Challenge #929 "colossal" Voting CLOSED

Contests Weekend Challenge
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This week’s theme: colossal

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

  • 2Rock
  • Space-G
  • AravindCG
  • KickAir_8P
  • iderdown
  • Millani
  • Steah
  • zeroskilz
  • Nate_Sycro27
  • Levito
  • Zorro_Weaver
  • catblue44
  • fcharr
  • rigoletto
  • HazelQ
  • xamenzie
  • Karmon
  • DG_CG
  • Boder
  • texasfunk101

0 voters

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Apr 14, 2021 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. :slight_smile:

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:
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Pure Entries

• 2Rock: The Gate to Shangrila?

1000×2000 315 KB

• Space-G: Offer your hearts

1920×1080 132 KB

• AravindCG: From the sea

1920×1080 85.9 KB

• KickAir_8P: Suzanne Colossus

1600×1000 155 KB

• iderdown: Theys Return

1536×1536 203 KB

• Millani: The Gates of Hell

1440×810 97.2 KB

• Steah: Thunderstorm

700×1400 66.4 KB

• zeroskilz: Subject 4

1920×1080 199 KB

• Nate_Sycro27: The Colossal Cup

1440×1636 228 KB

• Levito: When Worlds Collide

1920×1080 420 KB

• Zorro_Weaver: The colossal dragon

1207×1604 145 KB

• catblue44: Colossus

1200×1500 264 KB

Open Entries

• fcharr: The Big Money

800×800 603 KB

(Open entry, 1000 samples. All models were taken from previous entries:
Crazy Hats :: Beyond the Wall of Pink (franciscocharrua.com)
NIL :: The Empty Set (franciscocharrua.com)
My Home Town :: Frozen in Time (franciscocharrua.com)
Flight :: On Wings of an Angel (franciscocharrua.com)
There Is A First Time For Everything :: Original Science (franciscocharrua.com))

• rigoletto: Hello, big

1344×756 214 KB

(Open, cycles 1024 samples, <30sec. rendertime, used an hdri from hdrihaven.com and ANT terrain generator for some mountains, that i joined and merged together with shrinkwrap and merged by distance, which works surprising good.)

• HazelQ: Ghostly Colossus

720×1280 1.51 MB

(Open - the colossus was created using Makehuman, the foreground character is a 3D scan, and the foliage is botaniq. I’ve mostly focussed on the volumetric shaders.)

• xamenzie: The Myth of Sisyphus

1920×1920 671 KB

(Open : Basically all done in Blender instead the overlay texture, i simply trace an image for the silhouette and final touches in photoshop.)

• Karmon: Colossal duel

1920×1080 543 KB

(Open. I’ve used my mech model from challenge #920 also composition is made in GIMP)

• DG_CG: Colossal Ruins

1920×1920 487 KB

(Open (Lions are photoscans from threedscans.com, textures are from texture haven and/or cc0textures.com))

• Boder: The Tower to Heaven

1920×1080 222 KB

(Open (used a lot of GIMP))

• texasfunk101: The Lonely Cliff

3840×2160 2.37 MB

(Open Entry (Make Human, and the sky background))

Non-competing Entries

• Helge: Bigfoot

960×1560 235 KB

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And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 929 with votes from 43.9% of the voters is… HazelQ!
Here’s to all the great participators…

HazelQ: Ghostly Colossus
HazelQ: Ghostly Colossus720×1280 1.51 MB

Ghostly Colossus

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Congrats HazelQ, and thanks to the four of you who voted for mine! Plenty of great renders to choose from – this week my votes went to @fcharr 's “The Big Money” (cute piggy!), @Charles_Weaver 's “The colossal dragon” (snazzy sculpt, effective shading), and @xamenzie 's “The Myth of Sisyphus” (magnificent light & shadow).

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Thanks! The shading was quite simple and last minute, although I do admit it worked, I am working on several different versions, to test out different techniques. I voted for you, because even though other people had more realistic renders, yours stood out to me, probably because of the unique idea. You also made a really cool limestoney shader.

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Thanks! I was about to say it was supposed to be a sandstone shader, but then I checked: The Great Sphinx of Giza, which I was parodying, is limestone. :flushed: Oops. Glad you liked it anyway!

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I thought it looked limestoney because of the layers, and even though it was a sand color, it could easily just be covered by some sand.

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Tough competition. Congrats @HazelQ