BlenderDay Award 2011
The German Blender conference is hosting a cool contest. And don’t worry, you can participate even if you don’t visit!
Hey everyone,
The German Blender conference BlenderDay is very happy to announce the “BlenderDay Award 2011″. Initiated by Francesco Faranna from Breitbild Visual Effects, you can win cool prizes like a Geforce GTX 560 TI with 2GB of RAM, perfect for Cycles. In total the prices are worth more than 500 Euro!Everyone can participate, you don’t have to be a visitor of BlenderDay. Still, as the award is for a german speaking conference, all further information are only available in German ;-)
Link
All information are available in this pdf document (German only)
http://blenderday.de/daten/2011/BlenderDayAward_Info.pdf
Here is the translation, to save all you hard-working people going through Google yourselves …
http://www.pasteall.org/22520
So, if I understood correctly, you can do your model or matte painting in whatever other software you want, as long as you find a way to import it into Blender?
Doing that would be… strange.
@Zecc
At least that’s what the website is saying.
Doesn’t really make much sense for a Blender-related contest…
Zecc: That is correct! But the shading/rendering has to be done inside Blender. That’s why you have to deliver the .blend file as well.
TLOZ: What is wrong with Blender not beeing the only application allowed? This is what you do in a studio pipeline anyways, using different software. :)
Again: Shading/Rendering must be done inside Blender!
Well, for myself, it is an unusual workflow : most of the time I do everything in Blender, except rendering (Octane) !
@DingTo
Sure, there’s nothing wrong with it.
But still it would have made more sense to restrict the tools to Blender and maybe an external (& free) render engine like luxrender or yafaray.
With the current rules, the major work >can< be done in eg. Maya, ZBrush or Max and just the rendering (and shading) is done in Blender. Also, the BR isn't the most powerful renderer around.
Well, I didn't make the rules – anyways, still a pretty nice idea.
1:
I’m confused… so is it an animation contest? if so, what is the Category 2: Environment about?? How is that related to an animation?
Do you choose which category to do or must you do both?
Greg Zaal:
You can animate an environment as well (camera, moving trees, whatever) ;-)
You can choose one category.