they can improve.

TiA!

[requiem2d]

Some really excellent pieces up there, I agree with the judges. Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Originally Posted by giles

One question -- Is it possible to get one or two sentences feedback for each participant from one or all of the judges? It seems that a lot of people invested a fair amount of time in their entry and this feedback would be extremely helpful in helping them understand where they can improve.!

Although that would be nice, it would take a fair amount of time from all the judges. We still have a lot to learn with these competitions, but I hope all the criticism received during the work in progress stages will suffice for now.

Good job again everyone.

[shinbone]

wow! great work from everyone, well done to the winners, I only hope I can produce something as good as you lot in the future Must say I agree with Giles though, Taehoon Oh's marking seems very strange indeed!

[doylle]

Congratulations guys! Allot of nice entries . I hope that we'll see the same kind of enthusiasm for our next competition

Jeroen

[showNOmercy]

Congrats to the winners and all who entered. This was a very interesting competition and I enjoyed seeing all the W.I.P. threads. Can't wait to see what the next comp brings.

[swag]

Great job everyone. Some truly amazing results.