C4D Cafe: C4D Cafe

Challenge Results

Hi everyone. Below are the winners of the MAD MAXON Path Warrior Challenge. We only had 3 final entries so everyone is a winner!! Obviously we would have liked more entries and perhaps the theme wasn't the best as it was a little bit different. We don't know how well some ideas we have for Challenges will go until we try them.

The winners are:

1st place - TheJimReaper
2nd place - TheMiniReaper
3rd place - outlawalien

Jim wins himself a copy of the latest 3DWorld magazine. I will be in touch to arrange this.

You view the 3 winning images here in the gallery.

Cinebench Database

In other news some of you will have picked up that we have a new Cinebench database results page and some of you have been testing it out for us. It appears to be working pretty well so I encourage you all to submit your results. Generally you can copy and paste the scores from Cinebench into the appropriate fields. For things like Multiprocessor Speedup please don't add the "x" after the numbers. By excluding the "x" this field can then be used to sort results. Have a look to see how others have submitted their results. If you have overclocked your CPU you should say so in the notes field. Note that the Notes filed is truncated and to view all of the notes you will have to go into the record. That is done by clicking on the date field for each record.

You can find the new Cinebench Database here.

We hoping that the Cafe's Cinebench database will become popular and useful for members to compare similar hardware to their own to ensure they are getting the performance that they should be. If you're looking to upgrade you can can an idea of what performance is possible by checking out the results of members with newer and fancier hardware.

What's cool about our database is you can sort and search results. You can click on a record and post comments about other member's (or your own) results. If you make a mistake you can edit your record.

For those interested the database and page are created with a new product called IP Content from the same company that makes the forum software. I didn't have to create any code at all. Generally the entire thing is created from wizards and simple forms. It's likely that I'll tinker with the database over the next few weeks and how it is displayed.

Regards
Nigel / 3DKiwi

Hi everyone. It's time to get back into some serious modelling. For this Challenge we want you model a MP3 player. This should hopefully result in lots of entries. Before anyone asks, yes you can model an iPod. We're just after anyone one of the many portable music type devices in the MP3 player style. If you want to be creative you can create your own player.

Although we would like you to apply materials to the player we're mainly looking at modelling and overall style.

The top 3 images will receive a Challenge award ribbon and also have their image featured in the Gallery.

Now the rules:

Judges for this challenge: Cafe Staff.

1. Deadline: Midnight Pacific Standard (North America), Friday, 12th February 2010.
2. No time limit i.e. take as long as you like to do the modelling and texturing.
3. No imported models / meshes / scenes.
4. Members can enter multiple times.
5. The Cafe judges reserve the right to disallow any entry if in their opinion the entry contains objectionable, offensive material or blatant advertising.
6. PhotoShop post work is not permitted nor the use of other applications such as modo or Z-Brush for displacement maps. It has to be modelled and rendered in C4D or using a C4D renderer like Vray etc.
7. Maximum image size is 1280 x 1024. Please compress your jpeg images. Anything over 400kb is too big. (New attachment sizes.)
8. At least one WIP image in wireframe and solid render are required as a reply to this thread. The wireframe render should be done as a Cel render and with hypernurbs disabled. Check out our cel rendering tutorial here if you don't know how to do one. Disable hypernurbs in the cel renders so that we can see the polygon construction.Please keep the Cel renders as Black lines on White background.
9. No remote hosting of images. All images to be uploaded to the Cafe. Just press the "add this attachment" button to upload each image.
10. Only one final image and wireframe may be submitted for your final entry. Hypernurbs must be disabled in the wireframe. We want to see the polygon construction.
11. All final entries must be made in the proper "Final entry" thread locate here.
12. You cannot use models etc that you have previously modelled. You must start everything new and specifically for this challenge.

Good luck and have fun.
3DKiwi