Love the style of that tree 
and how the hell did you make such a nice sponge mesh?!?! (could use some more translucency/SSS)
thank you very very much greeg ! but it was rather easy to set up the sponge 
I subdivided a cube and gave it the sponge contours. after that I uvmapped the whole thing and gave it a sponge texture (cg textures) . the next step was a high subsurf mod (4) and then the magic : a displacement modified
I would love to add more translucent but it didnāt work for me :-\
still waiting for SSS
You should have a look at participating in the weekend challenges, if you havenāt already.
If you can manage this in a day then your weekend challenge entries are going to be cracking!
Wow! Incredible work. I absolutely love the Bullet Integrations simulations and would love it if someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial for it?
Keep up the good work and good luck!
woooha 
first things first ā¦
THANK YOU for 5 stars,
THANK YOU for the mention on the Frontpage
and
THANK YOU even more for all your SUPPORT
GodOfBigThings: I participate actively at the weekend challenges of the German forum Blendpolis, but maybe Iāll give the bigger challenge a try 
marcjgriff: I would love to make a videotutorial on that topic, but blender does to many things I canāt really explain when I created those images. I often hat to reload the whole file to get it to work again, but heads up for 2.66 and a nice and complete Videotutorial from me on that! (in english)
and as a little bonus: my Sponge Setup 
To me, the key point here is not so much āsomething cool,ā but āevery day.ā
āSomething coolā might or might-not keep the lights on in your house, but āevery dayā most certainly will. Every time.
Congratulations Zuggamasta, really cool stuff you have here!
Yes, sundialsvc4 I think you might be right about the overall āthemeā of my Project!
Thank you Carrozza, I try to do my best!
YOU are just F*CKING AWESOME DUDE!!!
I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!
your works are very inspiring zuggamusta! very inspiring
How about a short film at the end of a quarter or at mid year!?
Joygasm !
I love art
At first I really thought you are a newby but now you are getting so good so fast.
Great style variations.
It`s a great thread. Congratz for being featured.
Have you considered, doing some more complex stuff that take more than a day, ie do something cooler every week
lol, led, did you really have to make 3 consecutive posts? contain your excitement please 
OMG dude this seriously reminds me of me 3 years ago, you seriously hit my soft spot.
I did this exact same thing back in highschool, everyday after school and holidays when I was home I made something cool (The best stuff wound up in my reel which got me into my dream studio)
Every mouse click you make is one step closer to your big break.
Some of those clicks will be useless, some of those clicks wonāt make sense at the time.
What MATTERS is that you LEARN something every click, and boy I can see your progress every step of the way!
Just donāt give up dude, you have a lot of potential.
Trust me, Iāve been there
Much respect.
Woa! That sponge looks amazing!
Thank you led. I donāt want to create a short in the next months or so, and please keep your post number to a minimum (you can edit your posts )
Thank you BluePrintRandom.
Thank you AlinB, Iām feeling like I improved a lot, too!
DDD, I will pull of some more complex images in march (after my finals) maybe I make one big picture with multiple days!
Chris L, thank you very much for your wise and kind words! Examples like yours make my heart go crazy about CG and my future
Thank you etoven! I posted the setup, too!
Here is the image from the 11th of Febuary 2013
Wow! Those shaders are amazing! Would you mind sharing the shader you used for the pill bottles? Iāve bee trying to create something that looks exactly like that, but for some reason it always turns out really dark (lighting isnāt the issue because everything else shows up just fine).
Hi Dude. your light rig and shader are awesomeā¦ could you please give us a screenshot how you set up the lighting and shader on this box scene ?
Thanks very much
@SSImpossible, sounds like a reflection problem. Of-course i can be wrong, but what i mean is, if you got a black background to reflect, the surface will not have anything to reflect so it will be dark.