Carrara Challenge #27: “Carrara 9, Give us a Sign” Entry Thread: Winners Announced!
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Carrara Challenge #27: “Carrara 9, Give us a Sign” Entry Thread
Wow, what a challenge!
35 Entries!
So many amazing works!
Thank you to everyone who participated the challenge. Challenges like this help us learn to make the best of this amazing software.
Now, for the hard stuff! Let the voting begin.....
Feel free to vote for upto three entries and an Honourable Mention for the best 'newcomer' . (the voter determines in their own mind who should be termed 'newcomer'.)
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Voting Ends at : 12.00 Midnight Saturday 17th September
Judging
The First Prize winner will be decided by the combined scores of their three images. (Please note: an entrant can also win with one or two images if they have enough votes!)
2nd and Third and HM would be as per usual - ie based on votes for one image.
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Once again Daz will generously sponsor the monthly challenge with the following prizes:
1st Place: $100.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
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3rd Place: $ 25.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
Honorable Mention (4th place): $10.00 towards DAZ 3D owned items for the best new comers.
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Entry #1
Artist: Antara
Title: "Dream High"
WIP :http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1492796/#Comment_1492796
Antara is away so I lifted a quote fro the WIP thread.
"About clouds: I am rendering out a test, so I cannot post screen caps. But the method is very simple: I have my text created using the Text tool and I am using the surface replicator applied to the front faces shading domain only. The replicator uses a single small volumetric cloud (much smaller than the default size something along the lines of 0.003 mi). The cloud itself does not interact with any lights, does not cast or receive shadows. I am avoiding sky light (slow) by using fake GI rig instead (a low intencity light blue colored long distance spot replicated on a large dome). I'll try to remember to post the cloud settings. I pretty much shuffled both the cloud shape and the replicator instances until I got the shape I liked. There are about 3000+ clouds there. And although it did slow the rendering down a bit, the final render time was under or about 20 minutes with all the transparent bubbles and all."
Please click image for Big
space reserved :)
Entry #3
Artist ToeJam (note latest username change)
Title; " The Good ole boy of 3D"
WIP http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1492341/#Comment_1492341
Entry #4
Artist ToeJam
Title: "vigil"
WIP http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1464631/#Comment_1464631
Entry #5
Artist: PhilW
Title: Looking for Carrara 9
WIP: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1492111/#Comment_1492111
"Someone told me that Carrara 9 was around here, but I can't see it anywhere". Little did she know that Carrara 9 is so huge, she was looking at the wrong scale!
Since my lasy WIP, I rendered a depth pass and used this to add the haze, which added greatly to the sense of scale. I added some distant trees and I also put in some birds with Ron's Birds brushes.
Entry #6
Artist: PhilW
Title: "I have a Carrara 9 shaped hole in my life"
WIP: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1494271/#Comment_1494271
Everyone was posting WIPs with solid text, and I thought it would be different to have a hole rather than a solid! The image just developed from there. Since my last WIP, I added some wood shavings - I modelled one, then duplicated a number of times and used Bullet physics to drop them on a plane, which gave me the kind of randon heap that I was after. I exported the group as an OBJ and re-imported so that I could edit the position of a few to fit the scene better.
Entry #7
Artist: PhilW
Title: "Carrara 9 on final approach"
WIP: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1500126/#Comment_1500126
"This is Shuttle-9 to Carrara Mothership - on final approach and request permission to dock and come aboard".
This started life in the Spline room by importing an Illustrator format file traced by Photoshop. I then used the Surface Replicator to place thousands of panels over the text to make the mothership. The body of the shuttle was made from a "9".
Entry #8
Artist: Diomede
Title: Daz Dolls Add-on Pack: Elvgren Edition
WIP http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1490841/#Comment_1490841
With the Carrara 9 Elvgren add on pack, once again fully integrate your content purchases from the Daz store in your pinup art with figures using any generation of Daz's riggng and posing technology. Store credits at WIP link. Image, key here was using a bi-gradient in the scene background with a shadow catcher to simulate the seamless transition of a pinup work from the furniture top to the background. The illusion of furniture was preserved by matching the shader of the vertex curtain used as the side of the furniture to the middle colors of the bi-gradient, and then I inserted a plane with a carpet texture.
Entry #9
Artist - Stezza
Title - The Imposssibles
Links to Wip - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1494486/#Comment_1494486
Image: The Impossi-Mobile created with modifiers in Carrara and the Impossibles were created from LoRez Superhero all with modified textures and added bits like the M & shield for Multi-Man and the springs for Coil Man .. Fluid Man's water is from JoLabs splashes.
Text was using Carrara's text.
Entry #10
Artist - Stezza
Title - Hiding in the Phantom Zone
Links to Wip - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1481771/#Comment_1481771
Image: as the latest G3 super hero suit isn't suitable for Carrara I used LoRez masked hero with new textures and face trans maps, a varity of plants, starry sky, Daz Horse 2 and the old Daz Wolf with adjusted textures.. a remapped pirate flag and skulz.
Used Cararra's text tool for 9 converted it to a vertex model and used Carrara's shaders for it. Used 3 basic lights for lighting and the fog tool.
Entry #11
Artist - Stezza
Title - Carrara9 DeepSpace Explorer
Links to Wip - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1527131/#Comment_1527131
Image: Bought the construction set from Mr Sparky.
Used bits and pieces from the set and also bits and pieces from DZFire's sets, M3 is out there somewhere floating around with Dart's starry sky.. everything else I made in the modelling room including basic structure of the 330metre space ship and the shuttle craft, creating shading domains and used Carrara's shaders with one distant light and two clouds and fog tool.
Entry #12
Artist: Antara
Title: "Lab Results"
WIP http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1492851/#Comment_1492851
Antara is away so here is a quote from the WIP thread:
What I did in post is duplicate the volumentric layers a bunch of times, because in the original render the steam volumetrics were almost impossible to see other than in the reflection on the bottles. But the volumetric layers definitely had all the necessary info, and as soon as I duplicated them a couple of times, the steam became very clearly visible in the image.
The glass panes have Normal Map bump - I love the effect it created.
Glass shaders: some are my own, some are edited versions from the wonderful http://www.daz3d.com/wonderous-wares set by Dimension Theory. (The setting with the room and the panels is also originally his - he created the set for a shading/lighting challenge a very long time ago)
The metal slab was modeled. I created the spline model from the vector and then converted it to vertex modeler and used it to cut out the text from the simple cube. I then smoothed the cubes corners and created different shading domains and UV-mappped them for maximum convenience. I used Anything Goos for the melted edges of the text.
For the steam volumetrics I used a modified mist cloud from one of HowieFarkes sets.
Please clicken image for big :)
Entry #13
Artist - DustRider
Title - The Secret Plans for Carrara 9
Links to Wip
Comments: The image was set up in Carrara, and rendered using the Octane plugin. The scene setting is the Bot Shop, the character is my own Genesis 2 creation (modified merchant resource textures and my own morphs modified from a V6 base), her outfit is Soul Hunter from Rendo, and the hair is Chrome Hair for Genesis 2 from Aeon Soul (no longer available
I wanted to finally participate in another Carrara challenge, but I was having real troubles coming up with a good idea for the challenge. A post be MistyMist about Steam Punk in another thread helped this idea pop into my head ..... so Thanks Misty!!
Oh .... please click on the image and zoom to full resolution to see all the great texture details
click imaga for full resolution image in new window
Entry: # 15
Title: The Future Is Upon Us
Artist: wgdjohn
Products Used:
Carrara 8.5 Pro from DAZ
Enhance: C from Digital Carvers Guild
Advance Pack by inagoni for Primoval Fog
Objects Created:
Cubes for the letters, a star, star twinkles and the Terrain.
Fonts redesigned with TypeTool 3 from Fontlab and imported as Text objects
The "9", same font, was later converted to a vertex object for further modification
Back Story:
In a land not yet discovered by anyone Carrara 9 awaits. "Hey wait a minute, It looks so clean". Well that is due to the inhabitants of this land who keep it polished up... awaiting those they worship to return. "Say, who do they worship?" Long ago visitors from the stars visited their land and left these blocks along with this curvy looking thing with the hole and a few stars to signify from where they came. The visitors seemed to have magical powers and taught the folks of this land artistry, creativity and how to create and use many things the folks had not known nor imagined before. The inhabitants pray and await for the visitors to return.
WIPs Hints and ?Tips?: These show different design and shading. Better yet check out the WIP thread for this challenge to see others work as it progressed... very informative. Tip: Causitics and high reflective values used to change rather simple shaders for side faces of cubes giving them a whole new look. Never hesitate to experiment.
early cube design and shading
2nd generation cube design and test scenes and test setup
2nd generation font design and test render of all cubes/fonts with "9"
scene render and and setup on my terrain - nearly finished
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1538686/#Comment_1538686 - original entry before small changes
Postwork: (none) signature is now a font. 1 for letters another for "date" added with Carrara's Text editor then grouped.
Entry #17
Artist - DustRider
Title - We Want Carrara 9
Links to WIP
Comments: All the figures are Genesis 2. Set up in Carrara and rendered using the Octane Render 3 plugin for Carrara.The scene only used 4.7Gb of GPU memory to render, but it took almost 24Gb of system RAM while rendering
Please zoom to full resolution (2400 x 1400)
Entry #18
Artist Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
Title "Urban Fantasy - Carrara Nine is Nigh"
Links to WIP
Notes
Products Used
Rendered in Carrara, post-work in Photoshop
Entry #19
Artist Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
Title "Translucency"
Links to WIP
Notes
Products Used
Rendered in Carrara, post-work in Photoshop.
Entry #20
Artist Mark D. Olsen (MDO2010)
Title "Stepping Stones"
Links to WIP
Notes
Products Used
Rendered in Carrara, post-work in Photoshop.
Entry # 21
Artist - Alvin Bémar (Alberto)
Title - The Carrara Stone
Links to WIP
Image: The Carrara Stone, that was used to translate attirian alphabet to latin one, and attirian numerals to arabic ones (an octal number system).
The Stone and the attirian alphabet was modeled in Carrara. The other are products of Daz store. It was used multipass rendering in Carrara 8.5. Blender was used as a plugin to fluid and cloth simulation. The Gimp was used in the postwork, incluiding the depth of field blur.
Entry # 22
Artist - Jay Versluis
Title - Carrara Reef, South Pacific
Link to WIP
Built from Carrara stock items (fish, dolphins, shark, pink violet) with plants and grass borrowed from one of HowieFarkes' scenes. Special thanks to @Antara for the Carrara Logo. The fish schools are built with the standard replicator, while the grass and flower poopulation was built using distribution shaders on the surfcae replicator.
Although I've been using Carrara on and off for several years, I've only discovered the wonderul terrain generator and replicators last month - and instantly fell in love with them. It feels like every time I open Carrara, there's something new to discover. I'm inspired by the tutorials of Phil Wilkes, Mark Bremmer, Jack Whitney and many of the fine renders here on the forum (which I've only just started frequenting). This is my first ever render challenge!
Entry # 23
Artist: FifthElement
Title: Carrara R.I.P.
Everything in the scene modeled by me... (gravestone displacement painted in Cararra)
Textured in Carrara and Substance Painter.
Rendered in Carrara 8.5 and post work done in Fusion
P.S. Link to WIP post(s): http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1502366/#Comment_1502366
(Click on the thumbnail below to see image in full resolution)
Entry # 24
Artist: FifthElement
Title: Carrara MEME
Models by DAZ.
Textured with YAToon shaders and rendered in Carrara 8.5
All the post work done in Fusion
P.S. Link to WIP post(s): http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1540231/#Comment_1540231
(click on the thumbnail below to see image in full resolution)
Entry # 24
Artist - Jay Versluis
Title - Project Cancelled
Link to WIP
I had this idea for a pile of Carrara 9 boxes being dumped somewhere in the desert, much like the Atari ET Game in the eighties that was buried in a landfill for 30 years. Something was missing though - and inspired by @FifthElement and his comic rendition, I added Freak 5.
So in this scene, the Carrara 9 project had been worked on for several years in complete secrecy. Something sinister has happened, and management have decided to cancel the project and hire Freak 5 to bury the evidence in the desert. He's just calling his boss to confirm it's been handled.
I modelled the package based on the current 8.5 boxart. Freak is wearing 3D Universe's Jason's outfit and Prince Hair. Grassy ptches on the terrain by HowieFarkes, using a surface replicator. Rendered in Carrara, and the speech bubble was added in Comic LIfe.
Entry # 25
Artist - Misty
Title - Carrara 9 the Broadway Musical
wip wip
Starring Lela For Victoria 4 and Genesis 2 Female
co Starring Humpback Whale , Carrara Skies , Just Wet for Genesis 2 Male
"this glorious feeling ... "
Entry #26
Artist Steve Hinshaw (Realtime)
submission 1
The old addage, "no need to cry over spilled milk" comes to mind as we ponder the future of Carrara over a bowl of cereal. Everything in the scene is native Carrara content...with a respectful nod to spookey. The spotlight is intentionally on the center of the table to showcase just how capable Carrara is:)
Entry # 27
Artist's Name : Varsel
Title : Magical and adventures
Link to Wip : http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1499706/#Comment_1499706
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1506396/#Comment_1506396
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1514401/#Comment_151440
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1516936/#Comment_1516936
Entry: #28
Artist: Diomede
Title: Thumbs Up for C9 Elvgren Daz Doll Add On Pack
Link to WIP
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1548296/#Comment_1548296
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1459886/#Comment_1459886
Image - everything modeled and rigged in the vertex modeler, or is a primitive. Image on box is entry #8 above. See there for details. Click if you want to see higher resolution.
Entry: #29
Artist: Stringtheory9
Title: Dreamin of 9
Notes: Modeled the pipes myself.
Postwork: Mild color correction and the sparkle.
Link to WIP: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1546611/#Comment_1546611