Challenge #864 Voting CLOSED

Helge · January 13, 2020, 11:34pm

This week’s theme:

The Best

Which entry would you like to see win?
(If you cannot decide, pick up to 3.)

TheAwesomeYT
H10
Sid_J
jutu74
fcharr
Photox
ramzes.design
bluberri
BeginnerBlenderer
Komojo
RayVelcoro
MarinaraMeatSauce
Miatpi
deltaray
Justin712
parclite
Manitoadlet
beau11

0 voters

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Jan 15, 2020 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.

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:

Pure Entries

• TheAwesomeYT: All that time… worth it

• H10: Reaching the top makes you a winner. Helping others makes you the best.

• Sid_J: Elusive Perfection

• jutu74: ulo13

• fcharr: Cutting Edge

• Photox: Best Intentions: Find Your Personality Type!

• ramzes.design: thebest

• bluberri: I am the Be(a)st

• BeginnerBlenderer: Trophy for “the best”

• Komojo: Winners of the Snail Race

• RayVelcoro: wip2

• MarinaraMeatSauce: The Best

• Miatpi: Empty tears

• deltaray: Trophy for this round

• Justin712: The Best Underdog

Open Entries

• parclite: Bullseye

(I used a cork image texture for the board material, an hdri image for the main lighting, a metal image texture to make the metals less perfect, and of course an image of the Blender logo.)

• Manitoadlet: Best Memory

(Grass and dirt texture under it came from BlenderGuru’s Grass Essentials. Lighting is from BlenderGuru’s Pro-Lighting: Skies (I did a little shopping recently). The rest is me.)

• beau11: Reach the Top

(Open (Human model from Mixamo))

Non-competing Entries

• OLG: The Best Nightcap

• Harris_Siompos: All-in

• Helge: The Beast

• didierv: The biggest baguette

Justin712 · January 14, 2020, 12:32am

Great entries, everyone! It was really tough to choose!

My favorites were RayVelcoro, Parclite, and Photox! I loved your lighting and composition!

And if I could choose a fourth it would have been Helge for the same reason!

deltaray · January 14, 2020, 1:28am

Here is another version of mine with a better view and higher samples. Unfortunately it didn’t finish rendering in time with just minutes to go before the deadline.

Miatpi · January 14, 2020, 1:32am

I feel you. Not nice when it happens. But competiting or not it looks great

Justin712 · January 14, 2020, 2:11am

Even with the lower samples, I think your entry was very nice, and both camera angles work!

If you don’t mind giving up some of the fancy bounced lighting you could always give Eevee a shot! It’s a little more micro-management in terms of lighting, but you can see your result right away and you can get full resolution renders in 8 seconds! I personally like the trade-offs

Miatpi · January 14, 2020, 2:39am

And to add to that the indirect lighting probe works wonders for even having indirect lighting in eevee! Sure not as detailed as cycles (unless you increase the resolution of the probe but then it’ll take more time) but ore often than not te difference is barely visible.

deltaray · January 14, 2020, 3:19am

Thanks. Actually I was having some trouble with Eevee and the trophy model. For some reason it wasn’t generating a smooth reflection even though the model had smooth shading across all the faces. DIdn’t have time to investigate and just switched to cycles. Example below. If you look at the curve going up the cup you’ll see how it looks like hard flat edges instead of being smooth.

Justin712 · January 14, 2020, 3:38am

That is very odd! I love how it looks aside from that. My first guess would be to throw a weighted normals modifier on top of it and check “auto smooth” under vertex data, as well as remove doubles.

Helge · January 15, 2020, 11:06pm

And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 864 with votes from 50% of the voters is… Justin712!
Here’s to all the great participators…

The Best Underdog

BeginnerBlenderer · January 15, 2020, 11:17pm

Congrats to the winner and to everyone else who participated! And thank you to the person who voted for mine!

Justin712 · January 16, 2020, 12:07am

Aw, thank you very much, everyone, I really appreciate it!
@parclite @ramzes.design I was really expecting either of your entries to overtake mine at any time, they’re very well done! I’m looking forward to seeing what you both do in the next one too!

Same for the rest of you, great art all around! Thanks again!

FlyingBanana · January 16, 2020, 7:49am

Congrats on the win and an awesome render @Justin712 !

Justin712 · January 16, 2020, 7:50am

Thanks, man, I appreciate it!

ramzes.design · January 16, 2020, 9:31am

Congrats to the winner! Good job @Justin712
I voted for you.

Justin712 · January 16, 2020, 9:33am

Hahaha thank you, I really appreciate it! Really I just had video game nostalgia on my side!

OLG · January 16, 2020, 2:10pm

@Justin712, congrats! Fun render.