March 29^th Challenge - "A Dash of Photorealism" - Winners Circle

First Place - 06 - Ahmad Zaki

Second Place - 14 - Paolo Tognoni Third Place - 26 - Duncan MacGruer

All Entries

01 - Aaron Auberg 02 - Marc de Jong 03 - Charles Woolbright, Jr

04 - Rodrigo Duarte 05 - Steven Richards 07 - Ahmad Haziq

08 - Enmanuel 09 - Eyal 10 - Dale (dasch) Schulz

11 - Patrick Bliss 12 - Andreas Horn 13 - Aaron Clarke

15 - Eric J. Basti 16 - Andreas Horn 17 - James Donnell

18 - Luis S. Silva Reynoso 19 - Bart Engelen 20 - Mike Gleason

21 - Gary Cody 22 - Nicola Tesla 23 - Jesse Ritchings

24 - Mike Weber 25 - David Campfield 27 - Reynir Hauksson

28 - Michelle O'Haire 29 - Dale Roe 30 - Troy Edelmayer

31 - Roger Grow 32 - Mike Patton 33 - JB

34 - Michael Dickesheid 35 - Troy Edelmayer 36 - Paul Stretch

March 29^th Challenge - "A Dash of Photorealism" - Outline

This challenge is a simple one: model one salt shaker and one pepper shaker. I have a feeling the lazy folks are only going to model one and duplicate it =). This is the catch: the goal of the image is photorealism. The judges will be basing their decisions on this.

I'm going to be pretty strict about post-processing this time around. If the judges have any doubt about possible PhotoShop futzing, I will request the model and run a test render to confirm. If you are asked to submit a model, consider it a compliment =)

Entries will be accepted until March 29^th 2002. The judges will be considering the ability of the image to fool the eye. Composition and style will be secondary.

Rules and Conditions

It does have to be fully modeled, textured and rendered in Strata3D (any flavour).

Entries will consist of a 640 x 480 Jpg, and a screenshot of your model in Strata3D.

Judging will be done by a panel of 7 or more judges. I will select the panel after the close of the challenge from among community artists that did not enter the contest. The judges will not know the names of the contestants.

The results of the challenge will not be changed for any reason. Once the winners have won, that's that. Please don't email me to tell me that you should have won.

Please, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the contest, please email me at: michael@stratacafe.com

The benefits of the contest:

1) Winners will receive a charming banner to place on their website.

2) There will also be a smaller graphic, that looks a lot like the larger graphic, that will reside on the winners profile page on StrataCafe, forever and ever.

3) People can come to this page to get information on up and coming contests and view past winners (That would be you!)

4) You will receive the adoration of your friends and family, as well as most of the people who visit StrataCafe. (Note: Adoration not a guarantee.)

5) No real prizes this time (Sorry guys, you'll love the next prize though =)