Great work and interestyng sword style.
Great Pick. Do what you like is not possible every time, but the best choice!
Keep doing!
@thecabbagedetective I am the same opinion. The cracks are very cool!
Cool stuff! I am curious to see the final result!
Very nice! I like the little skull, looks a bit spooky 🙂
Your points are used. The Team points are for the ranking and boost your own ranking what I know. You have 300k points, so you on place 100 for rendering your project because people with more points render before you. The Team points put you on place 50. Only an example. If you not have enough points we can render your project 4 free if you gave me a public key. This key is only used for render, and we can not login your account. This is a nice option, but if you use it you have to do the same 4 the people 🙂

I found it easier to send the .blend file. So I don’t need to care about correct /path of all my files.
Important is to pack all images at the .blend file!

The maximum upload is limited to 500mb.
@sheila5 hm….ok I render with these settings since half year and never have troubles. Do you render with laptop?
@sheila5 yes thats it 🙂
@sheila5 if you use GPU for rendering it always lags, because GPU always render with 100% and her are no resources left for the display. You also can open 2 instances of sheep it to render with CPU and GPU at the same time. In this case you need to reduce the CPU cores at least at 2 because the CPU have to put the data to the GPU. So you can pause the instance from GPU sheepit if you want to work and have more control.
@dostovel you are right, there are so many possibilities, yesterday I can’t render it, but today it works fine.
@dostovel sometimes frames need to long to render. If sheepIt notize that tha project will be frozen till you render 1 frame by your self. I have never troubles by rendering with sheep it. If you have trouble you can go on https://discordapp.com/channels/253355867938750485/301912419368697856 . The admin answers very fast and can take a look whats going wrong on your render.
I am looking full of expectation and joy to this workshop. I love the live events and this is my first class 🙂
I think we should use RC3? https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
WoW! I am very impressed from the posts above!
I hope you also like my final result 🙂 I like it, and have improved my skills a lot! I started a bit late and so my time is over, but the next challenge I will start earlier!
WIP: https://cgcookie.com/t/2070-wip-cgc-challenge-2-vehicles-philipp-bauer?page=1#answer-20492

Final:

I tried to include all the nice tips in my work.
And here it is! The final result!

Rendered with SheepIt. 5k samples (just for fun;)

very fast and very nice 🙂