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[strange_aeons]

As mentioned below, I entered a challenge on Renderosity, an online art forum/store/gallery with a fairly strong 3D/nipple bias, recently. And, uh, it turns out I won.

It's a challenge, not a contest, so I don't get anything but the respect and slobbering admiration of my peers, and to come up with the next challenge. Which is the problem; I don't have any ideas. So, I resort to picking your collective brain.

Previous challenges include but are not limited to:

Painting with light: Greyscale objects, colored light sources. This is the one I entered.

Lots of identical objects or figures, at least eight, arranged in such a manner as to be worth looking at. That was last month's, the challenge won by the guy who came up with the one I entered, and his entry was exceptional: linky.

Scenes with bridges in.

Uh, scary things.

Recreations of scenes from speculative fiction movies. No, it doesn't sound like a good idea to me either.

And so on; I'd quote more, but the Renderosity server isn't cooperating at the moment, preventing me from getting at the archives.

Hmm. Maybe something involving using primitive shapes (here defined as spheres, cubes, cones, cylinders, pyramids and some of the simpler regular polyhedra) to interesting effect, with as many other objects and dirty lighting, painting, texturing and modeling tricks as please the artist.

There's a commercial for K-19 on as I type this. I have three things to say about it: that guy who almost but doesn't quite resemble Edward Norton is fairly attractive; Harrison Ford looks more like an aging drag queen every time I see him; and using bits of the score of Gladiator is just tacky. It's like using the Clubbed to Death. Get your own damn soundtrack.

Comments

Well, let's see....

[brooksmoses]

It seems that a focus of some of the ones that you've mentioned, has been doing artistic stuff within technical constraints. Sort of like acrostics or whatnot in writing; the limitation can often be a catalyst for getting more creative results.

Anyhow. Some ideas:

Symmetry; every object in the scene must have some form of symmetry, and it must all be the same type. For bonus points, the scene itself (in 3-D, not necessariy in camera-view) must also have this symmetry.

Texturemaps: use a strong, and unexpected or unusual, texturemap on something.

Um.

That's all that really comes to mind along those lines that seems any good....

- Brook

Re: Well, let's see....

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Symmetry; every object in the scene must have some form of symmetry, and it must all be the same type. For bonus points, the scene itself (in 3-D, not necessariy in camera-view) must also have this symmetry.

Hmm. I like that a lot. I like the texture map one too, actually, but this being Nipplevania, I mean Renderosity, I suspect the result would be a whole lot of naked women textured to look like metal or grass or whatever.