Carrara Challenge #34 - Enry Thread - Voting is Closed - Winners Announced
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Carrara Challenge #34 - Sing to Me, Muse - ENTRY Thread - Winners Announced
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Entries Accepted Through August 11th, 2017
The theme is "Sing to Me, Muse." The term muse has come to mean any source of inspiration for any creation, endeavor, or enterprise. For this challenge, please provide us with an example of your artistic muse for this image (not necessarily the muse for your life as a whole, but a muse for your particular image this month). For example, if you were to be inspired by Johnny Cash's song, Ring of Fire, please either copy and paste the lyrics or copy a link to a youtube video (or other) of him singing the song. If you were to be inspired to render very tasty Golden Corn Puffs, you could copy and paste the appropriate recipe from page 628 of the Joy of Cooking, You will have to indicate your muse for each image at least once in the WIP thread, and also with your final image in the entry thread.
The theme is quite open. Interpret it broadly. Whatever inspires you is OK - as long as you can find a way to indicate it without violating the forum TOS.
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Entry Type: Photoreal Still / Stylized Still / Animation
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project?
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Products Used:
Did you have fun? - Yes/No
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Entry: # 1
Title: Keep Holding On
Artist: Bunyip02
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project? Dragons - from Fairy Tale fantasy creatures to movies such as Eragon, have always been both a fascination and an inspiration to me.
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2607991/#Comment_2607991
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2608106/#Comment_2608106
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2608331/#Comment_2608331
Products Used: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dragon-3
https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dragon-3-textures
https://www.daz3d.com/dragon-trainers-toolbox
https://www.daz3d.com/strap-saddle-for-daz-dragon-3
https://www.daz3d.com/daz-dragon-3-fantasy-poses-18639
Genesis 2 Male
https://www.daz3d.com/gianni-6
https://www.daz3d.com/dp-genesis-2-male-s-shader-bundle-vol-i
https://www.daz3d.com/ancient-combat-hair-for-genesis-2-male-s
https://www.daz3d.com/fighting-monk-for-genesis-2-male-s
https://www.daz3d.com/oot-styles-for-fighting-monk-for-genesis-2-male-s
https://www.daz3d.com/lorenzo-lorez
https://www.daz3d.com/millennium-horse
https://www.daz3d.com/fantasy-castle-2011-castle-surround
https://www.daz3d.com/fantasy-castle-2011-castle-keep
https://www.daz3d.com/castle-creator
Kroluk Tavern and Stables - Poser Direct
Veranda House - Poser Direct
http://www.sharecg.com/v/58877/gallery/11/Poser/Fantasy-House-2
http://www.sharecg.com/v/60476/related/11/Poser/Fantasy-House-4
https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-cart
https://www.daz3d.com/maple-tree-pack-1
https://www.daz3d.com/arboretum-volume-1
Lisa Botanicals - Oak Trees
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-lightdomes-1
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-volume-1
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 2
Title: Apollo
Artist: Bunyip02
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project? Always find the Moon landing - Apollo project inspirational as what can be achieved when we put our minds to do something.
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2611566/#Comment_2611566
Products Used: https://www.daz3d.com/starry-sky-for-carrara
https://www.daz3d.com/apollo-one-small-step
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 3
Title: Who's for lunch ?
Artist: Bunyip02
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project? Dinosaurs "fearfully great reptiles" - from the Flintstones, to Jurassic Park, and Walking with Dinosaurs. Had a fascination with these critters ever since watched the Flinstones and read the Dinosaur section of my Childcraft World Book Encyclopedia.
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2629581/#Comment_2629581
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2632046/#Comment_2632046
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2632351/#Comment_2632351
Products Used: https://www.daz3d.com/ceratosaurus
https://www.daz3d.com/kentrosaurus
https://www.daz3d.com/forest-primeevil-vol-1-4-mega-pack
Lisa Botanicals - Cottage Plants
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-lightdomes-1
https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-volume-1
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Entry: 4
Title:My Pussykittens are my inspiration
Artist:th3Digit
Entry Type: Animation
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project?
my cats past and present
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2669976/#Comment_2669976
well one of them, there were many
Products Used:Carrara browser objects, G2F, VWD,
https://www.daz3d.com/millennium-cat
https://www.daz3d.com/home-one-bundle
https://www.daz3d.com/mada-hair-genesis-3-female-s-genesis-2-female-s-and-v4
https://www.daz3d.com/high-garden-outfit-for-genesis-2-female-s
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
rendered using Octane render for Carrara
postwork Virtualdub, Windows Live Moviemaker and footage from Sonic candle (Spectrogram) and Midijam (TV broadcast texture), Melody Assistant for the music
Video click play
Entry: #5
Title: Sorrow
Artist: Namtar3D
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project?
"The Grace of Undomiel" is one of the greatest sequences in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, from Arwen's visions, the forging of Narsil, and the ride of Gandalf into Minas Tirith. An amazing song, incredible and epic storytelling, and the bautiful Arwen.
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/a6/e0ddf97d2b6a2681c5bc3a50e60e36.jpg
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/df/a95914443d7607190c6a41d80f30b9.jpg
Products Used:
Daybed Romance (I got it 70% off!!)
Dark Dreams for Daybed
Galadriel dress for V4
SV7 Moon for V4 (Texture only)
Octane for Carrara plugin.
Custom Arwen Morph
Did you have fun? - YES
Additional Notes:
Dinámic clothes simulated in Poser, background taken from HDRI with ANSEL. The rest, posing and assembling was completely in Carrara. Rendered in PMC with Octane Render plugin.
Entry: #6
Title: Pennsylvania Frontier
Artist: Diomede
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project? Pennsylvania frontiersmen in the 18th century. This where the French and Indian War (Seven Year's War in Europe) started. See this link for PA history http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-6
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2617646/#Comment_2617646
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2624316/#Comment_2624316
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2707371/#Comment_2707371
Products Used: Beaver by AM, Flintrock Rifle, M4, Everyman hair by Naomi
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes: Landscape and Trees custom created in Carrara
Entry: #7
Title: Old Devil Moon
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry Type: Stylized Still
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project? Mary Stallings and trio performing "Old Devil Moon," the Carrara NPR render engine mystery, and pulp paperback cover artists.
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2707996/#Comment_2707996
Products Used: V3 (Ingenue Vicky), M3, Yseabeau hair, Cheongsam outfit, Carrara native objects
Did you have fun? - Yes and no. It was a very challenging month.
Additional Notes: Cracked the code a bit on the Carrara NPR engine. Learned basic PSE layers.
Entry: #8
Title: Roman Cavalry Choirs
Artist: Stezza
Entry Type: Stylized Still
What inspired this particular project?
Inspired by Coldplay's Viva La Vida
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd go there was never
Never an honest word
that was when I ruled the world
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2607546/#Comment_2607546
Products Used:Morpheus, GenX, PSE14
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Image:
Entry: #9
Title: Farewell Aunty Jack
Artist: Stezza
Entry Type: Stylized Still
What inspired this particular project?
The TV show of the same name shown in Australia back in the 70's
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2611331/#Comment_2611331
Products Used: Genesis, Genesis 2. Army bike
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Image:
Entry: #10
Title: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
Artist: Stezza
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
What inspired this particular project?
Karen Carpenter
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2625176/#Comment_2625176
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2629016/#Comment_2629016
Products Used:Figures from Vanishing Point, Modelled most all else
Did you have fun? - Yes
Additional Notes:
Image:
Entry: #11
Title: Smooth Sliding
Artist: Vyusur
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
What inspired this particular project?
Point Break 1991
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2677856/#Comment_2677856
Products Used: Surfer briefs for Genesis 2 male from Starter Essentials.
FBM and face custom morphs were used on G2 base male figure.
Breaking wave and ocean surface are modeled by me.
Rendered with Carrara Octane plugin.
Did you have fun? - Yes
Entry: #12
Title: Red Tint Dandy
Artist: Vyusur
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
What inspired this particular project?
My own oil on canvas painting with the same name.
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2683261/#Comment_2683261
Products Used: Eldritch Seeker
FBM and face custom morphs were used on G2 base male figure.
Rendered with Carrara's native render engine.
Did you have fun? - Yes
Entry: #13
Title: Dragon Queen and CupiDwaft
Artist: Vyusur
Entry Type: Photoreal Still
What inspired this particular project?
Painting by Diego Velázquez "Venus and Cupid (Venus of the Mirror)"
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2709211/#Comment_2709211
Products Used:
Cozy Bed,
Noggin's Cockatoo,
Epic Wings
The velvet curtain, the scarf and the mirror are modeled by me.
Custom morphing on both figures: Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 Base Female.
Rendered with Carrara's Octane plugin
Did you have fun? - Yes
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Entry Thread extended until midnight, August 12th, Daz Utah time.
My travel plans have changed, so the 11th could be problematic. For you Americans, will spending a great deal of time on I-95.
Entry: #14 Title: Yune A Muse Artist: Misty
Entry Type: photo surreal
A note for your muse, what inspired this particular project?
tos busting tentacoos in a separate area
a place i see inside my eyelids,
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2708811/#Comment_2708811
Products Used:
johnathon, Samanyo for Genesis 3 Male
Adrian Hair and Beard for Genesis 3 Male
Ferris Wheel Ps
DA Unicorn Horse 2
Did you have fun? - Yes/No - in between
Entry # 15 The Handmaidens
Artist: headwax
Genre: NPR
Muse: Diego Velázquez specifically his work Las Meninas
This work has been homaged by both Picasso and Goya. Dali did a version of the Infanta.
WIP https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2705726/#Comment_2705726
and the whole piece https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2725041/#Comment_2725041
The little girl Infanta Margarita Teresa is a K4 head on a V4 body. The others are all v4.
This is a detail of the whole. Made lots of use of VWD plugin for bits you cant't see!!
Postwork is an over paint in Corel Painter 2018, with pre post work done with Topaz Impressions, and post post work fine tuning in Oloneo HDR software.
Some texturing probably added in Fotosketcher. The overlay parameter is your friend. ;)
Edit sorry I just saw it's now 3 past 12 August 13th ... so I missed the deadline...
Entry #16
Title: Lost in the Woods
Artist: wgdjohn
Entry Type: PR
Did you have fun? - Yes
WIP: The scene setup.
What inspired this particular project?
My choosen muse was Taylor Swift's song "Out of the Woods"... which fits with my modeling... I often feel it's lost in the the woods. This project is no exception as I was frantically trying to fix an error I'd made to a primitive looking figure, the one that is red with one eye. He has yellow shoes with dark brown soles... they are burried in the leaves along with most of his legs... oh well absolutely no time to fix and re-render.
Products Used: Carrara 8.5 Pro, Howie Farkes - Stoney Creek "Beechdale Autum Fog", from a different point of view, to place my own models in... one of which was specifically modeled for this Carrara Challenge... the flashlight I'd planned on using for an earlier Challenge but decided not to... glad it found a home here in the woods. :)
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- Voting thread closes, winners announced, - August 18th, 2017, Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, US.
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Entry: #7 Title: Old Devil Moon Artist: UnifiedBrain
Love this one, terrific design.
Entry: # 1 Title: Keep Holding On Artist: Bunyip02
Must say I love Bunyip's style and the sense of atmosphere in this
Entry: #9 Title: Farewell Aunty Jack Artist: Stezza
Thin, Arthur and Auntie Jack, rip your bloody arms off. Resonates with me, my child hood heroes..
HM I know there isnt one? But
Entry #16
Title: Lost in the Woods
Artist: wgdjohn
For me this shows terrific imagination and fun.
Just my list of entries in order to aide in voting. Please let me know if there are any mistakes... don't expect there are but ya never know. :)
Entry: # 5 Title: Sorrow Artist: Namtar3D
Entry: # 10 Title: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Artist: Stezza
Entry: # 11 Title: Smooth Sliding Artist: Vyusur
Entry #7
Title Old Devil Moon
Artist Unified Brain
Entry #5
Title Sorrow
Artist Namtar3D
Entry #8
Title Roman Cavalry Choirs
Artist Stezza
Entry: # 3
Title: Who's for lunch ?
Artist: Bunyip02
-dinos!!
Entry: 4
Title:My Pussykittens are my inspiration
Artist:th3Digit
- Animation !!
Entry: #10
Title: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
Artist: Stezza
-shiny shaders & z-depth
Entry: #10
Title:Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
Artist: Stezza
Entry: #15
Title: The Handmaidens
Artist: Head Wax
Entry: #11
Title: Smooth Sliding
Artist: Vyusur
All other works are pretty nice too, that was a hard choise.
Entry: #5
Title: Sorrow
Artist: Namtar3D
Captures the feeling perfectly; Love the deep rich colours.
Entry: #7
Title: Old Devil Moon
Artist: Unified Brain
I'd buy that book!
Entry: #8
Title: Roman Cavalry Choir
Artist: Stezza
This one just tickled me. Rum pum pum!
Difficult choice as always, and many of the others were equally deserving. I spent much of the month wondering what you guys were drinking, and where can I get it . . .
my votes in no particular order...
Entry: # 1
Title: Keep Holding On
Artist: Bunyip02
Entry: 4
Title:My Pussykittens are my inspiration
Artist:th3Digit
Entry # 15
Title: The Handmaidens
Artist: headwax
Entry: #5
Title: Sorrow
Artist: Namtar3D
Entry: #9
Title: Farewell Aunty Jack
Artist: Stezza
Entry: #7
Title: Old Devil Moon
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry: #5
Title: Sorrow
Artist: Namtar3D
Spot on character design by Namtar3D of Arwen played by Liv Tyler... and LOTR... kewl.
Entry: #10
Title: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
Artist: Stezza
Sci-Fi always hits my sweet spot... Stezza's humor and inclusion of his models fit the scene well... besides blue is my favorite colour.
Entry #15
Title: The Handmaidens
Artist: headwax
Like a painting one would be lucky to hang on their wall.
Excellent entries CarrarArtists... you make it very hard to choose only three.
Entry: #13
Title: Dragon Queen and CupiDwaft
Artist: Vyusur
Entry: #8
Title: Roman Cavalry Choirs
Artist: Stezza
Entry # 15 The Handmaidens
Artist: headwax
Entry: #7
Title: Old Devil Moon
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Entry: #8
Title: Roman Cavalry Choirs
Artist: Stezza
Entry: # 15
Title: The Handmaidens
Artist: headwax