ARTTWar Challenge - THE MAHABHARAT - Guidelines

Abhishek · 02-01-2009, 08:35 PM

CGTantra Artt War - overview

A competition between group of students representing their Animation Institutions of India or Abroad. LEARN INSPIRE GROW has been the philosophy for CGTantra to create a platform where artists could improve
and showcase their creativity. CGTantra ART War is another step towards that with the motivation towards inspiring team work.

Starting from Mid-January - Students from Animation Institutions will form teams of 2-3 members to create an Artwork of the given theme. To keep the learning curve higher while they work - They will have to keep posting their Work-In-Progress images on CGTantra Forums under the section of their School Names. The critics will be posted to the artworks in progress by the members as well as by our senior Forum Leaders and Mentors.

After 2 months of work and submitting the result at various stages, final results will be posted on CGTantra. They will go for the online public voting as well as to our Forums Leaders and Jury that will consist experienced and acclaimed professionals. Final results will be announced on CGTantra event and winners will be awarded and felicitated.

So students - Its time to fight for your School & for your Art.

TOPIC: THE MAHABHARAT

Details
We have all been fascinated by the immense amount of imaginative opportunities in the epic. Let this be your opportunity to explore it the way you always saw it!
Choose from a situation from the MAHABHARAT, create your favourite character(s), Props, Set, light it and create a Turn Around of the situation and submit the final result as a 30 seconds video.
You are required to post your work in final stages. The judges would like to see your Concept, Sketches, Character Model Turn Arounds, Character Wireframe, Snapshots of Set without and with textures along with your final submission. You need to keep posting these at different stages in your thread at CGTantra to stay in the challenge.
Let your concepts be a pushed form of existing concepts or a truly nextgen design, all we want to see is your creativity flow. As we all know, detail still remains the key! Lets try to stay as Indian as possible even in the look
of characters.

THE CHALLENGE:
You are expected to create a scene from the MAHABHARAT with the characters, the props, the set and the mood. Model, sculpt, texture, light and render it in the best possible presentation.

This is a Team challenge
Don’t worry if you are not yet confident about all aspects, the good thing is you can work in team for this Challenge. So its a great opportunity to work with your friends and bring out the best team efforts. This is your best opportunity to start with a kick-ass team project and have something good ready for your Showreel.

So form your teams, register and join in! Its going to be a good ride.

The Challenge starts January 18th and shall continue till April 10th '09.

Mentors & Jury

This is not just a challenge where your skills are on test but also a platform where you can improve them and learn. Our mentors will be regularly keeping an eye on your Work in Progress submissions and will keep commenting on them for you to make use of those tips and improve your artwork.

The Mentors for ARTTWar 2009 - First Edition will be

Vivek Ram [aka Hells Angel]
Anish Mohan [aka Anishmations]
Sriram Chandra [aka Sriram]

Work will be judged based on a combined average of public voting and points by our judges and cgTantra Modeling Forum Leaders. Name of the Judges will be announced soon.

Enter the Challenge - Click here for Registration Form

1. Form your Teams from your schools and name your team in the following format: [Institute Name,
Branch, City - Team Name]
2. Fill in the Entry form on CGTantra.com
3. All the team members should be registered members of CGTantra
4. Once we verify your entry form, we will create a Thread of your team in the “Mahabharata” Challenge
forums and will mail you the link of it.
5. Start posting your Work in Progress [WIP’s] in that forum section within a week of registering into the
challenge.

Rules:
1. This is a strictly WIP challenge. Sharing is learning! You have to share your processes right from your concept art till the final image. You also get to receive and give suggestions and comments on your work that could help the work get better.
2. The idea of the challenge must be clearly stated at the beginning. A background story can also be given if required.
3. Do not by any chance fully or partially use elements of already done work.
4. Believe in the spirit of the challenge. Please stay away from religious comments, obscenity, and other aspects that can hurt or ruin the smooth proceeding of the challenge.
5. The team size is restricted to a maximum of 3. The team members' names are to be listed and any replacement of team member has to be notified in the wip thread.
6. Provide some form of concept art, a doodle is fine. They will be considered while judging entries.
7. Render from a few different points of views so we can appreciate the details. Remember to show the steps you used, and help out as much as you can, of course you're not obligated to, but it will help those that need it greatly.
8. DO NOT use ready-made models or downloaded assets.
9. Their is no restriction on number of entries per team.
10. POSTING FINAL ENTRY - Make 1 Final Entry rendered at 1280x1024 and post the turn-around video to show details and different aspects of your scene.

Prizes
Ist Prize -

1 NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 Graphics Card
1 year Subscription of ARTT - CGTantra Artbook of Excellence
3 CGTantra TShirts for the the team.
Artwork display and showcased on ARTT magazine & CGTantra homepage.
Challenge winner badge in CGTantra Forums.
DIGITAL TUTORS Training DVDs
ZBrush Licenses
Quidam Software CD's
Evermotion Resource DVDs

IInd Prize -

6 Months ARTT Subscription
CGTantra TShirts
ARTWork Showcase in ARTT

IIIrd Prize -

3 Months ARTT
CGTantra TShirts

and much much more...

Teams can use the attached .png file in their submission images >

hdrockzz · 02-01-2009, 10:11 PM

well is it a 2d or 3d war??? i mean by looking the article it looks 3d...but i am confused???

Abhishek · 02-01-2009, 10:19 PM

Hey hdrockzz, It will a 3D challenge and it will require visualization, concept sketch, modeling [sculpting can be done too], texturing and lighting up a scene. The topic of the scene to be create will be announced with the details.

No animation will be needed but the teams will need to create a turn around of the set.

hdrockzz · 03-01-2009, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Hey hdrockzz, It will a 3D challenge and it will require visualization, concept sketch, modeling [sculpting can be done too], texturing and lighting up a scene. The topic of the scene to be create will be announced with the details.

No animation will be needed but the teams will need to create a turn around of the set.

hey abhishek thanks 4 the reply...

Hardboiledart · 03-01-2009, 10:39 PM

can only 1 individual from Animation Institution participate in this or 2-3 members are important?

Abhishek · 04-01-2009, 03:27 AM

Hey Hardboiledart, The way this challenge is designed, it will be better to have a team working behind the whole scene as it wont be judged only upon the final delivery, It will also be judged upon the work at various stages like ur sketches, models, sculpts[if done], character turn arounds, set lighting etc. etc.

So we would encourage to form a team and make sure everything is done perfect at various stages.

Hardboiledart · 04-01-2009, 04:58 PM

Thanx

That clear's my doubt

vicky · 05-01-2009, 07:48 AM

hi abhishek it's really a great idea.i m waiting for the challenge.

Deepam · 12-01-2009, 08:23 PM

Good to see this is all happening here, first Matte Painting challenge then this big one. I think we have a real good opening of this new year at CGTantra.

Keep it up . . .

Abhishek · 12-01-2009, 08:56 PM

Hi Deepam, Along with Matte Painting & ARTTWar - Battle of the Schools, we have a real big challenge coming up thats called Dominance War... Details will be up soon.

Rupesh Javvadi · 13-01-2009, 08:50 AM

Hi Abhishek,
Fine,
ARTT War Challenge,
Digi Matte Painting Challenge,
Modeling Challenge,
Animation Challenge.............
but why can't you conduct Rigging Challenge atleast once in a while. I'm waiting from past one year

I know, this is not right place to ask. But please answer

Deepam · 13-01-2009, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abhishek

we have a real big challenge coming up thats called Dominance War...

Oh dear!!!!!

Can't believe this . . . . I am desperately waiting for this and it will be more exciting to participate through CGTantra.

Cheeeeers!!

laxmikanth sherigar · 13-01-2009, 08:55 PM

wow...it's a really great news for cg students......it's gonna b great opportunity to show their talent as well as their team work together..hoping for great "'blast'" over here...

Hardboiledart · 14-01-2009, 03:24 AM

Dominance War

SWEET !!!

gotta get gearedup for that

i gotta concentrate more on traditional stuff now coz Dominance War is no joke..we have to be the best of the best,to reach that sort of artist work level..

anishmations · 16-01-2009, 05:23 PM