Mud box Artists! Here’s something very interesting in store for you!
Well known Animation Community and Information hub CGTANTRA is out with ‘Autodesk Mudbox Sculpting Contest’, a 3 month long contest from 1st August’12 to 31st October’12.
The contest is powered by technology giants AMD, WACOM AND AUTODESK
This challenge is crafted to prove one’s skills by Sculpting and Painting an ultimate Armed and Dangerous Character in Autodesk Mudbox.
Competition Entrants will have to make use of Autodesk Mudbox Software to sculpt and detail character’s mesh, and use Mudbox’s painting features to texture the character.
Participants need to run their imagination at the best and set the look of the character. It could be a man, woman, alien, elf, monster, an attorney, or any creation of yours.
Also any style form which suits your character can be brought into action. The styles could be comic, photorealistic, manga, etc. The final look should be breath taking & the character should be posed and painted Get creative. The key aspect to be kept in mind for this competition is that your model must possess some kind of threatening item, and posed in a way that suggests nobody should mess with them.
Entrants can make use of any software in this challenge
For achieving the base mesh, any 3D software , Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds max can be brought into picture as well as you can take full advantage of 2D software. Adobe Photoshop etc. to deliver finishing touches and backgrounds for your model.
With a tagline of Learn, Inspire and Grow, CGTANTRA with competitions like these is giving a good chance to the animation crowd to nurture their skills and potential.
The Judging Panel for this competition is formed with renowned Industry Stalwarts, Dhimant Vyas, an recognized Animation Film Designer, Animation and Creative Director Siju Thomas, Vivek Ram, Modeling Lead at DreamWorks & Prem Moraes, responsible for handling the Technical Side of Autodesk M & E software products.
Artworks for this competition will be judged on the lines of strength of the emotive and narrative elements of the character, with technical excellence as secondary criteria. To win the crown, participating artists must showcase a combination of clarity of thought and emotions in the character. A few ideas for the participants include, a cowboy with a six shooter, a pirate brandishing a cutlass, a damsel with dynamite, a giant killer bee with stinger missiles, or maybe your mom with a rolling pin.
Commenting more on this competition, Akal Singh Sujlana, Marketing Manager,
Autodesk India, said, “The animation industry in India is on a growth path with overseas entertainment giants outsourcing work as well as our home grown animated movies such as Roadside Romeo and the recent Arjun hitting the big screen. Modellers and 3D artist in India have the talent to create world-class designs. The Armed and Dangerous competition lets them showcase this creativity using Autodesk Mudbox – especially by leveraging its new Gigatexel Engine and interop with 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Adobe Photoshop.”
Also, it’s not a must to create completely dreadful and violent characters. Participants can work on non-violent characters having smart concepts. A few examples for the same include a clown with a cream pie, a lawyer with a writ, or the dreaded dentist with a drill.
Highlighting more on the competition, Abhishek Chandra, Co-Founder, CGTANTRA, stated, “Instead of a contest, I think it’s a fantastic way and opportunity for someone to learn and polish Mudbox skills and even get rewarded for it, heavily! With Autodesk coming up with such partners & a special serial key for the software that runs till the deadline of the contest, very senior and experienced Judges, excellent modeling artists as contest moderators like Savio Fernandes and David Chung, the help & sharing of the peers on the forums, and the lineup of prizes like iPad, Wacom Tablets, AMD FirePro cards, I think it creates a perfect environment for any one to jump in the contest and come out as a winner – Winning a lot of Mudbox skills if not the prizes.”
Coming to the prizes bunch, this competition is all set to give the winners a very good treat. Mudbox Challenge 1st prize winners will be awarded with a Intuos5 Touch Medium from Wacom, AMD FirePro™ V4900 professional graphics card from AMD, Apple iPad (32GB with Wi-Fi) from Autodesk
The 2nd prize winner will be delighted to receive a Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch from Wacom, AMD FirePro™ V4900 professional graphics card from AMD & Apple iPod Touch (32GB) from Autodesk whereas the 3rd prize winner will be gifted with a Bamboo Pen & Touch from Wacom, AMD FirePro™ V4900 professional graphics card from AMD & Apple iPod Nano (16GB) from Autodesk.
Talking about the future plans of Cgtantra, Abhishek highlighted, “We are planning new chapters of our contests like VFXWar, ARTTWar and Matte Painting Contests. We will be going to ComicCon Banglore where we have a booth with some new surprises for people to take home along.”
This challenge is open to CGTANTRA Members only. So hurry up and join this massive challenge by signing up as a CGTANTRA member and get started by launching your challenge thread in the challenge forum. You can follow the Challenge Forum Link here
For more information on the competition you can log on to http://mudbox.cgtantra.com