Carrara Challenge #37 - Dungeons Deep - Winners Announced!
Jonstark
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This is the Entry thread for the Dungeons Deep Challenge (Carrara Challenge #37)
Entry Thread Closes/Voting Begins: Tuesday midnight (end of Tuesday) January 16. 2018 (DAZ Mountain time)
Voting Ends: midnight Monday (end of Monday) January 22, 2018 (DAZ mountain time)
Announcing the winners of Carrara Challenge #37 'Dungeons Deep'!
1st place: 'The Zen of a Warrior Princess' by UnifiedBrain:
2nd place: 'Treasure Guardian' by Dustrider:
3rd place: 'In Memorial' by Stezza:
4th place (tie): 'The Lost Train' by Varsel:
4th place (tie): 'Max had promised to do the washing up, even on Sundays.... but that didnt save him from.... The Crypt!' by Headwax:
Additionally, MatCreator has generously volunteered to sponsor this Challenge!
Here's his profile:
"Whats shakin' gang =)
Paris here, aka "MatCreator"... I got caught up in the wave of the home pc era in 1998, started using photos to create mats for Bryce ("mat"-creator =P), but have since incorporated Carrara, 3D Coat, ZBrush, and Hexagon into my digital arsenal... I'm just your average free-thinking creative individual, my esoteric digital surrealism is my extension of life, and when I am not pushing, pulling or painting voxels, I'm giving peace of mind to people who have been invaded by intruders of the worst kind....."
For those who don't know, MatCreator is one of the all-time great Carrara Published Artists who specializes in products for shaders and 3d brushes. You can find his Daz store here:
https://www.daz3d.com/matcreator
One of the first products I ever purchased when I first obtained Carrara was his Modular Urban Triplex: https://www.daz3d.com/cpm-modular-urban-triplex
It's a full interior house, with tons of included furniture, excellent shaders, render and atmosphere presets, and I highly recommend it.
More recently I've finally learned a bit about how to do 3d painting in Carrara (I never really realized what 3d painting was, or how useful it is, til I saw a recent youtube tutorial), and as a result I've learned how important it is to have a good selection of 3d brushes, and MatCreator's shader and 3d brush packs are invaluable in this regard, again I highly recommend them, here's a few he offers:
https://www.daz3d.com/mc-mmm-carrara
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-pro-master-shaders
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-pro-master-shader-brushes
Also (and this is a really cool coincidence) he is working on a new product, which is actually a Dungeon! Sadly this product hasn't yet been approved by Daz, so it's not available yet in the store, though hopefully soon it will get the green light and we can all expand our Dungeon Master toolkits :)
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Entry: # 2
Title: Misadventures in Babysitting
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3116816/#Comment_3116816
Products Used: Mmoir's Carrara bedroom, K4 and K4 basicwear, Misty's G8F for Carrara character, Naomi's dynamic hair for Carrara.
Additional Notes: ...and the Randolphs lost yet another babysitter.
Entry: #3
Title: Spaceship of Horror
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3136941/#Comment_3136941
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3141756/#Comment_3141756
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3245616/#Comment_3245616
Products Used: everything modeled and textured in Carrara
Additional Notes:
Entry: #4
Title: "Cave Explorer"
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
WIP Links:
Products Used:
Additional Notes:
The cave is made up of three terrains (ceiling, floor and wall) plus a plane for the water plus some additional ripples modeled in the vertex modeler. Rocks on the floor and water droplets on the ceiling were scattered with replicators. Fur on the rats and some additional stray hairs on the explorer are Carrara Dynamic Hair. The torch is a simple vertex cylinder and the flame is a Fire primitive with a bulb parented to it with some glow and lens flare effects.
The lighting is two low-powered spot lights, one off camera in front of the character and one off camera behind her, with most of the light coming from the bulb parented to the torch.
Textures for the cave were created in Filter Forge and Carrara.
Entry: #5
Title: "The Dungeon"
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
WIP Links:
Products Used:
Additional Notes:
A low poly dungeon. Except for the rats and the hands, everything was modeled and textured in Carrara. The walls, arch, stairs and floor are made up of simple vertex cubes with filleted edges just duplicated to build everything, with a mix of local and global procedural textures to add some apparent material variation.
Entry: #6 (edit-ted to fix entry #, i'se a slow typist)
Title: Djinnie in a bottle avec toast under glass
Artist: Misty
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3219301/#Comment_3219301
Products Used:
g3m, ladybug ala carte creeper collection
carrara native content, french toast, cucumber
Additional Notes:
caustics on
Entry: #7
Title: Treasure Guardian
Artist: Dustrider
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3157981/#Comment_3157981
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3163536/#Comment_3163536
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3207986/#Comment_3207986
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3219431/#Comment_3219431
Products Used:
"Bikini" (top and bottom) is from Bladerune for V4 (Rendo - no longer available)
The belt is from V4 Ranger
The gloves, quiver, and arrows are from Ranger Props for Genesis 2 Female(s)
The leggings are from the Callidora Outfit for G2F
The sword is from Elven Weapon Archer
The bow is from Horizon Redux for V4 (Rendo - no longer available)
The hair is Chrome Hair for G2F (RDNA/Aeon Soul - no longer available)
The dragon and texture are from the DAZ Dragon 3 Pro Bundle (got it in one of the sales where it was less than $10.00 .... woohoo)
The building interior is Fantasy Room Interior
The treasure chests, treasure, shield, weapons rack and assorted weapons are from various items available here at DAZ 3D
Additional Notes: The scene was completely set up in Carrara except for the dragon. For the dragon I applied the textures in DS, then save it and imported the DS scene into Carrara. All the materials/shaders (except for a couple of the building shaders that the detail was lost in DOF) were then set up for use in Octane Render (most of them looked pretty bad initially). I used a custom Glossy/Specular mix Octane shader on the dragon and the girl. The final image was rendered in Octane with some very minor post processing in Gimp (Levels, unsharp mask, and fog/dust).
Please zoom to full resolution of 2500x2500 to see the full shader effects and details!
Entry: #8
Title: The Zen of a Warrior Princess
Artist: UnifiedBrain
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3223116/#Comment_3223116 and https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3223116/#Comment_3223116
Products Used: Stephanie 4, GFSnake from Predatron, Fantasy Tunnel, Barbarian King sword, Choko hair.
Additional Notes: Lighting is a combination of ambient, gamma, GI, HDRI, and a lot of bulbs. Fog is Carrara cloud. Carrara text. G'MIC plugin. Metaball blood pool.
Entry: #9
Title: Herk and the Serpent Queen
Artist: UnifiedBrain
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3168226/#Comment_3168226 and https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3185061/#Comment_3185061
Products Used: Included are the morphing python, Freak 3 and V3 (with Caleb hair), and the Horo Tourbillion HDRI.
Additional Notes: Carrara hair for armpits, Carrara clouds for mist, and negative light and displacement on Queen skin texture. Comic Life 3 provided the captions, and PSE was used for tiny tweaks.
Entry: #10
Title: Postcard From the Red Planet
Artist: UnifiedBrain
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3195806/#Comment_3195806
Products Used: V4 Bioskin and G2M Retro space suit. Upper ceiling was a Horo HDRI.
Additional Notes: The alien hill is a plane with displacement. The top light was Carrara lens flare. Texture and contrast pop was done with G'MIC. Postmark and text (except sig) was done in PSE 2018.
Entry #11
"Deep in The Space"
Artist: Vyusur
Wip link: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3229681/#Comment_3229681
Products used:
https://www.daz3d.com/manga-anime-battlesuit-for-genesis-2-female-s
https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-hanger-a
Carrara's Octane render, no post work.
Entry: # 12
Title: A Hungry Cave
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3169241/#Comment_3169241
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3170626/#Comment_3170626
Products Used: Michael 4 https://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-base-male-3d-model
https://www.daz3d.com/knight-champion-for-m4
https://www.daz3d.com/the-knight-errant-for-michael-3-0
Zarathant - Sixus1 - Content Paradise
Lantern - Andi3d
Additional Notes: Cave floor, sides, and top are a Carrara landscape copied then rotated to form up a cave.
Zarathant was imported twice and positioned with the mouths open at the end of the cave.
Postwork using the Mediachance Dynamic Auto Painter - Golden Age Finer filter.
Entry: # 13
Title: Sting in the tail.
Artist: Bunyip02
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3179961/#Comment_3179961
Products Used: Victoria 4 https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-2-base
https://www.daz3d.com/riae-hair
http://www.sharecg.com/v/43656/related/11/Poser/ScorpionDoll
https://www.daz3d.com/fantasy-tunnel
Additional Notes: Postwork using Mediachance Dynamic Auto Painter - Aqua Real filter.
Entry: #14
Title: Phantom in Catacombs with a Hairy Cucumber
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3116416/#Comment_3116416
Products Used:LoRez Super Hero from P3DA retextured to The Phantom and the skull is from Them Bones
Also used Carrara hair and modeled the stand.
Additional Notes:used 2 spotlights and one bulb for lighting with soft shadows and replicators for the skulls
Entry: #15
Title: Ant Nest
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3160371/#Comment_3160371
Products Used:Ken Gilliland's ants. Skull from Them Bones.
Additional Notes:Surface replicated the ants to the modeled ant hole.
Entry: #16
Title: Fribians
Artist: Stezza
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3186366/#Comment_3186366
Products Used: Magurgle from CGBytes
Additional Notes: Have you ever wondered what those little cave like holes were that you see on the creek and river banks...
well inside these little cave dwellings reside the Fribians... a cross between a fish and an anphibian... they are hard to spot in the open as they blend in with their environment, but within their little cave they go about their daily life of eating insects, fish and rotting corpses that may have come to grief in the river/creek..
I found they can be tempted by five day old raw prawns and if you are lucky you may catch one... but only at dusk time when the cicadas start to sing.... hence your chances of catching one happens only once every seven years for a short period during summertime.
Entry: # 17
Title: INSIDE THE CAVE OF THE SOVEREIGN BEAST
Artist: Alberto
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3229616/#Comment_3229616
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3234006/#Comment_3234006
Products Used:
Genesis
SickleYield Peasant Tunic and Pants for Genesis, and Rogue Armory Boots for M4
Hooded Cloak for Genesis
LightX
Additional Notes:
He is the prince-wizard Adriel. In fact, he is a novice wizard. His brother is King of Ivandorus, the Blue Kingdom.
Adriel is carrying the Sanguinem gemstone, a magic one than only respond to him.
He is travelling through the northern lands of the world of Arsh, and now, has entered the caves of a terrible monster leader, that he is not aware at all.
Multipass rendering in Carrara, postwork in Gimp.
Entry: # 18
Title: Max had promised to do the washing up, even on Sundays.... but that didnt save him from.... The Crypt!
Artist: Headwax
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3243456/#Comment_3243456
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3237571/#Comment_3237571
Products Used:
M4
M4 Beard
Noggins rats - one dead
Crypta
CP Skeleton
M4UrWPants
Additional Notes:
It's got three lights - two bulbs for the background elements (135percent but only 12 foot - medium sized scene) and a spotlight
For the spotlight - I put a photograph of some clouds in the gel and ticked 'used gel' in the light cone box
for post work I used waterelogue to get the watercolour look - drop result down quite a lot in the opacity because it screws up faces bigtime
I fine tuned contrast details and colour with Oloneohdr
I have it a warm bloom in photoshop elements with ... Opitikverve Labs Virtual Photographer
copied the whole lot and desaturated it because the guy's foot was now too red ( to keep saturation and contrast on the focal point)
then erased the centre of that desaturated layer to bring back some warmth in the middle
I ran this through Topaz Impression and dropedd the result down to about 8 percent opacity
hit his trousers with a noise parameter in the alpha channale and that made them less clean
thanks to JonStark for doing an excellent hosting job!!
Entry: # 19
Title: Beware the Treasure! (Part 1)
Artist: Jonstark
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3148331/#Comment_3148331
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3151971/#Comment_3151971
Products Used:
The Night Before Christmas
Holiday Accessories
A Cosy Kitsch Living Room
Dream Home: Great Room Furniture -- London
Genesis1
The Ghoul
Additional Notes: There is a very good reason that all good little boys and girls shouldn't try to sneak in to get their presents early, but instead should wait til Christmas morning!
Entry: # 20
Title: Beware the Treasure! (Part 2)
Artist: Jonstark
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3193576/#Comment_3193576
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3195646/#Comment_3195646
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3212626/#Comment_3212626
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3216711/#Comment_3216711
Products Used:
Snaggletooth Caverns
Raw Dwarfology
Genesis1
Genesis Ranger
Fantastic Chests
Pirate Treasure Chest (Only used a bumpmap for the coins, otherwise I modelled the coins myself, still thought I should mention it)
Dragon Skeleton
Additional Notes: 'Eyes on the Prize' is not always Wise Advice!
entry #21
title: egyptian doom
artist: shlomi laszlo
vips:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/216796/carrara-challenge-37-dungeons-deep-wip-thread/p10
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/216796/carrara-challenge-37-dungeons-deep-wip-thread/p11
products:
https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-2-base
https://www.daz3d.com/pharaohs-of-the-sun-for-v4
https://www.daz3d.com/children-of-aten
https://www.daz3d.com/children-of-aten-2
https://www.daz3d.com/v4-elite-texture-marie
https://www.daz3d.com/gkd-skin-ultimate
https://www.daz3d.com/queens-from-the-nile-for-bast-v4
https://www.daz3d.com/bundle-bast-for-v4
https://www.daz3d.com/bast-textures
https://www.daz3d.com/temple-of-the-pharaohs
https://www.daz3d.com/forgotten-dynasties
a tentcle from:
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/39/start
https://www.daz3d.com/sensational-she-freak-v4
v4 general poses
https://www.daz3d.com/facial-expressions-for-v4
veloute
Entry: # 22
Title: The Lost Train
Artist: Varsel
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3123201/#Comment_3123201
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3227916/#Comment_3227916
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3234571/#Comment_3234571
Products Used:
https://www.daz3d.com/parkside-box-car
https://www.daz3d.com/parkside-passenger-car
The rest is made in Carrara's Vertex modeler.
Additional Notes:
At the end of WW2, when the Germans where retreating from Eastern Europe, a lot of art and treasure disappeared and was never found again. Including the famous Amber Rom ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room ).
During the war, there were built a lot of underground installations all over Europe, for research, as factories and as barracks. And they all had access to the railroad network.
Entry: # In Memorial - A vote for this one is a vote to WDGJohn
Title: The Last Farewell
Artist:
WiP - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3249806/#Comment_3249806
Additional Notes: WGDJohn started to model a walker after his fall but never finished.
Entry thread is now closed and converted to the Voting Thread!
Please Vote for your 4 favorite entries (in any order, the votes do not need to be ranked).
Amazing job you did JonStark!! Congrats, that's a great rollup 23 images!
I love caves and got a lot of great ideas here for my own work, some dark, some with amazing use of colour... thank you all!
So hard to choose... yet AGAIN!
Silene
Entry: #7
Title: Treasure Guardian
Artist: Dustrider
Entry: # 20
Title: Beware the Treasure! (Part 2)
Artist: Jonstark
Entry: #5
Title: "The Dungeon"
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
Entry: #23? In Memorial - A vote for this one is a vote to WDGJohn
Title: The Last Farewell (John Star-walker!)
Artist: WDGJohn via Stezza
Entry: #5
Title: "The Dungeon"
Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
Entry #11
"Deep in The Space"
Artist: Vyusur
Entry: # 22
Title: The Lost Train
Artist: Varsel
Entry: # In Memorial - A vote for this one is a vote to WDGJohn
Title: The Last Farewell
Artist: WDGJohn via Stezza
Entry: #3
Title: Spaceship of Horror
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Entry: #8
Title: The Zen of a Warrior Princess
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry: # 17
Title: INSIDE THE CAVE OF THE SOVEREIGN BEAST
Artist: Alberto
Entry: # 22
Title: The Lost Train
Artist: Varsel
Entry: #1 Title: cavern deep Artist: shlomi laszlo
-puff dragon magic
Entry: #5 Title: "The Dungeon" Artist: Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
-yup, this is a deep dungeon, looks ready for a new client
Entry: #14 Title: Phantom in Catacombs with a Hairy Cucumber Artist: Stezza
-hairy cucumber
Entry: #19 Title: Beware the Treasure! (Part 1) Artist: Jonstark
-stockings look hung with care
Entry: #7
Title: Treasure Guardian
Artist: Dustrider
Entry: #8
Title: The Zen of a Warrior Princess
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry: #11
Title: Deep in the Space
Artist: Vyusur
Entry: #23? In Memorial - A vote for this one is a vote to WDGJohn
Title: The Last Farewell (John Star-walker!)
Artist: WDGJohn via Stezza