Renderosity Lightwave 3D Forum August-November "Mega Mecha Melee"

LightWave 3D Forum "Mega Mech Melee" Contest Entries due by: September 20th, 2006 (12:00p.m.)

Managers: cowps, petes, TalleyJC

Judges: cowps, petes, TalleyJC

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The Lightwave Forum is proud to announce the Mega Mech Melee Contest

Ok guys...I hope you are all ready to kick it up a notch because I think we have something cool in store for this contest. Since this is a fairly large contest, I think we should break it down into 2 contests. The first contest will be to build you mecha. Anything goes, it can be as complex or simple as you like. Also this will be textured and rigged to some extent. Even if you aren't great at rigging, you can simply have a turret turn or a part move.

Feel free to use a existing mecha design..or get some brownie points for an original!

Next, (and this is the fun part) we are going to composite into a real piece of footage that I will be suppling. This is no simple still, This is a hand held camera shot that will be motion tracked and saved to a LWS file. here is an example: http://www.pixelcorps.com/Media_Boujou/bjpxc_robot.mov

Once you get it, it will be easy to understand. You can use a composite program, or you can use LW's composite. Now the options are limitless here..feel free to use those hypervoxels and dynamics to show some destruction! Smoke, fire, explosions..it's all fair game! There are a ton of free cars on the web to blow up. Or trash a no parking sign. Anything goes!

Part one will be due September 20th Part 2 will be November 1st

This will give us some extra time for texuring and rigging, as well as more time to play with tracking wich I'm guessing is fairly new to everyone.

This Contest will be sponsored by

The overall winner of this contest will win a texture pack of their choice from www.ambientlight.co.uk

Post work on images is allowed but keep it limited (the point here is to derive as much as possible from Lightwave only). No painting your whole scene.
Entries due by: September 20th, 2006 (12:00p.m.) Anymore questions? Feel free to ask in the Lightwave Forum or by sending Petes, TalleyJC or Cowps an Instant Message.

Contest Rules:

Open to all Renderosity members.
Members cannot vote for themselves!!!
Again members cannot vote for themselves!!!
Entrants should post a (wip) of the entry in our LightWave Forum
All entries should follow Renderosity's Terms of Service.
All final entries should be rendered from LightWave 3D. Any version is accepted.
Postwork is allowed, but not encouraged. Try to push LightWave to get all the effects, including any postwork shaders, done during the rendering process.
A wire frame must be posted in our LightWave Forum.
Thumbnail size must be 100 X 100 pixels (or it won't upload).

Contest Facts:

One entry per member. Just Remember to post your WIP's in the forum BUT...
Final entries must be uploaded by each members to this location (scroll down), to be "entered" into the contest!
This contest space is set up, where we have to "approve" each entry before it actually shows up, be patient.

Artists grant permission to Renderosity for the use of submitted images for an undetermined period of time. The Artist will always remain the intellectual property & copyright holder.