Carrara Challenge #55 - The Seasons - Last Minute Entires
DesertDude
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Welcome to Carrara Challenge #55 - The Seasons!
Season bring change: physical change via the weather, planetary change / transitions / emotions
Seasons invoke different moods
Seasons bring about different festivities which involve different or special foods / dishes / decorations
Seasons have different light - longer days / shorter days
Seasons bring about renewal of life / death or hibernation
Different colors are associated with different seasons in nature and fashion. Different clothes are used in different seasons.
Do other planets in our solar system have seasons? Can you invent a season that doesn’t exist here on Earth using your imagination and Carrara?
How about allegories of the seasons? Many gods and goddesses are associated with the seasons, along with fantastic and mythological creatures.
These seasonal renders don’t have to be ‘outdoors’ - many aspects of seasons are indoors. Escaping the brutal heat of the summer or the comfort of a warm cozy house in the winter. Sometimes there are themes in life of “Summer in the Winter” or “Winter in the Summer”.
Show us your creative interpretation of any Season, or as many as you wish. Show off the limitless capabilities of Carrara!
The Rules:
All entries must be rendered using Carrara (any version) or using one of Carrara’s external plugin rendering engines.
Entries for this challenge must be previously unpublished works.
At least one screen grab of the Carrara workspace must be included in the WIP thread. Explanations of how you used Carrara’s tools and / or plugins are encouraged as these friendly challenges help us all to better understand Carrara’s vast and powerful toolset.
Plugins written for Carrara are welcome.
Use any and all content that is allowed under the Forum Terms of service. Any content that is used should be credited in the Entry Thread.
Post work is welcome, but please explain how or what was done to the image in post so we can all learn.
The 1st place winner will become the host for the next Carrara challenge, decide the theme and set the rules. If the 1st place winner is unable to host, then it falls to the 2nd place winner, and so on. If none of the winners are able to host hopefully someone will volunteer.
Prizes:
1st Place: $70.00 towards DAZ3D owned item(s)
2nd Place: $50.00 towards DAZ3D owned item(s)
3rd Place: $40.00 towards DAZ3D owned item(s)
4th Place: $30.00 towards DAZ3D owned item(s)
(Can only win once)
Dates to Remember:
Work In Progress thread opens: Today!
Entry Thread opens: Friday December 11
Entry Thread closes and Voting Begins: Sunday December 27
Voting closes: Sunday January 3 at midnight DAZ Utah Time
Really looking forward to everyone's awesome images and use of Carrara!
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If looking for inspiration, here are some links
Season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season
Winter (season): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter
Spring (season): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(season)
Summer (season): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer
Autumn (season): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn
Seasons In India - Different types of Seasons in India with months: https://gupshups.org/seasons-in-india/
Seasons of the Year: https://seasonsyear.com/
Weather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather
Deities and personifications of seasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities_and_personifications_of_seasons
awesome theme.... now I have it in my head I shall share it...
Indigenous Australia info on seasons Eastern Australia
https://youtu.be/xnU9xuYAobs
...and eggs just taste Wrong without Seasons!!!
...oh, wait....
seasonings greetings would be a salt
Now to get the thinking cap on !!!
Cool, thanks for the link!
Haha, good one Diomede
+1
great choice @DesertDude :) looking forward to seeing what comes up!
get the ball renders rolling
Modelled, boned & morphed all the models in Carrara
Used the surface replicator and the replicator for the Carrara texts 0 and 1
Postwork was done in PSE20
Title - Codebreakers Season one
Excellent - bugs in the system !!!
Storm Season
Carrara setup
Used Topaz Adjust in post work to bring out the details
Render after Post work.
Added some scene fillers !
You're a genius! I like this interpretation of the theme. Life made sense.
Lambing Season
Carrara Setup
Raw render
Santa Season
Carrara Setup
Topaz Adjust for Postwork, HDR - Pop used to make it Pop !
Postworked Render
Awseome creatures and concept Stezza! I love all the variations of the eyes.
Agree with Vyusur- great use of 'season'!
Cool lightning strikes Bunyip! I think that cow is looking to get the heck out of there...
Awwwwww....
Nicely posed lambs and I like the sunny lighting.
Nice sense of serenity in this one Bunyip. And that filter does make the image 'pop'.
Thanks !!!
get the ball renders rolling
Modelled all the models in Carrara
Used the surface replicator and the replicator for the Carrara texts 0 and 1
Postwork was done in PSE20
Title - Codebreakers Season one
thanks for that .. I wish my teachers in high school thought so as well lol
Great start, Stezza and Bunyip.
The attached is not an entry. For many years, on December 15th, I had a beer across from this fountain. It is the Temperance Fountain, in honor of America's experiment with prohibiting alcohol sales. Won't be having my toast for repeal of prohibition this year.
Trial to see if image would upload - it didn't
Diomede, My dad worked at L'Enfant Plaza for Comsat and I was working in the National Press Building the day the riots of 68 broke out. I walked from 14th & F down to dad's office trying to get home. He wasn't there, had gone to the Clarksburg Labs. A colleague of his took me to his family's home for the night. I remember that statue!
Silene
@Silene
Great story to be able to tell. But glad I didn't live it!
The fountain was moved after that. Here is the Wikipedia account.
The Temperance Fountain was originally placed at a prominent location: Seventh and Pennsylvania Avenue, across from Center Market and near to "Hooker's Division" (now the Federal Triangle). The message was to drink water, not whiskey, as there were so many saloons along the Avenue to tempt passersby. This was near the halfway point between the Capitol and White House. For many years after National Prohibition, it ironically sat in front of the Apex Liquor Store, which operated in the ground floor of the Central National Bank Building.
Washington's Temperance Fountain (lower right corner) for years sat in front of the Apex Liquor Store, housed in the Central National Bank Building.
In 1987, it was relocated about 100 feet north during the renewal by the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, since the statue was regarded as undesirable from the start. The PADC created Indiana Plaza, and the Temperance Fountain swapped locations with the monument to the Grand Army of the Republic, which was considered historically more significant.
thanks Carrarians
how strange @diomede
Weird History ~ would be good to have a beer ( just one ) with you at that place... and chat 3d stuff and other things
some may not get this one.... so, have accompanying video
Oh! What a Night
basic scene setup used Catoon and Daz Dog morphed .. props from Daz and HW3D postwork in PSE20
heh heh very funny Stezza, love the chook with it's neck wrung and the expression on the daug, used to dance to this one - well not in public anyways :)
would do girls witrh beer tankards always look so sexy? must be the shape of the t ankard i am guessing - nice render Diomede :)
and pop it does, will make a great chrissie card :)
ha ha again that front character has a load of err 'character' !! wonderful body language as well
lightning is very effective - applied on planes as transmapps?
this is winter using that rain thingy I made last year - some of the larger raindrops are bit harsh , might have to dull them down - i was suprised how well the splashes turned out
thread here if you missed the car file - sorry the how to images have vanished - pita Carrara Rain Storm - Free to Carrara Users - beta released (updated) - Page 2 - Daz 3D Forums
i used vwd to drape the cloaks and add a little wind effect
Wow, @Headwax, the ground in the rain scene looks amazing. Thank you for that rain.
Thanks for the comment. Regarding the beer server, I've noticed a trend that etsablishments that directly cater to the public often hire attractive sales and customer service employees. It is not universal, but is very common. While I have never been to central Europe, all the Bavarian and Czech tourist pictures show off mountains and valleys.
@Stezza, you are nailing this challenge! Another terrific render.