Carrara Challenge #50: A Special Carrara Anniversary Celebration - Results Announced
UnifiedBrain
Posts: 3,588
Welcome to the Entry Voting Thread!
We are opening the Entry thread early to help artists avoid scheduling conflicts at the last minute. The closing date of this Challenge is still TBA, but likely late January.
Reminder of specific entry requirements for this month:
1. There are three categories you can enter. You need to specify the category of your entry.
Category 1 - Welcome to My Garden (up to 2 entries)
Category 2 - Fifty Shades of Carrara (up to 2 entries)
Category 3 - Wild Card (one entry only)
Rules and other details are posted in the WIP thread.
Suggested template for entries:
Entry: #
Title:
Artist:
Category: Garden, 50, Wild
WIP Links:
Products Used:
Additional Notes:
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
224 S 200 W, Suite #250
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2024 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
Entry: #1
Title: A Golden Challenge
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Category: 50
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5161306/#Comment_5161306
Products Used: Genesis 3 Ophelia
Additional Notes: 50th Anniversary coins modeled and replicated in Carrara. Carrara hair is a modified native object. No postwork.
Entry: #2
Title: First Garden Gift
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Category: Welcome to My Garden
WIP Links:
- Creating custom leaves - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5155436/#Comment_5155436
- Adding fruit to a tree - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5171276/#Comment_5171276
- Using height and opacity maps to make garden rows on terrain - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5172946/#Comment_5172946
- Multiple terrains to add a stream - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5173576/#Comment_5173576
- Using opacity maps to replicate plants on terrain - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5177561/#Comment_5177561
- Use hair modeler to create thatch for cottage roof - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5184581/#Comment_5184581
- Put it together - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5187256/#Comment_5187256
Products Used: None
Additional Notes: In the very first challenge, I had an entry with a custom female figure wearing coverall shorts and a bonnet, and another entry with cornstalks. This entry includes some cornstalks and a custom female figure wearing a bonnet and coverall shorts. Please use the plants in your own gardens. Most can be found on my ShareCG page. Here is one.
https://www.sharecg.com/v/92739/gallery/5/3D-Model/plant-shrubbery-Carrara-format
Entry: #3
Title: Vicky in a Garden with Two Plantmen
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Category: Welcome to My Garden
WIP Links:
-Creating the Plant Man - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5151996/#Comment_5151996
-Garden elements, arch background, and composition - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5165706/#Comment_5165706
-Adding a Vicky and pond dweller- https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5187506/#Comment_5187506
Products Used: Victoria 6 (G2F), Caledora Dress, Actual Hair, Dragonfolk (look closely at lake surface)
Additional Notes:
Entry: #4
Title: Snow Garden
Artist: Misty
Category: Garden
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5175156/#Comment_5175156
Products Used:
Entry: #5
Title: 50th Jubilee Cake Pinup
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Category: 50
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5222751/#Comment_5222751
Products Used: Victoria 6, Harlow Hair, Hongyu Bikini, Drips and Drops
Additional Notes: Cake constructed with terrain modeler
Entry: # 6
Title: Wintry Garden
Artist: Cbird (Christine)
Category: Garden
WIP Links: birch-- https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5196591/#Comment_5196591
White Pine-- https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5210941/#Comment_5210941
Dogwoods, Hemlock-- https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5226376/#Comment_5226376
Products Used: Tane for Daz Horse 2, Ron's Steam and Smoke, Ron's Winter collection (for falling snow)
Entry: #7
Title: In The Beginning
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Category: Garden
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5226486/#Comment_5226486
Products Used: The characters are V3, M3, and Toon Snake. The food trailer is a kitbash of Taco Van, Tractor F9N, some Moonshine Drive In interior items, and some modeling. Hair: Blonde Bombshell and Mon Chevalier.
Additional Notes: Carrara Plant Editor (trees), Carrara Hair (grass), Carrara Surface Replicator (flowers), Carrara Realistic Sky, Carrara Text, Carrara Vertex Modeler (flowers, part of trailer, apples), GMIC.
No Postwork.
Entry: #8
Title: 60 Bottles on the Wall
Artist: Misty
Category: 50
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5230336/#Comment_5230336
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5230676/#Comment_5230676
Entry: #9
Title: Wacky 50th Partaaaaaay
Artist: Stezza
Category: 50
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5143156/#Comment_5143156
Products Used: all items ( except for LoRenzo )in the image were modeled and or retextured by me
Entry: #10
Title: Burn, Burn, Burn
Artist: Stezza
Category: Garden
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5163896/#Comment_5163896
Products Used: used G2 with G2 firemans set and AM's koala with Carrara hair
Entry: #11
Title: Carrara Banana
Artist: Stezza
Category: Wild
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5166031/#Comment_5166031
Products Used: 3du banana
#12
garden
shlomi laszlo
#13
botanical garden
shlomi laszlo
Entry: #14
Title: Dreaming the Impossible Dream
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Category: 50
WIP Links:
- original Don Coyote (my 50th entry) and new concept - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5181486/#Comment_5181486
- morph from Don Coyote to Don Quixote - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5190781/#Comment_5190781
- toon horse and converting dynamic hair to toon mesh hair - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5203106/#Comment_5203106
- putting it all together - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5240316/#Comment_5240316
Products Used: None
Additional Comments: My 50th entry in an official Carrara monthly challenge was for the theme of anachronism. I did a toon render of Don Coyote, the Man of Laredo dueling a wind power turbine. Here is a render of Don Quixote, created using a morph of my Don Coyote figure, dueling a windmill.
Entry: #15
Title: My Garden
Artist: Vyusur
Category: 1
WIPs: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5242281/#Comment_5242281
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5244486/#Comment_5244486
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5269081/#Comment_5269081
Product used: https://www.daz3d.com/janna-original-figure
Entry: # 16
Title: 1950 Studebaker
Artist: Bunyip02
Category: 50
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5139766/#Comment_5139766
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5140206/#Comment_5140206
Products Used: 1950 Studebaker - https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=65488
Collective3d Neighborhood Block 1: Part A - https://www.daz3d.com/collective3d-neighborhood-block-1-part-a
Arboretum Volume 1 - https://www.daz3d.com/arboretum-volume-1
World Gardens Japan Seasons - https://www.daz3d.com/world-gardens-japan-seasons
Stoney Creek - https://www.daz3d.com/stoney-creek
Tim Payne Lightdomes - https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-lightdomes-1 (no longer available)
Tim Payne Skies - https://www.daz3d.com/carrara-skies-volume-1 (no longer available)
XfrogPlants Peach ( Prunus persica ) Freebie - http://xfrog.com/product/FR16.html
Predatron Geraniums - https://www.daz3d.com/predatron-geraniums
Predatron Camellia Bushes - https://www.daz3d.com/predatron-camellia-bushes
Genesis
Casual 1950 for Genesis Female - https://www.daz3d.com/casual-1950-for-genesis-female
Casual 1950 for Genesis Male - https://www.daz3d.com/casual-1950-for-genesis-male
Knicky Hair - https://www.daz3d.com/k-nicky-hair-for-genesis
Chic Hair - https://www.daz3d.com/chic-hair-for-genesis-and-genesis-2-females
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 17
Title: Happy 50th
Artist: Bunyip02
Category: 50
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5140241/#Comment_5140241
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5140536/#Comment_5140536
Products Used: Terrain - Carrara
Text - Action Man Font - https://fontmeme.com/fonts/action-man-font/
Candles - 2nd.World3D
Fireworks - https://www.daz3d.com/fireworks_19727
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 18
Title: Live Long & Prosper
Artist: Bunyip02
Category: Wild
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5249756/#Comment_5249756
Products Used: Genesis
Valiant for Michael 4 - https://www.daz3d.com/valiant-for-michael-4
Star Trek TOS for M4 Valiant - https://www.sharecg.com/v/40186/related/11/Poser/Star-Trek-TOS-for-M4-Valiant
Spock Hair M4 - https://www.sharecg.com/v/44950/browse/11/Poser/Spock-Hair-for-M4
The Spider Nebula - https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20357/the-spider-nebula/
Enterprise Reimagined - https://www.deviantart.com/mattymanx/art/Enterprise-Reimagined-348604043
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 19
Title: Hobbit Home
Artist: Varsel
Category: Garden
WIP Links:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5228741/#Comment_5228741
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5231041/#Comment_5231041
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5250536/#Comment_5250536
Products Used: Lorenzo Lorez
Additional Notes:
Entry: # 20
Title: The Gate
Artist: headwax
Category: Garden
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5224796/#Comment_5224796
Notes:
Here's another from me more use of Pilemenon's cutout plug in.I used it for the statues, the flowers and the grass.
In the plant room I added the same flowers to the two trees on the right and left - the one on the left I also added the grass ( as leaves - second layer of leaves in the plant room - which I alwayus miss)
The ivy ferns are with fenrics ivy plugin. I didn't like how the brancjh texture looked so I selected the branch with the object pass and filled it with a new bark texture and changed the parameter to0 'overlay'
I modelled the gate and hinges - clever me :)
I rendered an image of grass in another car program and tiled that and used it for the texture of the ground , I also added hair as grass on the ground. Also grass to the walls to soften the artificial stone look.
The texture on the statues is a terrain texture - I used the texture from wiki (same pic I used for the cutout) then added a greenish verssion of that in the terrain shader as the grass layer to try and get a bit of patina - didnt work too well.
There werent enough flowers in the grass so I used my object pass to select the red flowers then copy and pasted them in the foreground - see before and after image.
I used the depth pass to add distance haze -
All my images are 4000 pixels wide if you clicken them.
Notes
Entry: # 21
Title: Moon Garden
Artist: Headwax
Category: Garden
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5188076/#Comment_5188076
Notes: Used the fountain preset for that greyish distance groundcover, I made the texture for the terrain by rendering out a replicated grass texture and using tht as the terrain texture.
Rocks via organic model tool in the vertex room. Flowers by Philemnon,s cutout plugin. Rocks texture with his triplanar plugin.
Caustics added a weird glow to the water's edge but it's kinda of spooky so I left it
Image is 4000 wide if you click it
Entry: # 22
Title: Apollo 13
Artist: Headwax
Category: 50
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5233421/#Comment_5233421
Notes: It's 50 years since the almost disasterous Apollo Mission took place.
If you know the movie poster you can see the homage in the moon and the earth. IThe suit is from carrara objects folder - atrocious it is.
The helmet an M3 one available at Daz - heavily retextured. The cockpit is made from two vertex spheres bolleaned.
M4 stars as himself. The postwork utilises a diffuse pass to bring back lost textures.
Image is 4000 wide if you click it
Entry: # 23
Title: Golden Swamp
Artist: Headwax
Category: Gold
WIP Links:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5224806/#Comment_5224806
Notes - my secret weapon was Caustics - see the WIP to see what difference it made.
All the plants from the plant room.
Image is 4000 wide if you click it
Entry: # 24
Title: (Fifty Shades of...) Surprise & Anticipation
Artist: FENgari
Category: 2
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5274946/#Comment_5274946
Notes - use of Carrara's softbody physics, hair and texture tree to improve on standard V4.2 model. No post work.
Entry: #26
Title: Zero Hour
Artist: UnifiedBrain
Category: Wild
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5268856/#Comment_5268856
Subject: US Army nurses on Corregidor (Philippines) captured by the Japanese in WW II.
Products Used: V3, V4, V5. The hairs were Librarian Pinup Updo, Zach, Riccardi, and Violet Airplanes (Zeros) were Zeke Military Aircraft. Shirts were from Eldrich Seeker.
Additional Notes: Carrara processes include realistic sky, clouds, spin modifer, depth of field, text, terrain, and plant modeler. Carrara plugins were GMIC and Philemo's Cutouts and Blimps.
No postwork.
Entry: # 27
Title: (50) Congratulations
Artist: FENgari
Category: 2
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5277366/#Comment_5277366
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5258601/#Comment_5258601
Notes - use of Carrara's particle emitter to produce sparkle. No post work.
Entry: # 28
Title: My (Garden) - Planet Earth's Rapidly Eradicated Tree Population...
Artist: FENgari
Category: 1
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5282566/#Comment_5282566
Notes - use of Carrara's plant room, terrain generator, realistic sky lab and Motion blur (Vector) effect. No post work.
Entry: 29
Title: Modeling in Carrara
Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)
Category: Wildcard
WIP Links https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5283626/#Comment_5283626
Additional Notes: Modeled in Carrara.
Entry: # 30 (UPDATED)
Title: Alien (Garden)
Artist: FENgari
Category: 1
WIP Links: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5285781/#Comment_5285781
Notes - use of Carrara hair, Vertex Modelling Room, Deformers, Particles and FluidosII plugin.