2024 Collab: Week 39 “Parade floats” - VOTE CLOSED

[FedPete]

This is the Blender Collaboration 2024, week 39 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 “Parade floats”.

• Parade floats - A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades.
• Subject selected by the previous Week 37, 2024 “Here There Be Dragons" winner xealstrag

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. 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.

Deadline: 2024-09-28T21:55:00Z

• Last week’s collab: Blender Collab: Week 38 “Things you see in Autumn”
• Next week: 40 - Shiny arms for a boss
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[FedPete]

Just a try-out

My machine is too old for this. Hitting the heat fan at maximum. 3 min. Cycles render for 10 samples. And so much to add, like hundreds of flowers and other technical stuff. I think this is it. Maybe I come with an other idea.

[CoreyKnecht]

Kinda looks like a yellow boxtruck imploded - nice effect! You weren’t carrying a neutron star in there by any chance, were you? =D

[Astrid_Trisorio]

Is the deadline really on 21th of september? the same day when the week 39 came out?

[Megane_Wang]

No, it’s next Saturday night (28th); there’s actually time until @FedPete can prepare the voting (shh… don’t say I told you ).

[FedPete]

Thank you, for pointing that out. It was a case of copy and paste …

[Gaaster]

Hello everyone,
I decided to participate in this Collab, not so confident, but will see
I guess, took the Parade “float” too literal, but I hope some of you might get the reference

[CoreyKnecht]

@Gaaster

I hope some of you might get the reference

It’s my best friend’s favourite movie =)

@Gaaster

I guess, took the Parade “float” too literal

You’ve probably noticed that people love to take liberties like this, so by all means, bring 'em on =D

[xealstrag]

A work in progress so far.

Here’s what I ended up with.

Not experienced in making environments, so there really isn’t one here. I was more focused on trying to figure out the particle systems, which lagged the scene quite a bit. I may have wanted to go with the clay idea instead and kept it looking cleaner, but I wanted to try making the plastic streamer look on the sides of floats, and I think I got it.

[Megane_Wang]

It’s very nice! And everyone makes their own version of the topic, that’s the idea too!

[Megane_Wang]

I can easily think of it as a chocolate figurine It looks great

[xealstrag]

Chocolate figurine? That’s a great idea. I may do that, or I might make it look like clay.

[Gaaster]

Thanks, I think this will be first and last Blender Collab for me for a longer time period. Won’t have much time in next weeks and also I want to move in the Blender Creator course, still right after the Dino section. So I need to complete it and get another experience

[Gaaster]

I love that simple yet beautiful model.

[CoreyKnecht]

@Gaaster

I think this will be first and last Blender Collab for me for a longer time period.

That’s perfectly fine; I’m sure you already know, but it’s worth highlighting that the Collab is drop-in/drop-out at will, with no pressure. I think it’s been a good couple of months now since I did one, but it’s always fun to see what people come up with =)

[Gaaster]

@CoreyKnecht

I think it’s been a good couple of months now since I did one, but it’s always fun to see what people come up with =)

Yes, it is very inspirational to see what can people come up with. Since I started my first Blender course 3 weeks ago and posted first own creation, I also got the notice from @Megane_Wang about Blender Collabs, and saw almost all of them from this year.
So when I was done with castle project I rushed into this week Collab, I might joined too early with almost nothing I know about Blender and modeling

[Megane_Wang]

Well, if it helps, I was not too much further in the course when I gave it a first try; and your entry is perfectly fine. Just come when you like it

[Megane_Wang]

Still working on it, but it’s taking shape A parade float for the night before the Three Wise Men visit children here on January 6th.

And this is the final one:

[VVruba]

Wow, I really like this one. The plastic streamer material could use some translucency to ease up the shadows but other than that big