Challenge #1168 "Rain!" Voting CLOSED

Contests Weekend Challenge
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This week’s theme: Rain!

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

  • Withers99
  • 3dnotguru
  • SoloSwordStudio
  • fcharr
  • codecontemplator
  • Daniel_Peace
  • Darkphoton
  • Denis63
  • revolt_randy
  • md2000
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After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Nov 12, 2025 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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Next Challenge:
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Pure Entries

• Withers99: Christmas Rain

896×1261 426 KB

(I made the tree using the Sapling Tree Gen addon (https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/sapling-tree-gen/), the baubles are a simple sphere with a plane for the string, I modelled the baubles in a separate file and appended them to the main file.)

• 3dnotguru: rain man

1920×1080 182 KB

• SoloSwordStudio: Lighthouse on a rainy night

• fcharr: Rainbow in the Dark

500×600 250 KB

• codecontemplator: Where Kindness Pools

1500×1500 2.71 MB

(HDRI from blenderkit)

• Daniel_Peace: Rainy Window

(pure except for one downloaded texture)

• Darkphoton: A rainy life…

1920×1080 2.47 MB

(HDRIs and concrete materials from blenderkit. silhouettes are images on planes.)

• Denis63: Another rainy window.

(Rain simulation on a 3D window: Shader (rain on the glass) + Geometry nodes (rain in front of the camera). Blender 4.5 Cycles. The interior of the room is just a projected image.)

Open Entries

• revolt_randy: Singing in the Rain

1920×1080 2 MB

(Character I downloaded, hat & plant from other projects. Everything else is new.)

• md2000: Stroll

1920×1440 105 KB

(That’s the character I created last week intended for the Tech contest, but couldn’t get him to cooperate in animation. Still not cooperating, although I did get the rain to happen.)

Non-competing Entries

• Jean-Luc: Rain

1920×1080 4.18 MB

• Helge: Why Does It Always Rain on Me?

1059×1300 239 KB

• Tachtian: Old Temple in the Rain.

1080×1440 1.45 MB

• Ayush_lamsal: Screenshot 2025-11-12 141138

1372×771 653 KB

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Challenge #1168 "Rain!" (07/11/25) Entries CLOSED
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And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 1168 with votes from 35.3% of the voters is… codecontemplator!
Here’s to all the great participators…

codecontemplator: Where Kindness Pools
codecontemplator: Where Kindness Pools1500×1500 2.71 MB

Where Kindness Pools

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Congrats Code :slight_smile: I look forward to your challenge :slight_smile:

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Congratulations, very nice.

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good job :+1:

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Well done @codecontemplator

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Lovely! Grats! @codecontemplator

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very nice win. You could remove the characters and it would still be a great image. The rain was very well handled.
loved withers99 tree and a superb umbrella from fchar too.

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Thank you all for the kind comments. Next theme coming up soon.

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Thank you @Jean-Luc, I am happy how the tree turned out, I think the rain could be a bit better. But I am pleased with it for my first time using a particle system.

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a good way to do that would be to stretch the ‘rain’ drop vertically and then angle it slightly so it looks like codecontemplators :slight_smile:

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I will give that a try later today, I am on my laptop right now not my desktop. I haven’t used Blender on my laptop for a while, I am not sure if it can still handle Blender…

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Call to action! The next challenge is open:

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Thanks :innocent: I went as far as looking at my own umbrella to get a good idea :sunglasses:

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Congratulations, @codecontemplator :four_leaf_clover:

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It was great fun to see all of the simulations that various people did. And, like always, the many very-different ways that people decided to approach the same subject. The trouble is that there can only be “one” winner. :slight_smile:

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