3DVIA Challenge 18: Castles
Welcome back guys to the 3DVIA Challenge! I wanted to restart this series with something heavy, and historic: Castles! I’ve always imaged that back in the old days my ancestorys draped my family shield over the mantle of an elaborate and well defended castle. What would your family’s ancestors castle look like? Will it stand the test of invaders from every corner of the globe, defiant and proud? Design a castle for your familes ancestors in this challenge!
Come on and test your mettle against the best of our community for the chance at fame and fortune. Winners will recieve all the acclaim of being own of our Challenge Champions, a special page we create with your winning entry, and a space on our newsletter, letting everyone know who the Champion is.
Are you the next Champion?
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REMEMBER THESE KEY DATES:
UPLOAD YOUR MODELS:
Thursday, April 08, 2010 through Sunday, April 18, 2010
STAFF JUDGING:
Monday April 19, 2010 through Wednesday April 21, 2010
WINNER ANNOUNCED:
Wednesday April 21, 2010
3DVIA USERS – HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CHALLENGE:
A summary of the terms and conditions is included here.
1. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1a. You must be a registered user of 3DVIA.com
3DVIA accounts are free, sign up here.
1b. No Age Restriction.
1c. DS 3DVIA employees involved in the organization of this contest (including their family members) and members of any agencies involved in the organization of this contest (including their families) are not eligible.
2. PARTICIPATION
2a. You must upload one “Castle” model by Sunday April 18, 2010.
Starting on Thursday, April 08, 2010 through Sunday, April 18, 2010, upload your best “Castle” to 3DVIA. Only new to 3DVIA and original work will be considered, 1 submission per user, NO team entries.
2b. You must tag your 3D model with “3DVIAChallenge18″.
Tag your model with the keyword “3DVIAChallenge18″ – you must use this exact tag to enter (the tag is not case-sensitive). When you add this tag to your model, you will see a pop-up reminder that you must have read and agreed to the 3DVIA website Terms of Use.
2c. Models created using the 3DVIA Shape software which constitute derivative works reproducing existing models created by third parties under the Creative Commons license are eligible for this contest.
More information about Creative Commons can be found at http://creativecommons.org/ and, with respect to the existing licenses, at http://creativecommons.org/about/license.
2d. Models created using the 3DVIA PrintScreen software or any other software that copies existing 3D models, as well as creations containing any third party proprietary elements are not eligible for this contest.
3. LICENSE TO USE THE MODELS
3a. By uploading your model to enter the contest you are granting DS and DS Subsidiaries certain rights regarding how your model may be used to help promote 3DVIA in the marketplace.
4. WINNERS
4a. A jury made up of six 3DVIA representatives will judge each model from 1-10 (10 being the best score) based on the models artistic merit, technical merit and accuracy.
Artistic Design - Eye catching design, the coolness of the model.
Technical Accuracy – Mechanical or realistic accuracy and detail
Modeling Efficiency – Polygonal construction, modeling skill.
If more than one model receives the same score, each model with the same score will be designated as a Winner and will receive the same prize.
4b. The winner will be announced on the 3DVIA.com web site on Wednesday April 21, 2009.
4c. Decisions of the 3DVIA representatives are final.
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Hello Juan,
Great to see the return of Challenge….Just have few queries:
1. What is the result of Challenege17?? Who won??
2. In Most of the challeneges you gave 3 weeks to 1 month time…this time its just 2 weeks!!! Dont you think its much less time for competition….
3. If someone publish model on 19th April or after that will you accept it?
4. Can we upload more than 11mb models from 3dvia shape now? or is it still in process??
I will be waiting for your answer & confirmation…….
I’ll be making a post to settle the Challenge 17 Winnner today.
Challenges tended to be a month long because of the week long voting process. But we are still waiting for a secure voting solution, so all voting is now internal, with double the amount of judges.
All Challenges tried to give minimum 2 weeks modeling time and maximum 2.5-3 weeks. I want to keep it at 2 weeks to allow for more challenges.
We will definitly admire any model entered after the submition deadline but it will not be considered for the Challenge winner title as it won’t be fair to other contestants.
I will check the status of the Shape upload and post another reply with the answer shortly.
this is my first time to try to participate in this kind if contest. I would like to know what is the prize for the winner, and which file formats are allowed to upload, for example are allowed .ma .mb .3dm .obj . and the texture formats .jpg thanx in advance and sorry for my english
Welcome rockr86ds!
When we started the challenge we gave out prizes, but due to the contest guidelines we had to restrict the entry into the challenge to a smaller crowd for legal reasons. You do get some fame for winning the Challenge Championship, your name and winning entry in the newsletter and a permanent blog and place in the 3DVIA Hall of Champions. Pretty soon you’ll also get a special badge on your avatar !!
Ahh a fellow Maya user, very nice! I suggest you use the Collada DAE Exporter and upload using the dae format. It support alot more options than .obj.
You can download the free plug in here:
http://server.tavae.com/downloads/exporters/
Hi, .obj is allowed, yes, but I’m not sure about any of the other file formats you mentioned. You’re English is fine!
Are included models allowed?
Sure, but only your own original work will be considered for the Challenge.
This could be a good challenge. I’m excited to see the entries.
You can continue working on the model once published, if the deadline not expired?
Correct, nothing is considered final till deadline.
Gracias.
Thank you.
3Dvia.com, You are never on time!!
:)
I do appologize, I did manage to get the graphics done but I was also recording a webinar for 3DVIA Studio and making the next challenge, so things kind of ran together :) The winner will go up shortly :)
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any chance that you’ll post the winner of the CAT_Exploding barrels and Challenge 17 winners soon?
What we wanted to do for the exploading barrels was to make them interactive and expload using Studio, but then we got too much into the demos for GDC, This next challenge will restart the Call to Action and I will work right now to finish off those other winner blog posts :)