Winter Fantasy Render Contest (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

Yeah! The owner wants to make contests a regular thing around here.
I'm glad to hear that you're looking forward to it.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Yes, for sure! The contests have been fun.

And yes, you can. I just added this to the Official Rules page:
"You can enter with more than one submission, but you can only win once per contest."

Thanks for pointing that out. Lots of people were asking that question during the last contest.
I work remotely - so previously, I didn't have the ability to edit the contest pages the owner created, but I can now.

Ahhh makes a lot of sense thank you! Haha. I worries I appreciate you were able to answer

I hope you can find time. I'd love to see what you come up with for this one.

To keep an "even playing field" and to encourage more participants, this is a still image render contest only.
We don't want to give animators an unfair advantage over those who don't do animations.
Now, the owner *is* interested in having a contest specifically for animations, so you'll probably see that in the future.

Thanks for your interest and participation in the RenderHub contests!

Thank you for the reply...

Looking forward to submitting!

It certainly *can* be, if that is your "winter fantasy".
The owner chose the theme so everyone can participate, regardless of their culture.
Thanks for participating in the contest!

Hi there. That is not a requirement for the contest entries, and the judges are not required to read everyone's posts.
The entries are judged only upon the images that are submitted.

However, we do encourage people to do as you describe, and even add WIP images if you want.
I, personally, enjoy seeing and reading how people come up with their creations, and I know others do, as well.

Thanks for your interest in the contest.

Okay, thank you for the information.

I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with that.
Feel free to upload it to Google Drive (or somewhere) and give me the link.
I'll try it using one of my test accounts and see what's happening.

You can send me the link via the message center if you don't want to post it here.

An old folk moment for sure. I had a hyphen in the title of my picture. All is well in contest entry. Enjoy

LOL - I'm glad to hear that you got it to work.
But that still does concern me. Our system *should* allow hyphens.
And our system definitely should give a more user friendly error if something is wrong.

I don't want to bother you with this - but if you're up to it, feel free to send me the one you were trying to upload the first time.
I'll still give it a test to see what caused the problem - and make a recommendation to our coders to see if they can make changes to improve the user experience.

And thanks for participating in the contest.

You don't need to be a seller. Any member of the RenderHub community can enter.

Sounds great! Nice to see you around.

No, you didn't make a mistake. Your interpretation of the contest theme is right on.
It doesn't have to be holiday or Christmas, but it *can* be if that's your winter fantasy.

Thank you

When you click an image, it is scaled to fit the entire image in the browser window.
The judges will have access to the full sized images - no problem.

Cool, thanks for the info.

I honestly don't know what the coders have set for the maximum acceptable upload size.
But anything larger than 4K resolution (3840px on either side) will get resized to 3840px on the longest side.
So - an uploaded image with a maximum of 3840 pixels on the longest side will not be re-sized.

Sorry that I missed your message earlier.

"an uploaded image with a maximum of 3840 pixels on the longest side will not be re-sized"

That means anything 3840 pixels or below (including 3840) will not be resized by the system.
No "-1" calculations needed.

Hi there. You don't "drag pictures" into the comment section.
You need to click the little "insert image" button at the top of the message editor window.

OK. thank you. I'll know what to do next time.

Hi there. It appears that our system automatically ended the contest early.
It must have thought the contest was "up to" December 31st, instead of "through" December 31st.

I did a manual override, and you can now submit again.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Please see my reply to your other message above.

I just took a look at them, and you're right. The system re-sized them to 2800 px max.
Very strange. I'm sorry for the misinformation. I sent a message to our coder asking him if he changed that or just gave me the wrong info.

Anyway... Your images still look great!
Nice work. And Happy New Year to you.

I'm sorry that I missed your message. The winners have already been announced.

https://www.renderhub.com/3d-contests/winter-fantasy-render-contest

At the very top of the forum, you will see a sticky post titled "Winter Fantasy Render Contest Winners Announced".

You can see it here: https://www.renderhub.com/forum/latest-entries
And here: https://www.renderhub.com/forum/general-discussion

You can see a link that says "See Winners" here:
https://www.renderhub.com/3d-contests/

And you can see the winning entries here:
https://www.renderhub.com/3d-contests/winter-fantasy-render-contest

I'm sorry that we couldn't make it more obvious.

I'm sorry that we couldn't make it more obvious, .snide jivy remark aside. yes it probably would be far too much trouble for some lazy moderators to put the winners in the OFFICIAL forum. i should have clicked all over first. you can keep your attitude

I guess I'll say I'm sorry again, because I meant no attitude or snide remark.
I really am sorry that we couldn't have made it more obvious.

I truly did not think anyone would have to "click all over" when the winners were clearly posted on the official contest page.
This thread was the "start of the contest" announcement thread, so I started a new "winners announcement" thread.
I wasn't being lazy. I thought it would be less confusing to start a new thread with an appropriate title.

I'm sorry if that caused any confusion.