CG Cookie Community Halloween Challenge

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hey @bexxarts ,

Appreciate the thanks!

The challenges are hopefully there to help challenge yourself, and take you another step further down the road on your Blender journey.

I used to be the same, lacking in ideas.

I started doing more research on the things I wanted to create, and would mix and match ideas from different references.

I think its important to know, or at least do some research, on your subject. Every worthy 3D artist will tell you to use reference images, or concept art. 

The more you do the more you will have your own ideas.

Trawl the internet, sites like Pixabay, Unsplash are good sources for free images.

Hope this helps.

[Rita Geraghty]

@coyohti  I too am from an infamous area where there used to be many executions for condemned victims, criminals and rebels alike. Thinking up ideas is tough. 

[Rita Geraghty]

For eye scream, do you mean victim’s eyeballs bulging out of sockets, eyelids retracting, cheeks swelling outwards, lips stripping to reveal the entire sets of teeth and gum?  Just a suggestion only.  

Another suggestion. Imagine yourself a victim sleeping in a room with clandestine hauntings. During your restful sleep, you are dreaming nothing. Then comes the bump of surprise. Jet black SHADOWS visible in an already dark room. Your mind’s eye suddenly sees the flickering shadows over your shut eyelids and more shadows flitting at the back of your eyeballs.  At that, you wake fast.  You either react with fright or respond with anger and issue threats to shadows: “Mess with me once more and you will see what I’ll do next. I swear you WON’T want to discover what that is and you DON’T want it. So, be very, very careful. Wait, I don’t mean “very careful.” I actually mean, BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL.” Howls and shrieks from shadows be reduced to soft, apologetic whimpering sounds. Suggestion only.  

A religious person keeps blessed salt in all the four corners of the bedroom, and also holy relics. Entities spit and cough too near salt. 

[Rita Geraghty]

For a model music, perhaps you can try shrieky sound like thousands of tortured seagulls violently whipped up in a gusty wind. Mix that with raspy pitches of vocal screams. Banshee scream effect. Suggestion only. 

[Rita Geraghty]

Why just a scream?  A ghost’s laughter can be as jarring as a scream and it is enough to make your lungs collapse in shock. You can’t scream if you are paralyzed by fear, your blood suddenly turning cold. When you breathe again, only then you might be able to scream.  After a scream or no scream,  you faint and lose conscience. Suggestion only. 

[Rita Geraghty]

Sometimes, words alone can spur on visual imagination. Bullet-shot paced descriptions in screenplays do better, as they quickly fire up film producer’s imagination.  

“Scary” only if you (in imaginary victim’s shoes) are unaccustomed to hauntings and be totally shell-shocked. Unscary if you have fully acclimated to them, being hard-skinned and no longer shell-shocked.  Novelty in hauntings wears off for the latter. 

As sensitives or mediums, visitors always ask: “Is your home haunted?” Surprised, you the host respond with a knowing expression, a sigh and a smile:  “Ooh, isn’t it?” Slip of your tongue gives them eebie jeebies. Curious, you then ask, cautiously and suspiciously: “Now, why do you think it is haunted?”  They look at you, perplexed, wondering why you seem oblivious to the flickering and flittering shadows around you. You are religious and protected, shadows therefore being banished from your sight.   (Suggestion only). 

Another idea.  A shaking bed in a room where you as an intruder not only just see or hear things, also FEEL them. 

While you sleep, a  vapour rises from the grave afar, knowing you trespassed on their favourite space. Soul breezes or storms into your room.  Your imagination here. …  Have your way. 

 In a haunted bedroom, you just half wake and suddenly FEEL ghostly fingers teasing your scalp, stroking and fingercombing your hair. If you have long hair, you might wake up with plaitings done to your hair. That is not ever all. Other bumps of surprises can be such as a soul poking his thick finger inside your mouth and rudely awakening you with a hard fingernail pinching at the furtherest back of your tongue. 😛  You wake suddenly, feeling confused and wondering: “Wha-what was that? Did I just swallow a spider?” Well, it felt like a thick-bodied spider. Then came a ghost’s outburst of laughter. He’d tease you more, if you were female: “Haw, haw, haw, haven’t you ever heard of love?” Suggestion only. 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Are you scared yet?

You should be!

Only one week left to get your project done!

and hide under the bed, until judgement day!

[Rita Geraghty]

I am from Gallows Hill, yet, I cannot possibly think of any scariest story to tell.  It is hard to think any. 🤔 

Hiding under a bed sounds unrealistic.  When you are most petrified, you either run out of room or if already in bed, grab all the four corners of a blanket/quilt and hide beneath. Ghost’s proximity is usually the scariest to people. It means you get to feel ghost’s breath blown into the back of your neck, his fingers teasing your scalp and combing your hair,  etc.    

Add. My home in Gallows Hill is the safest place to live in. No criminals dare come near our place. 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Halloween has come and gone for another year.

If you are reading this , you survived the horrors and nightmares of All Hallows Eve,

Or did you?

Should we call for an exorcist?

Well done to everyone who made it this far and managed a scream!

Now the real scary part begins,

as you quiver in fear of judgement day.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

All the Screamers are listed below.

Member  —  Gallery  —  WIP

@euv   —  Night Shift  

@cgfalcon  —  Halloween Challenge  

@jammingammon  —  Who’s There  

@tanya53  —  Think I’d Learn  

@spikeyxxx  —  The Baby  

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Sorry for the delay in the results.

One of the judges ( @theluthier ) is still hiding under the bed, since Halloween.

We are trying to tempt him out with some treats, but after all the tricks, its quite a challenge.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hey all,

The results are in…

And…

The biggest screamers are…

in no particular order…

@tanya53   —  Think I’d Learn  

@spikeyxxx  —   The Baby   

@euv   —  Night Shift  

@jammingammon   —  Who’s There  

Well done to all entries,

you all scream.

[Stéphane Vahle]

Ok too late for me, waiting for next challenge 🙂 Santa Claus theme ? 😉

[Adrian Bellworthy]

@Injaw this is the Halloween challenge thread from a2021,
here is this years Blender Pumpkin Carving Challenge, you still got a few days.

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