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Vertigo (from the Latin vertō "a whirling or spinning movement"[1]) is a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary.

Since this is a sensation that occurs when you're stationary, all that's required is a still render. While vertigo is often associated with heights, it can be taken literally to describe optical illusions that make still images seem like they are moving. Google's your friend!

Sticking to the core of what these Anim8or challenges are about, your work must be modeled and rendered using Anim8or. Post effects, uvmapping, and texturing is naturally allowed in any third party application.

Deadline: Completed

What will be judged: The best still render gets blue ribbon!

Falling back to the first suggestion on the suggestions list: make any underwater scene! Can have fish, no fish, machines, no machines, plants, no plants, or anything everything or nothing, so long as it's underwater! The only stipulation is that the camera must be underwater. What water is up to you!

Enjoy! But remember the challenge rules and post your progress, c&c, and/or final renders in this topic.

Deadline: Now Voting

What will be judged:
This challenge will have a public poll. Vote for the best still render.

Ok, so it's quite obvious we've got a bot attached to our forum that's been spamming the place for about 9-10 hours now. I'm sorry but there's nothing that we moderators can do to stop him. Our privileges come just short of that.

We'll try to keep deleting the topics as they come up. I've already emailed Steve and I'm sure others have as well, so hopefully this situation will be resolved in a timely manner.

Thank you for your patience and thank you for being such great members of the community, and please bear with us here.

-Raxx

Welcome to our 12th challenge! Your goal for the next two weeks is to make a simple machine that does something monumental, innovative, out-of-the-world, or just plain crazy!

A simple machine performs one of these functions:

• Lever
• Wheel and axle
• Pulley
• Inclined plane
• Wedge
• Screw

You can only use one type of simple machine in this still render, and naturally it needs to be the simple machine that's doing the monumental work.

Deadline: 2 weeks (Completed)

What will be judged:
This challenge will have a public poll. Vote for the best still render.


Remember the challenge rules and post your progress, c&c, and/or final renders in this topic.

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Alice in Wonderland, that is. Give us one (or more) of the characters or creatures in Lewis Carroll's world. You may use your own interpretation or use the original art from the book or use Disney's version, whatever you choose! The goal is to make a detailed character or creature from Alice in Wonderland or its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Give him/her/it a pose!

References:

• Character Descriptions
• Pictures
• Google

Final Entry:

• Provide a single still render that showcases your entry
• Must be rendered in Anim8or using either the scanline or ART renderers.

Post your progress, c&c, and/or final renders in this topic!

Deadline: Friday, June 26th, 2009

What will be judged:
The final entries will be judged based on the best looking character or creature from the Alice in Wonderland series. This will be a public poll.

For a while I've been wanting to dive into ASL and learn how to make useful stuff.

For a while I've been wanting to make a .rib converter for anim8or.

So I'm finally getting something done about it...it's nowhere near finished but I've got one good part done, actual meshes export properly (big thanks to Steve's export scripts as a foundation...the ASL documentation finally makes sense!).

My plan is to make it a toolset that allows you to use the object editor as a scene editor to make very nice still renders. I'll build shape plugin scripts where you can make a camera shape, light shapes, dummy shapes, etc where you can specify different parameters like camera FOV, light types and colors, shadows, and move and rotate the camera and lights like it was a real scene and it'll export it accordingly.


I might go one-sided and make it support only the Aqsis renderer (or something else I find) since it's free and easy to install. Making it dependent on a single renderman renderer will allow me to utilize the wowee features that are specifically built for them but that's way in the future.

I'm not releasing anything yet. Once I get to the stage where it'll actually become halfway useful, then I'll start releasing the stuff. I'm just posting here my updates as I go along to keep things interesting.

I know one of you ASL/programmer junkies could probably whip out something better than what I've got so far like it's nothing but you just wait and see

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