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"The Random 3D Competition."

I and everyone else seem to be going 3d mad at the moment so I decided we can improve skills a kind of fun way. Here's the pitch:

You open your 3D program and you just make something completely RANDOM. Go wild. You can enter as many times as you like and it doesn’t have to be "good" as you'll see in a moment.

Here's my one (just an example)

THE RANDOMNESS: [URL]http://img103.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img103&image=blobby5hq.jpg[/URL]


The winner? He/she gets to give chippZERO his first kiss.

Go.

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GO!!

Very_Metal wrote:
> :D
> fair!

i relise you all wanted the prize but your just going to have to work harder :P

:D
fair!

After very_metal's pimping down of my project :( (joke) this thread seems to have died and therefore i declare myself the winner.

look at insect pictures, look at machinery (it looks like you're going for a hybrid kinda look), look at geigers work ("aliens" dude) and at organic and cyber art.

they just need... 'more' the bodies look a bit like an afterthough, just plonked in to have something to bang the wings onto.
it may just be because it'sa offset against a fairly detailed background.. i'd have to see them in context to be specific. you're in the right direction though, i think i get what you're after, but it needs a bit of a prod perhaps....

Very_Metal wrote:
> chip: i prefer the blue wings personally, but i'd say your designs
> need a fair bit of work dude, i get the feeling you could do way
> better (no offense)

:*(

Do you mean the wings or the whole thing? the wings were made by accident i had made them using splines and then i put a meshsmooth on them and not the object i ment to resulting in what you see there, they need to be smoother as they are quite blocky and more like a model that you would find in a game.

any advice for improvements, or links to tutorails on techniques would be good.

chip: i prefer the blue wings personally, but i'd say your designs need a fair bit of work dude, i get the feeling you could do way better (no offense)

I might find my old copy of 3ds max and have a go. :)

Spent about 30 mins changing thngs around, a bit of development in the fly things, still experimenting with wings.

[URL]http://img183.exs.cx/img183/7859/tadfly9sq.jpg[/URL]


One on it's own from above

[URL]http://img130.exs.cx/img130/9800/tadtop5ij.jpg[/URL]


same pictures without the videopost on, not sure whch i prefer.

[URL]http://img82.exs.cx/img82/180/tadtopnopost1qh.jpg[/URL]

[URL]http://img30.exs.cx/img30/6959/tadflynopost4ce.jpg[/URL]

nice wings!
maybe add some wires and fibres using opacity maps??

at the moment i'm playing with reactor physics and wind effects.

Heres one that is a trail for an animation i am thinking of doing. the background is just a bmp from 3dMax the animation will use all my own terrain.

[URL]http://img214.exs.cx/img214/3467/flys1hs.jpg[/URL]

Please note the models are in there starting phase, although the final ones will still have a simple frame.