Challenge #972 "the biggest hat" (04/02/22) Entries CLOSED

That is just disturbing. Well done! I will have nightmares. :frowning:

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Wizard in the forest

Not very much changed, at last, pure entry.

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I must ask, the text is free choosen or is there a meaning behind it?
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2012271201/1915-09-11/ed-1/seq-1/

Oh no, there’s not a meaning behind it
Oh wait you were talking to him hah

I just looked in Google for a newspaper image that did not contain anything too readable or topical like “WWII is over” or “man on the moon”; the idea is to concentrate on the picture, not to have something too readable. I see you found the same image. Then I had to crop off the headline so the only thing showing is lines of text. I will have to read the manual on how to properly scale images in UV, since the sizing is way off in some parts of the “hat”. (Right now if I load an image, the UV squares disappear.)

I could probably figure out roughly what the news was. It looks Italian.

Matter of Perspective

Non-competing (Open-ish)

Blender 3.0, Cycles, 4096 samples, filmic, all geometry new for challenge. Post processed with Paintshop Pro filters for canvas texture and color saturation.

Big is always a matter of perspective. Quantum/atomic or Galactic/Intergalactic scale bigness is a matter of perspective if you are a quarks or a Type III Kardashev scale civilization. A spider looking at a leather top hat and a toy cowboy hat in its corner of the attic will decide its the biggest hat in the universe in its back yard because it will never see anything different to change its perspective.

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“The Nearsighted Gunslinger”
Pure…but barrels are from something i did earlier…

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I always curious if someone use text sources and try to figure out whats it about. I tried for this text too but google is so bad at translating Italian. It looks like it is an sarcastic article about people getting rich from war. But i can totally misunderstood the bad translation. Would be nice if some Italian speaking could explain :slight_smile:

PURE “shape of the universe”
Cycles 256s

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Did you try https://www.deepl.com ? It doesn’t support as many languages but the translations feel a lot more natural to me.

Based on the minimalist’s version of the rules:

If you can honestly say to yourself, “Yes, I mainly used Blender to make this”, “Yes, nearly all of the foreground models are new”, “Yes, most of the models are new”, then the entry is Pure.

I’d go with ‘open’ for this one.

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This is a head shot … um … a hat shot :cowboy_hat_face:
My picture will somewhat go in the same direction… :wink:

It does a better job, but it still reads like an dialog from Shakespeare.

Here is a piece of it, it is criticizing war:

Summary

Long live the war
It is, among the warmongers, some serious people
who persuade you.
Not among the Tyrants of the national
squealers, mind you! Not
among the Rostand, the Kypling, the D’An
the D’Annunzios who on the battered lyre
now reduced to the monotonous episode
episode of the great fasci
ask you for goodness and
God and the king, for civilization and for the
country, discreetly, the skin, the blood and the
blood and youth of their children,
The tears of all mothers; and they persuade you
persuade you all the less that the
fervency, inspiration and enthusiasm they rent out to those
. they are renting out to the highest bidder.
On the other hand, one must recognise
that they have on their hands so harsh
need that neither genius nor
genius nor the plectrum nor the auni
.of Homer. ,
Persuade the proletariat that
for the cause of the civilization to which
it has remained since its origins, between
the millennia, alien unchanged-
. li1i-iAif a -orr! i nrvn Vi O AtìtCì"filters
now than a pittance: five
million two hundred and ninety thousand
dead, six million four hundred and
seventy-eight thousand injured, two million
six hundred and twenty thousand prisoners, fourteen
prisoners, fourteen million three
one hundred and ninety-eight thousand lost
in total, in the first year of the war
the first year of the war); and that it still has to give
proportionally greater, for another
or three years, until the fate of progress and
and freedom are not vitally decided
are vitally decided, is not a task
moreover, that one can honestly
demand from court jesters;
nor can it be resolved with a pea, with a
with a pea, with a fanfare, with four
polite chitchat.
Serious people do not make so many
scorn the venerable rubbish of the -traditions.
the venerable junk of -traditions
as the dubious promises of the
ideal, so remote in the mists of the future
mists of the future as it is doubtful
distant in the darkness of the times the
origin of the pride and myths of the lineage
of the lineage. He believes only in today,
to the immediate, concrete, pontifical reality.
the immediate, concrete and ponderable reality; and
the minute that passes, beyond which it is completely
beyond which it is completely different, so
so different that tomorrow it is horror
what today is glory, ruin and shame, what today is
what today is splendour or wealth.
Live the hour and live it fully and
and entire, with the tension of all the nerves
tension of all the nerves, of all the will, of all
strength, to the clear and immeasurable end
and the goal to be drawn with the immediate
sudden rush of the cyclone, overwhelmed every
every barrier of feeling and reason
reason, of justice and of
justice and mercy, in the dominion, in the omnipotence
of the fleeting moment.
Then? Tomorrow?
i) These are the figures, discreetly summarised by the French
Ministry of War as of 31 May 1914.
Correspondence, letters, money orders have to be sent in.
The flood will come; others will be flooded.
flood. They will no longer be there.
Isn’t that how serious people are?
Measure it in the same way as the
great war.
It has never sought a justification
other than the cynical and brutal calculation
cynical and brutal calculation: the war is urgent!
urge to emerge from mediocrity and from the
marasmus, not to asphyxiate among the pi
asphyxiate among the plume, to restore to the
and to the races the ancient majesty subjugated
subjugated by convenience, - by the
by laborious, treacherous, devious or
or cheating treaties; to restore above all the
to restore above all the epic greatness of the
of sacking and plunder; it is urgent to bring
to bring back to the crews, which make up
briacs of rights and revolts,
loyalty, -discipline, subjugation.
discipline, subjugation.
He has thrown among praetorians citareds
and jesters of the church and the
serm, of parliament and the Ate-.
and the press, a handful of gold
of gold and the equally irresistible sovereign order
irresistible: ring out the war.
And war it was: in the name of
name of Jesus the priests of the time, .
blessed it in the name of law, the
blessed it in the name of law, the parliaments
the parliaments in the name of lineage, the
the courtiers in the name of the king, the armies among the
armies among the crews returned in the name of the
in the name of the law and the homeland
the fearful and discreet schism to the
that subservience under the old labours
will reconsecrate you.
God and faith, the king and the law, the
law and the homeland have given the
the viaticum, the weapons and the enthu
of a crusade to the technical adventure, to the
adventure, to the bestial edict which
which originally, stripped of the lying
liars, said simply:
clear the market from the
from the blackmail that is being
minting money here, and stay on the
the scattered trenches of the future
the future the providential
of the ancient regime.
The purpose has run up against unexpected obstacles
unsuspected obstacles and, transcending
reckless prediction, the ruin has
raised from all hearts the swarm of disquiet and
of desperate anxieties:
"In the whirlpool the cathedrals and fortresses
In the whirlpool the cathedrals and the forts.
treasures of labours, of ingenuity, of invention, of
of ingenuity, of inventions, of millennial daring,
in the incommensurate whirlpool the treasures
of tomorrow, the most fervent wills,
the most generous blood, the fiercest energies
fiercest blood, the fiercest energies, the inappreciable
of life and progress: the threat of
and progress: the threat of a bleaker
millennium on the consciousness of
of the people. . . Too much, too much 1 "
And the ringing diana yesterday up the
the range of universal enthusiasms
the promises of lightning victory.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Ancient war hat
Pure, cycles 1024 samples, opendenoiser, used the landscape addon, the head/bones are sculpted/array/modified, added mist and glare in the compositor, hope the sun seems as bright on your monitor as on mine, so use sunglasses :smiley:


Added smoke to the vulcan and i tried waves of dust for the ground, which makes me trouble to get. Layers of alpha planes for the dust is messed up with the mist in the compositor. But with some tweaking and denoising in the compositor it looks good.
If you interested:
Not_big_enough14.blend (1.8 MB)

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Indeed, could be some kind of strange cross temporal collaboration of Shakespeare and Lenin. Well, I guess if fits the ‘colorful’ style of political speeches of the time. And considering the newspaper that published the article, that doesn’t come as a surprise. :slight_smile:

Title “Hat ceremony”

Pure
Sorry very basic execution as I didn’t have much time, but it’s enough to convey the idea.

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University of Logic Graduate

Pure entry, my attempt of doing a portion of a character my way, without going back to any tutorial for help. I wanted to make Norm McDonald wearing a graduation hat.

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Yosemite Sam and the Death of a Bunny


Pure.
Disclaimer
No bunnies were harmed.

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City Hat

Open - the guy is a 3D scan. I was trying to do an illusion where the distant city formed the hat, with a stadium as a hat band, but it needs a lot more work to really look convincing. It was a fun experiment anyway.

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That I guess is my question. I made most of this myself recently - how “new” is the “new” requirement? (The sea and buoy, for example, were a failed attempt for the previous week’s contest) The yellow guy is about a month old. I assume texture pics I download or dig up don’t count? or do they?

From what I can gather based on the site context and a quick perusal of any familiar words, it’s an Italian-American anarchist(?) rant during WWI (1915). They do mention JP Morgan and US Steel.

Like I said, I was aiming for text that was not so distracting that it was more interesting than the picture, and everything else I ran across was front pages like the end of WWII or Man Wlaks on the Moon. I don’t know if there’s an entire newspaper page of Ipsum Lorem.