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.
Thanks everybody for the votes. I’m thrilled to win and to be in the top row for the first time. I feel like I’ve really made progress and reached a milestone. This is my first BWC win since 2012 when I won BWC #499.7 with a render of a bolt for my then soon to be son’s baby crib. He is now 7 and has recently been learning to use Blender with me.
I just checked. Actually, most of the images are still there (technically). Unfortunately, they don’t show up because something seems to have happened to the image URLs:
This is @deltaray’s current image URL from the 2012 entry:
I wasn’t satisfied with the initial results that I submitted and found that I was having trouble with opencl functionality due to driver issues, so I fixed that and was able to correct some other issues as well. Thanks to those in the Lighting and Rendering support forum for their help.
Made several changes to render settings
I changed to area lamps
flipped the normals on the 10 sided dice (was inverted for some reason)
added some bump mapping to the pencil and beveled it’s long edges
Corrected the IOR of the dice to 1.46 which is more realistic for plastic than 1.6.
