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This is from Spacekdet's thread in the Caligari forums. I gathered the ideas in to a single post for each person from the original. Add more please!

Spacekdet

A repository of 'spare ideas' for the MMC.
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I'll begin:

The 'Dali Style' seemed very popular...in that same spirit, choose
'Artist X Style' (Escher, Giger, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, etc.- Pick your favorite)

'What Grandpa Saw'

'In the Junk Drawer'

'What's behind the shed'

'Heirloom'

'Coffee'

'Watercraft'

'My pet'

'Change of season'

'Bicycle'

'Model an Object X' Winner chooses 'X'

'Magic'

'On Vacation'

'An accident waiting to happen'

....

Now, add some of your own ...

TomG

'Spare tire'

'Loose cannon'

'Flotsam and jetsam'

'In a bit of a pickle'

'Oh no, not again'

'Speed is everything'

'The butterfly effect'

'Pebble'

Could go on and on, but I'll just stop. Though might be back later to throw out more freeform associations!

Jamesmc

Things that are wizard-like

Things that go boom

Things that cook, bake or prepare in a Chef Training Area

Whips, Chains, Harnesses and Knives and other tools of Sado-Masochistic enjoyment er...I mean employment.

The next future invention that will never work

Factory Environment

Flora and other things classified as plants

Wild Animal Enclosures (cages, pens, runs, arenas, tents, buildings)

Sanctuaries

Clockwork Orange Environments

Libraries

Steinie

1) I found "THIS" in my pocket.
2) ...as long as it is Pink.
3) The Picnic
4) Rocky Roads
5) The End of a Rainbow
6) Slinkies, Tinker Toys and Trains
7) Blind Date
8) The Fight
9) The Catch
10) Another reject.
11) Plasma
12) Sewer Pipes and Drainage

(Jamesmc commented, "Yeah! Sewer Pipes and drainage! booyah!!!"

Finis

- Theme: Take it from there.

The host gives the beginning of a story and the contestant is challenged to "take it from there". The image could tell the rest of the story as the contestant invents it or give a glimpse of some event ... just make it related to the story beginning.

My version: (In cowboy/western accent) Nobody in Dry Gulch really know'd what day it was. It 'uz hot 'n dusty like ever' day. It 'uz the day Shame Haggert road in ta town. His folks give 'em away when he's real little. He never know'd why they named 'em that. Don't matter. Done plenty since to earn it. ... Take it from there!

- Natural disaster. Hurricane, flood, avalanche, tsunami, volcano, earthquake, fire ...

- Weather phenomena. Tornado, lightning, cold, heat, rain, snow ...

- Underwater things.

- Shipwreck.

- Treasure in treasure chest.

- Things along Route 66. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=route+66&iax=1&ia=images

- Motels.

-- Behind the question mark. Model whatever you want to but keep part of it hidden inside a box or other shape with a question mark. The mystery of what is hidden is only revealed in the final picture.

-- Advertisement

-- Food

-- Strange tools

Burnart

- prehistoric
- creepy crawlies
- my neighbors yard
- pastries and cakes
- demonic and/or angelic

... and they just sprang to mind as I typed.

Mr. 3d

"Fairy Tales and Fables"

"Amusement Land"

and some old suggestions from others...
"Space Exploration"
"Where's Prodigy ?"

v3rd3

- Things you can do with pickles
- odds and ends
- hairless mice
- chickens with lips
- mouse traps
- cars nobody else would model
- rust buckets (could be old cars, old trains etc...)
- how to scare a lawyer
- insects
- crustaceans
- colours of the 60's
- ... more later

hehehe, lots of ideas pouring out there Finis ;)

An aquarium and its contents.

Bright pink gel or slime in a setting, location, situation that makes it even weirder.

Everything in a specific location like on a table, on a desk, on a shelf, in a drawer, in the refrigerator.

Scientific instruments or equipment. Devices, glassware, etc.

Things associated with a profession.

At least X variations of Y. For instance, at least 5 TV remote controls or at least 8 hats.

A classic game with a twist. Do something creative with chess, baseball, checkers.

Things that go bump in the daylight.

Arcs and sparks.

Severe Damage. Model something with realistic looking damage, wrecked car, broken furniture, shorted out electric plug...

Jack in the box. (Not the fast-food restaurant.)

Super Deformed. Y'know, like chibi or similar styles in animation and manga.

Anime character. Humans, aliens, animals, mecha or other robot.

Anime non-character. Anything from an anime TV series, movie or OVA that's not a mecha or human or animal or other humanoid shaped or alien or robot.

Sentient street. Ever heard of the comic book character "Danny the Street"? It's a play on Danny LaRue. If you want to know more, google. The guy who created the character wanted to do a story where Danny joined the Green Lantern Corps, he'd have been "Street Lantern". (That one didn't get green-lit...)

Fail. Do your best to illustrate the the sheer concept of FAIL. See http://failblog.org"

Win. See above. WIN is rare but frikin' awesome when it happens.

Fantastic Camera. Cameras. They take light and make reasonable exact images of what that light has bounced off of. Boring! Model a camera that does things in a different way.

Good Point Galane. I also like the fail blog

Great ideas Galane. Arcs and sparks: link

Thanks for consolidating these. Great ideas in there.

Let me add one more...


if my mother-in-law / ex-girlfriend was an appliance she would be a ...... (no sexual novelty toys permitted)

Thanks Tahnoak and V3rd3.

Everyone add ideas.

Sorry if this has already been said, but it seems to me that most people strive for realism. When alwasy striving for the most realistic it can limit the things you attempt to do, and people might miss out on an affect/option that can weild amazing results.

How about an Abstract Topic.

Yeah Karthogen we always bring to reality because is something normal to us, but abstract is something interesting to do.
More ideas:

Forgetting things: You already lost something that you look for and don't find and after hours of search you find? Try to make a funny image about that...

Abstract paint: Show to us the potential of 3D in abstract arts

Loneliness: Something sad and bleak, we can make good arts with this base...

The lonliness idea made me think about lights and how lighting on a scene can set the mood.

So how about a challange with Lighting/rendering. Take 1 scene and make 3 seperate renders that express 3 different moods.

Sad
Happy
content

You can have 1 scene eveyone uses or the scene can be user made with 3 seperate renders.

Hammerspace! That dimension where cartoon and comic strip/book characters pull ludicrously sized hammers from, among other things. Quite possibly where Gleek kept the bucket for carrying Zan.

Hyperbolic Paraboloid. Use one or more in a creative way. WTH is a Hyperbolic Paraboloid? How do I make one in trueSpace?

Look here. vi ... ?f=4&t=696" Extra bonus points if you can figure out how to make ones with non-straight sides or an odd number of sides.

A scene based on this guys ramblings http://www.sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/"

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A scene about a group of superheroes who's powers are related to film movie cameras and movie making. They are "The Super Eight".

Some idea (in a context):
Draw your wife (human relationships)
a machine to make cubic bubbles (scientific)
how to make a city without streets? (Ingenuity)
a caveman who finds a iPad (intellectual)
show the most useless application for a smartphone (comic).
create a caricature of your head and post a real portrait next to the 3d caricature. (can be realistic, serious, funny or disturbing as my avatar )

Teamwork: Participants must work in teams of 2 or 3 people.

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Finis wrote:Teamwork: Participants must work in teams of 2 or 3 people.

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They discussed it somewhere in other topic, and I must say it's a good idea.

A large sign for a motel or other business. These were popular in the 50's through 70's. They usually had lights or neon. This could be a chance or creative lighting too.

An old movie theater marquee with neon etc.

How about some sort of cloth, blanket or some such, using the cloth simluator on WS. Have it drapping over a table or chair or what ever.

Any scene that tells a story but you don't reveal what the story is. Then you get one other forum member to write a paragraph or so about what he thinks the story is (without him knowing what your story is). The image and the guest writer's paragraph are the entry. Only after the contest winner is chosen everyone reveals the real stories and we have fun comparing the real to the guest writer's and to our own.

Picture vandalism. Like drawing horns or mustaches on pictures. The competitor models things to add to a photo or drawing of a person/animal/creature. The competitor does not have to make the photo or drawing.

Things related to a sport. Football helmet, skis, baseball glove.

Things related to a profession or job. Briefcase, tools, police equipment.

Las Vegas.

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Hey Finis that is a neat idea... collabration is always fun.

Thanks RJeff. I think it would be fun to compare all the stories from different viewers of each image. I got the idea from comparing my idea of what a picture was about to an artist's in my gallery business (closed now and the website might disappear at any time).

Here's one: http://www.phosphorgallery.com/cgi-bin/ ... &c=20&d=18"
I thought this was a farmer, who is a dinosaur, expressing his displeasure with a doctor by having his giant squirrel vomit on the doctor's hands and fish skeleton.

Illustrate a Chuck Norris fact.

Any of the things like these or preferably an original one:

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch. HE decides what time it is.

Chuck Norris has a license to carry concealed weapons in 42 states. That's so he can wear pants.

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Finis wrote:Illustrate a Chuck Norris fact.

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch. HE decides what time it is.

Haha, who is he?

Only one of the best Martial arts people ever. Do a search for him!

and also the hairiest.

LOL..yeah I remember the movie with Bruce Lee, and Bruce ripped out the red hair on his chest.

Water Bottle Factory
Water Bottle Disposal
Water Bottle Creativity (theme parks, rides, flying, racecars)

Finish an unfinished project. The contestant should complete an unfinished project of his.

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Haiku modeling. Model something using exactly 17 polygons. No more. No less.

Jungle

Unseen presence like a ghost, the air, someone spying ...

Abstract art

Background item from a movie

3D emoticons

Sociopathic emoticons

Travelers like tourists or business travelers ...

Things in the air like clouds, birds, aircraft, blimps, dust ...

UFO's

Jukebox

Model your computer keyboard. Good for a speed modelling challenge.

mafia 1930s

If We Built It Now. What if we built ancient buildings or things now? A modern Parthenon, pyramids, viking ship, great wall of China, chariot, stone hinge ... what would a modern version of ancient things be like?

today it would be very expensive to build, so dont worry about it :D back in the days, they had slaves to do it.