PhotoWorks Contest 29 Voting 1

[rockguy]

Can you believe there has been 29 PhotoWorks Rendering Contests? I can't either. I thought interest would have fallen off after a few months but, 29 months later the contest is still taking place. Voting for the July contest (# 29) is happening now and we have two entries to choose from. Cast your vote for your favorite entry this month and decide the winner. After you've done that download the model for the August Contest (# 30). The August model was donated by Joshua Sternthal (a past PhotoWorks contest winner) and is your typical soap or gel dispensing bottle. This should make for some challenging rendering since transparent materials, liquids and gels typically aren't the easiest thing to simulate. Good luck

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[Timelord]

Rob,

Congrats on creating a very popular feature of this forum, a star for you. I haven't participated because I am still using SW2005, so it is impossible to view the entries. A while back you had a similar contest which involved modeling. That one I did enter, even though I couldn't view all the other entries. I had a blast trying different ways to simplify a complex modeling job, and learned several new things about SW. How about another modeling contest?

Timelord

 

[Theophilus]

Rob,

To this day, I've always wanted to submit a rendering for the contest, but keep getting other things pushing away my time to do so. So I'm a bit of a lurker with the contest and eagerly browse the results of the contests to see what people are doing. Huge improvements in quality have been the result since you started the contest, so it's certainly been a good thing for the PhotoWorks community. When you started, many people whined about the weakness of PhotoWorks--and while it does have some interface difficulties, the rendering engine beneath can produce excellent results (as I realize all the time in the professional environment). In fact, I think all the images used at my business site were done exclusively with PhotoWorks (and touch-up with Photoshop Elements).

Thanks for running the contests and pushing the bar higher and higher.



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