Winter Holidays Around the World "Challenge number 7 for the month of December"

[Ron Harris]

Seasons Greetings All
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1041412678phk.jpg (http://www.pixolator.com/MNC/7/index.html)
It was decided that due to the oncoming holidays that we would just have a month long challenge that would end on December 31st. We will post all of our winter and holiday images here to share with the world.
We will still meet on Monday nights in chat, but this will be the ongoing challenge to make it easy for everyone.

So put on your Santa hats, your elf ears, and get in your reindeer powered sleds and warm up your Zbrush and get to posting....Santa Z is watching to see who has been naughty and who has been nice.

Rules....

Try to keep the images done in Z if possible and the theme is the holidays. :tu:

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 02, 2002 Message edited by: Ron Harris </font>

[Ron Harris]

Let us jumpstart this challenge...

First Snow at the Fishin Hole

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1038888722gcr.jpg

[DLee]

Nice Ron. Glad to see that the challenge is going for the month. With xmas everyone is going to be distracted.

[Northstarr]

Very nice Ron, wonderful winter mood! Good one to start it all off..

:cool:

[DeeVee]

I concur :) nice start fish slayer :D
DeeVee
Joe

[Belleski]

Did I imagine it or did someone post a download of two or three variations of snow materials?
It would have been at least three monthes ago.
Anyone remember who and when? :confused:

[Wayne Hoyt]

Hi, Belleski.

This may be the thread you're looking for here (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=008758).

Regards,

Wayne

[Bonecradle]

It's summer here in New Zealand, but I'm not complaining ;)

Should the holiday scene include a winter aspect, or is any holiday scene OK?

[Belleski]

Thanks Wayne...That's it exactly! Now lets hope I can make something with it. ;)

[Mentat7]

Great images everyone! And yes Bonecradle I believe the idea was holidays from around the world so it can be any climate that suits your holiday.

[Muvlo]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039202603ujv.jpg

[GalleryEntry]

An image for our not-so-close-to-the-equator friends. :)

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 07, 2002 Message edited by: Muvlo </font>

[Karasuando]

Thats great Muvlo! :tu:, thanks =). I really love the aurora borealis. I've even tried to photograph it here when we had a very powerful one just a few weeks ago, but it sure ain't easy. It was for the most part green but it also float into shades of purple and blue and swayed gracefully as it covered almost the whole field of sight. The complete silence was broken only by the ice shrieking and making alien noises as it expanded in the first real cold of the year, It seems I sat and watched it for hours..although they usually don't last that long in full power so im not sure..

Oh well I got a little carried away I suppose!, but thanks for bringing it back ;).

[juandel]

brrr - first flakes fell over here this morning - too cold to do that xmas-shopping i had planned - so i opened zbrush - got taken away - and here comes my first entry to one of the chatters challenges (love them!) :) great pix, Ron and Muvlo!

http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/iseafin.jpg

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- freezing juju

[Muvlo]

Thanks, Karasuando. :) Few things are more captivating than pretty colors in changing patterns, so I imagine having an entire sky of them must be truly amazing! :)

Great images Ron and Juandel! :tu: :tu:

[nollis]

This is my first post. (Hope ther will be more.) :)
It's a pic of a traditional swedish lucia-bun come to life. I actually made it for a party invitation. Lucia is on the 13th of december, and it is to celebrate light and comes from the Italian saint lucia.
The bun tastes awesome and has a safron flavor.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039357774vja.jpg

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 08, 2002 Message edited by: nollis </font>

[overrrlorrrd]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039363537jnw.jpg my contribution to the challenge lol i hope it looks like snow...but afterall nobody is perfect... :D

[zerobugetgamemaker]

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 08, 2002 Message edited by: zerobugetgamemaker </font>

[Northstarr]

Looking out the window.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039379408apx.jpg

Once again Ihad to decrease the physical size and reduce the jpg quality in order to be able to meet the upload limit... Grrrrr!

:rolleyes:

[GalleyEntry]

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 09, 2002 Message edited by: Northstarr </font>

[zerobugetgamemaker]

Excellent snow NorthStarr! :tu:

[Digits]

Here is my contribution. This is an image from many moons ago but re-rendered with the new lighting and the snow material that someone generously donated on the forum.

SnowBoy

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039388003aig.jpg
[galleryentry]

thou the subject of "cold" is not a popular one for me, brrr..... these are some great images!

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 08, 2002 Message edited by: Digits </font>

<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 08, 2002 Message edited by: Digits </font>

[gummie]

Here's my gallery entry for the holidays, I had to tune it down to make the file size but I don't think there has been any noticable image loss. Have fun everyone! :D :) http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039430190lps.jpg

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[Northstarr]

That's very nice Gummy. I really like the perspective.

:)

[juandel]

very nice pix everyone - nollis: mucho appreciated to get acknowleged to swedish pre-xmas folklore - i knew about lucia and that lights on her head, but never had heard of those buns - great depiction, very vivid, muy bien - olord: love them windswept trees and bg snowfall - Northstarr: fabulous snowman and decor, absolutely lovely - Digits: those background mountains are FANTASTICO!!! :tu: :tu: :tu: - gummie: wowzers perspective and totally awesome trees, love them (how done?) - excellento, all of you!

- juandel

PS: here is (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=002642&p=) a link to my last years seasons greetings - i hope to find a lil time to come up with some zmas-special this year, too :)

[Ron Harris]

Santa Dude
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039469882qec.jpg

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Santa Dude lookin' for Frosty
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<font color="#949494" size="1"> December 09, 2002 Message edited by: Ron Harris </font>

Mrs.SantaDude with the Heathen Elves

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039747669pyz.jpg
[Gallery Entry]

used some of the recent elements from some modeling I have been experimenting with...Guess Santa dropped the gang off on a barren planet and the evil Mrs.Claus is getting ready to wreak havoc on Santa soon as she finds him..muhahahahhaha

[DeeVee]

Great images all! sorry I have not had time to post an image as yet. I will try to get one out before christmas.
DeeVee,
Joe.

[Mahlikus The Black]

Yesser!
These are all great images!!!

Hopefully I will have time to make something for the challenge before I leave on vacation...

[Northstarr]

Hey Ron! That is one cool santa! Sure he isn't looking for Rudolph?? I figured he might be, you know with those dark glasses on and Rudolph's nose & all! Heee Heee!

Seriously though Great Santa!

:D

[Muvlo]

Nice work everyone. :) I really like the different snows, from a very painted look to accurate materials... :tu:

[Mik]

Quick sketch, I haven't got much time at the moment. :(
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039511290bal.jpg
Great images everyone.
:tu: :tu: :tu: :tu :)
Mik

[gummie]

Thanks guys for the positive feedback. :cool:

Juandel,

The trees I made by first modelling one by pulling out branches with move until they became pointy and layered as much as I could get them on a regular 3d cone primitive, didn't use any symmetry. Then I divided enough where I could get accurate noise on the sublayers.
I took the hook brush and used the dots alpha to pull out the needles with continuous color to match what I had already applied underneath, mainly white and green.
Here are some stages of the image.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039522114atf.jpg
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039522210gkx.jpg
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039522286tzb.jpg

[Frenchy Pilou]

It's Snowing :) http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039734723gfc.jpg
Pilou :cool:

[s borg]

That's so cute,man!

[WingedOne]

I just got started with mine. I decided to give Mr. & Mrs. Clause a "make-over". :D

The figures are unified skinned ZSpheres.

So far, the most of the details were added with inflate and masking with a little bit of ZADD editing here and there.

The facial features are going to be next.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039876839ync.jpg

[juandel]

the Claus’s diet and exercising seems to work perfecto, WingedOne! i smell gingerbread and a masterpiece!

great pics, everybody! Ron, i love that coolcat santa, very special! Mik: another lovely illustrative job - excellent! and a mucho charming by (not only)link-master Pilou! :tu:s to all of you! and muchas gracias, gummie, for explaining your fabulous tree technique!

mine isnt as good but i decided that this years coniferes on juju-greetings-card have to be made of zspheres - here is a first attempt http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/treesingle.jpg and a tiny
giveaway (http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/xmastreesphere.ztl) - and a first try at implementing them into a vista:

http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/xmastreesm.jpg

:)

- juandel

:b4: edit after reading the below request: muchas gracias y por favor, WingedOne: here’s (http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/xmastreeb.jpg) original size - default including more jaggies :)

:b4: :b4: edit 2: :D Pilou! i hope to be in the mood to do better ones for foreground asap :)

DLee: if you download the zspheretree above, fiddle with it to your gusto, skin it and make a mrgbz-grab you will get an alpha similar to the one i used with simplebrush/dragrectangle or spray stroke/zadd-off for the background (greyish - decrease width in draw-modifiers window if needed). i repeated that final spraystroke with a lil zadd-on at a smaller brush size, snowmaterial (a tweaked version of one of jaycephu’s great ink/sketch materials) and white colour. voila :)

[WingedOne]

That's a great looking landscape Juandel! :eek: :tu:

I'd like to see it bigger, though.

[Frenchy Pilou]

He He Juandel
Your Christmas trees resemble like frost ventilator's blade (on close-up not in the back-ground :)
But the landscape composition is like Dutch medieval master painter !
Pilou

[DLee]

WO that Mrs Santa looks like it's going to be really cute.

juandel I love the background of this. The trees are perfect and the snow.

[KenH]

Not alot of time at the moment, but I wanted to contribute somethin. :) http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039916870eyb.jpg

[Slosh]

Believe it or not, I have not had time to Z in over a week. Finished this little piece a few days ago...it's supposed to be the exterior which will be viewed through a window from inside a warm cozy house....we shall see if I am ever able to get any further. If not, this still ain't too bad. Best Holiday wishes to everyone, if I can't get around to visit by then. I have children in the house now, and as a single guardian, it is mucho difficult to find the time to Z.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1039920784vxs.jpg

[mizzthangg]

wowzers....these are all impressive images!! :)

[Mentat7]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1040178707lvc.jpg

[Slosh]

OK...I reworked this using the background I created in my first pic...this is just a humorous Merry Christmas (I hate the mushy stuff). Going to use this as my email Xmas Card at work...ha ha ha (I mean Ho Ho Ho)

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1040185533lnb.jpg
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[Northstarr]

Slosh, your contributions here are really good. That tree in both your works is quite pretty.

And in the words of another great "Z" - "Don't eat the yellow snow!"

:p

[hitch]

sorry for posting his twice, but i ound this thread a couple of minutes after I posted the original thread. I think that I am one of very few southern hemisphere zbc residents and our christmases look a little different o yours, or starters it didn't drop below 30 degrees last week.
What santa and his elves would be doing if he lived down here instead of the north pole


http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1040450831qir.jpg
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[Northstarr]

I couldn't resist doing this one. When I woke up this morning this is what my backyard looked like. Very Christmasy and quite fantasy-like. Hope you all enjoy it.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1040531378rwi.jpg

I apologize for the quality, I had to compress it twice in order to reduce the size to upload here.

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[juandel]

wonderful additions since i stopped by last time! thats some very cool 2.5d-painting, Ken H - and i love your pics, Slosh, part. the reindeers in the 2nd one! a fantabulous santa gnome, Mentat and yours makes me mucho envious, hitch, both re: location and knowhow :D - these are wonderful snowcovered twigs and branches, Northstarr - bunches of :tu:s to all of you!

in todays papers there was a photo of the big lake (about 25 miles long, 10 wide, and only 6 ft. deep) which is located at the austrian-hungarian border not far from here and which turned into europes largest skating area the last few days due to freezing temperatures over here. my mental eye went to take a sunrise shot, while the skaters were still asleep :)

http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/juandel/neusdlwide.jpg
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here (http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/juandel/neusiedlwide.jpg) is another version with better reeds, but i like the colours in the displayed one better.

hope you’ll like it - and i wish all forum-members wonderful holidays and a fantastico and peaceful year 2003! all the best, amigas y amigos! :D

- juju

[aurick]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1040684062pxf.jpg [gallery entry]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[Flycatcher]

That's a great frozen lake pic, Juandel. We had a MUCH smaller version over here last year that I took a few nice photos of.

And thanks Aurick for the funniest Christmas card I've had this year!

Have a good festive season everyone. :)