2 Hour Modelling Challenge

[SpaceToast]

I've set myself a challenge tonight. I'd like to see if I can go from sketch to usable character in two hours. The character is a Maxwell -- a sort of demon, or imp, based roughly on child proportions. At the end of two hours, I'd like to have:

• Produced front and side sketches
  
• Scanned them as rotoscopes
  
• Modelled the character
  
• Added the 2001 Rig
  
• Textured vinyl-like wrinkles where the skin bends in certain places
  

This won't be a full-screen character, and a lot of fine detail would be eaten up by the noise I'll have to add to the final layout. (I'll ultimately be building a scene around a noisy, low-light photoshoot.)

 

I'll check in tonight at 10:00, and then -- hopefully -- at midnight.

[Rodney]

Go for it and good luck!

[Eric2575]

I'll be watching Good splining.

 

Eric

[TheSpleen]

interesting

[pixelplucker]

I think Polyloop still holds speed modeling contests. Those started back in the old Amapi days. Pretty amazing stuff but I think in AM it wouldn't be so easy.

If you can do it, toss some images over there.

 

I sometimes post some of my AM images there.

[tbenefi33]

Can't wait to see it

Wish I can model that fast it's taken me all most a month to do the bug.

[SpaceToast]

Starting now...

[Darkwing]

so, 28 minutes into this, how are you feeling about this?

[number]

Can't wait to see.

 

Good luck.

[SpaceToast]

Two hours are up! Did I make it?

 

Nope, not even close.

 

 

Not bad for two hours, but the head and hands will take at least another hour of modelling. The fiddly bits are a mess of bad normals, and A:M absolutely refuses, no matter what I promise, to believe that there's a valid 5-point patch behind the right shoulder (though it's fine with the duplicate on the left).

 

This little Maxwell will have to wait to be finished another day. Still, a good challenge for a chronic perfectionist like me.

[robcat2075]

I'm sure the six-foot penis was a time-consuming adornment. But for that you would have made it.