Freebie Challenge October 2025 - "Monster Mash!" - Main Thread
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Freebie Challenge October 2025 - THE MONSTER MASH!
As I slide open my coffin, and dig through fistfuls of earth to breach the salted ground above, I find myself in good company. My fellow dead, my faithful undead, my kindred spirits from cradle to grave, it is time to gather once more. After faking my own death, and laying low in a Congolese graveyard to avoid significant parking debts – I have returned. For the next three months, 'Puff-daddy Kindred' (working title) will be guiding his flock through our seminal competitive slate. The prizes are bigger, the memes are fatter, and the good times are guaranteed*.
We're kicking off this Halloween, with the annual 2025 Monster Mash. Your task this month is to join me in making some of the spookiest, kookiest creations you can possibly conjure. A werewolf sipping a latte perhaps? A vampire doing some photocopying? A race of fluffy aliens taking over earth?! These are just some ideas I scrawled onto my coffin lid, i'm sure they will inspire someone. Post your horrific creations in the entries thread, and 'puff-daddy K' will review. If I find they have the correct levels of juice, you will be rewarded. Look at these spiffy prizes...
Spiffy indeed. Anyway, i'm mid-way through embalming, so there's no time like the present denizens. Crack those knuckles, shake out the rigor mortis, and show me what you've got!
Rules:
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Minimum of 3 freebies.
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A Maximum of 5 purchased items.
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Genesis and its standard morphs are fine.
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If you postwork your images, provide the base image.
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You can use AI for post-work, upscaling, colour work etc, just go easy and stick with the spirit of the competition.
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All Daz ecosystem programs are allowed – Bryce, carrara etc (Even poser, If you behave yourself)
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Images pictures are subject to Daz TOS.
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No max Entries on this one. I can't count. Do as many as you want.
This Freebie Challenge will end October 31st, 2025 @ 23:59 Daz time.
INFORMATIVE VIDEOS!
First Place: $20 store credit from KindredArts
Second Place: $15 store credit from KindredArts
Third Place: $10 store credit from KindredArts
HM: $5 store credit from KindredArts
Please post your entries in the entries thread below...
ENTRIES THREAD
A LOVELY LIST OF FREEBIES YOU CAN USE!
*Legal notice - the good times are not, in fact, guaranteed.
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Many thanks and good luck!
cool... I now have to find links to my Carrara freebies
Many thanks @mding, I will reserve you a grave.
Haunting.
Thank you @KindredArts!
This looks like fun, will have to see what I have on my computer for this.
Hi,
I'm new to this contest, so may I ask what are the freebies you mentioned? Are they the ones here: https://www.daz3d.com/free-3d-models ?
I also want to say thank you for all your products that I've been a big fan of since I've joined Daz.
Best regards,
Minh
A new friend! I've started compiling a list of resources you can use HERE.
You can use the Daz freebie page, but just be aware that it's rotational, stuff goes on and off sale. You *should* get a $0 receipt though, which should sit in your emails. I doubt we'd ask to see it, but if you're suspected of cheating, lying, or terrorism, we may ask to see your receipt.
Best of luck to you, new pal.
Edit: Scrap the receipt thing, Hylas has some kind of ancient technology to figure it out.
Is it alowed to grab other free model and convert them to Daz Studio?
And how does it count if I make something myself - no count?
Hello there friend.
1. Convert to daz studio - yes, just drop the webpage you got it from.
2. Make my own stuff? - Yes! But, you have to make it available for others for it to count as a freebie.
Hope that's a fair tradeoff.
Hey gang, i really hate to be a downer, but i'm hearing reports of monsters littering the streets. As the temporary warden of this competition, i must as that you keep your monsters with you at all times. The following news report is concerning...
VIDEO
Well done!
Wow,it's so perfect! The video is a masterpiece,compliments!
I seen that clown! he was a little stiff from Mill Hill
Glad to see he thawed out!
FANTASTIC AWESOMENESS!!
Omg 1:06. Lol.
But also how awful of you not to show us the "large blue fluffy looking chap" who was found sleeping among the geraniums. Now I'm going to be wondering all day!
And whether I already have him in my runtime or not... 
Thank you denizens, i'm glad you appreciate such thorough on-the-ground reporting.
Don't worry Saph, i've arranged an interview with him. He's under suspicious of larking, vagrancy and frightening the vicars dog though, so he's perhaps not a very spirited gent.
Wow, @KindredArts, what an incredible video!!
You're going to make me blush! Thank you @mding.
Ok gang, both @SaphireWild and @Payat_Parin have posted compelling evidence of clear monster activity in the entries thread. Do you want these two rowdy rabble-rousers to win enough daz store credit to finance a medium sized, stuffed crust pepperoni pizza from dominos? If not, you'd best post your evidence, post-haste. Time waits for no man, and i wouldn't want anyone to perish without submitting their findings to the annual freebie competition monster mash™.
Well done to the rabble-rousers.
Hey Gang! Only a mere week to go before the monster mash draws to a close. Thank you everyone who has been participating, i have been watching from the wings with great interest. If you still have submissions ready to render, now is the time chums.
Another contest newbiee here.
Before I get started on anything, I was wondering if free assets from SpartanPig95 or Shinteo from DA are allowed?
Sorry chief, i missed this. If they are free models, i would probably say yes. We don't really have accredited repo's that you must use, so long as it's free you're probably gold.
That's okay, it was kind of short notice. Mayhaps I'll get the chance to enter the next one.
Hey gang, that's it for Halloween! Thank you everyone who took part, and those of you who took the time to collect your monsters after rendering. Can't have them cluttering up the place, now can we?
The mash will return next year. Voting will take place soon! New comp will be up today.
If there are a lot of surplus monsters wandering around maybe "Alternative Thanksgiving Dinner" would be a useful theme.
Ha! I'll scribble it down on my donny osmond fridge calendar for next year. In the meantime, i'm sure we can re-deploy them for the christmas period.
WINNERS!
Friends, it's time once more. I have to announce the winners, and it always brings me great indegestion, because you all try your hardest, like a little squadron of victorian chimney sweeps. I have consulted the high council, and the winners of the 2025 monster mash are thus..
1st Place: Dhivael - Jiangshi
2nd Place: SaphireBlue - A monster love of reading
3rd Place: Payat Parin - Abducted!
4th Place: Emanuela1 - Halloween
That's it my fellow spooks. Until next year, back to your coffins with you...
To the winners: Please send me your preferred email address for your gift card via DM.
Congrats to the winners, well done!
Wow! Thank you! <3 And congrats to the other winners!
congratulations to the winners!
Congrats to the winners!