tsumea modeller challenge #10 - The Superhero Villian Challenge

The tsumea modeller challenge #10 is sponsored by Big Ant Studios and Infinite Interactive

Competition Rules: Open to Australians and New Zealanders only.

STARTING DATE: Wednesday, 23rd of July, 2008.
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday, 16th of December, Midnight. Yes, 4 and a half months Total!

THEME:

Design and model your own Superhero Villian, with one important proviso. Taking the cue from Chris Nolan's realistic and gritty approach to the Batman films, your villian *must* be modern-day and entirely plausable. THIS town needs a better class of criminal!

RULES AND GUIDELINES:

CONCEPT AND STYLE:

The character for submission has to be an original design of your own creation, and so cannot be a direct copy from any other games, films, or comics etc. Your character must be humanoid, and not a creature. Hand combat weapons and weaponry are optional. All must fit a modern-day realistic era. Also required: One calling card. An item that your villian leaves behind which symbolises their character.

MODELLING REQUIREMENTS:

1 Normal mapped character

Contains:
required (model) : 9000 polygon (tris) maximum (one single mesh).
required (model) : One calling card item, for placement in your money shot. This will not add to the polycount, and no wireframe or texture shots are needed for this.
Optional (model) : weaponry (swords, guns, hand combat weapons etc). Weaponry will add to the model count.

required (texture) : one normal map, and one diffuse map (all textures are to be a maximum 2048 x 2048 in size.)
optional (texture) : any other texture passes you want (specular, gloss, alpha, emmissive, translucence, reflection etc)

Note: Strictly no cannabalism of old models.

FOR SUBMISSION:

1. 1024x1024 money shot which can be lit and posed (or unposed) how ever you feel fit. You can include a background scene. You must include your calling card in this scene. You can render your scene with your choice of renderer and lighting; Use your flare
for presentation!

- Upload in first picture slot in journal post

2. 1024x512 pixel picture of default software lit orthographics of character (front, back, side, 3/4 view). ** Taken from basic scanline render

- Upload in second picture slot in journal post

3. 1024x512 pixel picture of untextured wireframe of character (front, back, side, 3/4 view) ** Taken from basic scanline render or viewport grab

- Upload in third picture slot in journal post

4. 1024x1024 uvw wire layout of character (and weapon if you modelled one)

- Upload in fourth picture slot in journal post

5. 1024x1024 your normal map for your character (and weapon, if modelled)

- Upload in fifth picture slot in journal post

6. 1024x1024 your diffuse map (and weapon, if modelled)

- Upload in sixth picture slot in journal post

Please include your name, the polycount of your model, what extra maps you used (specular, gloss, alpha, emmissive, translucence, reflection etc) and your model's name in the picture.

7. A brief paragraph or two on the backstory of your character in **your journal post**

** ALL THESE NEED TO BE UPLOADED IN YOUR JOURNAL BEFORE MIDNIGHT, 16th DECEMBER ***

JUDGING CRITERIA:

Character concept and creativity, modelling work, texturing skills, and general aesthetics of the model.

As usual, we have three days before we set the guidelines in stone. If there's anything you think that needs ironing out or changed, please post about it here and we'll work it out.

Also, if you plan on entering, you need to do a few things.

1. You need to have a registered account on tsumea
2. You must join the tsumea modeller challenge group at http://www.tsumea.com/group/tsumea-modeller-challenge-10 . This group will be the hub of all things related to the challenge!
3. To upload your work for discussion, you need to upload it to your journal, then link your post to the tsumea modeller challenge group.

If you have any questions and want to contribute to the discussion of the challenge, head onto our forum at the following link!