Just my Weekend Challenges

[SidewaysUpJoe (Joe)]

Just a place to store my Weekend Challanges.
The links have more info in them as some renders have textures from online resources.

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Challenge #872 "Security" (06/03/20) Entries CLOSED

Cryptex Pure (i think): I did all modeling, the texturing of the Cryptex consistent of four downloaded images/textures. Done in Cycles, 1024 samples [Apple_Cryptex3] Heres the texture nodes along with the scene collection and a viewpoint to show the back curved wall to get the odd back reflection. [Cryptex-ScreenShot2] Posting this to encourage other new modelers to join in. I started modeling about a month ago and thought these challenges would be a good way to practice, being there is …

Apple Cryptex - The Da Vinci Code: A Blender 2.8 Render Model

Challenge #873 (13/03/20) Entries CLOSED

Whiskey Whiskers Pure: Did all modeling, J.D. Label and Cat House texture where downloaded images. Cycles, 62 Sample with De-noising at default settings First attempt at Sculpting and Texture Painting, if you have not guessed The liquid in the bottle is a Transparent node with a solid color, the color tone changes seen in it are the leg (mesh/object) of the cat under it. Was gonna change leg size, but it looked cool. The theme was ‘funny kitties’ so heres a single cat ! (alw…

Challenge #874 "Lucid Dreaming" (20/03/20) Entries CLOSED

Cobb’ s Lucid Totem Pure, Cycles, 2048 sample, 6 hours to make (not counting render time) - Texture for table top was a downloaded image, all the rest is me. Here’s the render, have an animation in mind, hope it will be done before closing time. [Lucid Dreaming Totem - Final-2] And here’s the animation i would like to submit (if possible)… 212 sample which is too low for the smoke/mist, but render time was long enough. [Lucid Dreaming: Cobb's Totem (BlenderArtists Weekend Challenge)…

Lucid Dreaming: Cobb's Totem (BlenderArtists Weekend Challenge)

Challenge #876 "Crop Circles" (03/04/20) Entries CLOSED

My entry Who left the Message… Pure: Rendered in Eevee, took 5-6 hours to make, not counting render time. The grass strips of the field was a downloaded texture. The “crop circles” where images i made in Gimp and converted into Normal maps then applied with a normal node. Along with the Normals made in Gimp, there was also duplicits made which where colored (brown) then added into the grass texture (Base Color) with a mix node and also into the Subsurface Color input. [Yin and Yang C…

Yin and Yang Crop Circle: BlenderArtist's Challenge #876

Challenge #877 "Magic wild" (10/04/20) Entries CLOSED

Magic Hands Forest… Pure - Blender 2.81 and used the MTree add-on (thanks to @T1chy for mentioning it). Wanted to play around with a hand rig along with a collision simulation. The collision simulation did not work out. The idea was to have the lightning bolts bounce off the mirror plan with collision physics, but i could not get it to work with the animation (any help with this, please post); ticking the animation check box did not work. The lightning was parented to a bone in one of the fin…

Magic Hands Forest: BlenderArtist's Challenge #877

Challenge #878 "Aircraft / air vehicle" (17/04/20) Entries CLOSED

My Entry… Tribute: Don’t forget the past… Pure - Cycles, 64 samples, all textures (aside from ground sculpting) are procedural, de-noise from the AI Denoise Node in the compositing tab. Based on Sam+Shere’s Photograph. Rather then creating the scene at the air field, mine takes place in a desert. Wish i was better at Blender to do a render like this justice, no disrespect intended. Want to try and keep the black and white feel like the real images. Used two simulations; fire and cloth. Cl…

Challenge #883 "Alchemy" (22/05/20) Entries CLOSED

My Entry “The OG’s Of Moonshine” Open: Used the MTress add-on for the trees and MakeHuman for the people, also the ground and moon where a few downloaded textures which i merge and mixed together. Rendered at 4k with Cycles and 384 samples along with using the AI denoiser. Ended up turning into more of a Wiccan scene ( with beakers ! ) rather then a Alchemy, but who’s counting The bubbles laying in the moonshine where an array of balls dropped to a collision plan, the floating bubbl…

Challenge #884 "Butterfly" (29/05/20) Entries CLOSED

My Entry: Buttertrix Open: Textures for the caterpillar and pupa where downloaded images (which i also used as a reference to model them). Eevee rendered at 128 samples and used the AI denoiser. All three object stages have an Armature in them and the matrix rain is a partical system with a group of vertical letters. [Buttertrix (Butterfly and Matrix) BlenderArtists Challenge #884]

Buttertrix (Butterfly and Matrix) BlenderArtists Challenge #884

Challenge #889 "Crazy Hats" (03/07/20) Entries CLOSED

You know where to find Them… Pure: all textures procedural, rendered in Eevee @ 256 samples and 4k (noticed very very little difference compared to 32 samples) [crazy-hats-4k-5th-Render-256] Alittle wip… Added some mist/fog by both volumetric and also mist pass; and because of that the bands in the hats where not as defined as i wanted them to be so the Emmision setting in the principle BSDF shader was used to make them pop alittle. The right room has one light, the other two rooms have th…

Challenge #890 "Coming home again, to the perfect storm." (10/07/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Don’t think thats what Marvin was thinking… [Dont think thats what Marvin was thinking: BlenderArtist's Challenge #890] Open: Most items and textures where out sourced from the net. Rendered in Eevee with 256 samples (128 would have been fine) and at 4k, 600 frames. Used this to practice putting together a scene and work on a little camera movement. Used two layers, one layer had everything in it and the second with just the character, wanted the character to come out o…

Dont think thats what Marvin was thinking: BlenderArtist's Challenge #890

Challenge #892 "Astronomy" (24/07/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Only in the Desert [Desert_Observatory-64-1080] Pure: All materials and textures are procedural Render in Cycles at 62 samples. Used two layers for this, the full scene on one layer then the Moon and Saturn on second layer. For the second layer, in the Compositing tab, used the Glare node to make the glow around Saturn and the Moon. The mountains where “sculptured” The swirls in the sky are a cube with the Principled Volume shader being feed some stuff from a ColorRam…

Challenge #893 "Astrology" (31/07/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Astrology Looking Down… [take-four2] Pure All materials are procedural. Render in Cycles at 4K resolution with 48 samples for main scene, 1024 samples for the Suzanne star cluster and Horoscope paper. Have an issue with layers here, any help would be great. Scene has 4 layers: the main layer, a layer with the Suzanne star cluster, a layer with the horoscope paper and a layer with the star field. The layer with the star field is a plane which sits behind all other meshes (and look…

Challenge #894 "80’s Arcade" (07/08/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Forgotten Fun [Forgotten Fun-5] Open: MakeHuman and Arcade image from the internet. Had a hard time trying to “color grade” the arcade image and the two makehuman characters and have it all blend together and look good… so… i found a work around… Cartoon Tron it No color grade… [Forgotten Fun-1] Attempt to color grade in blender… [Forgotten Fun-2]

Image was takin from online and chrs are from MakeHuman, i only composited,color graded and added effects.

Challenge #897 "Gears" (28/08/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Involute Nature [Involute_Nature-6] Open: Used the MTree add-on for the trees. Also used the Gear add-on which comes with blender under the “extra objects”. All materials are procedural. Render in Cycles at 256 samples. Always looking for a different way to do things, any feed back is welcome.

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Challenge #903 "Flight" (09/10/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: It’s crossed your mind… Pure

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Not a weekend challenge, but a practice Green Screen and animation test.
Female voices: IBM Watson TTS (Text To Speech)
Chars: MakeHuman addon

Going Up (take two) - Blender CGI (Eevee render) and Davinci Resolve green screen practice test...

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Challenge #906 "Fear of heights" (30/10/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: BARTIOG [BARTvIGO-vert] Open - Used MakeHuman for the top-hat guy,

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Challenge #909 "Your Greatest Fear" (20/11/20) Entries CLOSED

Title: Now what ?? [tmp3] Pure WIP for now… in case i dont get back and finish.