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Weekend Contest: "The Early Bird Catches the Worm"

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Send in your entries early this week, because "The Early Bird Catches the Worm"!

Vincent Holzborn writes:

I have been thinking for quite some time about a good topic.

What I noticed is that not always the best images are winning, since images posted very early have a much better chance to get a lot of votes before other images are posted. Often, images posted at a later stage have a higher quality because more time was spent on them.

This is why I chose the following theme/proverb ;-):

"The early bird catches the worm"

I think it's nice because it leaves a lot of room for ideas. You don't necessarily have to take it literally, you can also use it in a figurative sense.

I hope you enjoy and feel inspired.

Image: Gotcha! ~ Feathered Bird Project

About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

52 Comments

  1. Brian Lockett on

    You know, we might have better luck with voting distribution if we open the contests on Friday, and then generally start the voting on Sunday. Just a thought. ;)

  2. Andre Strydom on

    "Early bird kills on sight!"
    Early bird uses conditioner... Maybe he'll get more samples and better res later.

  3. AspiringAnimator on

    So, I decided to go back to low-poly. I call it... "The Earlybirds." I based this off my own memory of chasing birds around the yard when I was a kid.
    Comments and critiques appreciated! Enjoy!!!

    • So this is actually quite charming once I figured out what was happening. My main suggestion is that the composition could use a little work. You have the bird centered in the frame which moves all of the focus towards the middle and makes the image feel very static (doubly enforced by the vignetting). I think that in this image the directionality of the movement is important, since it is a fairly dynamic scene, and there is a pretty clear chain of events (misfortunes? :p) happening. Something as simple as shifting the bird to the left third (by just moving the camera to the right) could help unbalance the image enough to make the composition really interesting.

  4. So how about that weather? We had flurries about a week ago, gotta love Wisconsin!

    Anyways, I feel bad for those first few birds who arrived here a recently and had to endure the cold, so I present to you, "A Wisconsin Spring" in honor of those early birds

  5. jBlenderUser3D on

    Whoops, I was clicking through the posts, and while trying to see the votes, I voted for several people, including myself. Please disregard any of my votes, as they were unintentional. :)

  6. Hi!! This is my interpretation... "The time of the worm." As always, all done in blender, as quickly as possible, and hope that you enjoy it!

  7. Vincent Holzborn on

    Hi, actually I didn`t want to do any 3D this weekend... at least I spend 2 to 3 hours on this.

    This is nothing special rather a romantic morning image: the early bird at dawn :-)

    Modelling is very low poly, texture is projected from my reference image, the background is an blurred image. Most time I spend with finding a perspective. Post as usual done in PS.

  8. SchwanzusLongus on

    After long time I just refreshed my hotkey knowledge a bit again. Took me ~30min.
    This image is quite similiar to my daily work setup.
    The sooner you go to work the more early you can get home :)

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