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.”
Blender 4.3 cycles open entry. This was the first thing I thought of. I’ve used it as eye candy in many of my open entries. Here it is as the main piece of this week’s submission.
I dedicated my first thought to this topic as always, but since the advent of AI, this craft unfortunately seems very unnecessary to me. Still, I wanted to participate again because it’s fun after all
Nice! But why stop because ai? If it brings joy it seems to be a good thing. I never heard that people stopped playing chess because chess computer got better than human players. (Also, it seems we are not there yet when it comes to 3d i believe)
Great entry, nice to see you back in the challenge!
I know that the future is currently a bit uncertain and there are many challenges ahead (no pun intended), but if you can, please don’t let ai ruin the fun for you.
Even from a technical point of view there are still alot of things that can’t be done with it. But more importantly, each Weekend Challenge entry (and every piece of art in general) reflects the personality, history, experiences, environment, fears, hopes, dreams, … of the artist who put a lot of time and thought into creating it.
So almost every week I go through all the entries with my wife and kids, discuss the images and agree on the ones we like best. That is a lot of fun because it is people who have created the images and animations. I wouldn’t care for the images if they were simply the result of a melting pile of electrical energy and a prompt saying: “Create 15 unique images based on the theme ‘Flower power’.” (I was going to end this with some kind of hippie saying, but I can’t think of a appropriate one right now.)
Thank you all for your words of valor; they were precisely the message I needed. Perhaps one day, I will tell my child the saga of an era when we commanded the mouse and keyboard, dedicating days on end to a single project. And I was there, a witness to history!
