Carrara Challenge #18: Graphic Novel - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
edited July 2015 in Carrara Discussion

Entries are now closed and THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!


I don't see that anyone self-identified as a "new" Carrara user so I guess we will give the $10 prize for the usual "Honorable Mention" instead.

The WIP thread is here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/57301

Voting Rules:

  1. Anyone with a DAZ3D account can vote
  2. Please vote for three entries and an honorable mention.  
  3. Order does not matter - so do not list a "1st," "2nd," etc. just give your three votes and your honorable mention vote
  4. In the event of a tie for the top three places the higher prize will go to the person with the most honorable mention votes; if ties persist after looking at that then I will reopen voting for a tie-breaker between just the tied entries
  5. Anonymous votes will be accepted with good reason (e.g. forum moderators who do not want to give an impression of bias) via private message
  6. Voting Ends: Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:59:59 CST (GMT-6)

Thank you to our generous sponsor DAZ 3D for offering the following awards to the winners:
1st Place: $100.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
2nd Place: $50.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
3rd Place: $25.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
Best Entry By A New Carrara User Honorable Mention: $10.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)


VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated, entered and voted and a big thank you once again to DAZ for their ongoing support.

And our winners are....

1st Place Stezza for Sword of Tristam

2nd Place redhorse for Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars

3rd Place diomede for Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall

and Honorable Mention goes to ncamp for New Career

I will be in touch with the winners within the next day or so via site messaging about the awarding of prizes, so please keep an eye out for that message (look in Inbox under your user name when you click on the little gear in the upper right corner of the forum).

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  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    edited July 2015

    A quick note about posting links to your posts in the WIP thread: With the new forum, the direct link to a specific post is in the time/date stamp for that post. You should be able to right click on it to get the URL for your WIP posts.

    Post edited by MarkIsSleepy on
  • ncampncamp Posts: 345
    edited July 2015

    Entry 1

    Title: New Career

    Artist: ncamp

    Links:

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/838435/#Comment_838435

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/849681/#Comment_849681

    Any items you made or modified yourself:

    Shaders for Hulk, Book, V4 Customized shaders (not really obvious in cartoon format).

    Pre-made Content Used:

    Freak 4, Bookcases from Real University, V4, M4

    So, I had this really strange dream the other day. I was trying to install something on my mother's computer. It would not load. When I got to look at what I was trying to install, it was Twilight - Hulk poetry. Now that's about the time I woke up, so I'm not really sure what Twilight - Hulk poetry is, but it did inspire the following.  Used Photoshop / Filter Forge with a comic book filter.

     

     

    HulkComic2.png
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    Post edited by ncamp on
  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,050
    edited July 2015

    Entry #2
        Title Sword of Tristram
        Artist Stezza

        Links to any WIP posts in the WIP thread
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/840629/#Comment_840629
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/840661/#Comment_840661
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/835942/#Comment_835942
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/845872/#Comment_845872

        
        additional comments
    Postwork in Photoshop Elements 13

     

    Sword of Tristram Comic.jpg
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    Post edited by Stezza on
  • entry: #3

    title: tartarus

    artist: shlomi laszlo

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/835179/#Comment_835179

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/835390/#Comment_835390

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/836449/#Comment_836449

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/836713/#Comment_836713

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/839329/#Comment_839329

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/839887/#Comment_839887

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/840062/#Comment_840062

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/855026/#Comment_855026

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/859622/#Comment_859622

    i made: the eyes the maze the tower etc.

    pre made: freak 5, horned barbarian, some morphs and texture for the freak.

    a copy of the wip post to explain the post work:

       bottom layer:
       photorealalistic render with brush strokes in pd howler and some blur.

       next layer:
       like the bottom but not same brush, very low opacity grain merge.

       top layer:
       toon iii render with line as white the rest are black.
       fill the background black, desaturate some blur and invert.
       move the layer to fit the movement by the brush strokes.
       crop the image to fit the move.
       resample the image to meet the load size.

    i tried to have a "heavy metal" comics magazie look.

     

     

  • oops!

    forgot the image.

    entry: #3

    title: tartarus

    artist: shlomi laszlo

     

  • a try at attaching an image.

    enry: #3

     

    tartarus1final no border small.jpg
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  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,585
    1. Entry 4
    2. Title - Dragons Breath
    3. Artist - Bunyip02
    4. Links to any WIP posts in the WIP thread http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/834224/#Comment_834224  ; http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/834778/#Comment_834778   http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/835319/#Comment_835319
    5. Any items you made or modified yourself - None
    6. Pre-made Content Used - G2M, http://www.daz3d.com/fighting-monk-for-genesis-2-male-s, http://www.daz3d.com/millennium-dragon-2-0, http://www.daz3d.com/ogora-the-orc-hd, http://www.daz3d.com/easy-environments-mountain-trail
    7. Are you new to Carrara? (optional) - Not new but still learning
    8. Any additional comments or notes you want to add. (optional) - As per links to WIP.
    Dragons Breath final.jpg
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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
    edited June 2021

    :

    1. Entry #5
    2. Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall
    3. Artist: Diomede
    4. Links to any WIP posts in the WIP thread     

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/834135/#Comment_834135

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/834172/#Comment_834172

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/838116/#Comment_838116

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/855583/#Comment_855583

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/860276/#Comment_860276

    5. Any items you made or modified yourself: Figures and props are all original objects made in Carrara's vertex modeler
    6. Pre-made Content Used: None
    7. Are you new to Carrara? (optional): No
    8. Any additional comments or notes you want to add. (optional):  Inspired by so many old time comics, serials, TV series, and feature length films.  Special tribute to Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Lone Ranger, Crash Corrigan, Captain Cody, and especially Rocky Jones the Space Ranger.  Postwork (assembling renders, adding text and framing panels) in Photoshop Elements 11.

    Brash Lonergan Carrara Challenge Entry.jpg
    850 x 1100 - 245K
    Post edited by Diomede on
  • redhorseredhorse Posts: 83
    edited July 2015
    1. Entry #6
    2. Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars
    3. Artist: Redhorse
    4. WIP posts: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/864966/#Comment_864966
    5. Any items you made or modified yourself: custom character morph (left) and modified character (right)
    6. Pre-made Content Used:
      * Michael 3
      * MOS Invasion (by Uzilite)
      * Starship Crew for MOS Invasion (by Porsimo)
      * City Ruins (by Stonemason)
      * Checkpoint Charlie (by coflek-gnorg at Renderosity)
    7. Are you new to Carrara? No

    I've been toying with the idea of doing a graphic novel for some time.  This cover would be for a later part of a series...

     

    AmalgamationWars.jpg
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    Post edited by redhorse on
  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202
    edited July 2015
    1. Entry #7
    2. Title: Chickenman Jousts
    3. Artist:Chickenman
    4. WIP posts: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/865000/#Comment_865000
    5. Any items you made or modified yourself: no
    6. Pre-made Content Used: * Michael 6, DAZ Horse 2, DA Jousting Ground, DAMounted Knight Poses, Kightly Gaurd for Gennisis 2, Knightly Gaurd Roumd Table Textures, Khightly barding and Knightly Barding Textures.
    7. Are you new to Carrara? No

    I've been Enjoyed doing this which forced me to play around a lot with posing, and getting things right.

     

    Chickenman Jousts.jpg
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    Post edited by chickenman on
  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202
    1. Entry #7
    2. Title: Chickenman Jousts
    3. Artist:Chickenman
    4. WIP posts: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/865000/#Comment_865000
    5. Any items you made or modified yourself: no
    6. Pre-made Content Used: * Michael 6, DAZ Horse 2, DA Jousting Ground, DAMounted Knight Poses, Kightly Gaurd for Gennisis 2, Knightly Gaurd Roumd Table Textures, Khightly barding and Knightly Barding Textures.
    7. Are you new to Carrara? No

    I've been Enjoyed doing this which forced me to play around a lot with posing, and getting things right.

    Eddited to Correct Spelling

    Chickenman Jousts.jpg
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  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    edited July 2015

    Entries are now closed and VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

    I don't see that anyone self-identified as a "new" Carrara user so I guess we will give the $10 prize for the usual "Honorable Mention" instead.

    Voting Rules:

    1. Anyone with a DAZ3D account can vote
    2. Please vote for three entries and an honorable mention.  
    3. Order does not matter - so do not list a "1st," "2nd," etc. just give your three votes and your honorable mention vote
    4. In the event of a tie for the top three places the higher prize will go to the person with the most honorable mention votes; if ties persist after looking at that then I will reopen voting for a tie-breaker between just the tied entries
    5. Anonymous votes will be accepted with good reason (e.g. forum moderators who do not want to give an impression of bias) via private message
    6. Voting will remain open until Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:59:59 CST (GMT-6)
    Post edited by MarkIsSleepy on
  • ncampncamp Posts: 345

    Here are my votes

    Entry #2
    Title Sword of Tristram
    Artist Stezza

    Entry #6
    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars
    Artist: Redhorse

    Entry #7
    Title: Chickenman Jousts
    Artist:Chickenman

    honorable mention
    Entry 4
    2.Title - Dragons Breath
    3.Artist - Bunyip02

    Great Work Everyone!

    ncamp

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    once again there is some really terrific work here. congrats to all who placed entries!!

  • DUDUDUDU Posts: 1,945
    edited July 2015

    OK, I don't know anything in this kind of topic treated in this challenge, but I will vote all the same even to only recall that there is a challenge on this forum:

    1-Entry #2
     Title: Sword of Tristram
     Artist: Stezza

    2- Entry #6
    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Wars Amalgamation Wars
    Artist: Redhorse

    3- Entry 1
    Title: New Career
    Artist: ncamp

    HM:
    Entry #5
    Artist: Diomede
    Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall

    I liked the entry “Chickenman Jousts”, but the perspective isn't so good and the horse seems inserted in the wooden beam.

    Good work everybody !

    Post edited by DUDU on
  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    Hey, some wonderful work :) did I already say that ?

    I had a great laugh at the humour of some of the work  and some of them had me wanting to turn the page, to see what would happen next in the narrative

    Entry 1

    Title: New Career

    Artist: ncamp

    1. Entry #5
    2. Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall
    3. Artist: Diomede

    For my third vote it was a toss up between Bunyip Chicken man and Stezza, especially because in Stezza's work at the top of page two, the guy in the dark outfit seem to be doing something rude to the back of the man dressed in orange - who is either squealing in pain or joy.... and I thought  that was a little off putting given the modern propensity of youth to go all out and out in the quest for violence . But in the end I quelled my emotions and went for

    Entry #2
        Title Sword of Tristram
        Artist Stezza

     

    HM goes to Bunyip

    1. Entry 4
    2. Title - Dragons Breath
    3. Artist - Bunyip02

    my apologies for not having work in this, I'm in two painting exhbitions at the moment and I just ran out of time ... :(

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202

    Here are my votes.

     

    Entry #2
    Title Sword of Tristram
    Artist Stezza

    Entry 1

    Title: New Career

    Artist: ncamp

     

    1. Entry #5
    2. Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall
    3. Artist: Diomede

     

    HM

    Entry #6
    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars
    Artist: Redhorse

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Voting is never easy in these.  Aaargh.  Excellent work, everyone.  This time we have a mixture of panels and covers, making it especially hard for me to choose.  I would buy them all.  In the end, I chose Stezza's because of the staples.  I chose Schlomi because it did really make me feel like one of the classic Heavy Metal issues.  I chose Redhorse because it is such a clean sharp cover with the heroic character poses.

    Entry #2
    Title Sword of Tristram
    Artist Stezza

     

    entry: #3

    title: tartarus

    artist: shlomi laszlo

     

    Entry #6

    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars

    Artist: Redhorse

     

    Honorable mention to ncamp for making me laugh.

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,585

    My picks, excellent work by all entrants:-

    Entry #5

    Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall

    Artist: Diomede

     

    Entry #2
    Title Sword of Tristram
    Artist Stezza

     

    Entry 1

    Title: New Career

    Artist: ncamp

     

    HM:-

    Entry #6

    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars

    Artist: Redhorse

     

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    I will have to study them. The entries are all really good!
  • DondecDondec Posts: 243

    1. Entry 2: Title Sword of Tristram,     Artist  Stezza

    2. Entry #6:  Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars,  Artist: Redhorse

    3. Entry #5:   Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall,  Artist: Diomede

    HM: Entry #7, Title: Chickenman Jousts, Artist:Chickenman

    -------

    First off, pretty awesome efforts all round.  I've never done anything like this myself, and feel almost unqualified to vote.  Still, If I'm allowed to then... here we go. 

    I chose Stezza's entry for first place because it looked exactly like a comic book to me and the images themselves invited second and third looks on my part.  The use of ComicLife really added a lot too I think, and was even a bit educational for me.  All round amazing

    Second place was a bit tougher... I went with Redhorse, again because of the overall look, and the artwork really blew me away.  

    Third to Diomede... this was tough because I actually liked Diomede's story the best.

    HM: to Chickenman ... humor with concept, very clever.

    Overall I'm amazed something like this can be done using Carrara.  I'm not used to seeing 3D renders for Graphic Novels.  Pretty educational.  Thank you! 

       - Don

     

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Here are my picks:

    1. Sword of Tristram - Stezza
    2. Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars - Redhorse
    3. brash Lonergan: Interstellar marshall - Diomede

    HM: Chickenman Jousts - Chickenman

     

     

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    MDO2010 said:

    Entries are now closed and VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

    I don't see that anyone self-identified as a "new" Carrara user so I guess we will give the $10 prize for the usual "Honorable Mention" instead.

    Voting Rules:

    1. Anyone with a DAZ3D account can vote
    2. Please vote for three entries and an honorable mention.  
    3. Order does not matter - so do not list a "1st," "2nd," etc. just give your three votes and your honorable mention vote
    4. In the event of a tie for the top three places the higher prize will go to the person with the most honorable mention votes; if ties persist after looking at that then I will reopen voting for a tie-breaker between just the tied entries
    5. Anonymous votes will be accepted with good reason (e.g. forum moderators who do not want to give an impression of bias) via private message
    6. Voting will remain open until Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:59:59 CST (GMT-6)

     

    There are just a bit more than 12 hours left to vote! 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,050

    In no particular order

    entry: #3
    title: tartarus
    artist: shlomi laszlo
    This one to me is so far out there and I have no idea what it's about but it's so good.. I couldn't even understand the writing which I studied for 20 minutes before realising it was up and down.. I love it

    Entry #6
    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars
    Artist: Redhorse
    Awesome image... making me want to open the comic up just to see how that guy in the middle gets taken out.. drew me straight in

    Entry #7
    Title: Chickenman Jousts
    Artist:Chickenman
    My favourite past time as a kid was collecting knights on horses.. You took me back to a time I enjoyed and watching Ivanhoe in black and white..

    All entries were great and my twisted mind enjoyed everyone of them.. yes

  • sukyLsukyL Posts: 251

    Great job everyone! Loved the graphic novel theme MDO2010! I couldn't get mine far enough along in time to enter, but I learned a lot reading thorugh the WIPs.

    Here are my votes. Good luck!

    Entry 1
    Title: New Career
    Artist: ncamp

    Entry #2
        Title Sword of Tristram
        Artist Stezza

    Entry #5
    Title: Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall
    Artist: Diomede

    Honorable mention
    Entry #6
    Title: Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars
    Artist: Redhorse

     

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496

    VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

    Thank you so much to everyone who participated, entered and voted and a big thank you once again to DAZ for their ongoing support.

    And our winners are....

    1st Place Stezza for Sword of Tristam

    2nd Place redhorse for Archangel Chronicles: The Amalgamation Wars

    3rd Place diomede for Brash Lonergan: Interstellar Marshall

    and Honorable Mention goes to ncamp for New Career

    I will be in touch with the winners within the next day or so via site messaging about the awarding of prizes, so please keep an eye out for that message (look in Inbox under your user name when you click on the little gear in the upper right corner of the forum).

  • great work everybody.

    thankes stezza: 

       1. i knew it was hard to read, so the text is in one of the wip post.

       2. the style an feel i wanted were of the heavy metal magazine,

         google pictures of the mag, the inside not the covers to see what i strived for.

    thankes diomede but the name is shlomi not "schlomi" i'm an israeli not from germany,

       it's a nick name of shlomo, the name you know as solomon.

     

     

     

  • Congrats to the winners, but this new forum is ruining user experience, I can't see most of the entries because they are thumbnails and remain thumbnails even when I open them in new tabs. I'm sad.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Just clicking on the thumbs should open up a full size view.   They all work for me

  • DUDUDUDU Posts: 1,945
    Chohole said:

    Just clicking on the thumbs should open up a full size view.   They all work for me

    That works only if you sign in...

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