I found time to add some stuff, but I’m not sure if I like this version more or not.
I’m VERY out of time for the contest now but I might keep working on it anyway.
There are no books because the knowledge is forbidden and not because I didn’t finish it. (I didn’t finish it)
It’s supposed to be some kind of magic library where wizards hoard knowledge or something like that.
Some things I would add if I had more time.
-Different perspective. It’s a little too symmetrical and you can’t really see much of the area. I tried another camera angle that I liked more, but to change it I would have to move basically all the bookshelves. I have to remove ones that you can’t see otherwise it’s just too hard to render.(crashed 3 times) It’s at about 5 million tris, and that’s after spending an hour optimizing it down from 10 million.
-Add books, scrolls and magical artifacts on the shelves.
-Add furniture
-Add a staircase connecting the floors
-Redo the railing
-Redo all the lighting
-Add some magic effects. (glowy stuff to make the other glowy stuff look less out of place)
It might take 2 semesters of quantum mechanics to completely get this one. Essentially, it is impossible to know exactly where an electron is if you know anything about its momentum.
This is supposed to be a physicist, who after doing a lot of math to find the electron still has no clue where it is. Hope this helps.
PS. All the equations are pulled out of a textbook, and the surface is a mathematically accurate representation of a 3p electron orbital.
I got the chance with this one to try the new repeat zones in geometry nodes for the book and the candle wick. It is so much nicer than the old instance on points techniques.
The background and composition isn’t great, but spent so much time playing with parts I got sick of looking at it before I could make it all work.
All blender except the big brother image.
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Not enough time for the back numbers dials. Modeled the memory hole incinerator, viewscreen and keyboard, pneumatic tubes, keyboard, speak write, stack, and office/desk. Collection instances for office duplicates.
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references
The story starts in the humanoid factory, where blobs of goo are molded into humanoids … progressing down the conveyor belt, a funnel is implanted into each head … then more goo (the accepted knowledge) is injected into each funnel and head. Upon injection, the humanoids’ eyes turn to spirals.
At the funnel-installation step, the machine accidentally installs a funnel upside-down on one humanoid. Due to upside-down funnel, the machine then fails to implant the Accepted Knowledge into this humanoid. This lack allows a stray thought (in the form of a lightbulb?) to appear over this humanoid’s head – an original unsanctioned thought (the Forbidden Knowledge).
Upon achieving some degree of consciousness, this humanoid becomes colorful, and has blinking non-spiral cognizant eyes. All this of course attracts the attention of the grey unthinking masses. In a nod to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, one of the “drones” points and sounds the alarm. The still image offered here is the ensuing chase.
I can’t imagine how this short could end well…
Either he is caught and lobotomized, as in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”,
or he escapes to a fantasy realm, but like the end of “Brazil”, he’s actually been captured and probably lobotomized.
I guess it depends on your definition of “end well” but how about a zombie approach:
The grey zombies finally catch up, grab the blue guy and start ‘eating’ him by absorbing his blue goo with their funnels. The blue goo turns out to be contagious, turning the gray zombies blue as well.
It would be the classic “the hero ‘sacrifices’ himself for the greater good” storyline - but that one has worked fine for thousands of years, so you’d probably be fine.
