Woohoo! The “Weekend Challenge” contest series has begun!
The Weekend Challenge is a new weekly contest, with a simple premise: make a cool image based on the nominated theme, in just 4 days over the weekend. To keep things simple, there are no restrictions covering how the image is made. Anything goes.
There is a prize. Kind of… The winner, decided by a poll, gets to choose the theme for the next contest, from which they are excluded. Tempting, huh?
The are few rules in this contest, applying mainly to the format of the entry (in short: JPEG, any dimensions, less than 250kB file size), the entry submission process (in short: post a link and description in this thread), and the judging process (in short: a poll). A comprehensive list will be posted here soon (hopefully, before the entries start), but this should be enough to get you started. (I ran out of time, and didn’t want to postpone the start of the contest)
Well, it’s way past my bedtime, so instead of rambling incoherently, I’ll just get on with announcing the innaugural theme…
Theme #1 for 17 May 2002 is: contact
Entries close at 2300 GMT, Monday, 20 May 2002.
Alrighty then. Here is my entry for this challenge. I wasn’t sure about post pro on the images. I only added the gradient and the text in PS. Nothing else.
Used strubi’s Z-blur plug in for the DOF, (after a f&#king hour of playing with it :x )
Started on the toilet, as every peice of art does…pencil, paper, gasious aroma… the makings for creativity…
i call it…“contact”(haha very original title indeed!)
The bg blurring was done in photoshop, as well as the text
good luck to everyone…im interested in seeing alot of different interpretations of the theme…
I’m working on it
Eventually, I’ll have everything sorted out, and this will be a much smoother event. For now, the contest’s a little rough around the edges, but it has started and you have the theme, and that’s the main thing 8)
Post pro is allowed, because anything is allowed! The only requirement here is that non-blender processes in the image are documented in the entry submission.
Another excerpt from the rules under development:
Submission Updates
To update an entry, you can either post a new message, or edit the existing one. The new entry should have a different URL, to avoid problems with old entries being cached.
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These interpretations are nothing like what I was expecting! Excellent work!
imgrandpaboy: if that’s what you think of on the toilet, you probably need more fibre in your diet
imgrandpaboy: the sweat looks great. awesome job man. you got my vote, (as long as i got yours )
anyway, i have to agree with you on the rule suggestion. should be at least 1/2 blender, if not more. should also be no previous models, unless there is a texture a lighting challenge where a model is supplied. should be 100% new stuff. just my opinion.
I’m reluctant to go quite that far. I’d like to think that people would be able to recognise when someone’s taken shortcuts and take it into account when voting.
How does this sound:
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Hmm… what do you think of an extra prize for the winner. As well as specifying the next theme, they also get to impose a new rule (5 words or less) for the next challenge. This new rule could override an existing one, or place additional restrictions. For example, someone giving the theme “glass”, could add a rule like “no lightflow or external renderers”. This could make things interesting.
ectizen of the future gave a perfect set of rules! i like those rules, what does everyone else think?
the rule creation thing sounds cool, it may get confusing, but as long as you would post the new set of rules at each contest, it would be nor problem at all and would be cool to be able to make a rule like “no rendering aloud”(hahah im jus kiddin)…
thanks bgdm for the comments! =) your entry is excellent too! youve got my vote
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