Competition: Poetry in "Motion" (Closed)

[binarycortex]

Welcome one and all, a new LuxRender competition is upon us. The goal of these competitions is to showcase the capabilities of LuxRender and the community of LuxRender artists. The theme for this competition is Poetry in "Motion". This competition will run to September 30th 2011 23:59:59 UTC, at which time voting will commence.

For this competition there will be a required element. You must use Motion blur in some way in your scene. Any entries missing the required element will be disqualified and removed from the gallery. If your motion blur is subtle and you are afraid that it might be missed, post a reply to this topic stating where your motion blur is. As an example, one of SATtva's recent images has some very subtle motion blur on a butterfly. Here is another very good example of motion blur.

Here is a link to the wiki page for Motion Blur.

Rules:
1. You must use LuxRender only, no SLG submissions. Use either the latest stable release, a weekly, or compile your own the day you start your render.
2. You must create a new original work, you cannot re-render something you have already done. Reusing old models, however, is acceptable.
3. You can use any modeling program/exporter you wish. (Yaay!) Just render in LuxRender (see rule #1).
4. Submissions should be rendered to at least 1000 S/px if possible. Carbonfluxing* a render is not necessary, but it makes them look very nice.
5. The only post production allowed is what is built in to LuxRender. (We are trying to showcase LuxRender, not Gimp or Photoshop.)
6. The time frame for this competition is 1 month. Submissions after September 30th 2011 23:59:59 UTC will not be considered.
7. The winner will be chosen by you via a forum poll.
8. Final submissions must be posted to the corresponding competition gallery.
9. You must include the required element in your scene.

Prizes:
1st place will receive a book from Packt Publishing.
2nd place will receive a $20 credit from blenderrenders.com
Runners up will receive a FREE copy of LuxRender and Blender.

Sponsors:
Packt Publishing
BlenderRenders.com

Notes:
*The term carbonfluxing refers to the fact that Carbonflux typically uses 10000 S/px as a minimum for a render. I.e. 1.0 CFU = 10000 S/px.

[SATtva]

Another one already? Awesome! And great theme. Not sure i'll take part, have a big project on hands at the moment. I wish luck to everybody else, have fun!

[binarycortex]

I'm excited about this one, and I wanted to clarify that the title "Poetry in Motion" is nothing more than a play on words that hints at the theme. The theme is purely motion blur. Let's get blurry.

[Carbonflux]

I am a leaf on the wind...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRwOhqoRKn4

[SATtva]

I am a leaf on the wind...

Reading my mind.

[cedal]

A free copy of Luxrender and Blender?
If I have a copy already, will I get a refund?

If there was a slightly better prize I would have made something... sorry!

[binarycortex]

A free copy of Luxrender and Blender?
If I have a copy already, will I get a refund?

If there was a slightly better prize I would have made something... sorry!

That's disappointing, especially considering 3 of the 4 winners from the last competition have not stepped forth to claim their prize. Please reconsider making an entry anyway. Who knows, prizes have been added midway through before...

[SATtva]

Maybe announce a deadline, and if a winner don't claims a prize, it will be passed to the new competition?

[binarycortex]

It has been brought to my attention that there is an alternate method for achieving motion blur in LuxRender. It is 100% allowed.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6721

[binarycortex]

It has been brought to my attention that there is an alternate method for achieving motion blur in LuxRender. It is 100% allowed.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6721

The wiki has been updated with an easier method for subframe motion blur. It is now only 2 steps.

1. Render your scene as an animation with motion blur.
2. Use luxmerger to merge all of the flm files with one command.

Then you are free to open the resulting flm in luxrender and apply tonemapping and film response or whatever, then export as HDR/LDR.