Or a hot one. Or a little of both.
Finally something i might take part in. I have been practicing Hard Ops this week so i might make a sci-fi scope.
hmmmmm well done
Controlling the Flow of Qi Energy (Non-competing)
The karateka causes his Qi to flow into his right arm and hand to smash the boards all at once

Predator coming
Pure, cycles, 128 samples, open denoiser, rendertime ~30sec., all made in blender, the flir image in the objective is made in gimp.
predator_coming11.blend (2.9 MB)
This looks really good! I should mention that I didn’t use a shader, I just switched the color transform to False Color, took exactly 2 seconds
Not physically correct. I wonder about using density as value to use for coloring but can’t find proper input node. I mean the thickness of object from front to backface measured from the camera perspective.
Forward Looking Infrared
non competing (pure), Cycles, Blender 3.3.1
With #halloween coming up, you better double check the dark corners around the house.
Declassified UFO Footage
Pure
So you see, my uncle, who is in the air force, was flying around one day and you won’t believe what happened next!
The heat is on!
Seeing Fire
Pure
My first pure sculpt - not as clean as I hoped
Need to work on the texturing
My Halloween movie this year was Eight Legged Freaks. (I can’t tell if your spider is a small one or a big one!) And yes, I have been checking those dark corners ever since.
Unfortunately, your entry was a little to late for being included in the voting. I added it to the non competing entries, though.
According to Blender it is about 5x4m. I guess, that counts as a big one.