Winners: Autodesk Mudbox Contest

[Mansi]

Thanks to all the participants for taking part in the challenge and we would like to thanks our Judges who took out their time to pick their winners.

And the Winners are....

-:WINNER:-
mridulsen | Queen_Of_Death

Harsh Borah: Well modeled and textured. Paid great amount of attention to detail. If I were to critic, would be that the concept is not original. I have seen similar model posing on creature before. Nontheless overall well produced model, and final render looks great. I particularly love the texturing!

Vivek Ram: Good stuff. Easily my favourite sculpt in the challenge. If I were to push this further, id try and get more motion into the sculpt overall. The final colors and lighting doesn’t do justice to the sculpt though. Good piece overall!

Dhimant Vyas: Good points
• Very good modeling with good detailing
• Very good texturing and painting
• Lighting is ok
• Love the lava effect inside the beast’s body
• Good anatomy of beast and lady
• Good dynamic pose
• Nice expressions of the characters

Points for Improvements

• Overall it looks familiar character, looks like we have seen similar character so many times by different artists( innovative character could be tried)
• The lighting could have been improved, there are too many light sources which confuses viewer
• Since beast’s body has fire inside you could have shown smoke coming out of body too
• Lighting on the character and on the stone below does not match
• May be, You could have some lava dropping out or flying away at feet or body
• Logically you could have used metal belt or thick chain around the beast instead of leather, as beast is made out of lava
• Good BG could have enhanced your character
• At first glance my attention goes to beast rather than the main character the queen!! you could have achieved your focus point (the queen ) planning your lighting and colors

-:RUNNER UP:-
sagar21mm | Barbanyan

Harsh Borah: Dig the concept! Very cool idea of poor trees turning against humans(kinda like Ents from lord of the rings). Nicey detailed anatomy, though there are few errors in musculature, some muscles are too exaggerated. Areas like serratus anterior and External oblique look like 3 sets of muscles right now, they should be only 2 sets of overlapping muscles. If it was me, I would have made him more tree like and made more parts of his body as a tree. Well executed model.

Vivek Ram: Good concept but the sculpt seems overdone. Too much detail can sometimes make the viewer lose focus of what we are actually supposed to look at.The pose could also be a lot stronger.

Dhimant Vyas: Good points
• Good modeling
• Good texturing and painting
• Good dynamic pose
• Good expressions of the characters
• Good attempt to make muscular body ( but need anatomy practice)
• Good concept but arises question why in evil nature in human form!

Points for Improvements

• Overall it looks familiar character, looks like we have seen similar character so many times by different artists( innovative character could be tried)
• There could have been much more believability in overall look, it still look CG!
• The tree branches coming out of the body looks forceful and artificial
• The lighting is flat, it could have been improved
• BG and character’s lighting does not match
• Putting things together and combining some forms does not make character! Everything should gel with each other and be a part of the character

-:1st RUNNER UP:-
sagiarts | Arnab Roy

Harsh Borah: Pretty cool detailed model. Unfortunately I have seen too many war trolls to like this one. Nice textures.

Vivek Ram: Good pose, good design. The final rendered output seems to hide a lot of the good work. The pose could also be tweaked to balance him a bit.

We congratulate all the winners and all the participants !

[Mansi]

Judges Reviews

arijit | THE LAST BREATH


- Vivek Ram: A nice looking final render. The sculpt itself seems to lack detail that is otherwise covered by the lighting. But the final image doesn’t seem to work well with the theme of the contest.
- Prem Moraes: Model is good but most details lost within the good textures and many details no showing up at render
- Dhimant Vyas: Good points
• Good modeling
• Good translucent effect
• Looks fearsome
• Good expressions of the characters
• Good concept, looks story from mythology ( you could have given the touch of it)
• Looks believable
• Like the saliva at the mouth, feels sticky
Points for Improvements
• Still looks CG!
• The texture looks flat, does not flow with the body volume
• It looks cut out like with BG
• Composition could have been more dynamic
• The horns coming out of thin floating skin looks odd, it could have been part of the skeleton
• Need to study inside structure of the body and joints


AtanuPorel


- Vivek Ram: Good effort but still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing.
- Prem Moraes: The final image looks more like a cut out….finger not proper, Shading is very heavy in the textures …seems to create a light problem at render (double shading)…


Ravithomas:


- Vivek Ram: nice pose on the sculpt, but the overall detail and design could have been pushed more.
- Harsh Borah: Something about this model haunts me. I really love the subtle anatomy and specially the superficial skin details. It is probably the best skin modeling detail I have seen so far in this comptetion. I really dig some of his parts, like elbows and forearms from side view, palms and feets are really well done. Texturing could have been better. His spine texture is over blown, and some indented parts are too dark. The biggest thing that's bothering me his 8pack and slight nudity. Should have given him a pair of boxers...jk Good work!


Siddesh:

- Vivek Ram: Nice design. still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing


Truthhunter:

- Vivek Ram: the design had potential but the anatomy and structure of the sculpt is quite weak. The image also gets too busy and is hard to focus on.


Vinso:


- Vivek Ram: Clean sculpt. Lacks emotion though. This could have been posed to give it more character.
- Harsh Borah: Sometime they say simplicity is the best. I like the idea of sensous yet dangerous woman. You are lured by her beauty, only to be bitten her serpents. Delicately modeled anatomy, though he could have paid more attention to detail, like elbow and knee deformation, deltoids are too big, fingers are too evenly placed and so on But as i said, the concept is right on money, nd texturing is cool too!
- Prem Ram: I like the extra care taken to add specular on the tatoos foot, brough out some details…overall a very harmonous image


Pulotochishi:

- Vivek Ram: Really nice sculpt. The final render doesnot really show off the work. Could have been presented a lot better.

Lait Lichade Kumar:

- Vivek Ram: Good effort but still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing.


Cybermachine:

- Vivek Ram: Good effort but still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing.


Pulotochishi:

- Vivek Ram: My favourite concept in the competition. Really clean model. This one could have used a better presentation for the final render.


Piyushkhanna:

- Vivek Ram: Good effort but still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing.


Ashok Kumar Aalwaru:

- Vivek Ram: Good effort but still a long way to go in terms of understanding form, anatomy and in texturing.

[RDx]

Incredible stuff by everyone. Congratulations winners.

[maxthebest685]

Congrats Everyone. Nice job.

[Abhishek]

Congrtulations everyyyone !! Hope you had a good learning of Mudbox through this contest. Full images of Winners ::

[nirmwood]

Appreciate the level of quality in the winning works, excellent judging and well deserved places for the winners.

[mridulsen]

Yeeeee .... Happy Time for me ..... Long waiting came to a Happy Ending for me .....
Congrats to other Winners too... Sagar and Arnab .... for ur nice Winning Artwork ...
Also congrats to all who participated in this fantastic Competition and made it successful ....
It inspires me and other Artists too ... so a great Thanks to cgtantra for boosting us time to time ...
Special Thanks to my Honey for all her Support through out d challenge ... Without which surely I couldn't complet it on time ....

[tanay]

just awesome...

[truthhunter]

Vivek happy to read your comment..

[sagar21mm]

OOOHHHHOOOOO
very very happy moment for me..
Congrats to Mridul and Arnab.. and all the participant too..
thanks to cgtantra and team for having great contest and encouraged us,
Special Thanks to all jury, their lovely comments and suggestion are very important and valuable for me and all the my artist friends,
i will sure i work on all those area with proper planning and study,
it was excellent learning experience for me.
Thank you

[truthhunter]

one more from my side "this was one hell of a comp I liked the jury panel some of my favorites" wish i could complete it in time......loved all the work of all the artists in here .................congratulations to all of ye people....and Abhishek you are the man.......everything was well balanced by you......and yeah the team behind this credit to you guys tooo...love you all...I am waiting for the next comp.......

[Abhishek]

Truthhunter - Good to know you enjoyed the contest. We all should thank David [dchung] for managing this contest and making sure it goes smooth.

[sagar21mm]

yes absolutely Abhishek sir,
David [dchung] he's the man who encouraged us and boosting my confidence,
Thank you very much David sir

[tallooriravi@yahoo.com]

Congrats ! To all the winner.

[sagarart]

CANGOOOOO To all the winner.

[koolnits]

Congratulations to the winners!
Nice to see the efforts put in by all the contestants, good luck to you all!

[dchung]

Well done guys hope this challenge was a learning experience for all involved , looking forward to the next one

[cooluser3]

Really a motivating contest for other artists

[Bikku]

Congrats ...to all