The Beast - A Character Art Contest
Welcome to The Beast Character Art Contest!
In any adaptation of this universal theme, between the Beauty and the Beast, the Beast has always been the most fascinating character. He is a freak of nature, a monster, an anomaly who doesn’t belong in the world he lives in. But as strong and scary as he may look on the outside, the Beast’s repulsing appearance hides a fatal weakness. Because the Beast loves Beauty, and his love will invariably cause his undoing.
From Cocteau to Disney, from Boris Karloff to Johnny Depp or Andy Serkis, from Half Life 2's Dog to Bioshock's Big Daddy, the Beast has been portrayed hundreds of times in hundreds of different ways. Now what’s your take on this legendary creature?
We have put together a quick Pinterest Inspiration Board to give your imagination a kickstart! https://www.pinterest.com/jeremienoguer/beast-inspiration-board/
The contest runs from January 28th to April 17th at 11:59PM PST (extended deadline). As usual, since Allegorithmic is organizing this contest, participating artists can request an extended trial of the Substance tools for the duration of the contest, just send us a message. There is no tool restriction, although it will warm our hearts if you use Substance for your texturing!
Creating a WIP thread in the appropriate forum is mandatory and updating the thread regularly is very encouraged!
If you have any questions about the contest, its rules or anything releated, please head over to the Q&A thread.
Now for the rules in details:
Your Beast is a single character who can optionally be put in context on a pedestal.
Beast:
100 000 triangles maximum.
4 x 4096 texture sets maximum (can be split further: 1 x 4096 = 4 x 2048, etc.)
These limits include any effect or accessory associated with the character.
Any type of style and shading can be used (PBR, Diffuse only, stylized, photo-realistic, etc.)
What defines a “character” is left to your appreciation. An inanimate object could be considered a character in the right context and with the right storytelling...
Pedestal:
Must not be wider than 2x the Beast itself.
Must not contain any additional character (small creatures allowed for decoration purpose)
5000 triangles maximum.
One 2048 texture set.
These limits include any effect associated with the pedestal.
Submission:
1 short backstory paragraph (100 words maximum)
2 beauty shots: a full frame shot and a closeup.
Beauty shots can be rendered in any real time or offline renderer.
1 full frame wire shot
choice of 1 or 2 texture sheets
A jury made of the industry’s best
character artists will judge the entries following these main
criteria:
Artistic Quality - Originality, attention to details, colors, rendering, all of these matter.
Technical Mastery - Edge flow, efficient UVs, all the boring stuff that makes an asset great!
Beast personality - Scary but moving at the same time, here lies the subtlety of the character.
Colin Thomas, Senior Character Artist - Naughty Dog
Rich Diamant, Principal Artist - Riot Games
Samuel Compain, Character Artist - Freelance
JB Ferder, Lead Character Artist - Arkane
Gilberto Magno, Character Artist - Freelance
Grand Winner
IPad Pro /w stylus or Surface Pro 4
Marvelous Designer License or ZBrush license
Lifetime Substance Live Pro license
Marvelous Designer Garment file from CGElves.com
Marvelous Designer training program from CGElves.com ($399)
2nd place
NVidia Quadro or GTX980
Marvelous Designer License or ZBrush license
Lifetime Substance Live Pro license
Marvelous Designer Garment file from CGElves.com
Marvelous Designer Clothing Patterns & Presets MEGA Pack from CGElves.com ($197)
3rd Place
Marvelous Designer License or ZBrush license
Lifetime Substance Live Pro license
Marvelous Designer Garment file from CGElves.com
4th to 10th Place
Lifetime Substance Live Indie license
Replies
Yes, everyone is more or less inspired by existing concepts anyway. Still, originality will influence the jury of course.
Great Contest!
Hopefully with my master course stuff i can catchup and finish this
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^^ Just to double check/confirm out of paranoia, that means that Vray is okay to use for rendering this?
The contest is about the Beast itself. Rather than having Beauty represented as an actual character, the beast could hold an item belonging to Beauty or something in the scene could remind us of her.
hello I am trying to post a WIP for the contest and I cant please can anyone help me?
is this about redesigning an already exsisting character that has some relation with a "beauty" no matter the tale or movie or video game or movie?
or inventing our own monster and suggest that is related with a female?
or making a redesign of beast, the character from the beauty and the beast?
or the 3?
probably going with something mythical weird + a little bit Persian inspired.
Critics/comments are welcome!
Again! a progress before the end of my weekend *sob*
Ps. I think this should go to questions section. My mistake.