Welcome to The Empire Monthly Challenge!
You are all welcome to stretch your artist legs. Get out of your comfort zone or artist block, and unleash your full potential!
There are no winners or prizes, it's all about challenging yourself. The deadline is purely to indicate the start of the next challenge, if you need more time to finish up that's okay.
Modifiers are optional rules for the challenge that allow you to push your skills even further!
Environment Challenge - Synthwave Cityscape
Synthwave Vista
You can look for your own Synthwave references. The idea is to make a general view (think of it as in it is a vista shot!) and focus on silhouettes and lighting ! No need to get lost in small details. Work on the bigger picture and readability .
Prop Challenge - Modelling focus
Muscle car
The choice of which kind of muscle car you want to make is up to you. If you feel building the interior is too much, focus on the exterior. You can make the windows opaque and not model the interior. Making a car is a tough challenge because it is based off a lot of smooth shapes and it is hard to get the proportions right. Don't hesitate to use several views of the car as reference to get the shapes just right!
Similar references here
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Modular synthesizer
Lots of buttons ! Modular synthesizers are made out of a lot of various shapes and sliders. it s an interesting challenge to try keeping that variety.
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Rain drops on painted metal surface (car paint).
You can choose which kind of paint you want to have under the rain drops depending on what you want to work on. (which color? Is it matte or shiny? Is it old and rusty? You could even make it holographic if you want to!)
