Weekend Contest: “The Early Bird Catches the Worm”
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.
Indeed, I agree. Lets see how many up-votes can this work of art get?
I’m sure you can do better :)
Hehe, yeah, but thats not the point of it :)
I’m covered with work this weekend so the next entry might have to wait till Sunday :(
Let’s put that idea of the early images get the most votes ;)
I probably will also win the “That Guy” award.
Will lightning strike twice here? o_O
I’m not only just hoping so, I’m betting on it! :D
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. ;)
I think just with myself, I shall start doing this–holding off on voting until Sunday.
“Early bird kills on sight!”
Early bird uses conditioner… Maybe he’ll get more samples and better res later.
What in the world!!
ehehe! You got my vote! This is one of the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!
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.
Thank you very much for the suggestions! I really appreciate them (really!)! :)
Glad to be of service. :)
“Not Today”
So there is of course the corollary by which I shall title my piece. “The Early Worm Gets The Bird.”
Congratulations, you have won the “That Guy” award for this contest! :D
Id say its better to be the early bird instead of the early worm ;)
I’d say its better to just sleep in and wait for room service :p
Looks great. How did you do the textures for the worm, the stones and the ground?
Thanks! So I actually just upgraded my Wacom tablet from the Intuos 3 to the Intuos Pro, and have been on a pretty big digital painting kick recently. Decided to hand paint all my textures this week, which is something I don’t do very often, but am always pleasantly surprised by how much I actually enjoy doing it when I do.
I like the rocks ;)
Thank you kindly :)
Man, the texturing and compositing is so great! I couldn’t even tell it was low-poly at first!
I especially like how you only see the ominous shadow of the bird rather than the bird itself. It makes this image very effective!
Thanks! I think I may have over worked it just a bit with the compositing, but I’m really trying to get better at that aspect of the pipeline these days so I had a bunch of things I wanted to try out.
My entry:
My entry
The dew drops are a very nice touch.
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
Had to give it a try this weekend too :) I choose to take it literally with a little twist :)
:-D
What happens to early worms?
Here it is.
Well… if Eric won the “That Guy” award for this contest, then you have won the “That Some Other Guy” award for the contest.
It would be great if this won :D
Here’s my entry. The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. :)
Here’s the 1920×1080 version,
“The Early Worm Gets the Bird”
Very neat idea, reminds me of some of the creatures from King Kong (2005).
This is great! :D
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. :)
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!
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.
This is a fantastic image! Im curious, what do you do in PS? How much is done in blender?
Thanks!
In PS the BG-image and the lensflare/glow was composited and a bit of
color correction. When I have a bit more time I can Post the original
render… maybe tonight.
here it is:
Very nice. Thanks for sharing your compositing!
This looks so real!
Very nice work, sir!!!
The late worm doesen`t care about the early bird :)
Here is the same with 30 seconds compositing
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 :)
yumm
I picked the winner!
http://www.blendernation.com/2014/04/28/weekend-contest-winner-the-early-worm-gets-the-bird/