NVidia Art Competition Spot Prize goes to Blender/Cycles Render by Gusztáv Szikszai
Congratulations to Gusztáv Szikszai, who won the spot prize for Best Product Visualisation in NVidia’s “Moving Innovation” competition, and who created his entry in blender and rendered it with cycles! You can read more about his entry, as well as seeing the other winning entries on the competition page at CGSociety.org.
first comment!
looks awesome!!!
Go Blender Go !
Congratulations Gusztáv, very well deserved price. Great that you show the power of Cycles already in it’s early alpha state! :)
This ring is indeed very creative, would buy one too :D
Regards, DingTo
I want that ring!!
Congrats!!
Congrats and that’s a nice concept indeed.
Shame the link’s site is gubbed in chrome when you hit next on it..
Congratulations Gusztáv, nice work.
Binjam
I wrote the exact same thing in an article some days ago and it did not come out… Why is that??
Congrats, Gusztáv. I thought it was rendered with some other software package. :)
Well first congrats, but truth be said, this watch looks amazing! He would earn some millions selling this moddel. I would surely use one like that [in a different set of colors though]
Congratulations! Nice render, and nice looking product. You should seriously look into manufacturing this. Might make a good Kickstarter project!
I too would love to buy this! Have you patented the design yet? better be quick if this is a new design.
Awesome! at this current stage only render metallic objects and glossy,and glass?how about organic shading?
any update from cycles.? been waiting sometime for a new and good release. cycles now is powerful at this early stage.’this prove its power” keep it up” congratz!
Very nice Ring Gusztáv.
Congrats again for the competition :-)
Not to be a “Blender homer” or anything, but the first prize render was kind of lame compared to the other renders… It looked like those cheap, direct-to-DVD movies with bad lip-sync (though, it’s clearly above my current skill level so I don’t mean to berate the artist for his quality work)
The rings were the best and definitely should’ve won. Nice job!!!
I don’t get it. Do the dials turn automatically? Or do you have to manually turn them? Because it would be kind of pointless to have to manually change the time every second. :P
Amazing work Gusztav, hope to hear from you in the future with new stunning works!
Congrats!!!
It looks good in every way. Nice render and nice concept, I would like to have this watch :0)
Good job on the concept, first and foremost, and nice render. Way to not make everything in sci-fi all “It’s a plane of glass that magically shoots out holograms, and it’s also a plane of glass, with holograms. No batteries required.” Just a good point to think of a good concept before ever laying your hands on the mouse.
best people use best tools ;-)
@roofoo, yes, it would be incredibly pointless to turn the rings by hand every second. And probably not real accurate for telling time either.
So I think that means that you *do* get it. ;)
Seriously, patent this and get someone to make them. I think the comments show that there is a real market for them.
I think friction from rubbing against the other fingers may be a problem, but nothing that couldn’t be resolved with a glass covering.
Anyway, very nice Render. Congratulations!
have to +1 the idea of a practical application. i would actually prefer a ring as it seems a more masculine targeted jewelery, not many bangles and bracelets worn be men, unfortunately. of course i’m not sure of the practical application of making it into a ring with the different movement of the rings. what happens if you clench fingers or something and hold up the rotation? obviously wouldn’t be a mechanical movement watch, but how would you design the ring to catch up in those inevitable fuck ups?
anyways, as to the artwork… maybe the GI effect is a bit overblown? or maybe there’s an environment texture/light that i’m unaware of…. the shading of the silver compared with the black doesn’t seem homogeneous. i can’t do any better, so i shouldn’t really speak. and the funny thing is i’m sure the model was designed rather quickly (belying the deep thought involved in the primary idea) and the texturing/shading/lighting was probably agonized over. if this was thrown together in an hour, however…. color me amazed.
How would batteries fit in such a ring? Still, very nice. Doing Blender proud!
Way to go, Gusztáv! Congrats, man! Looks very nice! Nice usage of Cycles!
Beatiful design and render, but it is the weirdest clock I’ve ever seen – the hours go up to 24! On any 24-hr clock I’ve ever seen in my life, midnight is 00:00 hours, not 24:00 hours :-)
I want this ring now! also congratulations! perfect job!
Wait… that was modelled in Blender and rendered in Cycles? Awesome! This image was submitted to reddit (more framed on wanting the actual device). Now I know it was done by a blender artist!
AWESOMEEE!!!
I wanted to participate in this contest but didn’t had any good ideas :p
That first price is HUGE xD
Congratz!
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That’s why it is so ground-breaking, ;-)
@Reaction
Before the digital age there were analog clocks (and watches) with a 24-hour clock dial, and they used to show midnight as 24.
It is probably because with digital clocks the “see-what-hour-is-next” effect is gone, instead you only see the current time where 24:38 would look like it’s still yesterday ;)
I’d rotate the numbers but otherwise a brilliant idea.
I would definately buy one. So much awesome.