Project Phoenix Winner announced
March 29, 2006 – The CG Talk 3D Challenge started by Brian Pohl has come to an end. The winner is Tim Shedelbower's: Scattered Life.
Great job Tim! And congratulations to all contestants.
Here are some comments from the judges:
Brian J. Pohl writes:
My first impression to this piece was wow.. how cool. The colors blew my mind. It possesses a retro feel with modern influences. It could almost be an album cover. I was extremely impressed by the technological tour de force of plugins and technologies utilized to create this picture and the render time just blew me away. Very impressive.
Phil Martin writes:
First I wish we could give everyone something because this is really tough. I have looked these over I have decided to go with Tim Shedelbower. Personally I have never seen an image like this come from EIAS. I can't get technical, but there is just something that jumps out about it that I really like. My congratulations to everyone.
Matt Hoffman writes:
First of all, I would like to complement all the artists who entered. I enjoyed all of your artwork (sketches and renderings) and was very appreciative of the time you took in creating it and the time spent interacting with others on the CGForums. Reading all of the comments by the artists and viewers greatly enhanced my enjoyment of this contest and I'm sure it provided an enriching experience for everybody who visited the forums.
Tim's rendering definitely captures the theme of the contest. I loved the phoenix rising from a puff of fire above the trees. The source of the fire is nicely hidden behind the top of the palm trees, and the wide puff of fire at the base narrowing a bit and flowing towards the phoenix looks great. The overall color scheme which is dominated by the orange/red foreground elements and green middle elements against the dark-gradient background gives the image a feeling of depth. There is a strong sense of motion achieved with the rising phoenix and fire balanced by the falling feathers and the beetles crawling down the tree. The modeling is nice (and I'm sure those grizzled hands were a lot of work), but it's the overall composition of the image that really draws the eye.
