Challenge #970 "Under the Sea" Voting CLOSED

Helge · January 24, 2022, 11:41pm

This week’s theme: Under the Sea

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

fcharr
G.wise
TripleTree
HuggiesXXL
Trentle
derosaron1
Upupa_epops
rigoletto
3dnotguru
Linkridge
mali_zweipunktnull
Tachtian
infinition
HazelQ

0 voters

After 2 days of voting, a winner is declared: The voting will close on: Wed, Jan 26, 2022 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

• fcharr: School

• G.wise: kraken under the sea

• TripleTree: Jellyfish

• HuggiesXXL: The Nautilus

• Trentle: Sunk Cost

• derosaron1: Yellow Submarine

• Upupa_epops: Not deep Not blue Sea

• rigoletto: Take your waste back

• 3dnotguru: ship wreck

• Linkridge: Angler

• mali_zweipunktnull: UUMF 2.0 - Undersea Unobtanium Mining Factory

• Tachtian: The Beethovenstation

Open Entries

• infinition: Under water dream

(Fishes, woman, sharks & temple assets were used and post process with affinity photo.)

• HazelQ: Undersea Apartment

*(Open - I decided to use this week’s challenge as an opportunity to learn how to use the Asset Browser, so downloaded LOTS of models from polyhaven.com!

The ocean, fish, kelp, and the room were all modelled by me and procedurally shaded.)*

Non-competing Entries

• Kazrarr: Ruins under the sea

• OLG: Looking up to the sky

• Helge: Marine Beetle

• david.speer: X Marks the Spot

mali_zweipunktnull · January 25, 2022, 6:18pm

What does this meant “advertise for it” and “i expect more”? And why no voting?

Ali-Nasiri · January 25, 2022, 6:37pm

forget it, I decide to vote for somebody
but I hope the next challenge had a better result

Helge · January 26, 2022, 11:22pm

And… the winner of Weekend Challenge 970 with votes from 33.3% of the voters is… mali_zweipunktnull!
Here’s to all the great participators…

UUMF 2.0 - Undersea Unobtanium Mining Factory

Upupa_epops · January 26, 2022, 11:43pm

Seems I did something right, didn’t win, but got 3rd with my 2nd entry ever and like 3rd thing I’ve put on the internet. Didn’t know how fair it is to share updated versions of entries after the voting is started, and flat out failed to edit the post before hand, so here is Not deep Not blue sea V2

Upupa_epops · January 26, 2022, 11:46pm

Congrats to Mali, and Infinition, yours looks stunning

mali_zweipunktnull · January 26, 2022, 11:51pm

Your Caustics and water reflections looks fantastic

Thank you

Helge · January 27, 2022, 12:25am

Here is a little something:

infinition · January 27, 2022, 9:37am

Congrats everyone ! have a nice day

OLG · January 27, 2022, 4:43pm

@mali_zweipunktnull, congrats!

mali_zweipunktnull · January 28, 2022, 2:04pm

Thank you and all others

I often think shortly after uploading a picture here: That was the wrong part of the picture. The wrong perspective. Too much or too little in the picture

Shortly after voting began, I would have preferred a closeup. But then I always think “Then you can’t see everything”. And then: “But too much is too much”. And then… “But…” It’s a never-ending vicious circle

Here a close-up/an other perspective:

And some stages through the making:

It all started with this (unfinished) module - just actually way too much detail and work for what was seen afterwards. :

I also spent quite a bit of time “designing” the light - and afterwards there was almost nothing to be seen of it because almost all the light was lost in the “water”/volume scatter

But with all this you always learn something new and have fun, so it’s worth it