Stylized Animal Challenge - Feb 2007 - Camel

[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).

We do unfortunately have to limit prizes to 1 book per winner per competition due to high postage costs for heavier items.

Judging
Everyone who entered can cast a vote of their top 3 in order, we will award 3pts for a 1st place vote, 2 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. Then we will add them up and ship out your prizes!

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 3DCreative Magazine.

This month we have gone wearily staggering through the desert - Camels!

http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/main_small.jpg

Here are a selection of Images to give you some good references. There are many breeds of Camel but they retain similar features so please feel free to stylise whichever species you wish. Keep up the good work!

Camel 01 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/01.jpg)
Camel 02 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/02.jpg)
Camel 03 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/03.jpg)
Camel 04 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/04.jpg)
Camel 05 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/05.jpg)
Camel 06 (http://www.2dartistmag.com/challenge_resources/03_feb07_camel/references/06.jpg)

Dont start new threads, all design sketches, WIP's, feedback to go in this thread. Post your final image, clearly titled 'FINAL IMAGE' before the deadline.

Final Images will be added to the Voting thread which will be created later in the month ready for Voting.

Have fun!

[Fuish]

Yeah! Camels are so cute/cool. I remember I rode one when I was a kid at the zoo, it was cool. I'm so in this contest too.

[Steph Laberis]

I'm on this. For real this time. :yayca:

[redehlert]

Sweet. A fine challenge indeed.

[chillincauseican91]

i like this forum. keeps my hands busy. and you know what they say bout them idle hands.

[kawakaze]

i dont think i have ever drawn a camel in my life. this should be fun. so as far as votes go only people who enter can vote?

[GunTrouver]

I think I'm in:)

[anubis713]

I've never done this before...
This sounds really fun!
I'm in!

[shaoshao]

hooray! super cute camels!

[entdroid]

Yeah I think I'll do some super cute camels too :D

Steph and shao, can't wait to see both of your entries, go girls!!! :cheerleader:

[Chuck,mate.]

http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/7/2/5/f_camelfinai_8745m_bd91fa2.jpg

[JL.Alfaro]

Damn you're fast Chuck...

[redehlert]

sweet patri!!

[Chuck,mate.]

dang, JLAlfaro, man... I do 12 silly animals a day where I work.... what`s another camel at lunch break....? only takes 30-40 minutes...that`s about 2 sandwiches. :)

red - why thank you, brother. :)

[sve]

Here is one more camel...

[redehlert]

yeah! sveta's on board. ;)

[kboss]

Cripes, just stumbled on this challenge. Very cool, i'll be entering for sure.

[kboss]

Well, I started mine today. So here's a camel for you. Hope you like her...

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9083/camel1bx2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[xzacto]

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/mkirk/files/sketchbook/mattcamel_COLOR.jpg


*shrug* valentines day?


I am a noob.

[Njord-E55]

I am a noob.

You got a fine piece indeed, xzacto. Don't say that, you are just discuraging yourself.

As for my picture, i just have to find a scanner. My scanner broke down recently. Hmm, what do I do now...

[xzacto]

ok... thanks for the encouragement Njord =]

[kawakaze]

You got a fine piece indeed, xzacto. Don't say that, you are just discuraging yourself.

As for my picture, i just have to find a scanner. My scanner broke down recently. Hmm, what do I do now...

digital camera and then vectorize it=D looking fwd to seeing your entry along w everyone elses. this one should b good.

[Vinegar Spiders]

Newbie Attempt...Just got a Wacom

Titled: The Happy Hookah
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1724/happyhookahie0.jpg


Cheers

[ikuru]

Nice. Im hooking myself up here.

[azlath]

This is the first challenge I'm going to enter, and I don't know if I have to post to be in, so I'm posting: "I'm in" =P

[azlath]

Welll here's a WIP. Send comments.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4317/azlathwippencilsmallxl6.jpg

[Njord-E55]

I managed to borrow the school scanner. It was a piece of crap, it turned the whole thing blue-tinted. So I had to spend a of time in photoshop correcting it.
But here it is. I don't know if it is to text heavy, but I feel I need the text to explain it.

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

[28thwing]

hallo everyone, this is my shot -> caravan goes

http://28thwing.com/ca/camel.jpg

[Ostrander]

Lot's of cool stuff here gang.
I thought I'd give this a go.
http://www.rhinohidestudios.com/sac_go_camel.jpg
Good luck everyone!
:)

[MUNIZ]

Great stuff from everyone.
Arabian NASCAR:)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/lytewaave/022707-New-Camel.jpg

[ArcticBarbecue]

Lokking good folks! Just today left to go. I will create the voting forum tomorrow at 10:00am GMT. All final entries will need to be posted in there. Instructions to follow.

[Joeslucher]

Some very nice entries. I'd seen this thread before but never realized it was a contest until I saw it in 2d Artists. I found some time to make an entry. Not my normal but it was fun to do.
http://host321.ipowerweb.com/~joesluch/Images/CA/camel.jpg

[JakkaS]

Chuck,mate, Ostrander, 28thwing - Cool stuff guys...

Here is mine:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/JakkaS/Camel_a.jpg

[Ian L]

I'm really impressed by some of the artwork thats been entered already. I had some fun doing it, but it was very last minute.

Here's mine:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~leaves/camelfinal1.jpg

[azlath]

Lots of good images. Well... here's my final...

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6825/azlathcamelfinalvc3.jpg

[chaosrocks]

wow heavy hitters in here!

good show
chaos

[Joeslucher]

Jakkas-That rocks man. Love the face and the graphic suggestion of the dessert. The face really cracked me up.

[ikuru]

Ostrander, 28Thwin, Jakkas and Chuckey, Really cool stuff you guys!

Here's another one...

http://www.ikuru.se/box/camelhigh.jpg

[voraz]

nice work everyone, I though I wasn't going to be able to participate, but:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7859/camelo28207002upjg0.jpg

[rodriguez]

Hey guys and gals

My final

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9893/camel2br6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

hey voraz check out the similar pose damn google heehee :teeth:

[MUNIZ]

Really great work every one! I lean toward Chuckmate,Ostrander, and Jakkas.

[Chuck,mate.]

hey thanks everyone.
some very cool entries this round. awesome.
:)

[ArcticBarbecue]

Hi Guys,
We are ready to start the voting, however I seem to have had my permissionsa changed and I can no longer create threads. As soon as the Forum moderators get back to me ill create the voting thread. Thanks for your patience guys.

[ikuru]

Hi Guys,
We are ready to start the voting, however I seem to have had my permissionsa changed and I can no longer create threads. As soon as the Forum moderators get back to me ill create the voting thread. Thanks for your patience guys.

It sounds like maybe they think this is too comercial for the site maybe?

[JakkaS]

Joeslucher, ikuru - Thx guys...

[Ostrander]

Thanks fella's. You guys are too nice.:bashful:

[Fuish]

I managed to borrow the school scanner. It was a piece of crap, it turned the whole thing blue-tinted. So I had to spend a of time in photoshop correcting it.
But here it is. I don't know if it is to text heavy, but I feel I need the text to explain it.

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


The eye of the needle is a type of door over in africa... XD

[ikuru]

so I guess this thread died huh? why dont we do the voting right here?
no need for this to end up in nothing.

[voraz]

I agree, we can vote here.
Or I guess one of us can create a voting thread if Arcticbarbeque still can't do it...

[ikuru]

I agree, we can vote here.
Or I guess one of us can create a voting thread if Arcticbarbeque still can't do it...
If the site conceptart.org withdrew ArcticBarbecue creating threads abiletys, than it probably has somthing to do with this threads beeing to comercial and selfpromoting without CA.org getting any peace of the cake.
I for one am willing to support that if thats the case, and then one of us creating a new thread might not be such a great idea, but still I think we should have the voting here to finnish whats started.

I would say,
1. Ostrander
2. 28thwing
and..
3. Chuck mate

[kawakaze]

unfortunatly i could not finish this one but theres some great stuff in here. is there a way to start a thread where all images will appear? im having problems vewing peoples work and have to refresh the page for them to show up sometimes.

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

[QUOTE=ikuru]so I guess this thread died huh? why dont we do the voting right here?
[QUOTE]

Hi all,

My name is Warin, and I'm in charge of content for 2DArtist Magazine and am Arcticbarbeque's colleague. He has been experiencing having the problems [can't create a new (voting) thread and can't create a March competition (Eagle!!) ,as he said above. We haven't heard anything from CA moderators at all....do you know who or which email addres should we write too? We have written to Lyril, but still haven't heard anything back

Anyway, thank you so much Ikuru and Voraz and all for your supporting!

This month we will vote here, and hopefully next month we will go back to the same way.

Start voting from now!

Please post your Final Images in here, 800 or 1024 size is fine before 8th March 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 March 2007 10:30GMT

I will post to commence the Voting. Voting will be the same as 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.

Warin Greenway

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

If the site conceptart.org withdrew ArcticBarbecue creating threads abiletys, than it probably has somthing to do with this threads beeing to comercial and selfpromoting without CA.org getting any peace of the cake.
I for one am willing to support that if thats the case, and then one of us creating a new thread might not be such a great idea, but still I think we should have the voting here to finnish whats started.

I would say,
1. Ostrander
2. 28thwing
and..
3. Chuck mate


Ikuru, can you please re-posting your voting again?

Thanks!

[ikuru]

Warin-Zoo Mags
Hey, Sounds good, hope this works out (don't have a clue on who you should be talking too here on CA). Its a nice competition and I need to win that beautyfull magazine eventually. ;)

Yeah, so
My vote again...

1. Ostrander
2. 28thwing
and..
3. Chuck mate

[Njord-E55]

Here are my votes.

28thwing
JakkaS
Joeslucher

[Chuck,mate.]

well when in rome.... :)

me humble votes:
1st place : Ostrander (lots of character and attitude in there, and a great style.)

2nd place: Azlath (nice and clean entry, and I enjoyed the mechanic water containers things as well...)

3rd place: 28thwing (very stylized and cleanly illustrated. good job.)

solid effort from all the participants, hats off to ya.

cheers,
P.

[kboss]

Oki dokes, well my two pence is:

1st Jakkas
2nd Ostrander
3rd Chuck, mate

Eagle for the next one sounds sweet.

[JakkaS]

1st - Chuck,mate
2nd - 28thwing
3rd - azlath

[voraz]

1- 28thwing
2- Ostrander
3- Chuck, mate

[Joeslucher]

Thanks for the vote Njord, I've got a newer version on my site at www.joeslucher.com . Completed the day after deadline, figured it would be cheating to swap em out.

1.Jakkas
2.28th Wing
3.Chuck,mate

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Oki dokes, well my two pence is:

Eagle for the next one sounds sweet.


Just looked at the reference images we going to post as the references, ummm sound fun!

The problem is I and ArcticBarbecue can't create a new thread for Eagle competition...don't really know to do.

[Chuck,mate.]

Just looked at the reference images we going to post as the references, ummm sound fun!

The problem is I and ArcticBarbecue can't create a new thread for Eagle competition...don't really know to do.

the thing is we don`t know the reason why. if the CA forum OPS disabled you `cause (like ikuru said) there`s a problem with the challenges being too commercial or contradicting in interests with the forums purpose, then it`s an issue that you`ll need to resolve with them.
if it`s because there`s a technical problem with your specific accounts here, I`ll gladly create the new round`s thread for ya.
I just don`t want to steps on anybody`s tows here.

try maybe PMing again some other OPS or MODs.

[azlath]

Well this is the first time i'm participating and it was very fun and interesting, it'll be a shame this will have to end, i hope the guys here in CA don't being thinking in that. Well here comes my votes:

1. 28thwing
2. Chuck mate
3. Jakkas

[Ostrander]

1.Ian L
2.chuck,meister
3.azlath

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Hi all, I think I should update you this good news ...I got a reponse from Devi, CA admin, today and hopefully he will have a look and get back to me shortly.

We will see,

Thanks everybody.

Cheers

[ArcticBarbecue]

Thanks for sticking with us. We have been moved to the 'Community Activites' section for next months comp : here it is :
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1241613

Good Luck.

[ArcticBarbecue]

We had permission from concept art to run the comp in the forum, all that happened was that they stopped anyone posting threads in the 'Thunderdome' and moved all such activities to the 'Community Activities' section. We'll be running the comps from there from now on.

Ben

[ArcticBarbecue]

My Vote:

1. Ostrander
2. Chuck Mate
3. Sve

[Macaruba]

I only just found the comp for Camel (Feb) and I'm still finishing it.
I still want to post it somewhere. Can anyone tell me which forum would be the best to post it?

[Macaruba]

Here's my Camel anyway...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h171/faceache_1/FINALIMAGE.jpg

[Macaruba]

I'll get used to this code stuff soon...
img src =<http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h171/faceache_1/FINALIMAGE.jpg>

[ikuru]

Macaruba nice one, no need to code dude, just press the yellow button with mountin on,
Warin Good thing they let this role! It's a real nice competition! :cheerleader: :bashful:

[life on the sofa]

im not sure exactly WHO you would have to talk to but here is the official "list of important people" for CA as posted by DAVI a CA administrator.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE (http://conceptart.org/forums/faq.php?faq=new_faq_item2#faq_new_faq_item)

[Ian L]

Here is my vote

1 Ostrander
2 Chuck Mate
3 28th wing

[scorge]

Felt like playing. Feels good to do something different.http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k153/scorge40/laststraw.jpg

Good stuff all around.

I'm a friggin idiot. I just read that the voting had commenced. That's what I get for not paying attention. Well, consider this my support for
1.Chuck
2.Kboss
3.Ostrander

I'm definitely gettin' in on the the next one.

[28thwing]

my votes:

1. Chuck, mate
2. Jakkas
3. Ostrader

[Macaruba]

my votes:

1. Chuck, mate
2. 28thwing
3. Ostrader

Oh and mine!

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h171/faceache_1/FINALIMAGE.jpg

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Alright! Voting over....the result will be announced in a few minutes

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Here is the result!

There were 16 entries this time! I hope for those who won' be featured in the magazine can learn and use this competition as the pratice field! We still would love to give you all a free copy of 2DArtist Magazine anyway, please send an email with your email address you would like the magazine to be sent to ben@zoopublishing.com

Chuck Mate 24
28thWins 19
Osrander 19
Jakkas 11
Azlath 4
LanL 3
Kboss 2
Sve 1
Joeducher 1

So:

1 st : Chuck Mate
2 nd : 28thWins 19
2 nd : Osrander 19

Thanks again everyone.

TOP 3 : Please can the top 3 entries contact Warin Greenway warin@zoopublishing.com for their prizes and for submitting the making of their images for inclusion in the May Issue.

Thanks!

[Ostrander]

I was just wondering since 28thWing and I tied for second place, shouldn't Jakkas pick up 3rd place? And if so, does this mean 28thWing and myself both get the 2nd place prize? Just curious. Congrats fella's!

[shiftline]

Not my art but a cool camel optical illusion photo by national geographic

http://visualfunhouse.com/snapshot_illusions/national-geographics-shadow-camels-optical-illusion.html

[LiL QoH]

I'm in [portal]

[Xract]

I'm new here, gonna try this

[Thanksgiving]

thanks!