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“There are two main goals for these contests: Fun and Glory.
Fun: You get only 4 days to create a cool image, based on the theme for the week.
Glory: After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared. The winner picks the theme for next week and will be featured in the Feature Row.”
This is my first fully hand modeled scene in Blender … what better way to force myself to go through the program than to come up with something for this challenge. More info, including clay/wire renders, on my sketchbook here.
Since this is my first time entering a challenge, please don’t hesitate to let me know if I incorrectly submitted. Thank you!
Pure, Cycles. Everything was sculpted and textured within blender from scratch for this challenge, the dust and cinders are particles and the smoke is volumetric.
Indeed, that would probably be a fitting universe.
The original idea that popped into my mind was a lot more complex but I had to cut it down quite a bit in order to make it fit into the time frame. In addition, I lost quite some time as the English and German Wikipedia articles on moths and butterflies seem to be astonishingly contradictory.
Nevertheless, in both languages, butterflies have a strange etymological relationship to milk. In German, a butterfly is called “Schmetterling”, with " Schmetten" meaning “cream” in some areas of Germany, Austria and Silesia (Poland). Some even call the butterfly a “Milchdieb” (meaning “milk thief”).
Now, things get a little complicated: In German, the colloquial name of Butterflies which are active at night is “Motten”. Translated to English we are back at “Moths”.
And that is where my characters name and costume come from. He/She is a thief, specialized in stealing MILK - an extremely rare, liquid substance of high value. (Like the “Spice” in Dune or " Ketracel-white" in DS9). Originally, I planned to add some kind of scifi milk-can and a test tube shoulder belt. But in the end, the only milk reference that remained was the white color of the costume.
