Epic Pumpkin Contest – Discussion

[Pavel Mazanik]

@wesburke 

The use of external software for modeling, rendering or VFX is not permitted.

Textures are OK to be from places such as Poliigon, TextureHaven or Game Textures.  

Summing up this two statements I believe we can use external software to create textures, isn’t it? Some of the Poliigon textures are definitely done with Substance Designer.

[Wes Burke]

@codywinch Hey Cody, for this contest lets keep it as a still render for the final submission, of course you’re welcome to still rock out a SketchFab scene. 🙂 

[Wes Burke]

@nekronavt Sure that is cool, the spirit of the contest is to use as much of Blender as we can, with the understanding some things such as textures will be created outside of it.

Another exception may be. E.g we just released this 3D PhotoScan Pumpkin Course: https://www.cgcookie.com/course/creating-a-realistic-3d-photo-scanned-pumpkin While you’re technically generating a pumpkin from a scan there is a lot of work to do in Blender there-after. The cool thing would be is you picked out a pumpkin, did the heavy lifting and you still must take it into Blender to retopo, bake normals, apply textures, carve, etc.  👍

[Pavel Mazanik]

@wesburke cool, thanks 🙂

[smurfmier1985]

@wesburke just an observation, the first entry of the contest is called ‘entry 103’, is a bit strange.. guess he also counts the entries of the previous 2D contest?

[yukino hatake]

@wesburke question what is bake normals and carve? Can we also use inspiration from internet or is that not allowed? 

[silentheart00]

@yukinoh1989 Here’s a course on normals.

[Aaron Rudderham]

Anyone  know how to make a good skin shader/material or can point me to some good tutorials? Asking for a friend…

[John Sanderson]

@thecabbagedetective These are both good:

The first is from Yansculpts, and shows how to do a texture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsyL2Kp5bQ

This one is from Kent, and its a bit older.  It just covers the shader, but still has plenty of good info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qeNy9vNx1U

[Aaron Rudderham]

@procyonlotor My guardian angel has arrived, thank you very much!

[Jere Haapaharju]

This sounds fun 😊

[Wes Burke]

@smurfmier1985 Agreed, that is a little strange. But you’ve nailed it. It appears it’s building off of previous contests. That specific entry though will need to be removed. It is submitting a previous piece of work that was created prior to the contest start. Easy thing to do.  Have a rocking week!

[Wes Burke]

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your pumpkin, I found some rad ones on the CG Cookie Gallery that may just do that. Some of these were folks entering in the last time we did this contest. 

[yukino hatake]

@wesburke wow they are amazing. That last one is the one that impresses me the most 

[Cookie Dough]

@wesburke Ha ha, they took it literally, they have a rancor running from it. I was actually thinking about making Luke Skywalker, but read the rest of it and realized the goal wasn’t just to scare a rancor lol.

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