ENTM's 4th Elimination

Happy New Year everyone! 

There was some confusion around the last task. I looked back at it, and I guess it is a bit of a puzzle. But all the pieces are there that are needed to put the task together. It was a 2 part task, of a make-over, and runway. 3 out of 5 of the contestants missed the runway part.

Every model misreads a task in their career, but it is not without repercussion.

The judges and I have unanimously decided that the task winner this week is....

MMAlovergirl!

Congratulations! Your second task win! Your scenery will be featured on MDM.


Second place:

Jelizeveta123

If the other contestants had followed the task properly, you may have been lower down, so please take a look at all the feedback, and continue to improve.



The Bottom Three

In no particular order:

x-x-perfect-x-x

Iovanca

Rockinellee

You three have been placed here because your sceneries failed to encompass the full task.


X-x-perfect-x-x: I understand that you did a redo of the task, but unfortunately it does not count. Re-dos are only allowed with permission, before any judging has started. Therefore we can only go off of your original scenery. Your scenery took the simple approach, but was it too simple?

Iovanca: You did understand that the task was a runway, but what were you selling? Roses? That was the part of the task you lacked. Your scenery did not look like a runway, and we could not see what you were selling.

Rockinellee: Despite your misreading of the task, all the judges thought you made a stunning beauty shoot. We almost forgot that that wasn't the task. Almost.

Rockinellee you are SAFE.
Your misread was a mistake, and you did excellently with what you thought the task was. Please do not make that mistake again.

Iovanca you are SAFE.
Modeling is almost always about selling something. The first line of the task said it's not about sitting there and looking pretty, yet that's exactly what you did! The judges have been disappointed with your sceneries the last 2 tasks. You need to step up your game if you're in it to win it.

x-x-perfect-x-x you are ELIMINATED.
We could see that you were improving in the competition, but this week was just too big of a step down. You will be missed. I hope that you have had a valuable experience in this competition.



Now we have the top four.
Only three will go on to travel.
Keep your eyes open for the next task.

Scenery Tutorial: Coco Rocha

Hey everyone! It's been awhile since I made a scenery tutorial, so here's one for all you aspiring models.

This tutorial will focus on expression, the power of black an white, and of course, complex posing!

Our inspiration for today is:

 The amazing Coco Rocha!

The first step in making a good scenery is styling. You should keep your basic features (nose, eyes, face shape & skin tone) but expression is key! The two most important things in expression are the eye brows, and mouth. For this scenery I have raised my eyebrows, and chosen a slightly open moth to give a surprised feeling to the scenery:

Once you are happy with your expression, you must chose a background color. For this scenery I am planing to turn it into black and white in the end, so I don't want a white background like in the picture, because it will look to bland. The beauty of black and white is that it unites all the colors in your scenery, and makes certain things stand out. I decided on a grey background, because it adds contrast, but is not too dark.

Now we can begin posing! I always begin my poses with the head, so the first thing we must notice is the angle of the head.

We must also notice how the rest of her body is also tilted, in different angles.

The "T" shape shows her torso and shoulder span. As you can see the torso is at a slightly different angle than the head, but only by a little bit. Because it is such a small difference, I am going to keep the torso that is connected to the head, and just add different arms and legs.

Let's take a look at the angles of the arms and hands:

It looks like we're going to need 5 different body parts to get the correct pose. When putting together the pieces it's important to notice that each elbow is approximately a 90 degree angle. 

 

Now that we have 6 bodies total things are starting to look a little confusing. But by the lines, I hope you can see that I've lined up the angels pretty well. Now on to the legs! 

I think I will keep the leg on the left that is attached to the torso, because it is pretty close to the correct angle. So that means I just need to add 2 more bodies to form the legs. 

Now that we have all the parts we need, we must cover up the parts we don't need. Like so: 

Don't worry if it looks a little funny at first. Once you put clothes on it will look better. See: 

Then just a dd a few details for effect: 

Do you remember I said I wanted to make this black and white? Let's see how that looks.

Pretty cool huh? So how did this tutorial compare to the other ones? 

until next time,

What's your posing niche?

niche (nich)  n., v. <niched, nich-ing>
                 
                  2.  a suitable place or position: to find
                       one's niche in the world.

A posing niche is therefore the pose that you do perfectly. Something that you've just got down, and never fails to impress. Throughout looking at sceneries on stardoll I have found that certain people just excel at a certain pose.

(click on any scenery to enlarge it)

For example, .naima's niche is the body tilt. She was the first person I ever saw do it, and she has perfected it.

Melinda is probably the most talked about model on this blog, but that's just because she's so talented.

 

Looking at these sceneries it's impossible to deny that. 

As seen in these first 2 sceneries Melinda uses items as clothes. The cream top is actually layered chairs! It's a very good item to use for clothing because of it's shape, texture, and ability to shrink to a small size. It's no longer for sale, but you can easily find it by searching the starbazaar for chairs. I found one being sold for only 5sd!

New writer to the blog, Rockinellee also has a niche: Head tilts.

 I really love head tilts because they add so much character to a scenery.

 

Being stuck with your head always facing forward can get rather old, so this really keeps things interesting!

Elle has perfected the head tilt, and makes it look effortless!

This is Lauren-d's second feature on editorialized. She is currently in the final two of Pearl.Models, which is where these sceneries are from.

 

Her unique niche is elongation. I know you may not think that's a real form of posing, but I think it really adds interesting qualities to here sceneries.  

She uses clothes, and posing to elongate her body, making it look very elegant and unique!

This is the first editorialized feature for VianneX3!

Her niche is hair posing! Sounds kinda weird right? But if done right, it can be really stunning!

She takes hair posing beyond horse hair, and it really adds a nice touch to her sceneries. 

Sceneries from various clubs (Pearl.Models, ModelingWorld, RENTM, and juniormodels) and users personal sceneries .

Having a posing niche can be helpful because it makes you memorable! If you have a certain continuity in your sceneries people will be able to recognize you. Of course you don't want to do the same pose every time, but it's always good to have a back up pose. One that never lets you down (:

So do you have a niche? What makes you, you!?

PS: 50% of you think .pease. will win MelsModels! Will you be right?

And 78 votes? Wow! who knew there were that many of you lurking around, reading posts but never commenting...

Complex pose tutorial (:

Well I'm on summer break, and so it seems I have a lot of extra time on my hands! I decided to make that time productive, by making a scenery/posing tutorial for you all!

Today's inspiration is this photo of Jeanine (my middle name, hehe) Mason, Season 5 winner of America's "So You Think You Can Dance".

It's a really stunning pose, so I though I'd give it a try. The first thing you need to notice is the angle that the body is at in relation to the picture.

Try to angle your medoll accordingly
 

The next thing to do is add in the arms. We will need 4 extra body parts to do that. In the picture below you can see that each line represents a new body part.

Add them in like so, and I drew handy lines so you can tell which parts we're "keeping".  

After you do that, it's leg time!  You will need 3 more body parts for this, making a grand total of 8 bodies needed.

For the legs it's very important to pay attention to the angles. In relation to the "original" body, and to the other parts of the legs.

Now this is the tricky part: covering everything up. I really can't show you "how" I covered everything up, cause it's not really something you can teach. Just don't be stingy about how many tiles you use, and you'll be fine. Always remember to rotate and change the size of them as needed.

Now I put some clothes on her, and added horse hair for motion:

And then you add ATMOSPHERE. The second most important thing in a scenery (:

 And this video is of Jeanine on the show, with her partner Jason. I love this video, and it was my other inspiration for this scenery. I find that listing to music while I make a scenery helps convey more emotion. 

So here it is for your enjoyment (:

I hope you liked this tutorial! If there is anything you would like me to focus on in another tutorial just let me know! I hope to see some "beautiful comments", hehe (:

Scenery Competition Poll!!

We saw some seriously talented people enter this scenery competition.

To enter you simply had to interpret this pictures and make a scenery inspired by them however you like!

The Top Entries (in no particular order):

RockinEllee

Liljj123

StarSyd3333

.naima

jelizaveta123


Click to enlarge!


So, who's going to win a prize of $100sd and a modeling feature in RAGE magazine?

Simply vote here:

Tell me what you think of them in the comments. ;D