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.
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.
(Cycles 256 samples + denoising, procedural textures, debris made with particle system and explode modifier, blast effects and finishing done in GIMP.)
If there are a few of them left after the next weekend, we’ll know that the praying worked. Do artificial croutons have procedural souls? (I guess, I should probably take a look into the forum rules regarding religious discussions. ;-))
A bit late to the party. Kinda screwed up my time management this weekend and couldn’t finish my entry on time. But better late than never.
My idea was to have a deformed humanoid begging for mercy to higher beings, represented by the high pillars. I was going to add chains and stuff like that, but I don’t want to delay this yet another day.