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Did this a little while back just messing around.
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I found some footage of the Dewpie Craft Landing.
15 seconds, Matroska
Download here:
Dewpie craft.mkv (1.6 MB)
Or YOUTUBE:
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Unexplored Planet
Pure, competing
This scene is inspired heavily by No Man’s Sky.
I’m also going for a wider render this time. More cinematic.
Blender’s compositor is good. This looks nothing like the raw render. My raw render looks like the first picture I posted above.
Edit: spelling
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Happy Contact Day
A worldwide holiday where people and aliens celebrate first contact.
Entry: Open
I used MakeHuman for the crowd of people & textures.com for the textures. The rest was done in Blender in about 4 hours.
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Venus Encounters Mars
Open entry, 1000 samples. Didn’t intend on making it valentine’s themed, but here it is, staring the actors in In the Shadows :: Underneath a Gas Lamp (franciscocharrua.com).
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this is what i have so far. 
the cubes are references for the height of all the objects.
the walls are a gun metal blue color with metal flake in it. 
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i did the lines before i used a texture or two and a mapping node or two to create a paint canvas.
Arrival
Non-competing.
Eevee render mixed with toned down workbench render to help emphasize object’s edges that lost in the shadows, post pro and finishing with GIMP. Arc/circular shapes are achieved with Simple Deform mod, never tried to properly used them until now, lol. At some point Blender crashed when doing render preview, it seems I used too many lights combined with the mist, so got rid some of it.
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i dont know if you used it or not but you could have used principled volume in the nodes for the mist and added a few texture nodes in the node editor and not the compositor and you would get a real time view of how the fog looks. thats what i used in my scene its not heavy on the system like the other methods. 
Yup, I used cube object enclosing entire scene with principled volume, which also produced the God rays effect. I think it’s the polycount, it’s around 500k verts for such ‘simple’ scene. I forgot to use Instances instead of normal duplicates on some groups and only realized later on. That, and there’s also L3 subsurf mod involved. I overlooked those things until it’s too late, lol. Didn’t really tweak it then as it’s actually a variation of a finished one, the crash occured when I added another 10 more secondary lights in the end, got rid like half of them and it went well.
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"Lucky Punch"
non competing (open), Cycles (64 samples + NLM denoising)
Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time, this weekend. Fortunately, I could reuse some stuff from previous challenges to counter the problem.
Head from #880 “Organized Chaos”:
Glove from #646 “Bad Idea”:
And eyes from #917 “ABOMINATION” (Which I never finished.)
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"Within Reach"
Pure (I did use an addon for the eyes but think that’s fine), Cycles, Blender 2.9x
When I started making this I didn’t have Valentines in mind. But now that I realise it… you can make whatever you want of it.
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Breaking the Ice
Non-competing (pure).
I tried to take the Valentine’s Day interpretation of the theme.
This scene is slightly based on two birds I saw this week. They were looking for food, but due to the cold, they were standing really close to each other, almost as if they were hugging.
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“Nice Aliens”
Pure with textures from Blenderkit and textures.com.
Rendered in Cycles with 50 Samples.
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