Stylized Animal Challenge - Jan 2007 - Octopus

[ArcticBarbecue]

Welcome to the Stylized Animal Monthly Challenge, sponsored by Zoo Publishing Magazines and 3DTotal. Please post all images @ questions in this thread.

What is this challenge all about?
Each month we will select an animal and post some images as reference. All you have to do is create a 2D Painting of this creature in a stylized/abstact/cartoon style whilst keeping your creature instantly recongnizable. We wanted to publish some content in 2DArtist Magazine on how to create stylized animals such as you see in the many feature films and cartoon galleries. We thought this regular competition might bring in just the images/making ofs we need whilst giving away great prizes and exposure. If it's a success we will start to boost the prizes up as much as possible!

What are we looking for?
Funny and humourous entries which break the animal down to its most recognizable components, enphasize these in whichever ways you think best and render your stylized/abstact/cartoon masterpiece.

Timeframes and requirements?
The rules are pretty laid back, please submit 1 2D Final Image. If you want to have a background, include some graphical elements or text on your image its up to you. Image posts should be around 800 pixels across, but please work at a much higher res as the top 10 will be featured in 2DArtist Magazine (http://www.2dartistmag.com). There will be 1 comp per month, with the deadline being the end of the month GMT. For a valid entry, just make sure your final image is posted in the main competition thread before this time.

We require the top 3 winners to submit 'making of' overview articles that will be shown on either 3DTotal or 2DArtist Magazine (http://www.2dartistmag.com), these need to show the stages of your creation, different elements and some brief explanation text, of why and how you did what you did. We will format this into some nice looking pages to give you some great exposure and us some quality content.

Posting Works in Progress?
Each competition will have one thread that starts with this info and the brief at the top. This is where all entrants post all WIPs give feedback and generally laugh at the crazy ideas that are emerging each month. Please dont start any new threads! Just reply to this one already set up.

Prizes!!

1st Place
Any 3 items from the 3DTotal Shop (http://www.3dtotal.com/shop). We sell lots of items these days such as our book, (http://www.3dtotal.com/book/) Design Studio Press books, (http://www.3dtotal.com/design%5Fstudio%5Fpress/) texture CDs, (http://www.3dtotal.com/textures/) Shorts DVDs, (http://www.3dtotal.com/shorts/) Lots of training DVDs (http://www.3dtotal.com/training/) and 12 month subscriptions to 3DCreative Magazine (http://www.3dcreativemag.com) and 2DArtist Magazine (http://www.2dartistmag.com).

2nd Place
Any 2 items from the 3DTotal Shop (http://www.3dtotal.com/shop).

3rd Place
Any 1 item from the 3DTotal Shop (http://www.3dtotal.com/shop).

Judging
Everyone who entered can cast a vote of their top 5 then we will add them up and ship out your prizes!

[ArcticBarbecue]

Here we go with this months challenge which is designed to be fun, creative and not too intensive whilst giving best entrants prizes and great exposure in 2DArtist Magazine.

This month we have gone underwater (we have been watching a lot of Blue Planet recently...) 'Octopus' of the Cephalopod Family.... Octopus's only though please ;-)

http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/issue013_jan07/main_small.jpg

Here are a selection of Images from eyes to tentacles to give you some good references. The octopus is quite a commonly stylised creature so there will be a lot of thought needed for this one. Keep up the good work!

Octopus 1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/marine_life/octopus/2062426_octopus.php?id=2062426) Octopus 2 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/marine_life/octopus/210840_caribbean_octopus.php?id=210840) Octopus 3 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/marine_life/octopus/2585237_eight_armed_friend.php?id=2585237) Octopus 04 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/where/scenics/underwater_scenics/403566_day_octopus.php?id=403566) Octopus 5 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/marine_life/octopus/2585237_eight_armed_friend.php?id=2585237) Octopus 6 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/life/nature/animals/418807_jetting_octopus.php?id=418807) Octopus 7 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/what/life/nature/384457_octopus.php?id=384457) Octopus 8 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/ethnic_foods/asian_food/japanese_food/1370684_octopus.php?id=1370684) Octopus 9 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/food_and_beverages/food/cooking/1978945_octopus.php?id=1978945) Octopus 10 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/where/scenics/underwater_scenics/1078998_octopus_eye.php?id=1078998) Octopus 11 (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/marine_life/octopus/1292904_octopus_tentacle.php?id=1292904)

Dont start new threads, lets try this with 1 main thread only, so all design sketches, WIP's, feedback, Questions and Final Images to go in this thread only.

Have fun!

[Hookswords]

Let me be the first to say: Awesome! Octopus is my favorite animal!

[shaoshao]

man I'm so down for this.

[GunTrouver]

I'm in again8-)

[kawakaze]

ill try this one out=D

[look]

I love eating those things, maybe I should try drawing them too.

[HellTaxi]

count me in

[j a k e]

I'm in!

[Chuck,mate.]

Stylized Animal Challenge - Jan 2007 - Octopus:

Final:
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3328/octopusfinalsmallgj4.jpg
process:
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/1571/octopusprocesstd3.jpg
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[ArcticBarbecue]

Very nice entry Chuck. You seem to have grasped this challenge perfectly!!

[j a k e]

Seemed like a sweet challenge. Here's my FINAL ENTRY;

I also have my process images.

[Fuish]

Hope it's not too late to enter. ^^ I'll be coming back to post later for sure. :) *bookmarks thread for later*

[Chuck,mate.]

ArcticBarbecue - hey thanks. just having some fun. :)
jake - absolutely beautiful. but if that`s a blob of ink down there, I think you confused octopus with squid.... ;)
Kawakaze - great linework, man. good flow. I love it. though I think your creature itself is more squid looking than octopus.

great work anyways, everyone. :)

[ArcticBarbecue]

I agree,
although we can allow a bit of artistic liscence so early on in these comps ;-)

[Chuck,mate.]

I agree,
although we can allow a bit of artistic liscence so early on in these comps ;-)

second that, then. :)

[GunTrouver]

Wow, very good entries this time!
Chuck, mate: Very good mix of graphical elements and stilization. I like the colors:)
jake:Looks very cool, like from a childrensbook. The ink thing was already mentioned...;)
Kawakaze: Cool style, very Urban. IMO you should erase this grey blurry frame, looks cool enough without it:)

Good luck for everyone, here's mine:

[NicoRaven]

Here are some of the ideas I'm flirting with.

To Chuckmate liked the entry alot. Liked the expression your octo has he looks snewdy and rich. sp chk

To Jake i made the same mistake didnt realize the diff between octs and squids. i liked how the eyes are within the skull and the movement on some of the tentacles.

To KawaKaze yours looks the meanest of the bunch and I agree with what was said earlier about the shadows but bg later should take them out of the picture thou

To Guntrover looks like your oct is some sort of irish man or leprehcaun or quaker (sp chk) Has tons of character in the eyes.

To Voraz think like a child and hopefully the cartoonish factors will surface.

To Squidittish cant wait to see it.

NOoooo!!! not shaoshao!!! I'm such the fan. Great wips. But be careful not to over render the thing, think more cartoonish.
Good work all....... got to go

P.S. ArcticBarbeque the two image links Octupus 3 and Octopus 5 are the same. Maybe fix it. Sorry if i sound nicpicky, but if I had something on my face I'd want you to tell me.

This is final unless stated otherwise. IT is a wallet texture octopus.

[Eric Lofgren]

Good looking stuff so far. I do think that there might be a tad bit of confusion between octopii and squids, though. Otherwise, technically (and stylisticly), they are all great :)

I'll have mine in in a day or so. Sick and busy.

[shaoshao]

The great queen of the far eastern sea, Octavai
http://www.victoriaying.net/stuff/octoladyfinal.jpg
looking great so far everyone!

[voraz]

I see there are alrady some great work here.

I hope this time I get pass the sketch phase. It will be a challenge for me to make something cartoony/humoristic, but I will try.
Here are the first sketches.

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/2162/skt9107003qr9.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1149/skt9107005id3.jpg

this will probably be the pose:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3702/skt9107004gf7.jpg


some more sketches, trying to give it the rigth expression:

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6207/skt17107002fb7.jpg

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1141/skt17107001yd9.jpg

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/867/polvo001ot7.jpg

[shaoshao]

a couple more sketches if i have time to finish another

http://www.victoriaying.net/stuff/octopussketch2sm.jpg
and the sketch from the final from above
http://www.victoriaying.net/stuff/octopussketch.jpg

[Hookswords]

Here's my WIP. Just a sketch, obviously.

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/763/octopussketcheo7.jpg

Great entries so far

[kawakaze]

i love the variety in this thread. awsome work from everyone. heres up update on mine. i will try and define it as an octopus a little more.

[Njord-E55]

This is really catching drift now. Great to see so many entries. Kawakeze; I feel your colors are a bit to flashy, my eyes get a bit "tired" from looking at it. Thought i just should mention that.
Im finishing up mine now, the usual watercolor splatters from me though.

Finished my painting. Inspiration is from a childrens book were some mice put flowers in intricate patters to transform one mouse to a tiger mouse.

So all hail the divine octopus.

http://iup.in/img/solbero/octopus.jpg

[Fuish]

Moved entry to bottom ^^

[chaosrocks]

this is such fun!
nice entries y'all

chaos
I see you lurking Ilae.... got an octopus for us?

[Slash]

cool shit everyone! Shao, thats sexy!

[Fuish]

Shao, your piece is rockin'. My husband pointed something out to me though. An octopus could never have breasts because it's not a mammal. Just an observation. ^^;

[Hookswords]

Shao, your piece is rockin'. My husband pointed something out to me though. An octopus could never have breasts because it's not a mammal. Just an observation. ^^;

Breasts are a universal language, I say let it slide...:P

But, now I took the train of thought to Gutterville. population: 1. The thought of octo-boobs lead me to wonder how octopi mate. I dont have an answer yet, but the picture in my head aint pretty. New Mission: Shake that image before I go to bed.

[shaoshao]

hehe
boobs make everything better

(squid is right though: the word mammal comes from mammary, as in booble, so yeah octolady wouldn't have boobs)

[Norel]

Wow ! I just happened to draw an octopus some days ago (incidentally, for a sister of mine who loves octopuses). When I saw this thread I HAD to post it !
All critics and comments welcome :)
I discovered this site recently and it rocks. Thanks all ! (First post)

So here comes Poulpy, the Mightyly Pink One.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7482/poulpo08ssqn7.jpg

[Fuish]

hehe
boobs make everything better



I'd have to agree with the above statement. lol
I'm glad you agree with the mammal thing. :)

[HellTaxi]

FINAL ENTRY

all finished!
great work everyone
http://www.whitehallstudios.com/octomanfinal.jpg

[mikeorion22]

FINAL ENTRY

everyone is doing some cool stuff here's mine

[Chuck,mate.]

Christ, some excellent pieces here....
damn, guys are doing characters and mutants and such....
I thought stylized animals meant creating a version of the animal well....with style. :)
didn`t know we can go nuts like this with man/animal combos and stuff.
I`ll sure keep that in mind for the next round. <3
(unless we`re all wrong here...)

cheers, dudes and dudets.
:yayca:

mikeorrion, squdittch - brothers... your pieces - just fucking awesome.

[Eric Lofgren]

FINAL ENTRY

Sort of going with a children's book feel on this. With a titch of inspiration from Eric Carle's stuff, in composition. Although I diverged quite a bit in the process. And then it ended up being a riff on The Beatles' Octopus' Garden in the Shade. Quite by accident :)


http://ericlofgren.zenutech.com/eric/octopus_in_the_garden.jpg

Everyone's work has been outstanding so far. This is going to be a tough one.

[shaoshao]

eric: that freaking rocks

[Eric Lofgren]

Thanks Shaoshao! :)

[shaoshao]

One more
http://www.victoriaying.net/stuff/octobabyfinal.jpg

[Fuish]

mikeorrion, squdittch - brothers... your pieces - just fucking awesome.


Same to you, your piece really, make it into a print and I'd so put that in a frame in my house... but I'm a "sister" ^_^;

[ah.heng]

well here goes.

[Fuish]

Final Entry.

[NicoRaven]

ah heng I like yours alot but then again I usually like most japanese art. I like the hint of a double image concept you have going with japan the sun and the octopus. See how the octopus looks like a sun and all. Its pretty awesome. But still very very simple.

[Ostrander]

There are some great entries here folks! :)

[mikeorion22]

Chuck,mate-

thanks, i like yours alot, your stuff is always impressive to me, your one of my favorite artists on here, and congratulations on your win from the contest last month.

[redehlert]

HAHA! these are great! ok...I'm in.
Here's my entry....
final answer.

79800

[Destinatus]

Oooooo I want in! I'm glad I found this, the exposure would be great and I wouldn't mind having a 2D Artist subscription. Competition looks real tough. Just one clarification, I see some people saying that some of these aren't "stylized." Does stylized mean graphic and cartoony? Or can it be like Redehlert and Helltaxi posted?

[Fuish]

I'm not certain, but I thought it meant graphic, I don't think mines too cartoony though... ^^;

[Hookswords]

Each month we will select an animal and post some images as reference. All you have to do is create a 2D Painting of this creature in a stylized/abstact/cartoon style whilst keeping your creature instantly recongnizable. We wanted to publish some content in 2DArtist Magazine on how to create stylized animals such as you see in the many feature films and cartoon galleries.

I think that sums it up.

[Chuck,mate.]

mikeorion22 - thanks, buddy. :)

Dave - crazy , CRAZY piece. dude.... :)

[ArcticBarbecue]

Hookswords said it before I could. Thanks ;-)

[redehlert]

hey patri....thanks!
i thought it was stylized enough, but perhaps i'll go and do a vectored version of it....hmmm... ;)
cheers!
d

[Destinatus]

EDIT: Couldn't finish in time. I don't think my style is distinctive enough yet anyway.

[redehlert]

revised my submission...

[voraz]

Lots of cool stuff.
Redehlert- I like them both.

First WIP:

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1817/polveco001gs1.jpg


WIP 02:

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7717/polveco002yw4.jpg

[ArcticBarbecue]

All loking great so far! Really pleased with the standard rise already!

[ArcticBarbecue]

To make it a bit easier this month, we will have strict rules on posting final entries. Please all post final entries in this thread and title them FINAL ENTRY.
This way there should be no excuses for me ballsing up the voting this month ;-)

We'll see anyway... Cheers guys.

[ArcticBarbecue]

Also guys, I would say, go easy on the text on images. There really isnt any need for text as the competition is all about the animal characters them selves and should not need expanation through text. By all means give the image / character a title but try and avoid captions if possible.

[JL.Alfaro]

heres my entry, it woulda been funnier with the text I had in but, rules are rules I guess... I cant do cute, I tried, this is what came out...but I wanted to jump in anyways..

[redehlert]

hey j, it's a cool entry...i think if you omit 1 of the octo arms, then they'd total 6 plus the 2 human arms....just food for thought.
cheers!
d

[JL.Alfaro]

Thanks man, I thought about doing that, but then I have to consider the legs too..right?...let me go edit this see what happens...

[redehlert]

Actually, no....since an octo has 8 arms, not to be mistaken with tentacles. So, that said, you can have 8 arms (6 octo, 2 human) and a 2 legs. Ya dig?
I think it'd work just fine.
Cheers,
D

[chillincauseican91]

first post! I want in. when is the deadline?

[redehlert]

read the first post, mate.

[chillincauseican91]

whoops. at least now i know i got some time. hehe. thanks.

[Njord-E55]

JLAlfaro, would this be concidered a stylized animal? Isnt this supposed to be a animal challange, and not a character one. It would be nice to get the rules clearified. Some of the entries looks a bit to humanoid for a stylized animal challange.

[JL.Alfaro]

Didn't think so, but it did start out as an octopus, it just turned into this...thing. either way, I'm throwing it in there, if it gets disqualified, so be it. Maybe by next time I'll actually accomplish drawing something more...mmm..how yousay... stylized.

[voraz]

FINAL ENTRY:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2537/polvecofinal00gn4.jpg

[artiphats]

Final, see you all next time :)

http://www.houseofscion.com/artwork/artiphats_octopus_fin.jpg

[Hookswords]

I have to bow out of this one. I've been trying to wrap my head around Painter for the better part of this month. Great work from everyone.

[GunTrouver]

So we have to post the picture as a final again? ok, here it is

FINAL

[voraz]

I don't think you need to post it again, just edit the original entry with the title FINAL ENTRY.

[viramz]

http://stud.cmd.hro.nl/0776528/xtra/octo03small.jpg
wow, amazing entrees everybody.
Here's mine for now, hope to find some time to color it.
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Edit:

FINAL
http://stud.cmd.hro.nl/0776528/xtra/final_octo.jpg
Well here it is. All done.

[the nik]

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u90/thenik01/octopuss-1-1.jpg

Hi all,
This is my first post to anything.... EVER!
So I'm not really sure what I'm doing.
Is it at all possible for me to enter the whole stylized animal challenge?

the nik

[kawakaze]

Final:

[kawakaze]

great work from everyone, i really enjoyed doing this one and seeing what everyone else came up with. how about next month we stylize some lobsters=D

[FlyingMilton]

Lobsters sounds awesome. I did one but I reread the rules and saw that they had to be humorous. I guess I'll post it anyways.

Not An Entry...or is it? I'm going to wait for ArcticBarbecue's call on this.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1876/octo2donefinaljaypeg1wf0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kawakaze]

i dont know if mine is exactly humorous but thats an awsome piece u have there. his expression alone makes me laugh so u should submit that=D

[FlyingMilton]

Can I? I'm not really sure if it meets the qualifications.

[Norel]

Go for it ! That's awesome. Ouch, my eyeballs hurt.

[Fuish]

So when does the voting start? I'm so ready for this!

[bunny]

Am I too late?

(final)

[chillincauseican91]

Final
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g90/chillincauseican91/Squidswillbesquids.jpg

This is my lil joint

[redehlert]

nice one bunny....
flyin' milton...you too. ;)

[ArcticBarbecue]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand stop!

[ArcticBarbecue]

Ok, Posting over. I'll sort out the voting this morning and it will last for a week starting from the time my voting post has been made. I will post the link in here too so that you all get it!

[ArcticBarbecue]

Please post your Final Images in here
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1197343#post1197343

800 or 1024 size is fine before 8th February 2007 10:30AM GMT.

Only entries posted before this date will be eligible for Voting.

Voting will then start immediately afterwards and will run until 15th February 2007 10:30GMT

I will post to commence the Voting. Voting will be different to last month with each voter putting forward their top 3 in order, 3pts for a 1st place, 2 pts for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. This means that will have to choose carefully! Feel free to give a reason for your choice as it will be good feedback for all of you!

Thanks again for the enourmous amount of work you have all put in.

Ben

[voraz]

Hi, I think you migth loose some of the entries that way, some of the people might not see this, since they weren't counting on this, I guess.

[ArcticBarbecue]

Thats why i posted in here :-)
Ill have a good look through at the kast minute and add any which have been left out.