Eurgh, to be entirely honest I'm fucking embarrassed by this.

I made it for a contest on GameArtisans.net since the TA in my web design class talked me into it (linky: [link]). The concept was to draw a stylized female character with some sort of personal transport (no smaller than a skateboard and no larger than a motorcycle). The polycount limit was 6,000.

I got in a week late and went right up until the deadline, stopping only for Thanksgiving. I knew full well, right out of the gate, that it was gonna be horribly inferior to the other entries. I was actually feeling pretty okay for a few days in the middle there. But looking at other peoples' finished products, mine is just goddamned insulting to them.

Not only that, but 2 minutes away from the deadline, I panicked and just submitted this raw render. Didn't include the tricount information, didn't include the texture or normal map or any of that, didnt even goddamned sign it, just threw the raw render in.

It's most certainly gonna get disqualified. I HOPE it gets DQ'd. Because FURTHERMORE, I went in afterwards and realized that I'd gone over the polycount limit by like 750 tris. D'OH!

Aurgh. I went into this hoping to get some practice and a portfolio piece, and possibly an opportunity to get my work out there. It was also a challenge to myself, since I'm such a procrastinator, to prove to myself that I can make a deadline. I did make that deadline - barely, only just barely. But since it's gonna be DQ'd, I failed to get my work out in the public eye, which it turns out was a good thing because it's not even good as a portfolio piece, just a shitty-ass render to dump here.

And as for practice? All I learned was that I need to practice more before I try another contest.

I keep trying to look for the silver lining to all this - I learned a few neat tricks with Blender that I didn't know before? I got a tiny bit better at sculpting? I dunno, even that seems like I'm stretching it.

Anyways, Angst Mode: Disengage.