Judges are currently hard at work judging all final entries. While we wait, to conclude Dominance War IV, we are keeping this final mini challenge fun, easy and creative. This year's conclusive worldwide 3d mini challenge topic is:

War General Pet Portraits!

The rules are simple – This is a sculpting/modeling challenge, no textures or coloring. Artists are to model the upper body of a single pet in 3d. No multiple creatures in one image and don't include any part of a master/owner in the image. Pets can be a dog, a small dragon, a multi-headed worm, a bear, a pet demon, an undead pixy, a small cute robot, basically anything that is smaller then a bear and can fit into a house. A pet giant robot is not what we are looking for. Pets can be from any time period, any race and any unnatural race (undead, demons, robots etc). Your pet must include your team’s logo somewhere on his body or on his accessories. How you incorporate your team's logo into your entry, we leave this up to your imagination.
You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Everything for this challenge must be made from scratch. A base model will not be given to you by Dominance War organizers. No preexisting ideas or body models can be used. Starting with a standard primitive object is fine. A sphere, a cube, zspheres, etc are all fine.
- No multiple colors allowed. Everything must be in a single color. Dark and light shades of that single color is acceptable.
- Only show 45% maximum of your pet. Do not create the entire body. Your pet's head, shoulders and arms or front legs are fine. You must blend your pet's remaining body into your pedestal.
- You MUST include a pedestal in your sculpture. A pedestal is not a floor.
- You have unlimited Polygons to create your 3d sculpture.
- You can use any 3d software package on planet earth to create your entry.
- You can use any 3d software lighting package or set up on planet earth to light your entry.

Additional Notes:
- Artists cannot switch teams during challenges. If you were on Polycount’s team in our first mini challenge or main event, you must remain on Polycount’s team during this mini challenge.
- As always, entering a mini challenge is optional. It is not required.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit ONE 1000x1000 (up to 1000x1000. Smaller dimensions are fine) 350k final image and this image must include your team's logo, your War General Pet's name, and your personal name and/or contact details.
- Only 1 entry per person. Do not create or try to create multiple entries with different user names.
- Yes, entering both the 3d and 2d sections of this challenge is fine.
- Final submissions are final. If you upload your final image 4 days before the deadline, do not ask us to change it. Make sure you are happy with your image before you submit it into the system.
- Public voting starts June 3rd and ends June 7th. When public voting is over, each team's best entries are gathered together into a single pool and a grand mini champion will be chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in mid June.

Start date: Friday May 22nd 2009 - 1:00am Eastern Time
End Date: Monday June 1st 2009 - 11:59pm Eastern Time
3D Submission link:
3D: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...ycount_3d.html


Good luck to all those who enter!

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Posting this for you guys I think your mods are sleeping hopefully they dont get mad. Feel free to edit this later on Jesse or Adam.

Aw man, I wanted to catch up on my sleeping...

Ah sweet! i didn't manage to finish the main thing but i can sure as hell manage this .

pretty excited in joining this one, first timer here!

sweetahhh!

gah i like this too damn it... ok ferret with eyepatch i guess my sleep!!


-Woog

This is gonna be fun!
I spent a couple hours on this so far this morning:

I might stick with this one or I might do something different. Don't know yet.

Careful fly_soup "Only show 45% maximum of your pet", seems like you have him completely there. Good start otherwise.

Hi! Not sure yet but I'd like to try both
2d and 3d this time. Only Jerk looking
alien coming through my mind for the moment.
If nothing better comes out, may try to sculpt
something like that:

It's ok to sculpt like half the body and fuse it into the stand right?

Idea: Hell-mutt.

I'm a little confused, may or may not pass on this one.

I might pass as well, I'll have to think on this one :P Good luck everyone!

I don't know if I will go on this challenge as well; It will depend on my week schedule u.u

Seems kinda cool, not sure I've got it in me though. Will have to see I suppose!

Where should I publish the entry, here?

yes its mandatory to post the wips in here.

Thanks Aftermath
Here is my wip...

I'll try to turn this more into a pet while modeling it...

The contest is to create a war general's pet not a pet that looks like a war general.

Hey Javier.Deandres, nice dog!
I'll join for this mini-comp with the following concept.
Not a great one but there's no more time to think,
so lets go for the patriotic murena "Utsubo"

Aftermath: Thanks, I understand what you say, but its only a wip image. i ll try to give an human face expression.


Garagarape: Thank you veruy much, you concept is very nice too

Little Update:

nice work!

hope this one fits in

Hey some cool sculpts going on so far, garagarape the eel is a win for me Here is something I did today during lunch, just a start on a silverback, not sure what I want to do just yet. But if anyone has any ideas, please let me know! As always, comments and crits are really apprecaited.

Spark

Thanks! Nice Gorilla. I'm impressed.
Especially the ear part. It is something
really difficult to do and I always hide
them under hair to avoid difficult work
Here are my base-meshes.
Must hurry I'm late.

Last update for today.
Just added the stuff in Z-brush
and smoothed it a bit. Bed time.