The previous competition was a great success and all of you came out with some wonderful pieces of art. Less then one month after the end of this first edition and to inaugurate the launch of the beta release we are pleased to announce that the second Octane competition is now open. So don't miss this second chance to get out the best from Octane and maybe to become the winner.
By participating to this challenge each competitor agrees that his/her submitted images may be used for promotional purposes on the Octane web site gallery, eg displayed as featured images.
The competition is being managed by enricocerica.
Who can participate ?
Everybody !
Rules:
- . You may produce and publish as many submissions as you want.
. The submitted rendering must be made exclusively with Octane Render.
. You can use the current Demo version which is publically available on our site or the beta version for those of you who purchased one
. Submitted images must have a minimum resolution of 1024 px wide and 512 px high, but we will prefer images at higher resolutions.
. You cannot submit images submitted in a previous Octane competition
Postproduction is allowed only:
- . to fix lighting issues and fireflies
. to add glare and bloom
. to add chromatic abberration
. for noise reduction if needed
You cannot add any other image part in postproduction.
Note that if you use excessive noise-reduction and your submission ends up looking blotchy as a result,
this will be taken into account during examination by the jury, and you're image might end up not being chosen.
Practically:
- . Your images should be uploaded in this thread.
. You can change them until the thread is closed.
. Your image must be at least 1000 pixels in width.
. Include in your submission post:
- . your Name, technical details (polygons, rendertime, etc...) and a short description/inspiration/motivation or idea about your submission.
. Add your full credits on the image as small text on the bottom.
. Include a screenshot of you working on the image in Octane Render. (this proves it was rendered in Octane Render)
. Create one single entry and update it with the new images.
A jury composed by 5 persons will vote and select the winners.
Prizes:
This time, as we launched the beta release, we wanted to provide some special and wonderful prizes.
- Best image
1st place : One GTX480 Video Card, 2 Evermotion Archimodels CDs (Volumes 58 & 59) and 1 Archinteriors CD volume 14
2nd place : One GPU-X Unit (Without GPU), 2 Evermotion Archimodels CDs (Volumes 58 & 59) and 1 Archinteriors CD volume 11
3rd place : 2 Evermotion Archimodels CDs (Volumes 45, 58) and 1 Archinteriors CD volume 10
Artistic concept
1 Evermotion Archinteriors CD volume 14
Remark : We hope that the GTX4xx video cards will be available by the end of this competition, so if this is not the case, we may replace them by other models.
GPU-X Unit from http://www.cubix.com
- GPU-X.jpg (44.67 KiB) Viewed 27082 times
Evermotion CDs from http://www.evermotion.org
- evermotion.jpg (27.36 KiB) Viewed 27082 times
Timing
The challenge will last for one month.
The competition starts now, 9 March 2010 and will close on 30 April 2010 at 20:00 (20pm) GMT+1 (Central European Time)
If we don't get enough participants we may decide to cancel the competition and to postpone it to a later date, in such a case, the submitted images may be reuse in a future challenge.
Good luck to everyone
