Please remember to state if your entry is pure, open or non-competing.
“There are two main goals for these contests: Fun and Glory.
Fun: You get only 4 days to create a cool image, based on the theme for the week.
Glory: After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared. The winner picks the theme for next week.”
My though too, although I doubt I’ll master it I’m sure I’ll get part way. And Suzanne, of course – if there’s any part of Blender I can demonstrate anything near mastery of? It’s Suzanne.
Pure
Ahh, the classics.
Amended, Sponges have been sculpted to fit better and look a little more organic. Skin overlay has been repainted to make more of the eyebrows. Thanks rigoletto.
Pure entry, Cycles render, 64 samples & compositor denoising in 2.91.0. Composition is Golden Sections / Phi Grid, 8x5 aspect ratio, 85mm camera. Environment map is sunrise.exr (one of Blender’s included studiolights). Things I did for this that I’ve never done in Blender before: circular arrays, converting mesh edges to curves, and custom bevel profiles. Every bit of this is from Suzanne.
Edited to add: had a little more time, replaced the outer ornament array with one I made from Suzanne’s eyebrows, rotated the environment map to get a better sunlight angle (wanted more of Suzanne’s shines on the left), tweaked some stuff.
Your post is very meta considering your post history. You’ve gotten better at the Suzanne renders by continuously posting Suzanne renders. This is at least your shiniest one yet.
YES – I appreciate you letting me know I got my point across!
Ideally visual art conveys its meaning with nothing but what’s seen in the artwork, but in practice that’s rare. The impact of the culture in which it was created inevitably informs its initial audience, and as that audience changes so too must the perceived meaning. And that’s before we get into things like art posted in forums where the blurb and subsequent threads get involved. In this WC topic alone many of the submission titles are as much, if not more of, an answer to the week’s theme as the graphics (mine certainly was).
So yeah, what I was going for largely depends on people here knowing that the bulk of my WC artwork has included Suzanne, and further recognizing that this time it’s all Suzanne (even though some bits are somewhat of a stretch). Even the color choices are (as usual for my WC submissions) Blender-meta. Thanks!
During the pandemic, I’ve been working hard on homebrewed beer and homemade cheese, as well as other fermentation projects. When it comes to beer I love long-termed mixed fermentation projects inspired by traditional Belgian beers like Lambic. The Belgians have truly mastered the art of beer.
It’s been such a long time since I managed to complete something for the weekend challange! I have started work on many of the last topics but never had time to finish them. So happy I managed to get this one into an ok state
