Abstract 3D/Photoshop Battle

[alethos]

I wanna get another abstract 3D/photo battle going. The entries from the last one were just so juicy....I want to see more!

So abstract wallpaper made with 3D and Photoshop-like programs. A mod will pick an actual theme this time to guide the abstractedness. I suggest a longer than usual time to have it due since people are on holidays and might be going away for a while. :)

-Al

[kei]

I'm in! :p

[telekinesis]

No thanks, I am still trying to recover from getting my *** spanked in the last battle :*(

[alethos]

Dan: WHAT?! I voted for you so you just have to compete! I wanna see what you can spit out given more than an hour of work time. Will ya do it? Huh? Will ya?

:P -Al

[kaotic]

can i join
hopefully i wont get spanked again :rambo:

[kaotic]

[bump]
can we get a mod to set up battle
or are we waiting for more people?

[alethos]

The more, the merrier. But we have three now, so I don't see why we can't get started soon. I think if we allow entrants even after a deadline and theme are assigned will be good. That way people just discovering this battle and wanting to join can do so (as long as they meet the deadline). What do you think?

[kaotic]

thats sounds like a great idea, why not get the battle started then put an entry deadline on it then a submition deadline as well

[alethos]

Ok so all we need now is a mod to plop down a theme, dimensions, and deadline.

-Al

[kaotic]

yea
i loved the last theme
althought it really killed me cause im not a good flash designer
can we keep it to photoshop ?

[alethos]

To clarify:

This a desktop wallpaper battle. You can use any 3D apps, and raster-based image apps like Photoshop. Your final submission must be an abstract work, but following a theme that will be set by a mod. The deadline will be a bit longer than usual to account for the holidays. Also, anybody can join the battle at any time, but no submissions will be allowed after midnight GMT of the due date. Also, the mods will set a minumum dimension.

So no Flash (unless you use it to make vector drawings and then rasterize it).

As soon as we get a theme we can get crackin'.

-Al

[kei]

what theme is it going to be?

[kaotic]

it will be abstarct lets see if we can get some crazy, outside the box, weirdo, freek mod to set up the theme
has anyone one seen lost?? :crazy:

[bcogswell11]

I might be in on this one. I haven't touched Photoshop in awhile except for pixel art, so I need to get back into it. What better way is there than doing a battle? You guys will dominate but it will be fun.

-brad-:evil:

[telekinesis]

Theme: Abstract Wallpaper representing Destruction (No Motion)
Programs: Anything
Participants: alethos, bcogswell11, kaotic
Due Date: 1-11-03

[kei]

sorry guys..
i dont think i'll be able to enter this battle.. :*(
im not going to be able to work on it at all until like the 13th~14th Jan..

I'll def enter the next one though..

good luck to u all!!

[bcogswell11]

Yeah yeah Dan, don't enter me just yet. get the battle going and if I have time I will enter. I'm sorry if my post was misleading, I said I might be able to enter it.

-brad-:evil:

[Aislin]

I'm in. ....As long as that's okay with everyone.

[alethos]

All are welcome to drop into the battle at any time, but all entries must be in by the deadline. This is a laid back battle. :)

I'll be starting mine fairly soon. I just moved so I gotta unpack and stuff.
-Al

[kaotic]

good luck to everyone
i particularly like this topic, going to be interesting to see what everyones interpretation of the topic is:crazy:

[Rukuwa]

Hi guys

Can I join aswell ?

Whats the topic? just design something abstract in Photoshop?

Whens the dead line?

[Rukuwa]

I managed to find the thread


Theme: Abstract Wallpaper representing Destruction (No Motion)
Programs: Anything
Participants: alethos, bcogswell11, kaotic
Due Date: 1-11-02

[Rukuwa]

can I participate aswell?

thats funny the due date isn't quite right? I copy it from dan's reply

[alethos]

Once again, anybody can join as long as they submit before the due date. The deadline is Jan 11, 2003 (Dan you might wanna edit your post which says 2002).

-Al

[alethos]

Hey Dan, when you say "no motion", what do you mean?

-Al

[telekinesis]

No Flash

[.soulty]

sounds good, what size is this battle?


1280 X 1024
1024 X 768

[telekinesis]

At least 1024 x 768

[Makaveli]

Theme: Abstract Wallpaper representing Destruction (No Motion)
Programs: Anything
Participants: alethos, bcogswell11, kaotic
Due Date: 1-11-02

lol its 03 not 02....this battle ain't over a year old yet!! :P :P

who knows i might even enter if i have time sometime...destruction is my style...i can just picture me blowing up some peoples house taking a picture then editng that ......i should def win with the blowing up of house idea.......of course, then you guys would be accomplices to vandelism and possibly homocide :P :P

[alethos]

Has anybody finished? I haven't even started. :)

[morse]

Lol, has everbody forgotten? I would enter if you extended a week or so, just for kicks. I know i wouldnt win :)

[kaotic]

heres mine
it sux

[kaotic]

oops:trout:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=88921

kinda looks like a bunghole:sigh:

[Makaveli]

thats your idea of destruction?? i'm a bit dissapointed, i know you can do better

[kaotic]

eh
does that mean i win?
oh well i guess i deserve one of these:trout:

[morse]

Soooo... Anybody else? I'm looking forward to this here...

[alethos]

Ok I need an extension of just a few days. Let's say Jan 15/16? Or should I just forfeit?

-Al

[telekinesis]

January 18th is new due date!

[alethos]

Well, after hours of experimenting I think I understand the Mental Ray renderer...here's what I could come up with. (BTW, thanks for the extension, Dan)

-Al

Note: Attachment is 1280x1024.

::EDIT:: Corrupt attached file. Fixed it.

[morse]

Heya Dan, where can I get thoes extensions?

[.soulty]

posting mine , very soon, either 2nite or 2morrow

[.soulty]

warning: 158kb file size.
size: 1024 X 768

if thats too big tell me then i will reduce it more.

tell me what you think.


http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destruction.jpg

[Aislin]

wow, I like that one.
Very... something. I like it

[Makaveli]

i like it a lot, it is a very real desrtuction and a huge environmental issue, i only have 1 problem with it......the logs look like stones!! they should be more.......brownish? otherwise its awsome and deep

[.soulty]

yeah your right Makaveli , it was a texture from a tree i have at the front yard though, took it with a digital camera. but i browned it up and does look much better, tell me what you think.

[Makaveli]

looks much better soulty, but it somehow still looks rocky? they look like brown rocks sorta, i guess its because the grass looks too fake, doesn't look like a place where so much damge was done...you think you could improve it somehow? i dunno it looks too neat! i dunno how to explain what i'm seeing

i guess i'm being picky.....anyways, it looks good =)

[morse]

Hey that is cool though. How did you do the "sparkles" behind the text (top left)?

[.soulty]

Makaveli, i still playing around with it, i got the ground a bit more brownish, and darker green, give it a messier look, and iam going to add some grass around the tree, kinda show what is missing from compared to the tree and tree stumps. i might add some patches of light grass here and there 2. anyway , i dont see many people into this battle so i dont think its even going to happen.


Morse: the "sparkles" as you called them are just noise layer blending techniques in photoshop.

[.soulty]

took the grass out, looked 2 friendly again. getting there though

[.soulty]

image and link updated, tell me what you think.


http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destruction.jpg

[Makaveli]

def looks much better with dirtier grass!! is this all PS??

[.soulty]

nah not all photoshop, just touch ups and type and design layout, other than that everything was done in 3d (Maya).

[Makaveli]

nice :o =)

i think maybe the grass still needs to be improved, it still looks too much like carpet to me, especially when its shown in original size....you know how IE minimized large pics.....it looks okay small but when its maximized it looks like a carpet, how about removing some trees and adding those conrtuction marks left behind by the HUGE machines?

anyways......where are the rest of the contestants??

[.soulty]

yeah i know what you mean about the carpet looking ground, lol,
its something to do with my bump map, hard to find a nice ground texture and bump map working 2gether and this is prob the best i could get it right now, though, like you said,

Where are the rest of the contestants?? i might have more time to work on this then :smirk:

about the marks (kinda track-tyre looking aye) , thats a good idea, though it might take away from how 'lost' this one tree is standing with the tree stumps surrounding it.

ill give it a go anyway though.
:smirk:

[alethos]

Wow, lots of stuff happenin' here! Soulty, I agree with Mak. The grass should stick out of the ground like real grass. Also, the stumps need flatter tops (they seem sorta rounded, which may be why Mak sees them as rocks).

My submission is up here somewhere, and so is Kaotic's. bcogswell/someoneLeet still hasn't submitted. And I guess the others who wanna hop in haven't posted yet. Today is the deadline, though, right?

-Al

[.soulty]

fixed the tree stumps. almost there.

So when is the deadline??

[Makaveli]

lol, i see a wooden ax in there!! lol

anyways, how about making stumps dif sizes, they can't all be cut the same size.....ah who cares its supposed to be abstarct not so realistic i would say fix the grass.....and the wooden ax and ur set!! now i must find alethos entry...

[Makaveli]

alethos...yours would look so much cooler if you had a leg or body part in that spike.....and more blood !! BLOOD IS GOOD I LIKE blood ...try combining blood with coke...tastes sweet =) :P :P

[.soulty]

all done, here it is..



http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destruction.jpg

[Makaveli]

grass looks awsome now, but the "carpet patches" ruin the image i think ..... its def a vast improvement from the original grass tho

[.soulty]

fixed the carpet, lol

I think iam going to leave it there.


http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destruction.jpg

[morse]

Nice... Very nice.

Mak, it looks fine. Cool down man :P

[Jubba]

looks awesome! :)

[Makaveli]

hey i like what you did with it, i think ur ready!! the before and after must look really dif.....you have original??

[.soulty]

here is the first one i posted, though i only did that because i thought there was a deadline. Since i had more time i improved on it but also thanks to everyone for giving me advice on the needed changed, it looks much better. And Mak, its good to be a perfectionist, because iam one as well, but for me to do any changed on this i would need much more time. For now its good enough.


The first one:

http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destructionfirst.jpg


The new one:

http://members.optushome.com.au/paulsoultis/Destruction.jpg

[Makaveli]

awsome, the first one looks cartoony, second one looks realistic =)

anyways, when is this battle due? kaotic, soulty, and alethos have entered....

[alethos]

This battle was due two days ago. :)

[.soulty]

so no battle? who wins on default then?

[pom]

I'll make the poll, I don't know where is Dan :-\

[kaotic]

maybe he got in another car crash :/