Create realistic 3D beard for interactive viewing

Status: Closed
Prize: $400
Entries Received: 30
Winner: Bacvu

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Contest Brief

We need at least one beard model to fit our base head (see uploaded file). Our goals:

* Realism when interactively rendered with diffuse texture image (including transparency).
* Under 1000 polys.

Any style or color of beard is OK. We ultimately want to collect a variety.

We only want a diffuse color map with transparency (alpha channel), no other maps (bump, shiny, etc).

We are looking for a realistic soft-edge effect that can only be achieved using transparency. No helmet-style meshes please.

The color map should be 1024x1024 or larger. For best realism we think it should be made from real images of a beard and the alpha channel should be created using soft-select rotoscoping.

To evaluate your submission, we'll need to see the beard on the head rendered to high resolution from a variety of angles. We'll also need to see a render of the beard geometry with wireframe without any texture.

The deliverable must be a wavefront .OBJ file containing the geometry (and UVs) of just the beard, which must fit to our base head in its original coordinate system, and a .PNG texture image.

You can get a better idea of how it will be viewed by installing our free program from:

http://www.facegen.com/demos.htm

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“@Bacvu won the contest on 11 January 2014”

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sharkgraphics
- 10 years ago
please see 45# and give me your feedback and comment
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  I'm confused, there seem to be different renderings and geometries in this submission. I like the 3rd from last image a lot but I have no idea what its geometry looks like or its poly count is ?
  - 10 years ago
2. sharkgraphics
  - 10 years ago
  yes there is two type of work, what you like is high poly :)
  so... i try now idea today and hope you wait to see it
  - 10 years ago
rmissin
- 10 years ago
Damn, I may be too late to try this, It seems a lot of people haven't read the brief, can I confirm you would be happy with a mesh between 1000 and 2000 polys ? it should be easy enough using 2d alphas.
On a scale of 1 to 10 what's the possibility of an extension to the contest, or are you happy with the current submissions ?

thx
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Where were you for the last 10 days ? I think things probably could get a little better if I extend but they charge $$ for that and I thought 10 days was pretty reasonable.
  - 10 years ago
2. rmissin
  - 10 years ago
  It's cool, I've been very busy with other projects, would have liked to have a go at this, I'll keep my eye out for future projects, you seem like a good hoster who knows what he wants with good communication and feedback and pays a very reasonable fee ;)
  Hope you get what your looking for.
  - 10 years ago
DedaDjoka
- 10 years ago
Thanks for the feedback.

Could you elaborate a bit about models?
In general I was more showing technical side of things with different type of beards/mustache.

If you want, you can provide references for styles/types you want and I'll make them that way.
I say that because I would like to make things better but right now I'm not 100% sure which way to go.

Keep in touch,

Dj.
- 10 years ago
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1. DedaDjoka
  - 10 years ago
  Ok.
  I'll upload my 2k version with color/alpha texture and we'll see if you'll like it.
  Take care,
  
  Dj.
  - 10 years ago
2. DedaDjoka
  - 10 years ago
  I uploaded my final versions. #39 and #47 . Slightly different and below 2k polys.
  
  Looking forward to see the results :)
  
  All the best,
  
  Dj.
  - 10 years ago
Ananthapushpan
- 10 years ago
hi sir,
give me a feedback for #16 pls

'need to know that, do u want the work done as an opacity mapping? or like a polygon model of the beard with texture(like the other entries).....'

in the 2nd way the poly count is should more than 1000, and there is no need of any opacity mapping.....
please clarify that.
:)
waiting for the reply
and now am working on the first way like u said in the brief
and the updates will be in hours
thanks,
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Yes, opacity/transparency mapping is great, that's what I asked for in the project description.
  I'm happy up to 2000 polys if that helps.
  - 10 years ago
2. Ananthapushpan
  - 10 years ago
  ok
  thats sounds good-upto 2000
  i am working it out
  pls wait for the updates
  :)
  - 10 years ago
sharkgraphics
- 10 years ago
dear wwasowski please give me your feedback for #8
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  I need a view of the geometry to evaluate
  - 10 years ago
DedaDjoka
- 10 years ago
Real time preview ( no shadows, engine limitation):
http://p3d.in/CytVI
- 10 years ago
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1. wwasowski
  - 10 years ago
  Let the others submit their entries first, please. The contest hasn't ended yet :)
  - 10 years ago
2. DedaDjoka
  - 10 years ago
  Well, people are free to submit, don't they? :)
  I was just answering the questions.
  Since I was the only one submitting anything maybe it sounded pretentious, or something like that. I apologize. But again, anyone is free to do so.
  And in the end, one of things to think about when participating in contests is how to make best offer in every way ( quality, communication, budget...).
  
  Anyway... No harm done :)
  
  Good luck to everyone who submit.
  
  dj.
  - 10 years ago
DedaDjoka
- 10 years ago
Hello,

Just uploaded first version.
If you decide that my work is the thing you like and need I'd offer you pack of 8 beards.

Only question I have is would it be possible that you raise the poly-count limit for the model? Or to be more precise, what are the limits of the engine? Now-days, machines ( even mobile phones) can handle greater poly-counts, so why not use that :)

Anyway, hope you'll like my submission.
Let me know if you have any questions.

Dj.
- 10 years ago
rvindanimator
- 10 years ago
#1 Any Changes?
- 10 years ago
UniqueB
- 10 years ago
Sorry for asking just let me know with few words what do you want :) you want to made some beard model with realistic motives am I right let me know I will start work on this project now :) thanks
- 10 years ago