Cinema 4D: The Medieval Airport

Create your vision of a medieval airport!

Managers: cartesius, kromekat

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IMPORTANT

The deadline has been extended for 2 weeks
and new deadline is February 15!

Contest Theme:
The Medieval Airport

What if the art of flying had been invented in the 12th century? What if some genius had constructed a machine that could actually fly!? What would these flying machines have looked like? Would they be powered by muscle, wind, steam or some other ingenius tehnology? Would they be single, bi or triple winged? Would they carry passengers? Cargo? What would a medieval airport have looked like? We want you to show us!

Renderosity is proud to present the Medieval Airport contest for the CINEMA 4D forum! We want you to render a scene of a medieval airport. It can be a small airport or a large one as long as you portray flying machines of some sort in conjunction with a landing area.

The contest is called medieval but since it will mix facts with fiction you can consider "medieval" as going from ca 1100 AD to ca 1550 AD.

Although we want you to construct your own machines you are of course free to draw inspiration from technical illustrations from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and even modern times. We will not accept any exact replicas, though. Inspired by is fine, but design your own machines. And remember to keep them historical!

The Renderosity Cinema 4D Forum Contest 2005
is sponsored by:

The goal is to create a complete scene and judges will consider all relevant factors: concept, modeling, texturing, lighting, etc. You can focus on a single machine but it must be placed in some sort of airport and it should be one single image, not one image showing different POVs.

How to enter

Entering the contest is easy - you just upload your final entry on this page. You have to be a registered member with Renderosity.com (free) but there's no need to announce your participation anywhere, no need to start a thread in the forum or anything like that. As long as you upload your entry before deadline you're in.

You are allowed to use CINEMA 4D CE (free with several magazine CD's) or you can download a demo of R9 from the Maxon site.

Contest winners!

1st place:

dbrinda

2nd place:

big_dave

3rd place:

patrikpanda

Prizes

1ST PRIZE: $ 1000 MAXON Voucher*
+ your choice of a 3D Fluff Training DVD**

2ND PRIZE: greenwork's Xfrog 4.2
+ your choice of a 3D Fluff Training DVD**

3RD PRIZE: Storm Tracer by The Third Party
+ your choice of a 3D Fluff Training DVD**

All winning entries will receive their choice of a 3D Fluff Training DVD**

* MAXON products only: CINEMA 4D R9, modules, BodyPaint 3D, upgrade or 2nd license. This voucher worth of $1000 of MAXON software has no cash value and may be redeemed only through MAXON Computer.

** Applicable only for Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

Contest Rules

1. The contest opens for entries on January 1, 2005 and closes on February 1, 2005 at 12:00 p.m. Renderosity Server Time (18:00 GMT). This is an absolute deadline and entries must be time stamped by this date/time.

2. The contest is open to all Renderosity members using any flavour of MAXON's Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D. No other 3D applications are allowed. The Renderosity Team (administrators, moderators, marketplace staff and magazine staff) and persons affiliated with the corporate sponsors are not permitted to participate to this contest.

3. Submissions must be created by a single artist and only one entry per artist is allowed. In case of multiple entries through clone member accounts, all entries in question will be disqualified.

4. All participants of this contest are required to add their real name in the note field.

5. Images must not exceed a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels and a file size of 300 KB. Thumbnails must be of a 100 x 100 pixels resolution and not exceed 15 KB. Images must be in JPEG (.jpg) format only.

6. Submitted images must be in accordance with Renderosity's Terms of Service and copyrights policies.

7. Images must be original artwork and ownership of the contestant. Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated.

8. Absolutely no pre-made models allowed. All elements of the scene must be modeled by yourself. Participants caught using pre-made models will be disqualified.

9. All submissions must be made specifically for this contest. The contest entries should not be submitted work from past contests on other web sites, images already displayed in online galleries or published in magazines. You are not allowed to show your entry in any way (sketch, work in progress or finished) to the public until the winners of the contest have been announced.

10. Creating surface textures in 2D paint programs or using pre-made textures is permitted. Post-processing in 2D paint programs is allowed, but keep this to the bare necessities (compositing, sharpening, saturation, contrast and so on).

11. At any time during the contest you could be asked to provide the contest managers with more details about your image (wireframe screenshots, model files, etc) if it is believed that there are any issues or concerns related to it. The contest managers also reserve the right to request the complete Cinema 4D file if that situation should arise.

12. Judging will be carried out by a panel comprising of representatives from each of this contest's corporate sponsors and the Renderosity Team. The judges decision is final. Winners will be announced within 10 business days after the contest's deadline.

13. Artists grant permission to Renderosity.com for the use of submitted images for an undetermined period of time. This is strictly for posting the image on the front page and within the contest archives. The Artist will remain the intellectual property holder.

By entering this contest, I agree to all of the above guidelines and rules. I understand that the contest managers have the right to accept or decline any submitted images, based on these guidelines and rules. Any entry which falls outside these rules or the given theme will be ineligible.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact the contest managers, cartesius (Anders Kjellberg) or kromekat (Adam Benton)