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.”
A test render, also something that I would gladly consider a finished entry. It took 2 hours and 50 minutes to render, think I may have gone overboard with my subdivision levels.
Pure
hdri background is DayEnvironmentHDRI003_8K-TONEMAPPED.jpg from ambientCG.com CC0 1.0
This was inspired by my house guest Bathroom Spider. Bathroom Spider stays upside down under its web.
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Cycles render.
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The spider is my second sculpting project. I rigged and posed it.
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The web began as an open ended cylinder that I edited. Random selection and deletion of some parts for variation. Then rotated and scaled a duplicate for more complexity.
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White balance adjusted in Paint Shop Pro for a bit more warmth.
You are right, I used hair curves for this one. However, Blender 4.0’s new anisotropic kuwahara filter (applied in compositing) is responsible for most of visual appearance. I’ll probably continue to play around with this filter in the future, but ran out of time this weekend.
) I created a snake eating the forbidden apple 
