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This poll is for the 3D World contest. The winner's image will be submitted to 3D World Magazine for publication with the blessing of the community. The entries are:

"Visions (http://www.galacticportals.com/Visions_2.aspx)" by Calico
"Impact (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5113.msg53089#msg53089)" by old_blaggard
"Of a Waterfall (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5118.0)" by dandelO
"High Altitude (http://www.visualrivetstudios.com/vrs/terragen/high_altitudezi.jpg)" by dwilson
"Rainforest (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5085.msg52609#msg52609)" by Klas
"Eltanin (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5081.msg53319#msg53319)" by Esgalachoir
"Dune (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5081.msg53353#msg53353)" by Will
"Mt. Rainer (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/gullymuster/rougefinished-1.jpg)" by RogueNZ
"Climbing the Chimney (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=4958.0)" by RArcher
"Beach Sunset (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5081.msg53624#msg53624)" by Mohawk20

The poll will close in one week (Friday the 21st, afternoon US time).

Above all, let's keep it friendly. No ballot stuffing, no sore losers, and no rubbing a win in peoples' faces.

Good luck!

Ballot stuffing?

Having more than one account and putting in several votes vote either yourself or whoever pays you the most.

These are all really good.  It took some thought to decide.  Groovy works!

Fantastic entries everyone!
Very difficult choice but my vote is cast. :)
Good luck!

Voted :D Goodluck, and thanks to those who have organized this.

Those are all pretty fantastic... hard decision!

We have 10 precisely... couldn't we enter them all?  ;)

We can all do what we will with our own, of course.  But, this contest is to find someone's image we all deem worthy of this exposure. 

Yea as it O_B says they will have the backing of the community.

Quote from: calico on November 15, 2008, 07:55:54 AM
We can all do what we will with our own, of course.  But, this contest is to find someone's image we all deem worthy of this exposure. 

Well I got to vote again this month ;)

Maybe the top three can go in.

Yeah I think that's a good idea.

Just a quick bump to make sure that people remain aware of the voting. Let's see more votes! In a community of hundreds, we should be able to get more than a few dozen.

Also, if people want to consider sending more images than the first place one, we could open another poll to determine that :P.

Don't go poll happy on us now OB...  ;D

I cast my Vote a couple of days ago.  :)

Can we post reasons for why we voted for our particular choice? RArchers is the overwhelming winner here but I think the one I voted for is still a very viable candidate for a reason other than looking the most realistic.

Yeah, I think it's perfectly fine to post reasons for voting if you want to. We just did it in an anonymous format so that those who didn't want their opinions to be publicly known could vote.

cool, well I actually voted for yours. I love climbing the chimney, especially for the great use of depth of field. Yours shows off the control that TG2 allows with clouds and light that is unparralleled and Esgalachoir's Eltanin is a superb use of the planetary world and atmosphere. That's why I think we should have those three put forward.

I voted for Eltanin since it reminded me of a marble I have. But I have to say there was a lot of great competition here, impact showed a great control over clouds and a nice overall terrain. The beach sunset had terrific atmosphere and colors. Climbing the chimney had my favorite terrain, just the way the rock folded and such I though was superb. I liked the mt. Rainer has nice lighting that gave a nature tranquility. Klas's rain forest has really nice models and just overall control of vegetation to complete the image and give a nice sense of growth and life. While the High Altitude has great composition, really drawing the eye towards the sound and the clouds in the distance. The waterfall is just cool, plain and simple.  Visions appealed to the sci-fi geek in me and I immediately was making up a back story for why the couple where on the planet.  Overall I think we had a really successful contest here, which is good to see. Kinda brings me back to the good ol' days and the premade scene contest :) good work mates, keep it coming.

Thanks for your acknowledgment, Will (and whoever voted for mine).  Did anyone notice that the couple are robots?  I should have used the larger version to show more detail, but there was no room on my web page. 

Great examples of T2 capabilities from everyone

I want to vote for the image "Cosmic Crystal Garden", but its not listed  :-[

Quote from: moodflow on November 18, 2008, 04:50:28 PM
I want to vote for the image "Cosmic Crystal Garden", but its not listed  :-[

Which one is that then? Could you post a link?

Quote from: moodflow on November 18, 2008, 04:50:28 PM
I want to vote for the image "Cosmic Crystal Garden", but its not listed  :-[

When I put this poll together I looked through the whole contest submission thread - did I miss something? If so, I'm very sorry.

Quote from: Mohawk20 on November 18, 2008, 05:20:25 PM

Quote from: moodflow on November 18, 2008, 04:50:28 PM
I want to vote for the image "Cosmic Crystal Garden", but its not listed  :-[

Which one is that then? Could you post a link?

Unfortunately, this image doesn't exist yet.   ::)  (I was halfway joking I'm afraid).

Its actually an image I've been working on since the old Bryce 3 days, and just kept redoing over and over as new technology came out, the latest being TG2 of course.  Its kinda like Duke Nukem Forever...amazing, but wait, if element X is added, it will make it even better, ad nauseum of course...sorry for the tangent.

if you have a render from each one I would like to see them all back to back, it would be interesting to see how things have improved.

You can start breathing again OB, your turning blue! ;)

Quote from: Will on November 18, 2008, 07:20:37 PM
if you have a render from each one I would like to see them all back to back, it would be interesting to see how things have improved.

If this image ever does become "complete" I'll definitely consider this.    8)

Quote from: moodflow on November 18, 2008, 07:14:32 PM

Quote from: Mohawk20 on November 18, 2008, 05:20:25 PM

Quote from: moodflow on November 18, 2008, 04:50:28 PM
I want to vote for the image "Cosmic Crystal Garden", but its not listed  :-[

Which one is that then? Could you post a link?

Unfortunately, this image doesn't exist yet.   ::)  (I was halfway joking I'm afraid).

Its actually an image I've been working on since the old Bryce 3 days, and just kept redoing over and over as new technology came out, the latest being TG2 of course.  Its kinda like Duke Nukem Forever...amazing, but wait, if element X is added, it will make it even better, ad nauseum of course...sorry for the tangent.

oh man i rember that (bryce3d) we used to have that at my old primary school!

Once we have agreed this is it, let's send the winner off with a HOORAH and wish for the best.  Hopefully, the winner won't mind going through the trouble of sending the entry into 3D World.

And then, I have a potential idea for another contest - Let's find a work that was done in Vue for the movies and see if we can come closest to duplicating it.  For example, Pirates of the Caribbean or Indiana Jones.  We could find a movie we would all agree upon (take a poll?) and then find the best examples for reference from this movie.  Then, away we go.  We could take our time...maybe through the holidays.

What do you guys think?

Since we all have our own strengths and weaknesses, it should be a collective effort on one singe scene.
I like the idea!

Let's HOORAH the winner then...or what is the deadline for this one?

After that, we'll start a new thread to figure out the next thing.  Does this sound okay, Mohawk?  Anyone else want to weigh in?

All right, contest closed! Congratulations, Ryan, and good luck on your image!

Congratulations to RArcher.   Fantastic work!!  You are a TG2 artist indeed.

Please consider sending your image to 3D World and represent us (but, no need to mention us, of course...just get it published!).

Thank you everyone for this humbling vote of confidence.  The image is currently rendering at the proper size and will be submitted as soon as it is finished.  If I hear back from them, I will surely let you all know.

-Ryan Archer

Congrads mate, (sorry for the delay, I way at MIT's SPLASH all weekend) Best of luck in getting it accepted :)

Congrats on winning Ryan and good luck on making the Mag!

Congrats,

MAKE US PROUD!  ;D

Hi everyone -

Ryan sent us his render on Saturday, and we'll be delighted to publish it in 3D World. The whole idea of the Terragen community banding together to find an image to represent the program to the 3D World readership is really cool. I've read back through the previous threads while you guys have been getting this contest and vote together, and I'm flattered on the magazine's behalf that you'd go to this trouble for us. And Ryan's image is great, which doesn't hurt  :)

Ryan, my colleague Ian will be in touch today with some questions and legal disclaimers we need to do. We're aiming to publish the image in the Exhibition section for 3D World 113, on sale 2 January 2009.

Regards,

Richard


Richard Hill
Acting editor
3D World
www.3dworldmag.com (http://www.3dworldmag.com)

WohOO, Realy goes to show eh ...
Big Gratz Ryan :)
richard

Wow, big congratulations!

COOOOL.    ;D

Congratulations Ryan!
Well deserved, it's a truly fantastic image, very convincing!
Will make a note in my agenda to get a copy :)

Martin

A Big Huzzzzzah from me too Ryan!

Wow. Some exposure for TG. I lift my glass for RArcher!

Wow, major congrats ryan. Wish I could have joined in the contest, I'll definitely have to get the magazine when it comes out -- it'll be nice to see a TG 2 render in there. I'm going to have to try to send something of mine in someday.

Wow thats awesome! Mad respect to 3D World for taking the time to have a look around the forums too :D

Thank you so much everyone.  It is incredible what a supporting and friendly community that has been built here.  Special thanks to Calico for organizing the original idea and contest, and Old_Blaggard for handling the polls.  I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy (or twelve) of the magazine!

Here is the massive 2300 x 1475 image that I submitted:

http://www.archer-designs.com/galleries/art-galleries/tg2/fullsize/climbing-the-chimney-v3.jpg (http://www.archer-designs.com/galleries/art-galleries/tg2/fullsize/climbing-the-chimney-v3.jpg)

Thank you everyone for your support!

-Ryan Archer

Congratulations Ryan!  As I said before, excellent work!

- Corin

Looks awesome huge. Can't wait to see it in print!  :)

Iain

You deserved it, Ryan.  Great image...and I've seen you do so many more like this.

Thanks to 3D World for checking us out!  And this magazine is on my list to purchase, no doubt.

Fantastic, RArcher. I knew this was a winner. AND you got it published! WOOOHOOO! Well done, man!

Sweet, the huge version is impressive.  There is a bit too much distance blur on the mid-ground area in my opinion, but heck this is still pretty sweet!   8)

Wow, this is fantastic. Congrats! And thanks to Mr. Hill for taking the time to stop by and say hello. :)

- Oshyan

Has anyone seen the 113th issue yet?  I checked at Borders yesterday, but the 112th is the present issue on the newstand.  This must be because I live in the U.S.

Yes I've seen it last week.

The image is about 6x4" or so and Ryan briefly describes the nature of this contest and what was involved in creating this scene. Figuring out the displacements, setting up a seperate render for the DOF etc. etc.

Very nice to see a TG-render in that magazine and hopefully not the last. A bit of a pity the image was relatively small, but not that bad.

woah !!!
i didn't even saw this thread (wasn't able to get my hand on a computer), and now i saw this Oo

Congrats !!!!

I can't wait to see it and I wish it had been a larger image.  The 112th (or is it the 111th?) issue has an entire section on a Vue contest.

112th? With animal magic (the parrot) at the front page?
I have that issue here.

The rest of the issue with Ryan's work wasn't really worth buying for me. Issues cost 15,- euros here, which is almost $20

I'm glad it made it in there.  I haven't seen it yet myself and have no idea which text they used as they asked for a few paragraphs, but eventually I'll get a copy.  (I have one on order as in my third world country (Canada), we seem to be about 3 issues behind).  I hope that the editors continue to browse the forums now and then and select some of the other deserving images people keep coming up with.