So, I was sitting in my office between shows and a friend of mine told me I should make something cool in the next 5 minutes so as I was bored I figured I’d give it a shot. Here’s what I came up with.
If any of you get bored you should give it a try and see what you come up with for your own 5 minute art, it really is a pretty entertaining challenge, and I’d love to see what you come up with.
nice, i like that 
Just Curiosity, Did you finish modelling in 5 minutes or Rendering too? With all the array modifiers i think it may take time.
Nice Art Though.
Cool, dunno why but it looks painful 
OK, you need to take 1 minute to write up a quick description of how you did that. I know it has something to do with a suzanne, and something to do with particles (probably, or some arrays). And I’ve spent an hour trying to make it, with no success. Please share!
@benu, I just played around with the same thing, pretty easy to accomplish. I used the cube, then created a array which had the offset controlled by an empty.
Then created Suzzane and then used dupliverts (Duplication > Verts). I selected the cube array first, then added Suzzane to the selection and used ctrl-p to parent. That creates duplicates of the array for each vert in the suzzane mesh. The key was checking “rotation” in the duplication settings.
Check out the sample blend: duplivertsArray.blend (416 KB)
Love me some dupliverts!
As far as the 5 minute project, I did a couple 5 minute projects! I have to admit the black balls one was cheating a little, I had already had the ball modeled before I started (as you can imagine it took me hours to model that sphere in a previous blend session). These probably took slightly longer than 5 mins (not including render time)!
Fun just throwing things together to see what happens!
I’m interested to see other peoples 5 min projects!
Awesome – thanks crazycourier!
I think it might be interesting to have 5-minute Suzannes: you have 5 minutes, but have to build it around a suzanne… (Explore textures, materials, lighting, rendering, sculpting, arrays, etc, all based on the monkey.)
Wow, thats pretty cool! The idea is a bit scary though. :{
this is a lot harder than you would think 
i spent about 2 mins thinking of what i was going to make.
here it is:
Wow, this thread suddenly got a lot more popular lol. Nice work on the art guys. As for mine, yes rendering was done in 5 minutes as well, I have a pretty beefy computer though. Crazycourier was pretty much right on how I did it. I actually used a particle system instead of dupliverts to give me more control over how the starting cubes for the arrays were positioned. Nice stuff guys, keep it coming.
Thats pretty sweet i must say!
wow I’ve seen a lot of things done with suzanne, but this is by far the best! Great job! I’m gonna take this challenge sometime
Nice one, it’s impressive to think it was done in only 5 minutes.
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