July 09 - Futuristic Cityscape : About Challenge & Guidelines

[kaustavsinha]

July 09 topic - Futuristic Cityscape

Poster Matte Painting - Frederic St-Arnaud
www.starno.net

So here's what we want to see: Take an existing photo of a city skyline, from the ground or aerial, and transform that into a world where you think it would look like in the future. It should be full of life, and could be a metropolis, or changed to be integrated more into nature itself. A story into why and how the city has been transformed is highly recommended. Showing the plate before and after is required, and should be of the same dimensions (or at least used as the majority in the matte painting).



Attention to perspective, form and design will be good to remember in this assignment.

Size of the Matte Painting: Your final image has to be, a minimum of 1300 x 700 px in size. The resolution must be 300 dpi. But, for your WIP images, you can submit images smaller than the above specified size.

Note: On July 19th, 2009, a Final Entry thread will be posted, where the contestants will be required to submit their final matte-paintings! It is MANDATORY for the contestants to post their final entries in this thread in order to be eligible for the judgement by the panel of honorable Judges!

Prizes:

First Prize:

NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 Graphic Card
CGTantra TShirt
Challenge Winner Badge in CGTantra
Frontpage Showcase

Second Prize:

CGTantra TShirt

Third Prize:

CGTantra TShirt

We are in the process of adding more exciting & cool prizes to the above list!

NOTE: Since May month's Challenges, we are following the GMT (Standard Time), since, few members were having difficulty in following the deadline! For your convenience, a link to a site, showing the GMT is available here.

A word of caution: From June month's Challenges, we've decided to be more strict towards anyone who is found creating matte-paintings which are inspired and is found to be very similar to an existing matte-painting! Also, anyone using parts of previously created matte-paintings (both, from their own creations or matte-paintings created by other artists), and using them in their entries, is also cautioned! The matte-paintings need to be created exclusively for these Challenges, from the initial concept to the final matte-painting! Anyone, who is found breaking these words of caution, will be warned once, after which, he/she will be banned from the concerned month's Challenges!

NOTE: This month's Challenges will run from July 2nd, 2009 to July 26th, 2009! Due to some unavoidable circumstances, the Challenges are starting from July 2nd, 2009! The contestants will get their full 25 days to complete their matte-paintings!

[somu02]

its very challenging subject. so when we have to post final matte paint, there we have to so before city and after city ..

[eyecon]

Very challenging and awesome! Unfortunatelly, I won't be able to join, (for next couple more I think) as I will be quite busy with a few other work related tasks... I'll be watching these challenges though... so good luck to all! I'll try to put some comment when able

[ssmakx]

yeah... i think that is y they have opsted david loung's matte as a sample... good luck to all...
gr8 topic btw.

[ssmakx]

Originally Posted by eyecon

Very challenging and awesome! Unfortunatelly, I won't be able to join, (for next couple more I think) as I will be quite busy with a few other work related tasks... I'll be watching these challenges though... so good luck to all! I'll try to put some comment when able

hope to get some tips and critics from u this time eric

[Kaioshen]

Sounds very cool. Work will probably keep me out, but i'll try and give it a go anyway

[DB-TUNING]

OK, fantastic theme!!! I'll be in!
So we have to post 2 images: 1 as original and 1 modified.
Same dimentions of city, right?
Is possible keep the dimension of city but expand around it?

[riporto]

Great, great theme! As always very surprising and innovative! I'll be in too, this time I won't do it wrong!
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RC71

[Olivier Ventura]

Excellent topic !!! (with a excellent description of it !)

Unfortunatelly, it's hollydays time for me, and time for a lot of little works on the side. So I realy have no time this month, except for posting some intentions of wip, not more....

I will keep an eye on the threads
Have fun ! Good Luck !

[bbb]

fine, fine, fine!!! I was waiting for a subject like this. I like it very much. Let's go to find image references!!

[halvarado]

Great subject! Great use of photo matte painting! I am so glad we are incorporating the use of plates for this one. Bravo!

[kaustavsinha]

Originally Posted by somu02

its very challenging subject. so when we have to post final matte paint, there we have to so before city and after city ..

Hi Somu,

Yeah! You MUST show the plate before and after, in the Final Entry thread!

Originally Posted by DB-TUNING

OK, fantastic theme!!! I'll be in!
So we have to post 2 images: 1 as original and 1 modified.
Same dimentions of city, right?
Is possible keep the dimension of city but expand around it?

Hi DB-TUNING,

Yeah! You MUST show the plate before and after, in the Final Entry thread!

Yeah! You can either keep both, before and after, of the same dimensions, or can extend the final matte-painting, but, using the original plate as the majority in the final matte-painting!

[dges]

Very nice subject ! I've lot of ideas... but I don't not either if I can participate.... I don't have lot of time.... I'll see !

Good luck at all !

[Pandafox]

I want to try, but I'm sure I can't win ! ahahah !
Just for fun !

[sagiarts]

Am in guys just to have some fun and some experience...best of luck to all

[Chanse]

New here. Gonna try my best to join this one. Haven't picked up my tablet for awhile... looking for driver updates... uurggh.

Good Luck Everyone!

Chanse

[hot hunk]

how can i participate in this mattepainting challage,
by directly posting work of i have to fill up register form?????
plz give me information, so i can start my work for this compitition....

[kaustavsinha]

Originally Posted by hot hunk

how can i participate in this mattepainting challage,
by directly posting work of i have to fill up register form?????
plz give me information, so i can start my work for this compitition....

Hi hot hunk,

There's no need to fill-up any registration form! Simply create a new thread, and start posting your Work In Progress (WIP) images in it! To create a new thread, click on either of the "NEW THREAD" tabs located on the top-left & bottom-left of the homepage of the CGTantra Digital Matte Painting Challenges forum here.

If you've any more queries/doubts, kindly post it here; we'll be more than happy to solve your queries/doubts!

[hot hunk]

thx 4 information

[kaustavsinha]

Originally Posted by hot hunk

thx 4 information

You are most welcome!