Challenge #1069 "The Oldest View" Voting CLOSED

Contests Weekend Challenge
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This week’s theme: The Oldest View

Which entry would you like to see win?
(If you cannot decide, pick up to 2.)

  • PMDesigns
  • The_Hit_List
  • meetdilip
  • md2000
  • fcharr
  • deltaray
  • codecontemplator
  • HazelQ
0 voters

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Dec 20, 2023 11:00 PM.
The winner picks the theme for next week.

If the winner doesn’t supply a theme before Thursday 22:30 GMT, the organizer will select the theme. In this case, the winner’s theme will be used the next time we are lacking a theme on Thursday 22:30 GMT. :slight_smile:

Having selected the theme, the winner will not be eligible to enter that week. They may however still submit an image, but it won’t be included in the voting.

This week’s winner:
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Pure Entries

• PMDesigns: Shortly After the Universe Hit ‘Render’

3840×2160 442 KB

• The_Hit_List: The Illusion of Time

1920×1080 3.03 MB

• meetdilip: the oldest view

1920×1080 1.72 MB

• md2000: Last View

1080×1920 322 KB

• fcharr: Thea on the Horizon

1152×648 693 KB

• deltaray: An old camera

1920×1080 157 KB

Open Entries

• codecontemplator: The sands of time

1500×1500 2.35 MB

(Almost pure I think but cosmic background from https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/outer-space-background_4100956.htm and sand + stone materials inspired by materials from blenderkit.)

• HazelQ: Settlement

2560×1080 3.73 MB

(Open - mostly new stuff but the terrain is based on NASA data (with added procedural detail), the workers’ spacesuits are a heavily modified version of Blender’s female base mesh, rigged using Mixamo, the Earth and lens flare are from an earlier projects, the cranes are from Blenderkit by MapacheDRelease.)

Non-competing Entries

• Trentle: Free Hugs

• Helge: Stone Age Optics

861×1080 241 KB

• 3dmad: The Optimistic View

1950×2350 745 KB

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I just notice @md2000 's entry has RIP default cube on the headstone lol

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Congrats @PMDesigns! And take that spray can space scene artists! :sunglasses:

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Wow, I’m impressed by the number of quality entries this time. It’s not easy to vote on this one!

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Thank you, but you might be a little premature!

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And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 1069 with votes from 50% of the voters is… PMDesigns!
Here’s to all the great participators…

PMDesigns: Shortly After the Universe Hit ‘Render’
PMDesigns: Shortly After the Universe Hit ‘Render’3840×2160 442 KB

Shortly After the Universe Hit ‘Render’

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Congrats @PMDesigns truly amazing work!

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Thank you @The_Hit_List

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I now give you my fully mature congratulations Peter :slight_smile: You made the universe look good :slight_smile:

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Look what Santa brought!

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A fully mature thank you! :grinning:
I hope you enjoy the next theme.

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Congrats @PMDesigns :slight_smile:

Well deserved :trophy:

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Congrats @PMDesigns . A very cool looking universe! I am curious how you made it if you dont mind me asking. Is it 2d textures on planes, volumes, a mixture or something else? If you want to keep it secret it is totally fine ofcourse.

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It’s just a few objects with volumes. The planets were plain shaders, the swirling galaxies were volumes and the pink, green and blue part was all one volume lit up by 3 coloured point lights…

universe
universe599×668 65.6 KB

swirling galaxy
swirling galaxy998×420 58.6 KB

For the larger volume shader, it’s mainly just noise affecting noise affecting noise.
noisy volume
noisy volume1519×388 72.6 KB

There’s also a particle system in there to scatter “stars” around.
And finally (after a 1 hour render at 256 samples) you end up with space in a box…
universe in a box

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Wow! Interesting. :star_struck:Thanks for your detailed explanation.