Cinema 4D Forum Challenge

WARHAMMER
(from December 1, 2007 to January 10, 2008)

Time to get smashing!

It's time to enter the grimey realm of Warhammer! Warhammer is a fantasy setting notable for its "dark and gritty" background world, which features a culture similar in appearance to Renaissance Germany crossed with Tolkien's Middle-earth. Chaos is central to the setting, as the forces of Chaos are attempting unceasingly to tear the mortal world asunder. The world itself is populated with a variety of races such as humans, dark elves, high elves, dwarfs, undead, orcs, lizardmen, ogres, and other creatures familiar to many settings. The theme of this challenge is to visualize in 3D a setting, an object, a creature or just about anything form the Warhammer world!

The challenge involves modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering a Warhammer scene and all Cinema plugins are OK to use, as are commercial textures. You need to do all the modeling yourself, however, so Poser characters are not allowed and neither are commercial models. Applications like Zbrush or Mudbox are allowed.

Excellent inspiration can be found here:

Warhammer Concept Art 2006
Warhammer Concept Art 2007

A couple of things to keep in mind

WIP threads in the Cinema 4D forum are allowed and encouraged. Feel free to start a thread with step-by-step images, techniques or issues you run into.

No of entries: Only one entry per member

Time: from December 1, 2007 to January 10, 2008 (deadline is roughly 16.00 CST (GMT -6))

Image size: Maximum 1024 x 1024

First prize: You get to decide the next challenge plus you get to put this snazzy award badge on your homepage:

Upload your entries on this page and when the contest is finished we'll have a forum vote for best entry.

Remember, we are a community, so don't hesitate to ask for help in the Cinema 4D forum!

Have fun and good luck!
Cartesius & Kromekat