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New Competition: Christmas 2011

Ho ho ho! With December almost upon us, it only makes sense to have a Blender Christmas competition.

The rules are simple: Create an image related to Christmas. The best image wins.

Prizes

Christmas comes but once a year, so these prizes are a little bit more “special” than normal:

First Prize:

A Kindle Fire!

PLUS:

Second Prize:

An iPod Nano!

Third Prize:

Guidelines

  • It must be created with Blender
  • You may use any external renderer you wish
  • Minor post processing in Gimp or Photoshop is allowed
  • Minimum image size is 1280 x 720, but the bigger the better (any aspect ratio is fine)
  • Your image must be a new creation, not an existing project
  • It must be your own work. No bought/borrowed or third party models allowed (including MakeHuman)
  • Photographic elements are allowed, but must not be a central part of the image (sky backgrounds are okay)
  • Your image must in some way relate to the theme
  • The winner will be required to submit the .blend file for proof of it’s creation

Submissions and Deadline

Submit your entry here!

Entries must be submitted before 11:59pm GMT on the 19th of December.

Inspiration

Ultimately what you do with the theme is up to you, but here’s some inspiration to get your brain firing…

Created by Martin Nabelek

Created by Baolong Zhang

Created by Elif Serencio

Created by Keytoon Animation Studio

Tutorials that may help:

5 Reasons to Enter:

  1. Competitions push you to better your work by exploring new techniques
  2. It teaches you the importance of deadlines
  3. Focusing on a theme helps you to think creatively
  4. Competing against other artists is great motivation to improve your work
  5. Great way to showcase your artwork and get noticed

Don’t forget, the deadline is 11:59pm GMT on the 19th of December.

May the best artist win! :D

Submit your entry here!

DISCLAIMER: Apple and Amazon are not participants in or sponsors of this promotion. All prizes come out of my lowly pocket.

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • http://neverexsist.wordpress.com NeverResist

    The Bottom one: Okay that is “ewww” Where did the guy’z pants go ? and ‘Elif Serencio’ I love your work best man ;)

  • http://wolvztutorials.blogspot.com Blender Wolvz

    Hey Andrew,
    I had a suggestion concerning the competition page. The idea of possibly an embedded timer that counts down might give the page a nice edge. Nothing obnoxious of course, but something the complements the theme and blends in slightly. It’s completely up to you. Just thought I’d through the idea out there. If I have time, I’ll try and post a schematic here. No guarantees though. :)
    Thanks,
    Blender Wolvz

  • Roselene

    Hi Andrew, I have entered my image in the Christmas competition. I am not able to send in the .blend file since it is more than 30MB. How do I submit the .blend file.

    • Psi-Lent Rain

      Roselene, as far as I know, only the winners will be required to submit the .blend, and Andrew will request it by email.

  • hene

    Why can’t I send anythig to that thread. I have tried to send my picture twice. The site says massage sent but i can’t find them anywhere.

    • http://www.blenderguru.com Andrew Price

      Send it to support@blenderguru.com and say it’s for the competition. Thanks

  • markus

    i just see it a litle to late lol

  • http://www.benjamindbailey.com Benjamin Bailey

    Darn. Just saw this adverted on Facebook. Not much time to create anything, and I’m already busy. But maybe I’ll give it a shot anyway.

  • http://www.blendnz.com BlendNZjnr

    :( Only just saw this. I don’t have time to do one by tonight. Guttered

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  • AG

    I found this nice image of snow covered trees on the wikimedia commons, in the public domain, I edited with Gimp and placed it on a plane to make up the background of my scene ( kind of like what was done in the slum competition 1st place entry), is this okay in this competition?

    Here’s the link:
    http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?239177-Crashed-Santa

    Thank you for your time.

  • Owldude

    Can we submit more than one entry?

    • timothy

      no ,andrew already stated only one per person

  • wycky

    in cycles is problem witch particles (hair) so I have one question – can I render one image in blender internal and photoshoped it to the other image rendered in cycles?

    (sorry for my English)

    • http://blendernerd.com Greg Zaal

      Why not? :)

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  • Ansel

    is the kindle fire under androïd? or something were yo can have all the androïd apps?

    • Tyler

      The Kindle Fire is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but it is so customized you would never be able to tell. Also, although (I think) you can side-load Android apps, you can only download apps from Amazon’s Appstore. (No Android Market.)

  • Largo

    Andrew, you should get Apple and Amazon involved in this. They shouhld be paying you for the publicity they’re getting, not the other way around!

    • Largo

      I’m sorry, I have a little question. You said it has to be my work, but what about small things, like the font on the image? It’s not really that important to the image, but it’s not my work either.
      Thanks for everything! And the fishes.

  • Tyler

    I’m also curious about the use of background images. I would like to have a fire in the scene, but Cycles can’t do that. Could a render it in BI and then map it to an emission plane in Cycles?

    • timothy

      My thought exactly

    • A_Nony_Mus

      First off: you are rendering it in blender, so it is okay.
      second off: Andrew already said that you are allowed to use background images anyway.

  • Craig Burr

    Is this open to all countries? I am in the UK so just wondering. Also how are the winners selected?

  • timothy

    Is it OK if you render something in the blender internal rendering engine (smoke and fire)
    and the rest of the scene in cycles then put them together in Photoshop ?

    • Jk’

      I have the same doubt

    • Gary

      @ Timothy.
      As Andrew stated above. External rendering is allowed and minor post processing with photoshop is ok. Go For Gold and GL :)

    • niverik2k

      why use photoshop, when you can put it together in Blender’s Compositor?

  • Henri Plumb

    First time in one of these competitions hopefully I’ll come up with something good

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