“If anybody’s out there, you can come out.
And if you’re a monster or a ghost, you can stay where you are, and we won’t bother you.”
-Ash Ketchum
The Challenge: To celebrate national Pokemon day on Sunday 27th February,
the challenge is to model and texture a Pokemon character of your choice.
No animation is required, however you can if you have the time, and to challenge yourself further.
'Gotta catch 'em all!'
Rules:
Why a Challenge
A challenge rather than a contest because its for you to challenge yourselves and the knowledge you gained from a course to create a masterpiece of your own making.
A rules based challenge to maintain consistency and fairness, whilst also maintaining safety to prevent accidents.
A challenge to be the best you can be from the knowledge you have today, while striving to be even better tomorrow than you was yesterday.
Most importantly, a challenge to have some fun.
How we'll rate your Pokemon.
The CG Cookie crew, @wesburke , @theluthier , @jlampel and @waylow , will review and pick 4 favourite Pokemon.
Criteria to include a Pokemon of your choice.
The 4 picks get:-
Make sure to add your social media handles to your profile.
Yep and you should get good feedback popping up from the judges as they go through your piece
Hey 
wendy10698 ,
As mentioned, everything.
Simply though, the crew will view your final render in the gallery, looking at the overall finish quality of the modeling and texturing.
Visual appeal in the final image will be advantageous.
I don't mean model an entire scene, a curved plane and some basic lighting is good.
Something like this:
Will give you a beautiful render of a default cube:
Remember:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Nice 🙂, that feeling of excitement before the big reveal! Very recognizable!
You are right! The journey is more important than the destination. It can be disappointing if you don't get picked, but then again you have to take into account all what you've learned during the challenge thx to the comments on your thread and the comments on the other WIP threads. That is what matters!
Hear! Hear!!
(I hope I spelled that right. You ever look at a word so long that it stops looking like a word?)
wendy10698 ,oh yes, that I recognize, additionally I regularly have this during presentations: when you need to type something live while someone is looking at your screen... suddenly it feels like you never learned that language and you hesitate for every word, no matter how often you wrote it down before without a mistake :)))
I sooooo hate that feeling!
And...everyone's a winner this month as far as I'm concerned.
Great works everyone!
You are all awesome, everyone of the entries is awesome.
Well done everyone,
I am so pleased with the results of this challenge, and also pleased I am not under pressure to pick a top 4.
Hear are all the entries in no particular order.
jeewon -- Psyduck -- WIP Thread
wendy10698 -- Celebi -- WIP Thread
euv -- Pika-Pika-Pikachu -- WIP Thread
melinmotion -- Kingler -- WIP Thread
otowa -- Celesteela -- WIP Thread
bc_griffin -- Mewtwo -- WIP Thread
spikeyxxx -- Infernape -- WIP Thread
slenaerts -- Pokehuman -- WIP Thread
notcastanza -- Eevee -- WIP Thread
chepetusa -- Bulbasaur -- WIP Thread
Did we catch 'em all?
Thank you for taking part, and sharing your awesome work.
By the way, did I mention...
AWESOME!
Crazy beatiful entries from everybody! This is so nice to see!
Good job, everyone! It was worth it just to get this awesome art collection together!
Remember today is migration day,
CGCookie migrates to a new home on Mavenseed, 8am CST.
As a result the top 4 picks are likely to be delayed by a day or two.
The party should hopefully start in the new home about 12pm CST,
as long as the 3d cursor is selected as the pivot point.
@adrian2301 could you pin this chat to the top until the challenge is over?
And the winners are...
In no particular order...
Everyone, yes every Pokemon was awesome.
We had a tie break situation, which shows how varied the votes where, and the quality of all the entries.
Without further ado...
The final top 4 picks are...
bc_griffin -- Mewtwo
otowa -- Celesteela
Congratulations!
Thank you everyone, I learnt so much, I thought there was only one Pokemon before this challenge!
Congrats winners!
These 4 would have been my choice as well, although of course all entries are fantastic!
I second that! the bar was very high and everyone achieved wonderful entries! Congrats to the winners!
Awesome, love every entry, thanks for the awesome challenge!
Congrats All! It is so fun and inspiring to see everyone's progress. It was a really fun challenge!
Congrats to everyone who joined the challenge! So proud of you guys. See you in the next one!
Fantastic work by all participants! Can't wait for the next one!
