Challenge #708 Voting CLOSED

This week’s theme: Steampunk

Challenge #708

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on Wednesday.
The winner picks the theme for next week.

Pure Entries

  • Gordi
    Super Computing Steampunk Style
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467716&stc=1&thumb=1
  • MDO2010
    Just Glue on Some Gears
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467846&stc=1&thumb=1
  • fdo
    usb-stick 2.0
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467915&stc=1&thumb=1
  • fcharr
    Rebel
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467916&stc=1&thumb=1
  • KoekieMonster
    Steampunk scorpion
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467933&stc=1&thumb=1
  • modelar
    Jellyfish
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467962&stc=1&thumb=1
  • rarebit
    NATO
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=468092&stc=1&thumb=1

Open Entries

  • Evivivi
    Golden Zeppelin
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467890&stc=1&thumb=1

Non-competing Entries

  • RobertT
    PUNKED AND STEAMED
    http://www.artofinterpretation.com/images4/wc708-PunkedAndSteamed-byrjt2017.jpg
  • Helge
    Little Punk
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467855&stc=1&thumb=1
  • Photox
    Redux
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=467909&stc=1&thumb=1
  • DoriNori
    Durgen Flur
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=468008&stc=1&thumb=1
  • mik.a.
    Pixel
    https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=468116&stc=1&thumb=1

Wasn’t my title Helge!

Funny how no-one complained about comments about Trump, but now you censoring when its about your leader…!

Your leader who is directly responsible for death and rape due to her frivolous comments, he isn’t!

Rarebit, what in heavens are you talking about?

@rarebit: You might want to cool down a little. I’m obviously not getting the irony here…
Btw.: If you have another title for your entry - just let me know.


Read the news… Germany shouting the odds but being hypocritical as usual. Why we left the EU, not Europe, we are always Europe… Helge, no irony, simple truth, be a denier if you must, but German politicians are the worst, and today their excuse for avoiding the bill, yup, blame the US… So you’ll take the same line on any politics, or just ones which implicate Germany? Germany may think it rules Europe, but things are changing…

RobortT please give me that material!

@rarebit: Not sure where this is coming from. As far as I remember I didn’t say anything about NATO, german politics, Trump… And certainly, I’m not going to discuss things this way. As you know, I’m always happy to talk about whatever topic arises - so
if there is anything you need to get off your chest - just send me an email.

Regarding your entries topic: Your images name (nato.png) was all I found on this matter. If you would like to change it - just let me know. (Censorship? - I honestly don’t get it.)

You should already have it =)

Lambert / Ward Iso with near max Mirror, half Fresnel, higher than normal Blend, plus some stuff in front of the scene (i.e. behind the camera) for reflections.

Procedural textures for this material are several Clouds affecting Nor and Color variously (mapped along normals and reflections).

RobertT

Incredible result Robert T.

To think it’s BI is even more impressive. Have you ever considered working with Cycles?

Never said you’d said anything lol, it was the text next the image you failed to use, so your honestly sounds as real as Merkle n Audi

So, your entire post is your entries title? (How should I have known that? - I wasn’t even sure if it is an entry at all. ;-))

Please specify.

Why wouldn’t it be an entry, it didn’t exclude itself in any way did it? I just found you funny how you made a title up and avoided the subject

You didn’t state if it is pure, open or non-competing. So, from my point of view, it could just have been a random nato flag.

Speaking of avoiding the subject: If you don’t answer my question or tell me which part of your post should be your entries title, I don’t know what to do. I won’t start guessing.

Believe it or not: I hope you are fine, I’m getting a little worried here.

Thank you very much, Photox.

I’ve dabbled in Cycles a few times, but, in comparing it with my more substantial experiences in Blender internal, I much prefer the speed and the ease I personally feel with the internal renderer in conjunction with its respective render nodes.

There are some truly amazing Cycles works out there, and I am grateful that exists as an option for Blender. My GPU is not currently where it needs to be to run that as fast as I’d prefer.

After over a decade of working with the internal renderer, I am still convinced I am yet to exhaust its potential, be if for realistic results, NPR renders, and everything else between and beyond.

Only recently did I start experimenting with FreeStyle render possibilities, and I have yet to explore more deeply such things as material nodes in BI.

Blender offers endlessly creative opportunities.

RobertT

Me, just pissed at all the insults and threats coming out of Germany, oh and the hypocrisy…

BTW not you personally, your aristocracy

That is probably true for almost every government :wink: Looking at the world, things are getting a little embarrassing lately. However, the UK/Germany relationship doesn’t appear to be that broken to me… but (as always) that probably depends on who you ask/listen to.

Good to know. Actually, that would have been strange - last time I checked my overall influence on german politics was rather limited…

Now, back to business as usual. :slight_smile: