Thursday, August 18, 2011

Competition: Math isn’t cool, this poster is cool!



As many of you know, or not; I am a math teacher and it is back to school time. So as school starts to gear up I realized just how bare my walls are of any interesting art and I thought to myself, “self, I bet you could get some really cool art from the Blender community to help liven up your classroom… oh, and it would be fun to do a competition as well.” And so the first ever Blender Cubed competition was born.

So what is the competition you ask? Well basically you are creating an image that I can print and hang in my actual classroom as a poster. You submission can be inspirational, funny, mathematical, or whatever; as long as it rocks… and is appropriate for public school…and it rocks.


Theme:
Poster for math class. Create an image that could be printed as a poster for Mr. Nielsen’s math class. The submitted image can be inspirational, educational, humorous, or just plain random; as long as it would look good in a classroom.

Prize for best submission:
Free copy of Filter Forge Pro Version (Retails at close to $400), ohhh and glory. See www.filterforge.com

Deadline:
September 30th, 2011

Specifics:
-Submit your final render to porternielsen@blendercubed.com with your name and email address.
  • You may have more than one submission.
  • You can not submit artwork that is not your own…
  • You must use only blender for the 3d work.
  • You may use other software for texture creation, rendering, and touch up.
  • If you are selected as the winner I must have permission to print your image on a poster and display it in my classroom.
  • If you submit artwork I must have permission to showcase it for the sake of the competition.
  • Resolution should be high enough to be of excellent quality if printed. Different dimensions that I can print to are: 16 x 20, 16 x 24, 18 x 24, 20 x 24, 20 x 30, 24 x 36, and 36 x 48. If you want to submit a smaller resolution then print size with the intent to submit a higher resolution if you win; that is fine.
How do you win?
Submit the best artwork.

5 comments:

  1. I love maths too ! (http://www.mathematiques.biz/ is a project of mine, to be improved in the future !) I love Blender... So, maybe, I will try this competition with my own submission. But unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop. Can you maybe offer a wonderfull Blender's tutorial on creating "ancient greeks habit" in Blender, if I win ? ;o))

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  2. Calogiga, filter forge is a stand alone program; so you actually don't even need Photoshop... and trust me it is awesome. But if you win I will also do a tutorial on ancient Greeks habit... thought I might need some clarification to what that is.

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  3. I've a project trying to modeling some famous philosophers. But I want to habit them decently. I'm wondering how I can use the cloth simulator to make something like this : http://karenswhimsy.com/ancient-greek-clothing.shtm (see the second image). I've asked to some famous "tutorial" makers, but no one is inspired to do this. Strange, because in general, when you are modeling a complete character (even in heroic-fantasy), it's important to put "long habits" on them. But anyway. I'm trying to do some tests myself, but it's not convincing with my weak skill. :o)

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  4. Are those things called habits? I always called them robes, man talk about bad habits inhibiting the correct use of the word habit.

    I was actually looking for my 3rd tutorial on modeling (I've done corn, and tennis racquet, and needed a third) and I will do habits it for you. It will most likely be out sometime next week.

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  5. Probably (I'm french speaking), I used a wrong word to say "clothes". You're right, it's more like "robes". Thanks Porter for your nice proposition. It will be a tutorial very usefull, even if (apparently) not so requested. I think the major problem will be how to manage a cloth pinned by "diaper pins" and how succeed to see the same-unique-piece-of-cloth passing front and back the character's body ? I can't wait to see the way you will present that ! What a challenge ! Thanks a lot !

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