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By chrisvconley
#172002
Hi everyone,

It’s been hot in Chicago so we’re gonna cool off with this creative event! I would like to invite you to the Maxwell Cool Clay Render Challenge. 8)

The goal of this challenge is to develop a subtly cool material in combination with an environment and lighting scheme that looks great for any model one throws at it. Entries will be evaluated on their striking visual quality as a clay render.

The 411:
1. Prizes will include at least one top prize of a $100 iTunes certificate. I reserve the right to hand out add’l certificates for honors that become apparent once we are up and running! All decisions, no matter how arbitrary, are final.
2. Enter a material and an environment with lighting. Post sample renders.
3. Clay material should be subtly cool.
4. Environment ground/backdrop can use a different material to compliment the clay.
5. Any lighting scheme is acceptable including HDR/MXI, sun, etc...
6. Others should be able to download your submission, insert a model, apply your material to it and hit render to get a cool clay
7. Work in either meters for environmental scale or centimeters for table top
8. Timing: Two weeks to experiment and submit, one week for voting.
9. Send me some suggestions for ways to host submissions and voting.
10. Enjoy! And thanks for your efforts…

Let the challenge begin!

Chris
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By Tim Ellis
#172033
I'm in.


Nice one Chris for organising this. :D



Tim.
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By -Adrian
#172177
I'm in (i think) :)

It's like 40°C under the roof, i gotta have me some subtle cool material.
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By chrisvconley
#172190
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Can you show the wire? This looks too realistic...

:P

Thanks for the levity everyone, this is going to be fun...

Chris
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By markps
#172213
HAHAHA.. Before reading your second post I thought you've wow the contest before it even began :D
Well at least now we have a refference model :wink:
8etty wrote:you mean the wire from my camera to my computer :?:
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By Tim Ellis
#172295
8etty wrote:you mean the wire from my camera to my computer :?:
Yeah we want to see this wire. ;) :D :lol:



Cool reference photo though 8etty, thanks. 8)


Tim.
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By -Adrian
#172668
One thought that came to my mind. HDRIs will have to be non-commercial ones as i think rule #6 would violate copyright law.
By chek
#172797
here is some wire... :lol:
hope you like it.


Image
By chrisvconley
#175698
Hey everyone,

With my relative light cheerleading and the forum's glib response, I am wondering if this was a boring challenge or if we didn't spark it with some examples...

Let me know if you're still interested, I'd love to see some examples of great clays, but maybe i don't have the energy to get you going!

Chris
By chek
#175720
hey chris dont give up im in. lets do it. this week im going to post some experiments that I have being doing all this time. sorry my bad english.

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