The Mecha War Challenge – The Champions
The Mecha War Challenge has ended, it was a pleasure for us to see your progress and the effort you put in your creations. It has been a very even contest for the second and third place. But we had a clear winner after half of the votes added from moderators and Judges.
We hope you see this type of contest as a learning experience. It’s difficult to make Droids, Mechas and different types of Robots. It takes time, as there is a complex process with details and forms to create a believable, near functional look-alike Mechas as 3D Concept Art.
The prizes you got here, thanks to our sponsors are a big bonus to get your career started or punch it even further. Thanks to this types of challenges, we and our sponsors, we can bring you better possibilities to boost your career and have the right access to tools that will help you out in the future.
Keep in mind that the effort you put in your visions will pay off. We have seen an incredible development in all you artist that were part of this challenge. And you made it, you reached some of your goals and delivered. We want to thank you, fellow artists, for being part of this community and for making 3D Concept Art Community even better for each day.
We want to thank you all followers, likers and fellow members for keeping this wheel running. As well our Judges, Riyahd Cassiem, Justin Goby Fields and Lee Souder for contributing and helping us out sharing the challenge. Also, we would thank all of our sponsors for this challenge, for their kindness and their support.
Thank you, Allegorithmic, Redshift, Quixel, Topogun, GameTextures, Escape Motions, Hyperfocal, Texture Pilot, Corona Renderer, 3D-Coat, HDRI-Hub, Unfold3D and finally Luxion. We have learned a lot in this journey and will continue learning. We will take our experience from this challenge to our next. We are looking forward to more challenges in the future.
Our judgement has been based on techniques, modeling/sculpting, storytelling, concept and finally the presentation.
So here we present, the Champions of The Mecha War Challenge for 2015!!
Mods and Judge’s comment and advice:
Amazing work everything is perfect all around. The way the Mechs are posed bring the image to life. – Lee Souder
Hooman has done a great job at creating a convincing scene from the concept, with good attention to detail and a well balanced design. Well done. – Riyahd Cassiem
Love the colors and I want to know more about these characters – Justin Goby Fields
I find this one the best entry among the overall categories. There’s a very clever way of taking advantage of one model, making three different characters with different tasks inside the group (the one with the cape is great). Also, weapon differenciation is a plus. Texturing and modeling are really well developed.
Besides this, the composition and atmosphere are really well achieved, giving a great video-game intro feel, telling a story. – Juan Luis Mayen ( Winner of the Creatures Vs Humanoid Challenge)
Great work! His foundation and attention to detail made this possible, for sure studying robotics, finding right mood, attention to colour and anatomy made this piece of art possible. The colours and the background melts into an awesome experience. A well deserved first place. – Felipe Chamorro
Mods and Judge’s comment and advice:
The torso area is my favorite and the forms flow very well. Since the color palette is strong the Mech feels very functional. Also it is nice to see material break ups with the mesh cables. – Lee Souder
Love the shapes and rendering. – Justin Goby Fields
A good effort in modeling and texturing with interesting shape design. – Riyahd Cassiem
Very nice work, the touch on the details made this a very interesting piece. It feels like a very functional Mech. Thumbs Up! – Felipe Chamorro
Mods and Judge’s Comment and advice:
Very appealing design, with nice proportions. As his XERPS character, huge piece of modeling and texturing. – Juan Luis Mayen (Winner of The Creatures vs Humanoids Challenge)
Angels work have a good sense of design and composition that have been well executed. – Riyahd Cassiem
Great design sense – Justin Goby Fields
Very cool, a somewhat tough and robust Mech that is well implemented with the background and also has the attributes that you could expect of a Robot at first glance. – Felipe Chamorro
Mods and Judge’s comment and advice:
Interesting proportions and use of negative space! – Lee Souder
A very nice work telling a story with a nice sense of movement. – Felipe Chamorro
Mods and Judge’s comment and advice:
Coming in late at full force trying to conceive a really nice piece with good attention to details. Nice work and render – Felipe Chamorro
Our invited judges
Riyahd Cassiem
Riyadh Cassiem is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and work as a Independent freelance digital artist doing visual effects, digital sculpting, illustration and concept art. He has worked on various projects from producing concept art, Vfx and mattpainting for films and games. To working on commercial illustration and motion graphics for advertising. He lectures part time in concept design and have produced online video tutorials. He has been published in various international publications like Bio Mech art, Exotique, 3d world, 3d Artist, Imagine Fx and Advanced Photoshop. He specialize in creating concept design and illustrations using digital painting in Photoshop and 3d character sculpting in ZBrush.
Justin Goby Fields
He is a concept artist specializing in creature, character creation, environment and props. He has worked in production of short and feature films, advertisements and games. For companies like Aaron Sims Company, Imaginary Forces, Halon Entertainment, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. And finally opened the doors to his own company, Ironklad Studios. Serving the Film, Games, and Entertainment Industries.
He uses frequently his talent to make concepts and illustrations, both traditional and digital as a freelancer. He also teaches valuable know how in different workshops within the field of 3D Concept Art for games and films.
Lee Souder
He is a Cinematics artist specializing in environment and hard surface design, Lee Souder. He has worked in production of feature films and games. For companies like Treyarch, SCEA Sony Santa Monica, Trion World Network and many more. He has been involved in several AAA titles, some of them have been COD Black Ops 2, God of War: Ascension, Defiance Syfy MMO and several others.
He uses frequently his talent to make concepts and illustrations, both traditional and digital showing up his skills in mechanical hard surface design. His work has been published in different international publications like 3d world and 3dcreative magazine.
