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It very much is, my submission is just a technical example, if you have the finesse to do stuff like digital painting to texture shadows and highlights you can get even better results.
Unless i’m mistaken a lot of 2d shows sometimes bring in 3d elements to lighten the load, like the ship sunny go from onepiece and some of the cars in the car chases in family guy.
My votes this time go to purbosky’s “Searching Shenlong” (simple & evocative) and Harris_Siompos’ “Nono the robot!” (really like the bright cheerful look you’ve captured) – why are we down to 2 votes this time, instead of the usual 3?
Also enjoyed sheerun’s “Armitage III” (I’d say that using the pre-made human figure centerpiece makes this more open than pure, but I love how you’ve got the lighting and colors, very true to your source), jutu74’s “f11” (effective use of limited colors & light, nice), Anam_Shahid’s “My Neighbor Totoro” (awwww!), and Le_Pirate’s “Can you taste the feels?” (yep, cool shading, like the colors and composition).
Apropos my entry here’s comparison between Blender 2.80 and blender 2.81 (exactly the same project). Note how nose in 2.81 is missing I guess it’s because of more accurate shadows?
I can agree that my model is Open, but to be honest it’s extremely hard to model face by yourself. Can one use any external resources at all in Pure entry?
tbh. I think it’s not great categorization, a better one would be “Open Source” and “Closed Source”, where Open would be favored over Closed. Mine is Open and I think we should encourage to make our projects Open so we can learn from each other
The thing to think about when deciding if an entry is open or pure is, think of pure as just downloading and installing blender, then making your project. If the add-on is built in the official blender version that everyone has access to without having to download other add-ons “free or not” . I used to always use downloaded textures and considered that as well being an open entry till enough people said that they don’t think textures should be a open or pure judgement. But again it is just a fun contest and it is a really relaxed contest on rules and specifications.
Indeed, and I think that’s why the open category exists, so you can still submit an entry even if it were impossible to make everything by yourself during the weekend.
I think the goal of the Open/Pure categorization is to get new stuff every week and to prevent people from getting a really cool looking model from Blend Swap and pretend its theirs.
You don’t need to be ashamed of making an open entry, you just need to make it clear why its open.
Yes it is cycles but I later realised this was a tedious choice but the project got locked into 2.79 cycles, want to try the approach with eevee but didn’t have enough time to experiment for this challenge.
I’d really like to share it but it is a result of RnD for the work project. Maybe when the project is done or if we choose not to go down that path.
I think when the time came it would be better if I made a tutorial because it is a result many factors not just the shader.
Thank you! I dedicate my win to this issue I’ve opened on Blender which would make it easier to model different hair styles in similar way: https://developer.blender.org/T69738 In short you can currently model hair in blender with forces, but the length isn’t preserved. I hope they won’t close it
