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Mixamo is launching it's THIRD character contest. The Mixamo Fantasy War! Five weapon based classes are available to choose from, weapons are provided or you can create your own! Just imagine the type of hero or villain who might wield one of these weapons and let your imagination run wild! Head over to http://www.mixamo.co...er-contest-2012 for the class types, submission form and full details!

Prizes:

1st place: $1000 cash - 50 Mixamo Credits -Interview and Featured on Mixamo* - Professional Rendering of Your Character

2nd place: $500 cash - 30 Mixamo Credits - Interview on Mixamo*

3rd place: $250 cash - 15 Mixamo Credits - Interview on Mixamo*

*Previous winners not only got their interviews on Mixamo but other 3d news media websites as well. It's a great opportunity for exposure

Deadline: August 19th @ 12:00pm PST

The Rules:

1. Choose a weapon type http://www.mixamo.co...er-contest-2012 create the character (male or female) you imagine wielding it. Use the weapons provided in the download link on the main contest page or create your own weapons. Be as creative as possible!

2. 15,000 Tris Max

3. 2048x2048 Textures Max. One for each of the following map types:(diffuse, alpha, normal, specular, specular color, glow) diffuse, normal and specular encouraged!

4. All entries MUST have (Required) a work-in-progress thread in any online 3d community forum. Feel free to start your thread on this forum and post the link to it in this thread!

The Submission:

You must submit at least 3 images each a minimum size of 1280x1024

1. Beauty Shot: (Posed, lit and rendered for the best presentation)

2. Construction (A shot depicting the wireframe in at least one front and back shot)

3. Texture Sheet (A single images displaying all used texture maps)

Get all the details and submit your final renders at: http://www.mixamo.co...er-contest-2012

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New Contest !!! COOOLL !!!

ty ! :)

note:

Only autodesk propietary .fbx format ?

Is there any free import/export program ?

Can the weapons use Collada 1.4.1 ?

Im working with the Blender last official release 2.63

And the plugin Mixamo Collada 1.4.1 Importer is for Blender 2.49.

http://www.mixamo.com/c/blender

Is there any new release ?

TY

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Thanks for giving partial infos.

On another forum "Also you are encouraged to create your own weapons as long as it adheres to the weapons class of your choosing: "

I won't participate since you can't put the weapon in another class hand, good luck to the other contestants :)

BeatKitano thanks for clarifying this better, So there isn't much reason to bother with generating our own weapons aside from aesthetics and design style cohesion. I was hoping to possibly do some kind of polearm or battle axe but I guess it's probably better to focus on getting the character work as polished as possible.

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The reason we're asking you to stick with the weapon provided is because we're going to be release a huge weapons animation pack feature these 5 weapons. Realistically you could create a different weapon for the class but it wouldn't be able to be feature in our weapon demonstration. We're bring in some amazing weapon master to put on the capture suit and bring these weapons to life and some of the winning characters will be featured in this.

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Blend Swap adds Prizes to the Mixamo Fantasy Contest

Mixamo partners Blend Swap have offered to help sponsor the Mixamo Fantasy contest by adding some great membership deals to the winnings. For those who don’t know, Blend Swap is a Free, Open Source, 3D model repository for Blender 3D Artists, where anybody can download and share their models with the world.

The new prize list looks like this:

Prizes:

1st Place

- $1000 cash – 50 Mixamo Credits – 1 Year Membership with Blend Swap – Interview and Featured on Mixamo – Professional Rendering of Your Character

2nd Place

- $500 cash – 30 Mixamo Credits – 6 Month Membership with Blend Swap - Interview on Mixamo

3rd Place

- $250 cash 15 Mixamo Credits – 1 Month Membership with Blend Swap - Interview on Mixamo

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"Dear contestants and watchers!

The Mixamo Fantasy War 3D Character Contest has come to a close and the winners have been chosen!

We were hard pressed to choose only three winners. In fact there was a lot of debating in the Mixamo office last week about who should take the title but through the democratic process of hand raising, we finally elected the winners:

Check out the updated contest page here: [

MIXAMO FANTASY 3D CHARACTER CREATION WINNERS] -- Don't forget to read more about it on our blog!

Those are some amazing entries right?! Wouldn't it be cool to run them through the Mixamo Auto-Rigger and start applying some of our monster, action or adventure motions? Want to try it out and post a video of the results? We would love to see your work in motion!

We're looking forward to launching our next contest in a few weeks, giving more to the community and inviting everyone to join us, so stay tuned!

The Mixamo Team

www.mixamo.com"

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