A Render of Ice and Snow – CG Cookie Winter Challenge

The Challenge: A Render of Ice and Snow

Winter is here, and dragons are hibernating…

A chilly challenge awaits…

From snow covered landscapes to ice sculptures.
This challenge requires snow and ice by the shovel load.

Snowman or Ice Queen?
Snowy mountains or fields of snow?
Icicles or Ice Cubes?
Rivers of Ice or a Sea of Icebergs?

Dates

From 23rd Dec 2022 – 3rd Feb 2023, 23:59 US CST – Better get your skates on!

Criteria

• Snow and Ice (In the Bucket load) themed render
• No third party models
• Good quality modeling and texturing
• Good quality presentation
• Low or high poly 

Categories

• Most creative 👨‍🎨
• Most fun 🥳
• Best chill factor 🥶
• Best WIP 📖

x2 Chances per Category

• CGC Crew Award – voted for by the CG Cookie Crew
• Community Choice Award – voted for by the CG Cookie community

Recommended Viewing

• Let’s build a snowman
• Creating a stylized 3d forest environment
• Winterizing the stylized forest
• Fundamentals of texturing (Lesson: Creating Procedural Snow)
• Make Realistic Ice in 10 Minutes (CGC YouTube)

Rules

• Use Blender Only
• Include Snow and Ice
• Create your WIP thread in the ice-and-snow-wips forum channel on CGCookie Discord
• Submit your final renders to the ice-and-snow-submissions channel.

Not on Discord yet? Join us via the community menu at the top of the page.

Summary

• What – A snow and ice themed render.
• When – 23rd Dec 2022 – 3rd Feb 2023, 23:59 US CST
• Why – To be the best you can be from the knowledge you have today, while striving to be even better tomorrow than you was yesterday. But most importantly, to feel cold have some fun.
• How – For your WIP, create a post in the Winter challenge forum channel on Discord and update with your WIP progress.
• How – For your finished render, post in the Challenge Submissions channel.

Prizes

• $30 off your first year with CG Cookie
  or
• 500xp for CG Cookie Citizens
  and…
• Featured across CG Cookie’s social networks with the artist’s social media accounts tagged
• Challenge winner role on Discord, with all associated bragging rights.
  And the best prize of all!
• FUN FUN FUN