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As someone who works with 3D characters everyday, I can call this "competition" what it is: a joke. 90%+ of the entries (not from TFA, which is from last year) are straight out of Poser. The only talent required is dressing the premade model with premade clothes, and then posing her.

If you want to see world class characters you should visit http://www.cgtalk.com/, or buy the book they printed recently, Exotique (you can see sample pages here:http://tinyurl.com/8c3rr). Even at the small sample page size you can easily see that the quality is much, much higher.

Try Corel Painter. Unsurpassed natural media painting program... lots of great Photoshop & Painter graphics here. Painter supports brush plugins, I wonder if MoXi will be released as one...

too clean for you?

check this out.

Since they will be using Blender, you might be interested in the upcoming features that the next release will have along with some of the scripts available

have a look at the development digest

http://cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=233256

Blender now has manipulators and universal undo - two things that lots of slashdotters complained were missing the last time Blender was mentioned on slashdot.

LetterRip

Capable of what, exactly?

Modelling and texturing? Sure. Especially for sub-d character modelling, Blender's toolset is extremely capable. The LSCM UV unwrapping is arguably better than in many of the big 'high end' apps - some people have been bringing it into their pipeline for that feature alone.

Character animation? Technically yes, but can be very difficult and inflexible, so practically, probably not. A big rewrite of Blender's animation tools is planned for an upcoming version, after which, the answer will a lot closer to yes, but that remains to be seen. Having said that, it held up fine for the previs animation on Spiderman 2.

Rendering? No. Blender's renderer is fantastic and very fast for video work, but doesn't have nearly the same sort of flexibility and robustness as you'd get with something like PRMan or Mental Ray, that these guys doing Star Wars would be using. On the other hand, there are a few Blender -> Renderman exporters in various states of completion, and if you had the resources, it shouldn't be difficult develop these further or write your own.

Effects such as particles, dynamics, etc? No. Blender's particles are rather limited and don't provide enough programmable control for the hard-core cases. Blender has no dynamics system yet, though the next release will include soft body dynamics. Since it's in development, it remains to be seen how robust it will be, the tests so far have been promising for everyday work, but still probably won't compete with a fully specialised system with teams of TDs tweaking it. I don't think it's targeting that audience anyway - more of an artist's tool.

It was amusing, however, when he went away for two weeks (Singapore was it?) in late 2002 IIRC.

Slashdot was unblocked the day after he left! :-)

In 2003 I believe the charging system was changed and you were quota'd. Then they let you use /.!

CGTalk was also banned, which was a PITA.

You can find Pixar's original announcement at Pixar Animation Studios and Exluna Settle Lawsuit

Further discussions can be found at CD Talk

Post want-ads on graphics Internet boards. Search the web to find graphics boards. Here are a few to get you started:

CGTalk
Polycount

And there are many others out there. Many have help-wanted boards.

Just use a standard work-for-hire type contract. That is, you will own the copyright. Then you can do whatever you want with it (like release under an open-source license). This is just standard practice for contract work of any type. There are lots of contract templates on the web and just about all of them assign copyright of created works to the person/company paying for it.

"Does anyone happen to know where one could obtain the original concept art? I would love to have something like this to spice up my drab apartment."

I can't help you there, but go see http://www.cgtalk.com. VERY talented professionals there doing 2D and 3D art. It's all posted in the forums. Here's something I made to give you an idea of what the work-in-progress pieces are like. I wouldn't say I'm exactly at the top of the talent pool here, either. You'll see what I mean.

"Does anyone happen to know where one could obtain the original concept art? I would love to have something like this to spice up my drab apartment."

I can't help you there, but go see http://www.cgtalk.com. VERY talented professionals there doing 2D and 3D art. It's all posted in the forums. Here's something I made to give you an idea of what the work-in-progress pieces are like. I wouldn't say I'm exactly at the top of the talent pool here, either. You'll see what I mean.

Well I have to admit, I'm STUNNED to see this story posted on Slashdot. Are a lot of you interested in concept/3d work?

I ask because I'm a 3D artist, and every month I have new stuff from concept to finished 3D added to my portfolio. One day, I'll have enough for a book if I decide to go that route. Have a peek here, here, and here

So I have to ask, is this the type of thing some of you would buy? If so, besides pretty pictures, what would you want out of it? Anything? Lots of text explaining in great detail what I did and why I did it?

I'm not so much asking "would you guys buy my book if I made one?", but I would be curious what is behind the decision to buy one? Is it for informational purposes, or is it just cool to see how a game you like is made? I guess I'm just stunned that Slashdot would find it that interesting. I'm curious if it's because art is appreciated, or if there is some general curiosity about how one goes from a paper drawing to a realistic 3d rendered model. Man I'd be happy to share what I know about that topic, for the most part I really have only been able to talk to fellow artists about it.

Well I have to admit, I'm STUNNED to see this story posted on Slashdot. Are a lot of you interested in concept/3d work?

I ask because I'm a 3D artist, and every month I have new stuff from concept to finished 3D added to my portfolio. One day, I'll have enough for a book if I decide to go that route. Have a peek here, here, and here

So I have to ask, is this the type of thing some of you would buy? If so, besides pretty pictures, what would you want out of it? Anything? Lots of text explaining in great detail what I did and why I did it?

I'm not so much asking "would you guys buy my book if I made one?", but I would be curious what is behind the decision to buy one? Is it for informational purposes, or is it just cool to see how a game you like is made? I guess I'm just stunned that Slashdot would find it that interesting. I'm curious if it's because art is appreciated, or if there is some general curiosity about how one goes from a paper drawing to a realistic 3d rendered model. Man I'd be happy to share what I know about that topic, for the most part I really have only been able to talk to fellow artists about it.

Well I have to admit, I'm STUNNED to see this story posted on Slashdot. Are a lot of you interested in concept/3d work?

I ask because I'm a 3D artist, and every month I have new stuff from concept to finished 3D added to my portfolio. One day, I'll have enough for a book if I decide to go that route. Have a peek here, here, and here

So I have to ask, is this the type of thing some of you would buy? If so, besides pretty pictures, what would you want out of it? Anything? Lots of text explaining in great detail what I did and why I did it?

I'm not so much asking "would you guys buy my book if I made one?", but I would be curious what is behind the decision to buy one? Is it for informational purposes, or is it just cool to see how a game you like is made? I guess I'm just stunned that Slashdot would find it that interesting. I'm curious if it's because art is appreciated, or if there is some general curiosity about how one goes from a paper drawing to a realistic 3d rendered model. Man I'd be happy to share what I know about that topic, for the most part I really have only been able to talk to fellow artists about it.

Also as a Cinema user, I purchased Mesh Surgery, which has some nice tablet or mouse free hand painting effects. It's a nice tool (a little buggy the odd time), great for adding muscles little ripples, painting landscapes. Good Stuff, and pretty cheap (if you have C4D 8.2)

Here is a link to a short clip of high quality CG using toon shading to give it a 2d / 3d blend.

It's very cool, worth the time to check out the link.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=9356 1

In Episode III, Padme realizes that Anakin is a major dork. The horror of the realization makes her break free of Lucas's stupid scripting...

As a side effect of the awakening, a glitch in the system creates a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Woohoo! Any excuse for a clone army of Natalie Portmans!!!

Whatever. Here boys, enjoy. Took me weeks to come up with the Algorithms. Please be kind to my server

Natalie Portman Reloaded! (Java Applet Animation)
Natalie Portman Reloaded! (Java Applet Animation, lo-res text render version)
Natalie Portman Reloaded! (zoomed in text render still with depth)

Comments are welcome at ghost@object404.com. So are job offers. Stupid #%!@% Tech bust...

Seriously though, this bloke at that message board seems to be making good progress on creating a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Go CGI-render guy!

"Quit looking on the Internet, no good artist will post his/her work there just so it could be taken by hundred's of people to be claimed as their own."

Bull shit.

"Quit looking on the Internet, no good artist will post his/her work there just so it could be taken by hundred's of people to be claimed as their own."

Bull shit.

Zaon has a thread dedicated to answering this question.

There's a permanant thread to the above link from CGTalk's discussion forum to keep this subject from coming up again and again. I highly recommend visititing CGTalk to view some of the discussions and images. They have forums for the major packages, threads for posting work in progress and finished images, and it's and all around great site with many professionals.

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