Design the BlenderNation Header

header2.jpgI guess we should rename ourselves ‘BlendernaZen’ this week – that reflects the feeling I got when I first saw Otávio Tatasoka’s entry to our ‘Design the BlenderNation Header’ contest. I really appreciate the tranquility of this one – I think it makes a great header (especially after the dynamic graphic of Gustav last week!). Congratulations, Otávio! Your image will be on the site until next week.

To see the new header, you may need to press SHIFT+reload in your browser to force a cache refresh.

Keep the designs coming! Just paste them under this post. Also if your header image wasn’t selected this week, I may still pick it next week.

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  • http://www.amajorproductions.com Aaron Williams
  • jedihe

    Good! I like this week header also! :)

    jedihe

  • Shane

    Here’s my little effort: http://www.ultravisual.co.uk/Images/harry.png

    :-)

  • http://freezingmoon.wordpress.com Dread Knight

    tranquility is awsome :D

  • http://www.davidrevoy.com David Revoy ( Deevad )

    good work!
    I like this new way to exhibit the work of some artist.

    May be a section could make a gallery of all the past banners ?

  • http://notyet... Bratu Sebastian


  • http://notyet... Bratu Sebastian

    I would like to congratulate you for such a great website. I always view it every day.
    This is mine:
    http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bnlogowc5.jpg

  • knekke

    My first time…. taking part in a competition.
    It doesn’t hurt :D

    http://www.heulfritze.de/stuff/BN_banner.jpg

  • meltdown

    Why not to push the concept further in playing at css level.

  • knekke

    with a slimmer reflective bar it looks better I was told… so here it is:
    http://www.heulfritze.de/stuff/BN_banner_2.jpg

  • http://www.blenderheads.com/nyconf Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

    Should me repost our header if it wasn’t choosed? or you already saved all the ones you liked?

  • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

    @Jean-Sébastien: no need to repost; I keep a list of the ones I want to use.

  • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

    Nice work! Looks great!

  • Lasphere

    hmm got a great idea.

  • inazuma

    knekke-

    I like yours the best…thus far.

    Care to post your materials/nodes on this?

  • knekke

    @inazuma:
    thx :D
    how about the blend-file?:
    http://www.heulfritze.de/stuff/BN_banner_knekke.blend.zip
    No node-setups involved. Don’t laugh at the UV-texture, it was intended for testing purposes…dindn’t look too bad in renderings so I let it be. I rendered out passes and tweaked them a little in shake (trying to teach myself shake atm, which can handle multilayer-.exr btw)

  • simon
  • inazuma

    @knekke:

    Thanks for the blend. I will be looking at it in more detail over the weekend. It’s funny, when I look at the jpg – I had a completely different take on the structure (maybe had to do with the background and contrasting – shake?). For some reason, I was getting a very silky feel from the image.

  • http://web.interware.hu/zmiklosi/header_zoltan_miklosi.png zoltan miklosi

    Is this contest in progress ??? – here is my entry

  • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

    @zoltan: yeah, I still monitor these threads. You forgot to include a URL though!