And the Winner is......by Tavy Ann

And the Winner is... And the Winner is...

By Tavy Ann By Tavy Ann

After seven months of competition, education and entertainment, "The Prize Fight" has come to it's close. In October of 2004 we started with the first of our 3 rounds, the drawing phase, where each of our over 100 entrants had to hand draw an Olympic character of their choice. The character they drew in Round 1 would be the character they would then model in CINEMA4D for Round 2, and then go on to fully rig and animate using the MOCCA module in Round 3.

"The Prize Fight" was a learning experience for everyone involved. I must say I have never seen a 3D competition of this caliber produce what I saw in "The Prize Fight". The entrants encouraged and shared their skill with one another. It was as if they became comrades rather than opponents. Although they were fighting their way through 3 rounds, they became friends who wanted the best to win, even if it wasn't them.

In Round 3 (the animation round) things really steamed up. The better of the first two rounds gathered and began to rig and animate their original character(s). Round 3 was definitely the longest of our rounds, but in the end produced some of the finest short animations I have yet to see created in CINEMA4D.

I would have loved for all of our entrants to win the "Grand Prize" (a trip to Siggraph 2005, airfare, lodging, CINEMA4D Release 9 Studio Bundle, and the opportunity to do a presentation of their animation in the MAXON booth at Siggraph) but we could only pick one winner. Mind you, all of the entrants are winners! They walked away from "The Prize Fight" with a great animation to their credit, and made some wonderful friends.

The winner of the third and final round of "The Prize Fight" was Sebastien Florand (Fluffy) with "The Equestrian Jump". Sebastien brought to life his Equestrian "The Ant", and "That Darn Snail", with obvious talent and skill.

To view "The Equestrian Jump" and our other wonderful entries visit: http://www.3dattack.net/forum/showt hread.php?t=1443 . Congratulations to Sebastien with his winning entry. It was well deserved.

3D Attack would like to thank Paul Babb and Diana Lee of MAXON USAfor all of their hard work, support, and for sponsoring "The Prize Fight" with some awesome prizes for our entrants.

Floris Drupsteen