So, I made a snowman this weekend...

[noname219]

...and it turned out pretty good I think :



Seriously, this snow sculpture was for the "Intercollégial de Sculpture sur neige de Rivière-du-Loup". It's 8 feet x 8 feet x 8 feet, featuring a breakdancer on a grand piano. It is completely made of snow. We had only 2½ days (from February 2nd to 5th) to work on this, we were very close on our deadline but we made it.
(btw, an intercollégial is like a contest between some colleges in Quebec)

So we were 16 teams (max 3 person by team) and we ranked 2nd out of 16th! Very happy about it since it was the first I actually sculpted something out of snow. Also won some money $$$.

I took some more pictures of the process on my shitty iPod Touch camera.


Starting out with a big block of snow. The first steps were : delimiting areas and "dégrossissage"-reducing-removing the biggest blocs of snow. Starting from the top.



Not me on the pictures btw, just my teammates.
The head starts to pop up.



Fastforward to the day after, huge progress done mainly on the head-neck area, hands and feet.



Another angle.



Working on the keys. Pretty delicate stuff.
We can work at every hour we want, it was 9PM I think on this photo.
But after sunset, the temperature dropped to -15 celsius, so working with those conditions was definitely harder than during the day.



More details, more details...



Final result from the back.



Looking under the piano. We had to make the legs wider than intended. The last thing we want is everything to fall apart, or worse, on somebody working under.



Details under the shoe.



From another angle.



We were also working with people passing around us, cars, children and everything. This angle was what we can see from the main street.



The notes.



Details.



Again.



This was our reference. Made out of clay, measuring 8x8x8 INCHES. Don't ask me how we've done the notes...




If your curious enough to see what we were against : http://www.infodimanche.com/index.asp?s=concours&id=89

Pretty legit stuff.
First place is team #5 (Équipe #5) Well done, they were more experienced than us tho.
Second place... #13
Third place is team #3 (Équipe #3) You definitely can't see everything on this picture, but the other side was easier to understand. (an accordion)

Also, I really thought team #10 was going to be in top 3, but apparently they didn't. Probably because they didn't respect the theme Fige le rythme - Freezes the pace (bad translation).

[Anaru]

Very nice job! I wish I could do things like this.

[bmah]

!_!

Holy cow, amazing work there to both you and your team!

[samurai7694]

awesome stuff

[Evnoir]

This has got be one of the most amazing things I have seen in a while o__o
Extremely well done!

[CammyGoesRawr]

This is extremely impressive, it's been a long time since i've seen something like this. Howw did this not get top 3?

[noname219]

We've ranked 2nd out of 16th.
Won 500$ (but more importantly, a pretty solid piece for my portfolio)

Thanks everyone for the comments.

[justin_ator]

He said he placed second, cammy. Haha.

[CammyGoesRawr]

Originally Posted by justin_ator

He said he placed second, cammy. Haha.

oops. xD i forgot how to read for a moment, it seems. Congrats anyway, man, and that is gonna look stellar in your portfolio

[Ziergdsx18]

Wow, that's really awesome man.

[who_cares973]

i was expecting a shitty snowman

this is awesome though

[ichliebekase]

That's ****ing excellent. How did that not get 1st?!

Now I'm curious as to what won first if this didn't ;_;

Amazing job though, the details are fantastic.

[ninjaKIWI]

Originally Posted by ichliebekase

That's ****ing excellent. How did that not get 1st?!

Now I'm curious as to what won first if this didn't ;_;

Amazing job though, the details are fantastic.

[noname219]

This was the first place :

didn't see your respond ninjakiwi

From Matane. It was clear for everyone they were in the top 3.
The first, second and third places was decided by 3-4 judges based on many criteria. At this moment, we didn't receive comments directly from them, or why they choose this team before us, but I don't care that much.

And at third place :


I don't remember who exactly made this one. I thought it wouldn't be in top 3, but it was well executed and the idea was solid.

I thought this team was going to win something :


Kickass dinosaur thingy. From Rivière-du-Loup. They lost lots of points because they, imo, didn't respect the theme.

Also, there's still another prize to be decided by the public. Only if your from Quebec, you can vote for your favourite piece. (suivez ce lien : http://www.infodimanche.com/index.as...=89#formulaire)

[i love you]

mad skills dude

[BeatofIke]

HOLY S*** Now that's is what I call skill.

[25thhour]

Wow! Thats amazing. I wish I was this talented to make something this epic, but I can only pull of a normal three balled snowman. :P

[Jerry DB]

super duper cool

[supermousie]

I was expecting a snowman made of the traditional 3 giant snowballs on top of each other with a carrot nose and whatnot.

Awesome stuff, and gr9 attention to detail on dem keys. :]

[Hateandhatred]

My family competes into this every year but in sand stuff. We won almost every year so far, but only making shittier stuff as time went by. First year was a 5 meters high dragon holding a boat in his mouth, with survivers swimming away.

Ill post pix someday lol...

Also, great shit here, fellow Dude de la côte nord!