tS Speed Model Challenge #16 "Barbeque Grill"

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Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jul 5, 2007, 4:47pm

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tS Speed model challenge #16 "Barbeque Grill"

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Creating a new challenge is tougher than I thought. Kinda hard to make something specific enough for comparison but general enough to allow creativity.


Anyway, as summer is well underway for us northern hemisphere folks and perhaps wished for in the southern hemisphere I figure ya'll might enjoy a bit of the outdoors in your modelling.


Objective:

Model any type of Barbeque grill in under 2 hours.


The rules:

1. Create the model in the specified time.

2. You may enter as many times as you like.

3. Your entry should include a wireframe screen grab before subdivision has been applied, mainly this is so people can get an idea of how things were created and maybe learn something.

4. Include time spent, trueSpace version, render engine.

5. Post only one image per entry which must be no larger than 800x600 pixels. Final composition is up to you.

6. Render time, lighting and texturing are not included as people with slower computers may be at a disadvantage.

7. The winner is encouraged to place a tutorial in the new Tutorium showing how they made their entry (Contact Norm). Sometimes the wireframe isn't enough.



Time limit - 120 minutes

Deadline - 11:00 PM EST, Friday, July 13, 2007 (4:00 AM GMT, Saturday, July 14, 2007)

Subject - Barbeque Grill


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Comments thread here: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=3598

Voting thread here: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=3654


Speed Model Gallery: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=1577


Post your entries below:

Post by trueSpaced // Jul 6, 2007, 4:13am

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I just might give it a shot! I failed miserably on the last one, so I hope I do better on this one...

-TrueSpaced:banana:

Post by prodigy // Jul 6, 2007, 7:28am

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OK, here is my BBQ Entry..

Maded in 1H 45M (Texturing and Lighting Included)
Modeled In 6.6 and 7.51
Render Engine ~ Vray 1.5

7304

7305

Bon Appétit... :jumpy:

Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jul 8, 2007, 6:43pm

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Well... this one barely made it in the 2 hour time frame. Made it much harder on myself than it needed to be. Spent too much time on details inside the barrel and on the hinges on the lid. Reworked the top of the stack a bit (original had booleaned holes at the top like a muffler) Consequently, I'm not too happy with the stand (done in last 10 min of modelling). Go figure I'd put a lot of effort into stuff people can't see while ignoring the glaringly obvious.


Title: Smoker Grill


Looking at examples on the internet: 2-3 hrs

Modelling time: 2 hrs (mostly model side for lots of boolean use, some applied after SDS extraction so mesh looks harder than it was)

Texturing: 45 minutes

Composition, lighting, and rendering: still not done...about 4 hours of fidgeting with lighting and Vray so far.

Render engine: Vray 1.5

Post by trueSpaced // Jul 10, 2007, 4:49am

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This one took exactly two hours (probably shouldn't have taken that long...), and about seven minutes to render.

Thanks again for your grass tutorial Prodigy! :D Should I put your name at the bottom and say "Grass By Prodigy"?:p

I call it the obvious name: "Grilling for Dummies".

I was going to put more stuff in it, but I didn't know how, then I ran out of time and just had this! I know needs work on lighting....

Hope you all like it! :banana:

-TrueSpaced:banana:

Post by Vizu // Jul 10, 2007, 8:33am

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Modeling ~ 1,30 h.

Rendering in Vray ~ 4 Minutes

Photoshop tweak ~ 10 Minutes


http://www.wire-frame.de/trash/Grill.jpg http://www.wire-frame.de/trash/Grillwire.jpg

Post by frootee // Jul 10, 2007, 5:29pm

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Okay ... Here's Mine... :banana:

I finally get to do this!

Modelling: 1 hour 39 minutes
Rendering: Instantaneous from truespace: Render to File

Frootee

Hmm... I wonder now... Do they ...

Taste Like Chicken?

Post by Nez // Jul 11, 2007, 4:38am

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Well, I got there in the end.


'Heath Robinson' type grilling machine. Load it up with charcoal (into the 2 'grill boxes'); the heat from the top grill heats the copper vessel that holds water; this produces steam which is jetted against the fan, which in turn causes the main overhead axle to rotate. This leads to pumping of bellows to keep the grills hot; automatic rotation of all four conveyors, and automated ejection of burger and bap parts from their storage tubes (bit like paintball gun ammo tubes!)... Two grill boxes are used, one to heat each side of the burger (of course!) with the burger flipping as it drops off one conveyor onto the next. Conveyors over the grills are a mesh type as opposed to rubber used at top and bottom... Had more features planned (see below) but ran out of time.


Modelling: Had to stop myself at the 2 hour mark for modelling as I could easily have gone on longer. As it is, I didn't get to finish everything I had in mind (was going to do a helical marble chute to activate a ketchup-bottle slapping mechanism, a collection 'escalator' at the end and had an idea for an automated tomato slicer too, but not enough time. Also, one part of the mechanism isn't quite complete - shhh!). As it is, you can't really see some of the details as the machine ended up so big! The burgers look tiny... NB - no SDS, all simple primitives, extruded splines etc.


Lighting and texturing and rendering: about an hour and a half. Should have given it longer to get a really nice result, but my lunchbreak ran out and I have to finish today as I won't have access to my PC the next few days.

(TS version 5.1)

Post by blakeo // Jul 12, 2007, 10:18pm

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Ok here's my entry - one of those disposable BBQs.


tS: 7.51

vray: 1.51

Model Time: 1 hr 50 mins, both WS and modeller (including a long time playing with displacement mapping for the foil)

Render time : er, dunno - it was at ~50% after about an hour and I went to bed!


I did the modelling in the time allowed this time but then there's all this :D -


Taking photos of mushroom burgers and making textures : ~3 hours

google 'flames' research : ~1 hour

general scene setting and lighting : ~2 hours

Smoke was added with Photoshop CS2 : ~ 1 hour


But I'm totally pleased with how this came out. V-ray is great :cool:

Blakeo.

Post by trueSpaced // Jul 13, 2007, 5:41am

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"Hell's Kitchen"

Modelling and Texturing: 30 minutes
Searching for textures and failing miserably: 30 minutes
Rendering time: 10 seconds
Rendering Engine: Lightworks

Would you like ketchup on that?

-TrueSpaced:banana:

Post by Dragneye // Jul 13, 2007, 4:04pm

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Ok ... Here's my first shot at entering a contest.
It's a marble base with one side of the octagon reserved for the chef. The longer rod in front is for the towel, the other two for utensils. The umbrella pole also doubles as a vent for the smoke, which has a larger cone on top for better disipassion (the fabric is illiminated at the top for any smoke to escape that doesn't make it thru the pipe)
I spent almost the same amount of time on finding the best material for the coals as I did creating the BBQ object. Guess what? Ya can't even see em. - Note to self: preview more often how/if the parts work together(I was racing the clock; something I hate to do. BUt I learned the lesson by the time I got to the umbrella, which I created last)

MODELING TIME using tS6.6 (all ojects): 1 hr 18 min.
TOUCH UP in Paintshop Pro: 14 minutes
RENDERING: 'render to file' - time: abt 1 minute
TEXTURES: 16 min.
(background from my pics)

Post by Dragneye // Jul 13, 2007, 4:13pm

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Geeeez...
Lets try this...

Post by Dragneye // Jul 13, 2007, 4:17pm

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Man o man... it's always the basics that get me. Her's a screengrab wire image

Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jul 13, 2007, 5:00pm

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Ok folks... that's a wrap! Challenge is now closed!


Voting thread can be found here: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=3654

Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jul 20, 2007, 6:47pm

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Congratulations to our winner for SMC #16!!! Blakeo claims the honors!!! :banana:


Winner's gallery link here: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=1577
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