Everybody had FUN last week in our mini-contest, so let's have another one. As this is our last week on this Earth, we'll go with Nazzareno's suggestion for this weekend's theme: "The Maya Were Right". Again, +1 your favorite in the comments. The winner will be announced on Monday and will get his work shown in a header on the site later next week. Have fun, and enjoy the weekend!!
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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.
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The Maya were right about what? Interestingly, they never predicted anything significant will happen on Dec. 21, it's just the end of one calendar and the beginning of a new one. People put too much emphasis on the Hollywood hype. :P
When nothing happens, we can say that they *were* right, after all! :)
So we should make a blend of "nothing happening"?
-Select all
-Delete
-Done!
Ha! Ha! That was brilliant! I guess we should still keep a starry background when we render.
Not quite. A render of nothing would imply the universe is gone or something.
The world supply of toilet paper has vanished. The Maya were right it is the end of the world.
The Arabs seem to do fine without it...
I guess we'd have to start using the "Three Seashells" method (what ever that was -- or will be). ;)
Half reading that will go "ha", the other half "huh?"
Maya from Autodesk ? ;)
+1
Good one.
haha.. nice man,
How to +1 anything?
+1 ;-)
ahhh
+1
Just imagine the end of the world or re imagine what the Maya were right about XD
Hey guys, here is mine again. :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4841156837213&set=a.2928132652804.2144065.1545575056&type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4841174157646&set=o.2207257375&type=1&theater
nice DoF
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Conversation with adam on 12/3/2012 2:42:21 PM:
luke: we should have gone to the golf driving range today - except i think they are closed for the season (silly)
adam: Oh yea! It's like April out!
luke: maybe it IS April - ever think of THAT? =D
adam: Haha! And our system of keeping track of months and days is all screwy.
luke: Maybe the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world, but rather just realized the rest of the world was SO terrible at keeping dates, they gave up on making calendars.
adam: Haha! Agreed. April it is. (I think)
adam: Whenever we say the date, we should just start by saying possibly.
luke: I mean, You could be a master gourmet chef, but if everyone was always going to mcdonalds instead, You might feel like giving up too - lol McCalendar McApril
adam: Haha! Seriously. What did their calendars go for, like 2500 years? And here we're trying to pass off 1 year calendars on people?
adam: Fast food of timekeeping
luke: right - modern calandar of profit driven... every year the old calendar is obsolete... helps calendar sales... Mayan calander was good for how man centuries? lol no profit there
luke: they went out of business
adam: Haha!
luke: it was their fiscal cliff - whole culture based on calendar sales - it's why they disappeared
luke: mystery solved. you're welcome.
Why I thought you were talking about MAYA's software and a cartoon honey-bee rather than "them"?
You know there's more than one person that would think this was the end of it all, if not at least their life.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l0IvZijJR7w/UMwIUiR-bUI/AAAAAAAAAFo/RPTeBrZZcv4/s1280/EndOfWorld.jpg
I thought it was funny.
"Including but limited"? Even sounds like a Facebook typo!
Crap. Missed that. I claim the 'late night' defense.
I like the Idea with the Maya a great topic to create cool pictures.
Here is my entry for the contest :)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/themayawereright.png/
nice
Wow! +1
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Here's mine: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jWE0kFMHw7o/UMzuwPyWk9I/AAAAAAAAAIM/Z_Yoyo8CSIk/s800/mixed_earth.jpg
What happens when a blender noob, using Internal renderer decides to enter a pro competition?
Find out here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/62133801/WorldEnd_Blender.png
At least you guys will find out about the origins of Suzanne's family (check in the ship's cockpit).
=)
+1
My Birthday coming up on Dec 18th.
nothing will happens. lol
nobody know when that happens.
Blender Dev, Please keep working on new 2.66.
Hello, this my entery for this contest.
It's not "hollywood like" but i think it's a funny picture.
http://www.zoo-logique.org/3D.Blender/galeries_automatiques/index.php?cat=images_blender&gal=2012&pic=Maya_12_21_2012.jpg
My image records a different Mayan prediction that was recently discovered! Hope the link works.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90355685@N04/8276404535/in/photostream
Here's an idea:
Create a scene of a Mayan chiseling out the calendar and then giving up after he runs out of space...
=D
Hi all, lets party, the end is comming. :)
2012 Years warrante.
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/41911
Hey there,
mhh, are there any rules in this contest? ;)
If not, here's my entry (The alien wasn't made for this contest but entirely by me and in Blender / sliiight color-correction in Photoshop).
http://d.pr/i/d1PN
http://manuell3d.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/fridgerender.png
Here is my try :D
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You should render one with more passes!
http://blendvent2012.tumblr.com/image/38076546201
Here's mine.
http://i.imgur.com/cnKot.png
Q'uq'umatz is not amused...
Here's my entry… the Mayan Inquisition that nobody suspected.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelbuffer/8279160854/in/photostream
Better render, slight adjustment of angle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelbuffer/8280593110/in/photostream
One more for the pot ...
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh590/martianr1/MayaRightAndLeft_zpsd1684a96.jpg
+1 really love concept and lighting, very fun and good looking!
Here's my attempt.
I had trouble using the new smoke simulator for the first time in 2.65 so I didn't get the exact result I wanted but it turned out pretty good for not putting much time into it.
https://plus.google.com/photos/113137261318251975789/albums/5822755696389763537
Hope you enjoy.
Here's my contribution.
http://blendergraphics.weebly.com/uploads/9/2/2/9/9229021/7729888_orig.jpg
My first contest ever, too! Criticism is welcome.
"21.12.2012 End Of File"
10 min in storm_st's volume branch for cycles:
https://5838cfe9-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/redlinerender/home/gallery/21122012_EOF.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cri3bm5CMjsVVGTA_hC2h4kQyTP7KoQL8psUqoBxH7uPBdlYr5TFEh0It41_R81x2IFCKmkPF7okkJhTWZAf5DurRZ_d6SKXRnNpRtx5jzPbUEOIWpn8FeHaJN_U9grIvkyKbKFCaEksf8zgdEsDuJsxIfiyrB85ScRgFQqUiyrGGod9QBMCwYyu6eLi6d8oiVqoIFy4stpKwbhOpD0LfcSokhNQ1tB6lpnMgUCJfNoFAzPITU%3D&attredirects=0
If you go with the "end of the world" theme.. from a Blender perspective, would that be a rendering of everyone in the world using Maya 3D? =)
"The Maya [software developers/publishers] Were Right" would have to be the headline on some newspaper in the render for such an entry to make a proper pun at the mini-contest name.
Ok, while it wouldn't matter for actual contest either way.. here is a partial realization of my idea as a fictitious newspaper front page.
http://www.triularity.org/download/blender/TheMayaWereRight.pdf
There is some other funny (IMO) add on [fake, we hope] articles in it with the same "end of the world" theme to help fill out the rest of the space. If done in an real entry it might have been a close-up of a newspaper left on a park bench or something with this as the texture.
[Note: This "newspaper" has no relation to the site depressingtimes.com]
A late entry, but what the hell, it was fun.
Mayan Graffiti ...
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh590/martianr1/Mayans/MayanGraffiti_zpsb876c69d.png