This is the Blender collaboration 2022, week 41 challenge. Don’t be afraid to join, a lot of us are beginners. This is all to practice, have fun, learn, and get together.
This week’s subject is “Volcano”.
“Volcano” - a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth’s crust.
The rules are simple. 1 subject, 1 entry, 1 week.
You create whatever object or scene or whatever you can think of that has something to do with the subject. It can be as simple or complicated as you want, all entries are welcome!
Post your picture here in this thread. And at the end of the week, we start to vote. And if you are the winner, you may choose the next subject and win a unique badge.
Next step adding light to the darkness.
By extruding a single face (edge), I draw lava streams on the surface, using the shrinkwrap modifier, in combination with the solidify (extrude the face) modifier).
For a close by lava stream, I plan to use a meatball.
My biggest worry is the smoke. Difficult subject for me, a slow machine. Not much experience with it.
Haven’t posted in a while. I haven’t touched Blender in months but I was able to shake off some cobwebs and make this. I forgot how fun and limitless this medium is. Might do more, we’ll see. I’ll be back.
If you use a lamp, it emits only one type of color.
If you use an HDRI background, it emits light in all colors used in the image. Then you get more diversity in color interaction.
The same goes for a sky (Nitisha) background, simulating the sky and sun (no sun lamp needed).
Personally, I like the first one better. Then, the subject is more in the center of attention. In the last one, the composition gets complex. But that said, you are the designer. Your model is still sublime.
Yeah, I like the first one better, I was going for a TV ad style. The second picture also brings that idea but the extra models don’t precisely improve the atmosphere.
@Joey_Cuevas - I do not know if you are uploading a new version, but can you say which version to use in the vote? My rule is pick the latest one, but I’m not sure in your case!
We @BlenderCollab have a few days to vote. You can vote fast but also think slowly about design, colors, technique, difficulty, subject, realism, etc. Choose consciously and not on your own entry.
And the new subject week 42 “Dutch windmill(s)” has already started. The winner of this week’s “Volcano” challenge may select a subject for next week 43 and wins a badge.
