Carrara Monthly Challenge #30: WAR TIMES - Voting Thread

namtar3d · January 2017

I am very sorry, i was very far from civilization and with no access to wifi. I really love all submited renders.

Please submit your entries in this thread. The WIP thread and the Entry Thread will be open together through January 17th at Midnight DAZ Utah time. You may submit up to three entries.

Entry: #

Title:

Artist:

Hair used how?

Other Context and Comments (including credits):

WIPs Links:

Postwork:

Reminder of rules:

The challenge this month is to create an image of war, integrating Low Poly Modeling and/or Surface Replicator

- It can be a war scene from any time: spaceships battle, medieval siege, aliens invasion, WWII "D" day, angels vs demons, a war of insects, a bunch of cats fighting in the street, etc.

- Feel free to interpret the theme broadly.

Basic rules will be:

1. Participants must use the Carrara surface replicator to replicate bullets, soldiers, buildings, etc.

2.-The scene must have at least 10 characters in the scene. (For example, 9 knights atacking a dragon, 5 soldiers fighting 5 enemies or 2 planes atacking 8 tanks, etc) You can make a massive battle of hundreds of soldiers if you wan't.

3.-The scene must be in the climax of the battle, i mean, no after or before, but the mere critical point of the conflict.

4.-Participants must model at least one object in modeling room: A gun, a bullet, an arrow, a tank, a soldier, a building, a trash can, etc.

5.-Postwork is allowed, but not to replicate objects.

6. Images must be new (previously unpublished).

7. Images must be primarily set up in Carrara.

8. Images must be rendered in Carrara or in an external renderer for which there is a Carrara plug-in (e.g. LuxRenderer, Octane).

9. At least one WIP (work in progress) image must be posted to the WIP thread that includes how the Surface Replicator was used.

10. Screen shot of the scene in Carrara to be included in WIP -

11. Each participant may submit up to 3 images into the Challenge.

Please note, there is no requirement for the winner to host the next challenge, unless they want to.

We love our wonderful sponsors

Once again Daz will generously sponsor the monthly challenge with the following prizes:

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)
Honorable Mention (4th place): $10.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s) ( may be used for best new comers).

Dates to Remember:

WIP Thread Opens: Friday 23 Dec 2016

Entry Thread Opens: Saturday 10 Jan 2017

Entry Thread Closes/Voting Begins: 12.00 Midnight Monday 17 Jan 2017

Voting Ends: Saturday 23 Jan 2017

As with the last challenge because we are having up to three images an entrant we WILL judge the winner by their scores combined. ie if their image 1 gets 24 votes, their image 2 gets 12 votes, and their image 3 gets 12 votes then they score 48.

2nd and third and HM would be as per usual - ie based on votes for one image.

bytescapes · January 2017

Entry #1

Scramblers

Artist: Bytescapes

Inspired by the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts.

Challenge Requirements

Modeled Item: Rorschach (alien spacecraft in rear) was modeled using replicated elements created in the Spline Modeler. The scramblers (eight-legged aliens) also make use of Spline models.
Minimum Ten Figures: There sure are a lot of aliens.
Use of Replicator: The aliens were added using a surface replicator on a hidden terrain.
Show Climactic Part of Battle: Definitely

WIP Links

Scene Setup and Test Render: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2007006/#Comment_2007006

Products Used

MarkIsSleepy · January 2017

Entry: #2
Title: Faeries at War
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)

Challenge Requirements:

Modeled Item: Faerie Wings modeled and rigged in Carrara.
Minimum Ten Figures: counting the dead one, there are ten clearly visible faeries on the log.
Use of Replicator: the two faerie armies in the background are replicated spheres on two invisible vertex objects; the vertex objects are just planes that I pulled some points around on and angled to add some depth. The spheres each have the Glow and Object Blur effects added to them.
Show Climatic Part of Battle: Clearly the mauve/pink side has just turned the tide and is about to win, with one green fairy rushing to her impending death, in the background we can see that the pinkish faerie army is overwhelming the green army.

WIP Links

Scene Setup and Test Render http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1956146/#Comment_1956146
Final Setup, Render, Postwork http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1959851/#Comment_1959851

Products Used:

The faeries on the log are all Predatron's Loretta Lorez http://www.daz3d.com/lorenzo-and-loretta-bundle
The birch trees and leafy weeds are from Howie Farkes Country Lane http://www.daz3d.com/country-lane-bundle
Sparrowhawke3D's free edge falloff shader was used on the faeries to vary the color along edges.
The background forest and overall lighting come from a free HDRI from Openfootage.net called "Forrest_Zalzburg01_small."

Additional Notes:

The fallen log the battle is taking place on and around was sculpted in Blender and textured in Substance Painter.
Post-work in Photoshop consisted of color balancing/adjustment and adding DOF blur and painting in a bit of additional glow.

MarkIsSleepy · January 2017

Entry: #3
Title: Against the Temple of Evil
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)

Challenge Requirements:

Modeled Item: The beholder was modeled and rigged in Carrara, the energy beam was made in the spline modeler, the armor and weapons for Lorenzo Lorez were also modeled by me
Minimum Ten Figures: There are twelve soliders and three beholders
Use of Replicator: the rocks and bones on the ground are scattered using two separate surface replicators, the running figures were placed with a surface replicator and then converted to real objects for final manual adjustments, the glowing spark/balls floating off the energy beam are spheres with their hotpoints moved to different distances from their center and placed in a surface replicator on one of the splines
Show Climactic Part of Battle: This brave band of warriors delved deep into the underground world in a last ditch raid on the Temple of Evil but now their escape has been cut-off by three powerful beholders

WIP Links

Modeling and Rigging the Beholders: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1923746/#Comment_1923746
Creating the Medieval Armor for Lorenzo: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1931516/#Comment_1931516
Fitting the Armor http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1932481/#Comment_1932481
Scene Setup and Test Render http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1967306/#Comment_1967306
Creating the Eyebeam effect in Carrara http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1981406/#Comment_1981406

Products Used

The soldiers are all Predatron's Lorenzo Lorez http://www.daz3d.com/lorenzo-and-loretta-bundle with the medieval guard armor I made for them
Scattered rocks are from various mmoir and Howie Farkes sets
Them Bones by Orestes Graphics http://www.daz3d.com/them-bones
Ron's Scifi Optical Flares http://www.daz3d.com/rons-sci-fi-optical-flares

Additional Notes:

I started with a more claustrophobic vision for this, but it just was not working so I abandoned it until I found some concept art for the game Age of Conan that inspired this cavern temple. The temple and cavern were modeled in Blender and textured in Substance Painter. Postwork consisted of some color and overall light adjustments, adding the "godrays" and some additional flare effects (although I was very happy with the result straight out of Carrara, I wanted to punch the glow effects up just a little bit more).

Diomede · January 2017

Entry: #4

Title: Cyclopstritch Cavalry Charge

Artist: Diomede

Replicator used how? Several replicators, including for cavalry, dead good guys, dead bad guys, and fleeing bad guys.

Other Context and Comments (including credits): Everything modeled and rigged in Carrara. Design credit for fleeing bad guys goes to Varsel.

WIPs Links:

Model the cyclopstritch http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1923781/#Comment_1923781

Add riders to cyclopstritches http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1928991/#Comment_1928991

Toonify the design for Varsel's warriors http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1977301/#Comment_1977301

Render passes http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2010886/#Comment_2010886

Postwork: Photoshop elements combining photoreal render for bad guys and NPR render for cyclopstritch cavalry. EDIT - unhappy with combination. Substituted the straight render for the combined NPR render on Monday morning.

IceDragonArt · January 2017

Entry # 5

Title - Against the Odds

Artist - IceDragonArt

Hair Used How? I don't even know what this means?

Links - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2009101/#Comment_2009101, http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1997341/#Comment_1997341

Modelled and replicated and textured the spears - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1981306/#Comment_1981306

Modelled and textured the fiery beam

Replicated two different skeletons- 4 on one side 6 on the other

No postwork

Varsel · January 2017

Entry: 6
Title: Attack at the Ostrich Farm

Artist: Varsel

Replicators :
The wall has some bullethole. These are 5 circles in the vertex modeller.
The ground is littered wit stones and some bushes.
And in the background there are 100 soldiers rushing in to participate.

Other Context and Comments (including credits):
I used Predatrons Lorenzo LoRez for the soldier. The bushes are also his.
The rest are modelled by me. The uniforms are made in Hexagon, and rigged with a program called Poser Editor and Daz Studio.
The rest are made in Carrara Vertex modeller.
I did also use Primvol Fog and Rising smoke.

Postwork: No postwork

bytescapes · January 2017

Entry #7

Final Advance

Artist: Bytescapes

War Times

Challenge Requirements:

Minimum Ten Figures: four armored soldiers, six flying robot 'grunts'
Modeled Item: The flying robots were constructed using primitives and pieces made in the Spline Modeler (plus some elements from DZFire's Nurnies Greebles Parts and Pieces).
Use of Replicator: two surface replicators are used to construct the battle-damaged city, with randomly-placed walls and piles of rubble. One replicator is in front of the camera, the other is behind it; the rubble scape that it creates is visible reflected in the female character's glasses.
Show Climactic Part of Battle: this is the final 'push', the soldiers advancing with air support through the ruins of a city devastated by fighting.

WIP Links

Scene Setup and Test Render: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1999751/#Comment_1999751

Products Used

Michael 4
Victoria 4.2
Angel Hair
Nurnies Greebles Parts and Pieces
City Ruins Building 03
Destroyed City
Combat Specialist: Poses for the Modern Warrior
Xurge3D HEVS M4 and HEVS V4
Forender Hi-Teck Laser Rifle 15
Ghislaine
Gear Punk

Stezza · January 2017

Entry: #8
Title: Eureka Stockade

Artist:Stezza

Challenge Requirements - Used replicators to create the stockade ( the barrier between the miners & the police.) Replicated trees and also used Mmoirs background mountains., Posed lorenzo several times and exported as objects then reimported into the replicators for the miners & police. Used splats for some smoke & fire, a lot of retexturing of clothing..made the wooden barrels and the Eureka Southern Cross Flag and the star on the police helmet. Modified Varsels rifle prop to have a bayonet.

Credits: Used Varsel's great clothing for Lorenzo (retextured ) available at ShareCG. MMoirs mountain background. Lorenzo.

WIPs Links:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1941516/#Comment_1941516
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1948921/#Comment_1948921
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1952981/#Comment_1952981

Postwork: Postwork done in PSE.

Stezza · January 2017

Entry: #9
Title: Carrarians vs Dazonians

Artist: Stezza

Challenge Requirements - modelled the starships and egg ship, replicated the egg ship and duplicated it a couple of times to add an explode modifier to them.

Credits: MrSparky's bits and pieces that were added to my freighter ship. DzFires greebles also used on freighter ship. Ron's brushes.

WIPs Links:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1979496/#Comment_1979496
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1979516/#Comment_1979516

Postwork: Rendered the image, then rendered a NPR image, used PSE to add effects to a copied first image then composited the 3 images in PSE for final image.

Stezza · January 2017

Entry: #10
Title: Mind controlling bone fish

Artist: Stezza

Challenge Requirements - made the fish and sub, replicated the bone fish made the terrain.

Credits: Humpback whale by Antman, Ron's brushes

WIPs Links:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1998461/#Comment_1998461

Postwork: in PSE

Image link -

Headwax · January 2017

Entry: #11

Title: "The Death of Farmer Ned at The Hands of The Runaway Chickens Gang."

Artist: Headwax

Hair used how? As Grass

Other Context and Comments (including credits): M4, Predatron's Low Res Chooks

WIPs Links: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2016046/#Comment_2016046

Postwork: Yes, made it black and white, played with levels etc

BackStory: the chooks finally get sick of farmer ned coming down and pinching their eggs(evidence in his right hand) not only is he a greedy such and such, he comes down naked and puts them off their egg laying for several weeks afterwards ...

Mistara · January 2017

Entry #12
Title: Mutual Extinction
Artist: Misty

climax of the scene, they out of cannon balls, they just tossing the cannons around trying to hit each other.

wip entry: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2016056/#Comment_2016056

modeled a platform hidden under infinite plane to use as a surface replicantor source,
wanted a v formation.
most of my work was in wrangling Aiko7 and Minotaur6 legs

used:
Minotaur6 - skirt egyption anubis style
Aiko7 - Althea dress, miss arachne head dressm sorrow hair
shenendoah stuff by meshitup
mountain troll gn wearing parts of shenandoah stuff
and credit to utube tutorials extolling the virtue of gamma correction.

this is a blended weightmap Aiko7. edited her nodes til she stopped crashing.
Minotaur's legs converted the geograft to conforming legs/pants.

(edited to update entry #)

Headwax · January 2017

Entry #13
Title: Son of Nial of The Nine Hostages
Artist: Headwax

The Saxon Warlords find out that Nial of The Nine Hostages is an entity to be dealt with

Used m3 and k4, all of them wearing m2 clothes

replicated m3

modelled some of the cloaks worn by saxons (just planes then draped) , used vwd plugin to get m2 clothes to fit kid

The lighting is mainly caustic - I made the building's walls and floor highly reflective then turned off reflections in the render room so it didn't show.

Gives nice splotchy light in places.

Atmospheric haze is carrara fog plus a whole series of planes parrallel to the camera and staggered into thedistance textured with noise in the alhph channel and texture channel - to give broken up light.

post work yes, dirtied teeth, addede scars etc etc

wip: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2001261/#Comment_2001261

please click for big

Headwax · January 2017

Entry #14
Title: Death of Eric The Lowlander
Artist: Headwax

Eric the Lowlander Discovers, to His Detriment, that Elephants Make Massive War Machines

Used m3 all of them wearing m2 clothes

used low res cloths, pderatron's low res grass, parts of a nortman churcg, mushroom castle and other props

used Scots pine trees from the forest model here at daz and canabalised them

replicated m3 on numerous occasions

replicated grass

made cloth around elephant, draped with VWD pluigin , made pointy things and replicated them, made shileds and textured them

cannabilised bits of elephant model to make armour

wip http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1961131/#Comment_1961131

please click for big

Diomede · January 2017

Entry: #15

Title: Tribute to Operation Market Garden

Artist: Diomede

Replicator used how? Several replicators, including trees lining the roadway and planes in sky

Other Context and Comments (including credits): Everything modeled and rigged in Carrara.

WIPs Links:

NPR render, regular render, and postwork combination http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2020081/#Comment_2020081

Model the tanks http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1981426/#Comment_1981426

Create the terrain http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1984071/#Comment_1984071

Model the 82nd Airborn soldiers http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2013216/#Comment_2013216

Model the planes http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2018951/#Comment_2018951

Postwork: Photoshop elements combining photoreal render and regular render each at 50%.

NOTE: may be too late to be a valid entry, a little confused about entry time.

Headwax · January 2017

Hi namtar3d you out there by chance ? :)

namtar3d · January 2017

Entries are now CLOSED.

This thread is now the Voting thread. Vote for up to 3 images. You may also indicate an image for honorable mention, but this HM vote is not included for first, second, or third place.

As with the last challenge because we are having up to three images per entrant we WILL judge the winner by their scores combined. ie if their image 1 gets 24 votes, their image 2 gets 12 votes, and their image 3 gets 12 votes then they score 48.

2nd and third and HM are as per usual - ie based on votes for one image.

namtar3d · January 2017

Here my votes:

Entry: #8 (Stezza)
Title: Eureka Stockade
Artist: Stezza

-3 entries were amazing, but this one is my favorite!

Entry #14
Title: Death of Eric The Lowlander
Artist: Headwax

Just epic!

Entry #13
Title: Son of Nial of The Nine Hostages
Artist: Headwax

Very nice job, i love it!

HM:

Entry: #4

Title: Cyclopstritch Cavalry Charge

Artist: Diomede

That's a lot and funny work.

Thank you every one, and i'm sorry for being so bad host.

Vyusur · January 2017

Entry: #10

Title: Mind controlling bone fish

Artist: Stezza

Entry #13

Title: Son of Nial of The Nine Hostages

Artist: Headwax

Entry #7

Final Advance

Artist: Bytescapes

HM

Entry: #9

Title: Carrarians vs Dazonians

Artist: Stezza

MarkIsSleepy · January 2017

Entry: #4 Title: Cyclopstritch Cavalry Charge Artist: Diomede

Entry: #10 Title: Mind controlling bone fish Artist: Stezza

Entry #13 Title: Son of Nial of The Nine Hostages Artist: Headwax

HM: Entry: #8 Title: Eureka Stockade Artist:Stezza

DUDU · January 2017

#2

#4

#14

HM: #8

Diomede · January 2017

Some very different styles to choose from, which is good. Unfortunately, it makes it hard because it is a little bit like comparing apples and oranges. In no particular order.

Entry: #3 Title: Against the Temple of Evil, by Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010) - really appeciated this image when I saw it at full size.

Entry: 6, Title: Attack at the Ostrich Farm, by Artist: Varsel - I found this image inspirational.

Entry #7 Final Advance, by Artist: Bytescapes - could be a promo shot for a game ad (is it?)

HM Entry #14 Title: Death of Eric The Lowlander, by Artist: Headwax

wgdjohn · January 2017

As always... in no particular order.

#7 "Advance"                                     by Bytescapes
#9 "Carrarians vs Dazonians"            by Stezza
#14 "Death of Eric The Lowlander"     by Headwax
HM #6 "Attack at the Ostrich Farm"   by Varsel

All the renders, modeling and scene setup were very good. I do declare... everyone is a winner here!

Note to All: I've placed a zip file which includes all the entry #'s, titles and artists if anyone wants to use it to aid in voting.

TangoAlpha · January 2017

In approximately numerical order:

Entry	Artist	Title
7	Bytescapes	Final Advance
10	Stezza	Mind Controlling Bone Fish
13	Head Wax	Son of Nial of the Nine Hostages
HM 4	Diomede	Cyclopstritch Cavalry Charge

Stezza · January 2017

Hey, Cararians , I'm in hospital posting using my phone, sorry I can't vote as I can't see the entries and at this stage I don't know when I'll be out.. Good luck and we'll catch up soon. Auto spell is pita!

Diomede · January 2017

Oh no! Sending positive thoughts and vibes your way. Hope you are better soon.

Headwax · January 2017

Stezza said:
Hey, Cararians , I'm in hospital posting using my phone, sorry I can't vote as I can't see the entries and at this stage I don't know when I'll be out.. Good luck and we'll catch up soon. Auto spell is pita!

Gee, you'll do anything to get out of hosting the next challenge.

Sending you get well quick wishes by pidgeon.

In all seriousness, take care.

wgdjohn · January 2017

Hopes that you are out quickly... Get Well Soon.

TangoAlpha · January 2017

Get well, Stezza!

Vyusur · January 2017

Get well ASAP!

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Carrara Monthly Challenge #30: WAR TIMES - Voting Thread

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Scramblers

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Final Advance

Entry: #11

Entry: #15

Entries are now CLOSED.

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Entry #13

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