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Good Morning Octane Renderers-

After some reluctance, I decided to make a VERY late entry in The Weekend House Render Contest hosted by Tom Glimps. I still consider myself very much a novice. There are only two days and a few hours left, so I am not sure if I will have the time to fully dedicate myself to the competition but will do my best. This will at the very least be a terrific learning experience, and help me to develop a work flow that I can reuse (and develop) on future projects. As a work flow I will be using blender for modeling/ uv mapping, Phantom Scatter for instancing, and of course Octane Render 3 Standalone for rendering. I will try to limit the post processing to Octane Render only. Thank you to Tom Glimps for organizing the contest, and to anyone else out there who may be reading.

All the best-

-Donovan

Here are some progress images of the modeling using Info Channels Kernel Ambient Occlusion.

Having fun adding some furniture to the scene.

Adding the landscape geometry. I will be using Phantom Scatter to add some more elements such as trees and pebbles.

A quick draft. General environment setup. I will have to work on the uv unwrapping and texturing on the rocks- textures are stretched. For now, I just wanted to a quick image to see where things stand. Love the speed of Octane Render!

Did more work on the rendering. I decided to go a different direction on lighting.

Good Morning Everyone-

I am a little confused about the deadline- whether or not there was an extension or not. In case it is today, here is my final entry. Aside from resizing the preview file, there was no post production outside of Octane Render. I really enjoyed this opportunity and have learned a lot. There still is so much more for me to learn! Thank you to Tom Glimps and the contest sponsors.

Regards-

DonovanB