New artwork competition is open: The Apocalypse Competition Tweet

[radiance]

Hi All,

We're pleased to open a new competition today, the 'Apocalypse Competition'.
The competition is themed around the popular 2012 end of the world and apocalyptic myths.

Both still images and/or animations can be submitted, and the competition runs for 2 months.
The competition is co-sponsored by our cloud delivery technology partner company OTOY(R) Inc, and EverMotion providing the popular Archinteriors Model CDs.

Prizes:

1st place : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX590 3GB GPU & 2 lifetime licenses for any RS LTD product & First pick of one Archinteriors CD*.
2nd place : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX580 3GB GPU & 1 lifetime license for any RS LTD product & Second pick of one Archinteriors CD*.
3rd place : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX560Ti 2GB GPU & 1 license for any RS LTD product & Third pick of one Archinteriors CD*.
4th place : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX560Ti 1GB GPU & 1 license for any RS LTD product & Remaining Archinteriors CD*.
5th place : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX550Ti 1GB GPU & 1 license for any RS LTD product.

6th Best artistic concept : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX550Ti 1GB GPU
7th Best technical concept/achievement : One NVIDIA Geforce GTX550Ti 1GB GPU

* = Winner may pick from the following EverMotion Archinterior CDs:

Archinteriors vol 21 http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/sho ... /5890/0/0/
Archinteriors vol 22 http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/sho ... /6144/0/0/
Archexteriors vol 11 http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/sho ... /2888/0/0/
Archexteriors vol 13 http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/sho ... /7374/0/0/

Please read the competition thread here for more information: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=8029


Good luck to everyone!,
The Refractive Software Team.

[Chris]

Looking forward to this

Cheers,

[steelbug]

Good news!

[RUNNER]

when the octane 2.5 will release ?

[abstrax]

when the octane 2.5 will release ?

The commercial version came out today, the demo version will follow the coming days.

Cheers,
Marcus

[RUNNER]

thanks alot

[radiance]

Hi All,

A bit late, but just added some additional prizes (4 Archinterior CDs from Evermotion) for the first 4 winning places.

Radiance

[heinz0r]

Any word on the 2.5 demo? I would like to check out the render engine changes before commiting to buy. The new direct light renderer sounds very promising, but I would like to test it out first.

[t_3]

Any word on the 2.5 demo? I would like to check out the render engine changes before commiting to buy. The new direct light renderer sounds very promising, but I would like to test it out first.

believe me: you can buy it unseen mate

[radiance]

Any word on the 2.5 demo? I would like to check out the render engine changes before commiting to buy. The new direct light renderer sounds very promising, but I would like to test it out first.

Hi, The demo should be made available sometime during the next 2 weeks.

Radiance.