Carrara Challenge IX “The Joke is On Me” Vote thread now CLOSED -Winners announced
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Thanks to our great sponsors DAZ and Sadot and to all of you who showed an interest in this Carrara Challenge # IX - “The Joke is On Me”
DAZ is donating:
1st Place: $100 towards Daz owned item(s).
2nd Place: $50 towards Daz owned item(s).
3rd Place: $25 towards Daz owned item(s).
In addition, two Honorable Mentions will receive a $10 Daz owned item.
Sadot is donating from his store.
1st place receives 3 items from his store,
2nd receives 2, and 3rd receives 1.
The two honorable mentions also receive an item from his store.
Voters may vote for up to three images.
Voters may also indicate one provisional tie-breaker/honorable mentions (not by an artist the voter voted for). The artist with the most combined votes receives the first place prizes.
If still a tie, our sponsor Sadot will choose the final tie breaker!
If an artist submits two images, then votes for the two images are combined for a single score for that artist,
Dates to Remember:
- Voting Starts: 9:00 PM ET May June 2, 2014
- Voting Ends: 9:00 PM ET June 9, 2014
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Entry #1 for the joke contest
WIPs:
First WIP of the flowery soup bowl with vodka
WIP of pouring vodka vertex object using liquid shader
WIP of knife (or niiiiven)
First scene WIP
second scene WIP
Second WIP of flowery bowl
Other stuff used:
M6 + DP M6 Shaders + Diesel outfit, where the word SUOMI was baked into the texture map using DAZ Studio LIE and Baker plus M6 Sporty dynamic hair.
Carnival Picknick tables (by Jack Tomalin)
Neighbourhood yard by First Bastion
TP realistic skies
Immortal Elegance - reshaded with different shaders, DP and built in.
Grassy props and flower in replicators from Forest Drive
How do you make a Finnish summer soup?
Entry # 2 -DON"T VOTE FOR THIS, I'm the host and just want to play along.
- Artist- kashyyyk
- Title- None
-Made or altrered- The crossbow and string, the lettuce, tomato and croutons are vertice made objects, I photoshopped the texture maps.
-Use of water shader- are the water droplets off the lettuce, need to have fresh lettuce.
- Items used- Genesis M5, WildMane Hair, Duckie Jacket, Bad Guy Pants and shoes, Tori, Scoopback MiniDress, Hampton Hair, Casual Wear Surf Flops and from last months sponsor mmoir Carrara's BMF Landscape Pack
WIP-
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/604726/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/605009/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/605179/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/606561/
-No postwork
Joke-
What do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea?
Entry Nr: 3
Title: “Esthetic” surgery
Author: DUDU
Here my entry improved a little compared to the WIP…
This image is my “Punch line” and there is no comment to add…
I built all the objects of the scene, except the three characters (2x V4 + M4) and their clothing which I strongly modified to resemble to the clothes of nurses.
The shaders of liquids are in the glass of the door and inside the pocket of drug.
If you want to really know what makes laugh the two nurses, click on the link lower...
NB: it is a “purely surgical” act and do not see there anything else!
Render one pass and fortunately, no postwork...;-P
Thank you.
WIP's: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/603567/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/608313/
http://mhdproductions.be/Carrarators/Ablation.jpg
- Entry #4
- Artist - Stezza
- Title - a small drop won't hurt!
- Items created - Bunch of grapes on stem, bullet shells and sweat drops
- Water shader applied to the sweat drops
- Credits
Carrara's long cloud duplicated
Dartanbecks deadwood log retextured
Emotiguy retextured and changed into a ballish shape in modeling room.
Emotigu shoes retextured
NexyS shaders used on boots - www.decarlojewelryart.com
TacRifle - Daz firearms
Barbed wire at www.sharecg.com
Cigarette - Most digital Creations - www.most-digital-creations.com
Ron's Brushes
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/608686/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/608698/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/608699/
- Postwork
Ron’s smoke to add some detail to the clouds
Joke-
- What's small, round, purple and dangerous?
- Entry #5
- Artist - Philemo
- Title - Professional courtesy!
- Items created -
Pool
Fence
Fontaine
Towel
Book
- Credits (see WIP for links)
Bollards and liquid effects meshes are from spacebones in ShareCG (Liquid and Bollards).
The shark is a freebie I had somewhere on an hard disk and I cannot trace the source
The pool couch is also from ShareCG (Pool Couch from Locutas)
HDR and background are from “Dutch Skies 360 - Free 002” (panorama photographer Bob Groothui) from Sibl Archive
Loretta and Lorenzo Lorez from Predatron.
Briefcase from Archive3D
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
First WIP
Second WIP
Towel dynamic hair settings
- Postwork
None
Joke-
A lawyer is having a relaxed time in the shark tank. A passer-by is surprised to see him there and ask:
- Why are you there ?
- The swimming pool is over crowded and, anyhow, I like the place.
- Aren't you afraid of the sharks ? they're man eater, after all.
- Oh no, They won't attack me, out of professional courtesy.
Entry #: 6
Artist: evilproducer
Title: Who laid who?
Items Created: Everything except the pillow, headboard and mattress on the bed.
Credits: Beltazar bed available for free on ShareCG. Usage rights include commercial and non-commercial renders.
http://www.ShareCG.com/v/8794/gallery/11/Poser/Bed-set
Links to WIPs:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P120/#608523
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P150/#610494
Postwork: I rendered a depth pass, inverted it and increased the contrast in Photoshop and used it to generate a depth of field effect.
Joke: Which came first?
- Entry #7
- Artist – Diomede64
- Title – Singing Under the Umbrella
- Items created - Everything
- Water shader - applied to replicated rain drops, replicated metaball puddle, to two planes that have alphas for background rain
- Credits - Dedman’s asphalt texture and bump map.
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P90
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P150
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P165
- Postwork - None
Joke-
- What goes up when the rain comes down?
- Entry #8
- Artist – Diomede64
- Title – Tennis Elbow
- Items customized or created – Used 3D paint for custom texture of Daz V4 Sports Bra. Used vertex modeling in the assembly room to create a custom morph for the Daz M4 Basicwear Shorts.
- Water shader - applied water shader to primitive cylinder, along with the circular wave modifier.
- Credits – Daz’s M4, V4, and millennium dog. Fountain by Jack Tomalin. Woodland’s kit by Dartanbeck. Daz’s and Goldtassel M4 Timeless Male Hair. Pretty Long Hair for V4 by Pretty3D. Daz’s M4 Basicwear shorts and tank top. Daz’s V4 sports bra and boy shorts. M4 runners shoes. V4 runners shoes.
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P165/
- Postwork – None
Joke-
- There was a man who liked to play fetch with his dog with a tennis ball in the park. One day, with the tennis ball in his pocket, he came across a blonde Aggie along the park trail. While the people chatted, the dog kept lunging and barking for the tennis ball in the man’s pocket. “What have you got there,” the blonde Aggie asked nodding to the lump in his pants.
“I’ve got a tennis ball.” The man replied.
“Oh, I’m so sorry,” the blonde Aggie looked concerned. “It hurt like a devil when I had tennis.”
Confused, the man asked, “what do you mean you had tennis?”
And the blonde Aggie replies...
- Entry #9
- Artist - Philemo
- Title - The Drowning Vat
- Items created -
Kettle
Vat
Platform
Stairs
- Credits (see WIP for links)
From Nobiax, Modular construction kit and concrete pipes
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
First WIP
Second WIP
- Postwork
White balance
Joke-
Old man Murphy had worked down at the brewery for years, but one day , he just wasn't paying attention and he tripped on the walkway and fell over into the beer vat and drowned.
The foreman thought it should be his job to inform the widow Murphy of her old man's death. He showed up at the front door and rang the bell. When she came to the door, he said, "I'm sorry to tell you, but poor old Murphy passed away at work today when he fell into the vat and drowned."
She wept and covered her face with her apron and after a time, between sobs, she asked, "Tell me, did he suffer?"
"I don't think so," said the foreman: "He got out three times to go to the men's room.
Entry #: 10
Artist: evilproducer
Title: Surfacing
Items Created: Just the particle emitters and water shaders.
Credits: I can't find it on at the DAZ store, but I got the submarine way back as a freebie from DAZ along with some other military vehicles. It shows up in my runtime under DAZ Vehicles. I did shader work on the bump channel, highlight, shininess and reflection. I used Carrara's ocean primitive and replicated it.
Links to WIPs:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P165/#612067
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P165/#612259
Postwork: I rendered a depth pass, and increased the contrast in Photoshop and used it to generate a depth of field effect.
Joke: What is long, hard and full of seamen?
Entry #: 11
Artist: headwax
Title: Two Snowman
Items Created: Everything except daz pup, the house and the distant terrain
Water: is the dog's urine, half frozen over.
Credits: Daz Pup, Daz pup coller, Fantasy House1 by dryjack http://www.sharecg.com/v/58072/gallery/11/Poser/Fantasy-House-1, Fenric's plugins for working in the assmbly room
Links to WIPs:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/P165
Postwork: I rendered object index, coverage and used those to separate the elements in my full render while I worked in post. I also rendered using 55 percent ambient to give the effect of reflected light.
I used various Ron's brushes to paint in the snow and icicles. Used a footsteps brush to add the footsteps, added a internal drop shadow to make them look dented in thse snow.
To soften the hard edges I took resulting image into painter 13 and cloned the image three times with various qualities - eg smart blur, saturation and tonal histogram, then used those three renders as clone sources for my final work. I took the resulting painting back into ps and adjusted the opacity till I was happy, then saved that out as a tif and took it into oloneo hdr software to tweak the contrast in the details. The idea was to approach thestyle of an old fashioned Christmas card... kinda
For the painting step I used an Intuos pro. Highly recommend them http://www.wacom.com/en/us/creative/intuos-pro-m
Then I sat on my bottom and had a cup of cha.
Joke: Two snow men are in a field. One snowman turns to the other and says: "I say, can you smell .....
- Entry #12
- Artist - Stezza
- Title - safe sex!
- Items created - Paintbrush, paint tin & paint drops on the brush.
- Credits
Carrara’s shaders including water shader for the paint drops, replicators & surface replicator
Carrara's hair to make the sheep look wooly
First Bastions rolling plains
Daz sheep
Daz M5
Mmoir - Replicator Grass Pack
Howies Arbortorium casuarina and Forest Drive fallen leaves & HFFD Marker
Ron’s Brushes
- Link(s) to WIP(s)
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/613779/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/613899/
- Postwork
Ron’s splashes to add some detail to the paint & DoF created in PSE
Joke-
- Q. How do kiwis practice safe sex?
Voting Is now Open!!!
whoot :) nicely run kashyyyk, congrats :)
Thanks, and thanks to our sponsors Daz and Sadot
Thanks, and thanks to our sponsors Daz and Sadot
Of course, you beat me to it!
OK am between conferences this week but have some time.. there's some really weird humour here guys! But then again, I did choose the alcohol, sex and toilet ones. :smirk:
Entry #1
Title: Finnish Summer Soup
Artist: Totte
Because I actually get it, pure vodka in a flowered pattern bowl! :lol:
Entry #: 11
Artist: headwax
Title: Two Snowman
A lot of work there.... great snow, clean joke :cheese:. Maybe it could have been yellow, ya know, don't eat the yellow snow where the huskies go! :sick:
Entry #9
- Artist - Philemo
- Title - The Drowning Vat
Could just as easily be an English, Welsh or Scottish drowning! Perhaps in whisky! ;-)
Honourable Mentions
Entry #3
-Title: “Esthetic” surgery
-Author: DUDU
Ouch!! :shut:
- Entry #12
- Artist - Stezza
- Title - safe sex!
In a country where there are 3 sheep for every man woman and child...could just as easily be an English, Welsh or Scottish sheep shagging joke! :P
xx :) Silene
I'm going to be MIA this weekend, so I'll get my votes in now. In no particular order:
#1 by Totte. I used to work for Fiskars, and I always suspected they were northern Europe's rednecks. Nice to see it confirmed.
#2 by kashyyyk, which is also ironically about #2. ;-) I know you didn't want anyone to vote for you, but what can I say? I'm evil.
#11 Two snowmen, by Headwax. My only quibble is the snow isn't yellow, unless maybe they're supposed to be on a frozen over Bondi Beach. ;-) Those of us with regular snowfall know well the hazards and implications of yellow snow, whereas you OZzies just know yellow brick roads, so I'll let it slide this time.
Honorable mention:
#8 Tennis Elbow, by diomede64. The only blonde joke in the contest, although at first I thought a blonde Aggie was slang for some kind of light colored Agate.
As always, it was very difficult to come up with the winners as they all were very unique and original renders. I wish everybody the best of luck!
Thanks again to our fine sponsors, DAZ 3D and sadot!
Ok, here are the votes from the Swedish Jury:
Entry #: 10
Artist: evilproducer
Title: Surfacing
Because the joke is classic and has some interesting variation to it too, one including wales.
Entry #12
Artist - Stezza
Title - safe sex!
Because we have the same jokes here about those up north.
Entry #9
Artist - Philemo
Title - The Drowning Vat
Just my kind of joke ;-)
HM:
Entry #: 11
Artist: headwax
Title: Two Snowman
Any joke about snowmen is good!
Here are mine.
#4 Stezza- A grape with a machine Gun!
#1 Totte- Vodka served in a flower patterned bowl
#6 evilproducer- the chicken!
Honorable-
#5 Philemo- professional courtesy
#8 diomede64- Blonde joke
well another tough choice, I just read the drowning in the vat joke and cracked up :)
Now in no particular order.
Evil Producer #6, because it's an eggsellent image, and it looks like evil made the joke up himself
Stezza #4, because the whole image is a class act, there's just enough elements to tell the story - which is, in itself a fine art
Philemo #5 : great concept, there's plenty going on in the background as well as the foreground to keep our interest
very difficult to give an HM, really like Totte's and Duddu_00001'a compositions but I think I will give it to
Diomede64 #7 because I like the rain effect
Great work everyone, especially kashyyyk and BIG thanks to our sponsors Daz and Sadot, we Carrara users really appreciate that.!
Here are my votes. The entries each had such great attributes so i decided on an arbitrary standard to eliminate some just to make it easier on myself. I penalized (but didn't disqualify) entries in which the water shader (the challenge requirement) was not an essential element of the joke. Thus, I eliminated my Aggies joke because you could remove the water in the fountain and the joke still remained untouched. I know, my standard is crap, but the entries were each so interesting that I was looking for arbitrary things to separate them.
Votes
Entry #: 11 Artist: headwax Title: Two Snowman
Entry #1: Artist Totte Title: Finnish Soup
Entry #: 10 Artist: evilproducer Title: Surfacing
HMs
Entry #9 Artist - Philemo Title - The Drowning Vat
Entry #4 Artist - Stezza Title - a small drop won’t hurt!
(Edit) enthusiastic second of "Great work everyone, especially kashyyyk and BIG thanks to our sponsors Daz and Sadot, we Carrara users really appreciate that.!"
As usual, I prefer what is photo-realistic, and without postwork (if not, where is the interest of this challenge dedicated to Carrara ?).
I prefer also the made up scenes with objects created by the author, therefore here my choice:
- Entry #5
- Artist - Philemo
- Title - Professional courtesy!
Entry #: 6
Artist: evilproducer
Title: Ugly Who who?
Entry #1
Artist: Totte
Title: Finish summer soup?
Mention to :
- Entry #7
- Artist - Diomede64
- Title - Singing Under the Umbrella
for the completed work.
Beautiful work with all!
Entry #1 for the joke contest by Tote
Entry #9
- Artist - Philemo
- Title - The Drowning Vat
Entry #: 11
Artist: headwax
Title: Two Snowman
HonMent:
- Entry #8
- Artist – Diomede64
- Title – Tennis Elbow
Some great entries this month with great use of just Carrara and also those with postwork to bring out the Carrara artist from within which is what it is all about IMHO
Some tough calls. I tried to keep the contest requirements in mind while making my selections.
#1 - Philemo - The Drowning Vat
#2 - Philemo - Professional Courtesy
#3 - evilproducer - Who laid who?
HM: Stezza - safe sex!
Wow, Philemo rocked that one...great joke for the #1 slot. I loved the "just naughty enough" thinking behind evilproducer's entry.
Great work everyone!
Great choice Garstor!
Yay, it's voting time! I always enjoy seeing what you've been up to over here.
Once again you've made it tough to choose between these. There were some very funny goings-on here from you all.
After much deliberation, I'm voting for:
#5 - Professional Courtesy! by Philemo. Clever take on an old joke and loads of detail make this a winning render for me.
#11 - Two Snowmen by Headwax. Love that snowman's expression and of course your great work with the snow.
#8 - Tennis Elbow by diomede. Great joke with just the right visuals, made me laugh!
Tie-breaker: #1 How do you make a Finnish Summer soup by Totte. He has such a devious expression and the vodka looks very believable!
Best of luck to all entrants!
Just a quick note here.
For the next Challenge I would like to be one of the sponsors.
Regards.
But who are you voting for? ;-)
I have Howie Farkes already set as sponser for the next winner, but I will let the next winner decide.