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June Gallery Winners
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June Gallery Winners // Roundtable
Post by Steinie // Jul 3, 2007, 5:00pm
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Hail Hail the gangs all there!:) Nice work again by all. |
Post by kena // Jul 3, 2007, 5:21pm
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Yes - some very good ones this month mad it through. I guess I don't feel bad at all that mine didn't get a showing. :D |
Post by prodigy // Jul 3, 2007, 5:54pm
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Yup all nice works but i must confess the second places is simply Beautifull..
Incredible Work Paul... You win a Banana for your work..:banana:
your second render looks preaty good too, nice sss and lighting..
Congratulations to all!:jumpy: |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jul 3, 2007, 6:06pm
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Quite nice all around!
Cell shaded image was quite a new twist I hadn't seen before. Also the winning animation was quite impressive although I couldn't scale it up in size for my poor eyes. Was curious if that one was done with flash exporter or with cell shader as well. Given the quicktime format it could be either as far I could tell. |
Post by MadMouse // Jul 3, 2007, 10:06pm
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Congratulations to everyone
(if its any consolation Paul, I'd of placed you first;) ) |
Post by splinters // Jul 3, 2007, 10:10pm
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Congratulations to everyone
(if its any consolation Paul, I'd of placed you first;) )
Thanks Steve, but not to detract from Zachary's excellent work...:D
Actually, I am suprised your entry did not do better. Technically it was excellent but maybe it was because it was more of a WIP than a finished image?? Either way, bloody good stuff. I have noticed that the winner often tends to have evocative or moody lighting....:rolleyes:
Thanks for the runner up congrats guys, always nice to see your work up there against such talented competition. |
Post by MadMouse // Jul 3, 2007, 10:42pm
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Technically it was excellent but maybe it was because it was more of a WIP than a finished image?? I actually submitted a whole range of images of the Devil mech including the finished render but no sign of those :confused:
I have noticed that the winner often tends to have evocative or moody lighting.... Dont get me started again Paul :rolleyes: ;) :D |
Post by W!ZARD // Jul 3, 2007, 10:59pm
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Congratulations Zachary and Paul and my fellow Honourable mentionees.
@Kena - don't feel too bad mate - that butterfly image of yours is good and can't have missed by much |
Post by Shike // Jul 3, 2007, 11:18pm
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Congratulations to all! :D
Zacharys really look like one of thoose amazing still photos made by great photographers! Love it ! :)
The rest was also great, emotional image by Splinters, British humour by WickedWitch (:D) and the "scenes full of interesting things to look at" by Wizard ! A little bit confused about why Madmouse's complete mech wasn't choosen, but this one does show off his modelling skills ! :D |
Post by MadMouse // Jul 3, 2007, 11:25pm
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but this one does show off his modelling skills thanks Lars. But as we all know, modelling skills are no match for moody lighting :rolleyes: ;) |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 4, 2007, 4:52pm
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Lol, ya, whoever chooses the images seems to like dark scenes with volumetric lighting. Zachary's is kinda dark, Paul's is a sunset scene (somewhat dark), Stephen's "fishing spot" has volumetrics, the background is black in mine; doesn't there seem to be a bit of a pattern? Idk, good job to everyone who made this month's gallery! They all look really good, and I noticed that I recognized many of them from the forums too!
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
Post by digitaldali // Jul 5, 2007, 5:04am
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That's a good point...I've never really noticed that trend, but you're right. BTW, thank you all and congrats to everyone! It's becoming more and more obvious that EVERYONE is stepping up their game...really great stuff in the galleries AND the forums lately! GREAT WORK! |
Post by Stickman // Jul 5, 2007, 12:02pm
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Congratulations to Zachary and Paul and everyone who made it to this month gallery!
I like the winning animation, but it seems to be under the wrong month.
By the way, have the maximum file size been changed, or is it still 15 MB?
I'm just wondering because that animation is 25 MB. |
Post by Steinie // Jul 5, 2007, 1:15pm
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That's a good point...I've never really noticed that trend, but you're right. BTW, thank you all and congrats to everyone! It's becoming more and more obvious that EVERYONE is stepping up their game...really great stuff in the galleries AND the forums lately! GREAT WORK!
Actually we're ganging up on you!:D Where also running out of tissues... |
Post by roman // Jul 5, 2007, 1:28pm
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thanks Lars. But as we all know, modelling skills are no match for moody lighting :rolleyes: ;)I know, I know, my judging is a subjective one:) Actualy we are thinking to introduce a new gallery contest where users would determine the winner, what do you think guys, are we going to get enough entries for both? |
Post by Burnart // Jul 5, 2007, 1:50pm
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What about an annual vote for best of the year based on all the monthly winners and runners up? |
Post by Steinie // Jul 5, 2007, 2:06pm
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I always wondered why you couldn't have one contest but have one winner selected by you and another winner selected by the users. Sometimes one winner could get both prizes. Entries for User voting would be at the Forum and Roman voting would still be submitted the old fashion way. Have a "Peoples Choice" Award and "Presidents" Award also do away with second place. I haven't figured out the best way to judge Animations yet. Maybe they could post links here to a site where their animation is located for the "Peoples Choice" Award.
I like the idea of a World Series Contest at the end of the year where ALL entries go for the Gold. " A Free trip to Caligari headquarters, a brown bag Dinner with Roman, a free box of Crayola's, (as Yul Brynner would say in the King and I ...etc, etc...) |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 5, 2007, 3:03pm
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Lol, I think it's a great idea! I like the end of the year idea, too, as long as there's still a monthly contest! Maybe there could be one every two weeks or so.... Months just seem to go by so slowly.....
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
Post by W!ZARD // Jul 5, 2007, 9:02pm
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.... what do you think guys, are we going to get enough entries for both?
Well I'll be doing the best I can for sure!
FWIW I like Steinies suggestion of a 'Peoples Award' and a 'Presidents Award'.
Burnarts idea of an Annual best of year is a good one too - perhaps it could coincide with Caligari's birthday - or even Romans Birthday! |
Post by splinters // Jul 5, 2007, 9:44pm
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Great idea; one from Roman, one from the voters.
And an annual prize as well.
I suggested to Tom some months ago that Caligari might benefit from a 'Masters' gallery like other sites do. Those Maya masters always stick in my mind-maybe tS could have the same.
Yes, we all know who they are and many have biogs or features on them but I mean a gallery of tS Masters. Take Parva for instance-posts great work but not always in the galleries. For visitors to the site, who don't like searching forums, this is a chance to see the best tS can produce.
A list would be very subjective but I think it should include include Parva, DigitalDali, Madmouse just to start with. However, it would also be the quality of the work that was on show but I think it is good to link names (with their permission) to being 'ambassadors' for Caligari and their software. Also make sure that there is a bit of everything there; character, industrial, product, architecture etc. as well as animation. |
Post by MadMouse // Jul 5, 2007, 9:55pm
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I always wondered why you couldn't have one contest but have one winner selected by you and another winner selected by the users. Yes yes yes yes a thousand times yes!!!!!
What about an annual vote for best of the year based on all the monthly winners and runners up? ... and a nother thousand times yes.
I suggested to Tom some months ago that Caligari might benefit from a 'Masters' gallery like other sites do. er... what like www.madmousedesign.co.uk has got you mean :rolleyes: ;) :D
A list would be very subjective but I think it should include include Parva, DigitalDali, Madmouse and some bloke called Splinters :D |
Post by splinters // Jul 5, 2007, 10:00pm
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Let us avoid 'nepotism' here Steve...;)
As for your truemasters, yes exactly what I meant but just how did you intercept that email to Tom...:rolleyes: ;) |
Post by MadMouse // Jul 5, 2007, 10:05pm
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As for your truemasters, yes exactly what I meant but just how did you intercept that email to Tom... Mouse Mail:D |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 6, 2007, 4:35am
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I like the category idea Splinters had; there could be an overall winner every month, a winner for architecture, for abstract art, for nature scenes, for fictional scenes, etc. Is that what you were kinda going at Splinters? Or something similar?
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
Post by 3dfrog // Jul 6, 2007, 4:40am
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wow wow wow great entries in there. I loved the winner. It must have been a tough decision between that and paul's, they are so different but both so excellent. And that animation winner, wow wow wow again. I had no idea truespace could do that! That is some pro looking work right there. Where is the toon shader? I don't see it anywhere. I'd love to try it out. |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 6, 2007, 4:43am
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I think it's a TS 5 or 6 plug-in.... Don't remember for sure, though....
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
Post by 3dfrog // Jul 6, 2007, 5:39am
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Oh and I want to point out, if you use .mov, you can use quicktime pro which is only 30 dollars, to export a movie using the H.264 codec. I tried this on the winning animation and got the file size down to 6 mb and it looked the same and still had sound. 25 mb is just way to big for that animation.
But I am just blown away by that animation. I showed it to a friend and he thinks the characters were hand drawn and the rest was toon shaded. Is this how it was done? |
Post by TomG // Jul 6, 2007, 9:19am
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For animators out there, one word of warning - .mov (the Quicktime format) is still not fully compatible with Vista.
They did release an update that fixes it for some, but no .mov will play still on my system, and others report the same thing. So for now, if you do post your animations in .mov format, there will be some people out there who are not able to view them....
HTH!
Tom |
Post by digitaldali // Jul 6, 2007, 9:29am
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I love the idea of two galleries:DThat means more stuff to look at!!! I'm all for it! |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 8, 2007, 4:24pm
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For animators out there, one word of warning - .mov (the Quicktime format) is still not fully compatible with Vista.
I have .mov files on my Vista desktop that work fine.... They had sound problems at first, but now they're fine. I don't know why they wouldn't work on some Vista computers...
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
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