This week’s theme: Night
Pure Entries
cutmucker
Night Fishing
ctdabomb
FriZan
cityscape
TazDevyl
Goodnight Moon
Razc
Slifer_aru
Evivivi
Ghost at night
JumPROper
mik1190
tripodless night shot
deltaray
Insomnia
Open Entries
DSnowman8D
Taz gets my vote for originality, too bad it’s not a pohorealistic cycles render and can’t win.
@Exanimis Taz has a good scene, don’t count him out yet. People seem to put cycles on a pedestal when BI is still pretty good for producing photorealism. You just need more lights placed in the correct places, AO, etc. to do the trick. I started out with cycles on this scene because I thought it would help me get the feel of low lighting better. In the end, I really should have done my scene in BI because I’m more familiar with it and some of the techniques are better documented there. But this is a learning experience.
I went looking for Cycles last night, but couldnt find it. Probably 'cause Im still using 2.49b. Would it work with that or no? If someone could link me to it, I would appreciate it.
p.s. Taz is a her. 
Edit: Nevermind, found it. Guess I should try to familiarize myself with the new version…
I beg your pardon. I’m not good with the pronouns. I guess 2.49b is still important if you’re using scripts that only work with the old API, but other than that, I’d recommend the 2.6 series just for all the nice interface cleanups. If you use any special scripts that you downloaded or wrote, you might check if they are compabile first or have replacements.
No worries. I’m used to be called “him” as the Taz character is male, so it happens all the time.
I did try to render that scene in Cycles, but it was super noisy and doesn’t seem to want to make the windows see-through.
By the way, if anyone would like to look at my scene file. Its available here. I’ve learned a lot more about nodes and the compositor recently thanks to blenderguru.com.
well Taz, at least you got my vote
The winner is ctdabomb with 7 votes!
cutmucker 2 | 5.88%
ctdabomb 7 | 20.59%
FriZan 1 | 2.94%
TazDevyl 2 | 5.88%
Razc 0 | 0%
Slifer_aru 4 | 11.76%
Evivivi 4 | 11.76%
JumPROper 6 | 17.65%
mik1190 4 | 11.76%
deltaray 4 | 11.76%
DSnowman8D 0 | 0%
woah! I guess I won. thanks everybody. these whallenges are a lot of fun and good learning. 
ctdabomb
