Please remember to state if your entry is pure, open or non-competing.
“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.”
I figure people would vote for the one which most fits into the Uncanny Valley. The feeling of repulsion or creepiness.
But yes, you’re right. Most will probably vote for the most eye-pleasing image.
hehe, while i get your point, i know when i vote i heavily weigh theme first. so if you do a most beautiful archviz of a home in the forest, and the theme is bowling ball, i’ll vote for the okayish render of a bowling ball over the home. that said, i do favor unusual takes on the theme, as long as it’s still “getable” (perhaps a ballroom dance of bowling balls? etc)
Dang I was thinking this would involve an actual valley, as in between two mountains. When I look up uncanny valley I get lots of pictures of human faces, or more like resembling human faces. I wonder, should I just go with the geographical interpretation? after all, the welcome to part seems to imply a location.
This kind of explains why my character art gets consistent downvotes on imgur. I can just resubmit some old entry
I used, “Welcome to” because of the other meaning of “valley”. It sounds like a place. A tourist attraction. Instead of the literal meaning of the sudden dip in visual comfort, it could be a place where all the “not-quite-right” characters live, or a valley where everything is not quite right.
Open entry blender 3.6 cycles, as the base model was taken from https://blender-weekends.franciscocharrua.com/My-New-Spectacles-Are-Kind-of-Weird.Shades-of-Green.html. After finding out the true meaning of the topic, I considered staying the course on my initial interpretation. However, after considering the difficulty of such an endeavor and how the topic reflects some of my entries, I changed my mind. So, here it is, my contribution to internet cringe, despite my good intentions. And yes, my entry is kind of meta.
