fatcap competition

Hello all

another update from the animation workshop, just thought I would post some details here of a competion I ran for my class while teaching in denmark.

I wanted to see how they would handle a basic brief that was much simpler than it looked, so I challenged them to model and render a 'fatcap' figureing by kidrobot. Kidrobot sell these figures as collectables and in unmarked boxes so you never know which one you will get, the designs on each model come from various artists and designers around the world and are rather cool if you ask me. The challenge here is that the shape is, while organic quite specific and has both hard and soft edges, so while it look simple, is in fact, somewhat of a challenge. (there are some pics below, i must confess, they arent mine.)




I gave them three weeks to submit (waaaayyy too much time, but we had other things to do), to model one of these figures and here are the winning results. The catagories were: BEST RENDER, BEST TEXTURE and MOST IMPROVED MODELLER.

Here are the winners:

BEST RENDER (and) BEST TEXTURE:

Jonothan Brusch

I thought Jonothans image was excellent, the texture is interesting and cool, and there render is nice and simple, works perfectly for the subject. also the model is spot on, so well done Jonothan.



MOST IMPROVED MODELLER:

Casper Wermuth

Casper modelled this as soon as I set the task, dedicated and enthusiastic his attitude to the project was admirable, and while the model isnt 100 percent accurate, it showed huge improvement as a modeller and a good approach all round. well done Casper



so thats it for Denmark for now, may well pop back here later in the year to teach another group basic modelling, we shall have to see. Its been fun!