Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 16, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Hello everyone! This is the very first Community Challenge here on the 3D-Coat Forums! This challenge will be to sculpt a King's Throne! It has to be a chair (for a humanoid shaped King), but it should be decorated, big, and awe-inspiring. It should NOT look like an average chair that anybody would use. This is a special chair that only the King is allowed to sit in! Some ideas to inspire you: Think about who the King is. Is he an Elven King? Is his throne made of intricately carved wood, inlaid with magical glowing crystals? Maybe he is Poseidon, King of the Sea? Is his throne made of various seashells and coral, with electric eels living inside of it? Or perhaps he is King Louis XV of France? What would his throne look like then? In this Challenge you are required to sculpt the entire throne within 3D-Coat. Sculpting is the only requirement of this Challenge, but you are free to retopo, UV, and paint your model if you so desire. If you only want to vertex paint your sculpt (with no retopo or UVs) that will also be acceptable. The final version must be rendered either in the Render Room of 3D-Coat or you can also use any external render engine you desire. Please post the progress you are making by taking screen shots from within 3D-Coat. Also feel free to discuss any problems you run into while working, or ask any questions you might have, so that we can all help each other, and learn from one another (as this is the main purpose of these Challenges). You can refer to the Rules thread (first sticky thread in this forum) for any other questions you might have about how this Challenge will be run. The deadline is one month from today. Oh and by the way, I will also be taking part in this Challenge, but obviously I will NOT be allowed to win this one! Good luck! I am excited to see what we all create! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted August 19, 2013 Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 Best. Thread. Ever. I can't wait to get started. AWESOME idea Tim! Let's get this ball rolling everyone!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 19, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 Nice. Great to see this under way. I'm in. Thanks for your efforts guys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member alvordr Posted August 20, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 OK, I'll give it a shot. This is my initial concept, but I'm thinking about turning it around and using the tree as the throne. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 20, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Nice start Alvordr! I think the seat could work if it was maybe a giant leaf. But your tree/throne idea is also intriguing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted August 21, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 21, 2013 Finally! I think I gonna participate too after I'm back from vacation. ... Would you believe if I said it took me over five minutes to write these few words? Goddamn small mobile keyboards... I hate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 22, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Initial Concept. Entertaining the idea of king ruling under a wolves banner. Strength and feircness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 22, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Cool concept Ebitz! I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like in 3D! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 22, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Thanks Timmy, getting closer to the final with this one I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 22, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm going to make a throne for an evil demonic king. It will be mostly made of black wrought iron material, but also with sculpted pieces on it which look like bones and other scary things. Maybe some dark wood sections too. I'm going to leave the concept a bit loose so I can make things up and add them along the way... Here is a concept sketch I made of just the back part of the seat. A spinal column and ribs attached to iron spears which stick out on top! So I started to make a human vertebral column. The vertebral column is made of four different kinds of vertebrae. This one is called a "lumbar vertebra": When I finish the four different kinds of vertebrae, then I will stack them all on top of each other and make the spine. I'm already having a lot of fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 23, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Omg I can't wait to see the outcomes!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 24, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 So I finished sculpting the vertebrae pieces and stacked them up to create a spine (repeating/posing them by using the Curve tool). Also added a dark metallic shader to approximate the wrought iron look I'll be going for, and then did a quick render in the Render Room. I noticed two interesting things while working in the Render Room. First, I noticed a new bug (the colors for the red and blue spectrum lights seem to reversed). Second, the GL version of 3D-Coat does the anti-aliasing in real time (the DX version does not seem to do this). So here are the quick spine renders: Next I'll be adding the spears and ribs to complete the back part of the throne! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 24, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 That looks fantastic Timmy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted August 24, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 Will the 'ribs' enclose the sitter? Or maybe flattened and full of padding? And a skull (or just a skull cap)on top of the vertibril column? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 25, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 @Cylon: Thanks for the compliment! @Tony: Yeah, I'm kinda trying to stick to my original concept drawing (post #10 of this thread). The ribs will be flattened up against the spears to create the back part of the chair, maybe wrapping around the outside a bit to hold them in place. I realize a real set of ribs would actually be curving in the opposite direction, "enclosing the sitter" as you said, but I have decided that I am definitely going to put an animated king character into the throne after I finish modeling it, so I think enclosing ribs would sort of hide him from visibility too much, as well as limit his range of animation. Also a skull at the top would probably distract attention away from the king as well. So basically I want there to be interesting details in this throne, which make it look special, but nothing so crazy that it ends up being more interesting to look at than the demon king himself. Thanks for your suggestions, you helped me decide where I am trying to go with this! I finished making the spears, and am starting to make the ribs, but I'm not too sure if I should use the Curve Tool for them, or instead cut them out of a shape with the Voxlayer Tool instead...I wonder which would be faster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 25, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Please continue keeping us updated of your progress I love seeing it come together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 25, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Initial wolf head sculpt for throne. Timmy: spinal chord looks great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 25, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 (edited) Continued wolf sculpt and somehow I deleted the first wip so here it is here. Edited August 25, 2013 by ebitz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted August 25, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Definately 'wolfish'. good start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 26, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 You guys sure know how to sculpt, wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Nice work guys! I've got to get something on for this, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 27, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Just blocking things in from the concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted August 27, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Good start, is the bumpy seat made of leather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ebitz Posted August 27, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Good start, is the bumpy seat made of leather? Yes, will be more like a tuft style chair, this was a quick and dirty place holder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 27, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Good stuff Ebitz! The wolf heads turned out nice! I'm still working on the "ribs" part of my throne...I have some time to work on it today, so I'll post some progress pics soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Pix Jigsaw Posted August 28, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Nice to see what people are making. Here's one for his Royal Hiney. More to come. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted August 28, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Really good for a grin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 28, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 LOL hahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted August 28, 2013 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 @Pix: Nice "throne"! All outhouses should look like that! Anyways, I finished the ribs section. I also used the 3D-Coat mannequin to create a placeholder for the king. I'll just make the proportions of my animated king match the proportions of the mannequin so everything works out in the end. For making the ribs I used the Voxlayer tool. The green preview line it creates is very helpful, but I also wish it would respect backface culling. I'll probably do a bit of sculpting/touch-up/smoothing to the ribs at some point later on. I'll do some more concept sketching now to figure out what part I'll make next... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cylon Posted August 28, 2013 Member Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Impressive work, love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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