Challenge: Juan Manuel Bautista Hoepfner: Mexico

by **juanmanuel** » 27 Sep 2006, 18:36

After a lot of peer presure from friends and family, as well as an undying yearning to participate, I have decided to particiate in the challenge once more. Happily, I have been improving from my first submission (which I did not finish in time) to the haunted challenge (even winning a consolation price) while learning to use even more 3d software (that seems to be a habit of mine, endless experimentation!), so who knows what this time around might bring?

As it is, it seems the stakes are ever higher, which will be a challenge by itself, and I hope I won't disappoint with my humble contributions.

So, foreword aside, after an unusual moment of insight and inspiration, I had my concept, barely over 10 minutes ago:

"Unkept urban garden"

Imagine you live in one of those increasingly common, cramped living quarters in a city, you are in your kitchen glancing out to the garden, or what is supposed to be a garden. You can barely see the water heater, the gas tank, some thrown bucket and garden utensils, some meager clotheslines with some dirty socks hanging on them. On top of the wall, some pots with just the rotten stem jutting out, and in the garden plot itself, overgrown grass and weeds. Oh, and a water reservoir with moss and stuff.

Now back to work, I just took a break to post my entry concept.

by **Paco_Morales** » 27 Sep 2006, 19:04

Fantastic!!! Good to see you in this challenge too, I cannot wait for you concept

by **warpv** » 27 Sep 2006, 23:50

Hey juan! It's awesome to see you participating in this challenge! I really love the concept! Keep us updated!

by **Lorenzo-Angelo** » 28 Sep 2006, 06:41

Nice Concept ! good work

by **juanmanuel** » 28 Sep 2006, 16:32

And here is my concept sketch... I suppose... Still some ideas to iron out, but most of the idea I think can be easily grasped

by **warpv** » 28 Sep 2006, 16:51

I don't see your concept sketch...where is it?!

by **juanmanuel** » 28 Sep 2006, 17:07

mmmm uploading again... must have been when the browser crashed on me...

by **Paco_Morales** » 29 Sep 2006, 00:53

Hey Juan, very nice sketch. I like the socks hanging in the cord

by **juanmanuel** » 29 Sep 2006, 22:26

Yes Paco, I thought some socks hanging from a chord would give a realistic touch. In fact a sock is precisely the first thing that I mave modeled for this challenge.

The sock's texture is a scanned sock of mine I found lying around my bed *blush*

by **Paco_Morales** » 29 Sep 2006, 22:41

Very nice, maybe you need this

by **juanmanuel** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:00

Thank you Paco, the image will make a nice template!

The sock as I made it...

by **juanmanuel** » 30 Sep 2006, 13:28

Sorry I have not posted much lately. Lots of work. And I am off for the weekend (rest at last!). So this small update is all I will post until Monday comes.

by **chaitanyak** » 30 Sep 2006, 14:22

like the deformation on the sock!

by **warpv** » 30 Sep 2006, 23:14

Yes, modeling is coming along nicely! Cool sock!

Keep us updated!

by **faceoff** » 01 Oct 2006, 03:16

hehehhe....that is one stinky sock !!!....

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nice concept ......i like the whole idea....
waiting for ya update ......

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