New Blender Guru Contest: Characters

[model_man]

Here is my entry, the Lumberjack: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/68231

I just started it two days ago(I could not decide what to make,lol), and I won’t be anywere near a computer until after the comp. I know I won’t win, but I had a lot of fun doing it, and I learned a ton. Thanks Andrew for holding these contests, they really help me get better as an artist. I am sure I will work on this more after the contest is over, but for now it has to stay as is.

EDIT: I updated my model.

[Ramon.Scortanu]

Here is my entry, Cyborg AXIV, based on this concept http://marlock.deviantart.com/art/cyborg-AXIII-201053549

http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=68225

[COALMINDS]

@CyGuy283

Try selecting the hands in edit mode and Remove Doubles. (W>Remove Doubles) I had a similar problem with a character I made for a game project not long ago, and at some point it turns out I had extruded or duplicated the entire mesh, resulting in a few thousand doubles! Give it try, and hopefully it helps!

Thanks it’s been a strange issue, I’ll try that later today.

[soopursam]

@Ramon.Scortanu Hey if I put 3D glasses on will it pop out of the pic? Ha ha, very very cool character by the way!

[soopursam]

Here’s an update on mine. Just working on that pose and expression right now and then going to fix some deform issues in the elbows. Then I’ll switch over to cycles for the final render. Going for a mix between the 2 movie posters and thinking I’ll keep the purple lighting since a lot of the movie stuff is either in black and white or crappy color-movies-just-invented look.
Err, Also not quite happy with the cloth look yet.

[nylnook]

Hi all,

I’m an old occasional blender user but joined blenderartists for the occasion

here is my entry, rendered in 8K with Cycles (4hours and 36minutes) :

here is the link to the 8K image :
http://yagraph.org/images/nylnook-in-the-snow-8192x8192.jpg

Many thanks to David Ward for the Tim tutorial series, helped me a lot :

Good luck to everyone !

[daniel_garza]

This is my entry, hope you like it! It is inspired in the prehispanic civilizations of Mesoamerica and some of their legends about battles between light and darkness.

[Owldude]

@model man, you sure lived up to your name. Your entry isn’t super all-around, but it’s very well modeled, especially for only two days. Keep it up!

P.S. Joshercrab, that’s a great render. Composition and textures are both awesome. You seriously might win this. =)

[JamFX]

@soopursam

Here’s an update on mine. Just working on that pose and expression right now and then going to fix some deform issues in the elbows. Then I’ll switch over to cycles for the final render. Going for a mix between the 2 movie posters and thinking I’ll keep the purple lighting since a lot of the movie stuff is either in black and white or crappy color-movies-just-invented look.
Err, Also not quite happy with the cloth look yet.

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please dont use the competition entries thread to post works in progress. we have a whole sub forum for that kind of thing

[daniel_garza]

@Owldude thank you for your words! it really makes me feel all the work was for good! Good look to all

[soopursam]

@Small Troll

please dont use the competition entries thread to post works in progress. we have a whole sub forum for that kind of thing

Wait, other people are posting WIPs in this thread and I’m the only one that gets called out for it? Err, Ok then.

[JamFX]

@soopursam

Wait, other people are posting WIPs in this thread and I’m the only one that gets called out for it? Err, Ok then.

wait? have they? sorry, i guess your model stands out more than the others and i’m not really calling you out i was just warning you not to post more than one image on the entries thread. i’m sure the reasons will be obvious
any way as a general practice WIPs are presented in there own thread. images posted on the competition thread are usually the finshed peice or a placeholder almost complete peice just to make sure something is entered in case they miss the deadline. these might be the WIPs your seeing.
anyway just letting you know

[soopursam]

Yeah on 4 and 5 and maybe some other pages. But anyways, thanks for being nice about it and I’ll remember next time

[t_gokuul]

Here is my entry. Out of the fantasy for heavy armours, swords and robots, this Metal Warrior is the elite of the robots.

[Skaldy]

Hello.

Here Is my entry, a character out of a picture that made ​​me laugh and that includes some of the fear of some people (not me, i like they) to circus clowns.

More in the post: http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?330281-The-Clown&p=2598380#post2598380

Regards and i hope you like it.

[Ramon.Scortanu]

@soopursam

@Ramon.Scortanu Hey if I put 3D glasses on will it pop out of the pic? Ha ha, very very cool character by the way!

I don’t know, haven’t tried it yet. Thanks, like yours too, can’t wait to see the final version.

[501stlegomaster]

Here is my entry:

Rendered in Cycles at 1000 samples.

[Shakedown]

Hey…here is my entry. Was fun doing everything in Blender. I usually use Photoshop and Zbrush a lot but for this entry I only used photoshop in preparing my photo textures to be used in Blender. Most of the texturing is just a combination of baked out maps combined with tileable textures and some details painted over that.

There is a lot more I could have done with this but I am moving on calling it done!..my computer is tired of endering it now…

Good luck everyone!

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[rrtk]

Hey guys.

This is something i was preparing for a competition. I was wondering to put it here at the end, since there is some stuff that i would like to change/add. But, hell why not

Here is my entry

[jorgevasquezp]

@soopursam

Here’s an update on mine. Just working on that pose and expression right now and then going to fix some deform issues in the elbows. Then I’ll switch over to cycles for the final render. Going for a mix between the 2 movie posters and thinking I’ll keep the purple lighting since a lot of the movie stuff is either in black and white or crappy color-movies-just-invented look.
Err, Also not quite happy with the cloth look yet.

Wow great character, I like the expression and the pose a lot. Great Job !