Challenge #824 Voting CLOSED

This week’s theme:

Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant

Which entry would you like to see win?
(If you cannot decide, pick up to 3.)
  • Midnightcpu
  • 3dnotguru
  • aristotelis
  • Helge
  • fcharr
  • RayVelcoro
  • fdo
  • gabrielg1976
  • FlyingBanana
  • TomTalented
  • joshwinkler3d
  • didli
  • unyxium
  • purbosky

0 voters

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 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:
ba-feature-20190415-wc

Pure Entries

Midnightcpu: wc 824



3dnotguru: Brutus



aristotelis: Vox Nihili



Helge: Caesar Salad



fcharr: Pacem In Diebus Nostris



RayVelcoro: Goedendag



fdo: Enter Rome



gabrielg1976: Ready for battle



FlyingBanana: Spartacus Lumbricina



TomTalented: Gladiator_4-8-19_02



joshwinkler3d: Trireme



didli: Party’s Aftermath



Open Entries

unyxium: Lake Fucine, Italy

(I used a website called terrain.party to get the heightmap, and a HDRI sky was used to get the lighting.)



purbosky: Imperator’s End

(Cycles 256 samples + denoising, procedural textures, debris made with particle system and explode modifier, blast effects and finishing done in GIMP.)



Non-competing Entries

OLG: For Those About to Rock!



RobertT: RENDERING UNTO CAESAR



Photox: Susurro



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Poor little crotons are fighting for their very lives. Lettuce pray for them :slight_smile:

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It was a difficult weekend theme for sure but ya’ll pulled off some nice work.

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It took me a moment to get that one :wink: Very nice!

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. ;-))

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Love that salade of yours, Helge! Got my vote. Also a vote for TomTalented, very skilled artwork there!

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Thanks, I voted for yours as well! I think you nailed the composition on that one! :wink:

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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. :slight_smile:

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.

Laments of a Tormented Soul

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I’m glad you posted it anyways! I really like the lighting. Did you use volumetrics or is it just a diffuse light?

It would have been really funny if my entry was directly above yours.

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It is volumetrics, altough I’m a bit sad that the shadows are not very visible. I think it is because I forgot to tune the light falloff.

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That works so well with the position of the eyes on the croutons! :joy:

This one works too :rofl:

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That time when they tried to kill Caesar with poisoned croutons. Thankfully, they warned him :wink:

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“Pollice Croutino”

Competing.

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this is the low sample render of what my scene looked like :smile:

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And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 824 with votes from 46.8% of the voters is… Helge!
Here’s to all the great participators…


Caesar Salad

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Thanks for the votes! Great entries (and remixes), everyone. :slight_smile:

And now, without further delay, on with the show!
I’ll see you in the next entry thread.

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Congrats on another quality win @Helge!

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Congrats @Helge always a quality and creative entry.

Congrats @Helge. Another fun and creative awesome render.