Stylized Animal Challenge - Mar 2007 - Eagle

[ArcticBarbecue]

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

WE HAVE BEEN MOVED to this forum so please come to the 'Community Activites' section, not thunderdome in future. Thanks.

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 . 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 , 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. We sell lots of items these days such as our book, Design Studio Press books, texture CDs, Shorts DVDs, Lots of training DVDs and 12 month subscriptions to 3DCreative Magazine and 2DArtist Magazine.

2nd Place
Any 2 items from the 3DTotal Shop.

3rd Place
Any 1 item from the 3DTotal 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 are soaring high above the mountains - eagles!



Here are a selection of Images to give you some good references. The eagle has its own character from other birds and can be easily recognised!

eagle 01
eagle 02
eagle 03
eagle 04
eagle 05
eagle 06
eagle 07
eagle 08

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!

[Chuck,mate.]

well great day in the morning....
here we all are again.
will post my eagle as soon as I find the time.

cheers, mates.
P.

[ikuru]

Yeay, I will have to try this for practice, I allways avoided drawing animals, better late than never!

hey chuck! Ima shelha bamizvada shelly! dude!

[Chuck,mate.]

hey chuck! "Ima shelha bamizvada shelly"! dude!

no shit.
"your mom is in my suitcase"?
what the crap is that supposed to mean?...

[ikuru]

no shit.
"your mom is in my suitcase"?
what the crap is that supposed to mean?...

Ha, ha, Sorry man, it's the only Hebrew I ever learned from my Israeli friends, well that and shalom/Laila tov etc. (most of the time we just ate allot of trina and homos and played allot of chess bech ).

[Chuck,mate.]

Ha, ha, Sorry man, it's the only Hebrew I ever learned from my Israeli friends, well that and shalom/Laila tov etc. (most of the time we just ate allot of trina and homos and played allot of chess bech ).

I see.... well. for a minute there I thought you were trying to insult me.

alright, cool.

[ikuru]

not at all mate, just joking around I like your blogg dude, some really cool stuff in there.. keep it comming.

[Iceman0xh]

Heres my go at it so far...dont think its too bad but im just learning to digitally paint and when I have a nice pen drawing I don't like wasting it. So if pen is fine as a final medium I will touch it up and use that if not heres a start at coloring.



Crits and Suggestions Very welcomed and needed
I hope you like it,
IcEmAn0xh

[azlath]

Does anybody knows what happened with the Camel contest? Who were the winners?

[Chuck,mate.]

Final:

[-gonzo-]

Does anybody knows what happened with the Camel contest? Who were the winners?

The camel voting will end on 15th March

[Hookswords]

The camel voting will end on 15th March

Beware the ides of March!

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>_>

Sorry...couldnt resist. I hope to have time for this one. Are we limited to Bald Eagles or are Golden Eagles fair game?

[Faroresama]

I just found the camel thread this morning and this monthly contest looks really awesome I hope I can participate in this one; I loooooove eagles

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Beware the ides of March!

<_<

>_>

Sorry...couldnt resist. I hope to have time for this one. Are we limited to Bald Eagles or are Golden Eagles fair game?

Hello!

Nope, we are 100% open for this...so do whatever you like!!!

[Faroresama]

Here's my final.



I don't draw a lot of animals usually so this was really fun and different
My fish looks like Kermit the Frog XD

[azlath]

thanks gonzo.... i'll wait the results while i work in my eagle...

[Justin.]

GAH!! Patri and his vectorz SKILLS!!!

=\ Lasso tool...




And for the fans... my lines =P

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

Hi all! The Camel's result is out!

You can see the result from here http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...38#post1251438

Congrats for all! all entries please contact ben@zoopublishing.com with your email adress for a free copy for the magazine.

Top 3 winners, please contact me at warin@zoopublishing.com for submitting the final image and and making of and organizing the prizes!

Many thanks everybody!

Warin

[Justin.]

I will probably do a different one tonight.. mostly because I forgot to save the Processes!!! :X

[VirtualSurreality]

final

[Njord-E55]

This picture has been an ongoing saga. First I made a watercolour sketch, Then my scanner crapped out on me. So I had to take a photo of it and vectorize it.
So here it is, in all its glory, or something.

[Njord-E55]

Am I the only one that feels that the response for this challenge has fallen drastically since it was moved to the Community Activities?

Not a lot of people check the general forum here, most of them click directly to the COW, EOW and such. Maybe someone should post a post in the Lounge or something similar?

[Macaruba]

Here's my eagle, with his true character showing through.

My only choice so far is Chuck-Mate, great illustration.



Macaruba

[ikuru]

well now its you and chuck

[Einen]

Still got lots to do on this one, especially on the background, but a WIP has never harmed anyone, now has it?

[rodriguez]

Hey folks

Hey Chuck i think your gonna get a clean sweep with these challenges. U rule buddy

Here's my WIP

[Chuck,mate.]

thanks rodriguez.
I do my best.

[rodriguez]

Yeah i always look forward to seeing ur work. Not really done much of this sort of thing myself but always trying to improve

[voraz]

my eagle:

[ikuru]

voraz, nice eagle.