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Whew, what a month! WIP's litter the forum as far as the eye can see...and for good reason. This month's Challenge was just absloute fun, what with a theme that encompassed anything each member could think of, as long as it included...The Shape. Each month it's difficult to choose just three, and this month is no different. So many of you have come so far in your art/3D/bryce skills, my own top list I have to extract three out of is bigger than ever. Also, we want to welcome any and all newcomers to the monthly Challenge. Thanks for coming in and taking part with the regulars. I'm sure anyone here would suggest to you to always stay and play the Challenge, there's no other way to learn faster in Bryce. --------------- The voting is as it has been; (instructions on vote page) 3-2-1 voting method. No voting for yourself. MUST be 3 votes, no more no less. Feel free to mention any other favorites of yours. Voting will go on until Monday Midnight (May 5th) Any other questions, or problems with the votepage or the Challenge in general, just post in here, I'll get to it asap. Thanks to all you entrants and a big thanks to rj001 for this months unique Challenge. Good luck to all of you, now go vote! AgentSmith

3 - ICMgraphic.. The most original way to use the shape 2 - Agent smith.. I'm sure you like to play Riven or Myst ! 1 - alvinylaya.. Only for the beauty of the image, but the shape should have been more visible. A special mention to Rayraz!

3 - antevark 2- alvinylaya 1 - ICMgraphic Great work everyone.

3 - Jausse - the mystery of the ship intrigues me; I want to know what happened to those people 2 - AgentSmith - definitely reminiscent of Myst and Riven 1 - ICMgraphics - so real looking and the most imaginative use of the 'thingy.' I know I can't vote for more than three but if I could, there'd be several more I'd have to include like claymore, nuski, wildman2, FWTempest, Innovator, catlin_mc.... Lordy, I could go on and on! :o) I am absolutely impressed with the creativity of everyone here and I applaude everyone's efforts.

3 - Dash101.. Stunning photo-realism. Great idea. 2 - AgentSmith.. For the amazing level of detail 1 - brholte.. For a very well created image.

3 - tjohn, great idea and these ele are too cute! 2 - jausse, dunno why but i like this image very much, maube is the shining white. 1 - AgentSmith, is a huge work and that water is amazing! honorable mention to rayraz and Alvinylaya, congratulation to everyone!!!!

3 - Alvinylaya 2 - Agentsmith 1 - Catlin .5 for everyone else though I'd love to give everyone at least 2 points or more, this has been one of the most high quality challenge yet

1. AGENT SMITH 2. ALVINYLAYA 1. DASH101 DIFFICULT TO CHOOSE, BUT THESE STOOD OUT FOR ME. WELL DONE TO EVERYBODY.

Wow This was a tough one! I had a lot of fun watching all these develop and I wish I'd been able to spend more time working on a 'Bum & Titty Grader'!!!! So, Alvinylaya: 3 Way too real looking scene.! TJohn: 2 Very MC Escher...excellent! Innovator 1 Should have got 3 but there ya go...I loved the bike! Hon Mention: Catlin_Mc....and no, not bcause she's a fox. I like old Scottish buildings....!!! Well done to everyone who took part. The Bryster

3: alvinylaya, for taking me there 2: tjohn, for the heffalumps :-) 1: pidjy, for the imagination and gorgeous render. That's the chopped down list. I could have happily given all these guys a '3' and still had a pocketful of other votes to hand around. Great work.

3 - ICMgraphics Very original use of the thingy 2 - Becschm 1 - Kylara Always hard to choose just 3 again.

Alvinylaya for the realism : 3 jausse cause it's cool : 2 Agent Smith for the water : 1

3 - Innovator I was impressed by the shape/modeling combination in this work. 2 - chohole A lovely work of art with shape based objects/textures. 1 - rj001 Enjoyed the overall environmental (with shape based structures) feeling of this one.

alvinylaya -3 AgentSmith -2 brholte -1

Dash101 -3 Dash101 cause the image is downright fantastic bknoh - 2 cause I think it was the most diverse BecSchm - 1 for the composition

dan whiteside - 3 Kinda reminds me of my favorite video game. Dash101 - 2 Beautiful render. draculaz - 1 The wood texture is awesome. The image is awesome.

Here's my vote: Alvinylaya - 3 Muddygrub - 2 Pauljs75 - 1

Dash101 - 3 AgentSmith - 2 MuddyGrub - 1 Here is why: 3 cause the image made me actually research what a constillation looked like. 2 cause its an image you could stare at for hours. 1 cause it really shows what a good bryce artist can accomplish.

3 - Dash101: Something I'd like to have on my desktop 2 - Rayraz: For all that hard work. PROPS! 1 - Innovator: Slick image. Really quite excellent.

What a difficult decision. 3 pts Tjohn, love those elephants 2 pts ICM graphics, great guitar thingy 1 pt Catlin, wonderful atmosphere. Special mention to Wildman2, I just keep going back and looking at that one, and FWTempest.

Alvinlaya - 3 Agentsmith - 2 Pidjy - 1 Honorable mention to Catlin_mc and Innovator and all other entries!! It was hard to choose from so many great works!

1. AgentSmith- amazing amount of work.

2. Pidjy- The mapping,the colors, Great Image!

3. FWTempest- Great lighting & those shadows!!

3 points - Alvinylaya 2 points - pidjy 1 points - AgentSmith

Alvinylaya - 3 Kylara - 2 FWTempes - 1

3 points - Kylara, because the light is simply astonishing 2 points - Dan Whiteside: the structure is impressive 1 point - Leo, the colors are wonderful Ouch. That was another very tough one. I promised myself I won't make no more "honorable mentions" and I'll stick to it. But this time, if possible, was even tougher that last month: I narrowed my final decision among at least 15 images and was really hard to leave most of them out. Congrats to ALL the participants! Stefano

wow, this is a tough one. 3 points - Dash101: fantastic image and presentation 2 points - brholte: fantastic clouds and colors 1 point - Kylara : Impressive to the max Congradulations to everyone. There are some really impressive works here.

3 points - Kylara One bloody good image 2 points - Dash101 Very realistic image 1 point - catlin_mc Very detailed I would like to mention that imho, at least 80% of the images here deserve to win something. This is Bryce at its best. Congradulations to all.

3 - AgentSmith 2 - Nuski 1 - rj001

3 Points - Dash101 2 Points - antevark 1 Point - wildman2

I'm having some difficulty in decided how to go about choosing because frankly there are 6 works here that I think deserve to win the r'osity teddy bear. But well.. here it goes. 3 Points to Dash101. Always enjoy seeing your work. I think you've created an excellent image around the object. 2 Points to Erlik. I really like this image. I think you used the 'object' well. 1 Point to Zhann. Im giving him a point for sheer massive eye attack. Takes some guts to make an image like that. But it takes even more to post it.. (joking of course).

It was really hard to choose just 3 again - how about 5 Points next time ????????? 3 - Kylara 2 - FWTempest 1 - Pidjy Congratulations to all the participants! Very great work of everyone !!! I know, how difficult the using of the shape was ... ok, i saw - maybe not for everyone :)

3 points AgentSmith 2 points pidjy 1 point shadowdragonlord

3pts: Alvinylaya 2pts: AgentSmith 1pt:Muddygrub

Jausse - 3 alvinylaya - 2 wildman2 - 1 All lovely as always :)

3.Alvinylaya 2.Agentsmith 1.ICMGraphics

alvinylaya - 3 dan whiteside - 2 TheBryster - 1 I liked them all this month. These are the three I liked best. :^)

3 pts - alvinylaya 2 pts - AgentSmith 1 pt - Kylara I'm looking forward to the May challenge as I'll probably participate.

There's so many good ones, it's so hard! After much deliberation, here's my 3: 3 - fwtempest 2 - agentsmith 1 - brholte and the runners up: icmgraphics alvinylaya (dunno how you did it, but the realism is just stunning!) tjohn rjoo1 MuddyGrub (great atmosphere!)

3 - fwtempest 2 - catlin_mc 1 - pidjy

3 - pidjy 2 - Jausse 1 - Erlik Congratulations to all.

3- AgentSmith 2- Jausse 1- ICM And too meny honourable mentions to mention...

Oh boy, this was so tough...so many good entries. But heres my votes 3 = alvinylaya - Just love the textures 2 = Agent Smith - What can I say, best water Ive seen in a long time 1 = Kylara - Very cool image. Just love the idea Honorable mentions...well, everyone. Excellent job! Im really happy that this month was my first month to enter the challenge! Good job all and keep up the fantastic work! :-)

3 - Rayraz 2 - Svaelt 1 - ICMgraphics Great job to all!

3 - pidjy 2- alvin 1 - brholte

3-Dash101- I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a photograph :) 2- Alvinyla- Awesome job, it looks so real! 3- Rayraz - I know this took a lot of work and I love the finished image :) Everyone did so well! Maybe one of these days, I'll enter one of these when I feel my work is up to par :)

This was by far the toughest to challenge for me for voting thus far. I tried several different approaches, best image, most realistic, least Bryce-like, most creative use of the thingy, coolest idea, original concept...none of them yielded anything that seemed to sort out right. So in the end I chose some of each...

3 points - FWTempest - love the concept and the whole atmosphere being "thingy-fide".
2 points - Dash101 - Still looks more like photoshop than Bryce to me...which is amazing.
1 point - Jausse - I liked this one from the start, it has a really different look.

Tough vote, all entries this month were great catlin_mc - 3 erlik - 2 alvinlaya - 1

3-Alvin ylala - love the textures and use of the "thingy" 2-jausse excellent concept and awesome model 1-Dash101 - the most creative image out of the bunch

3 alvinylaya 2 agent smith 1 ICMgraphics

3 - ICMgraphics (best idea) 2 - pigjy (madeling and lighting) 1 - Dash101 (originality and photorealism)

So hard to choose, but here goes: 3 - alvinylaya 2 - AgentSmith 1 - Kylara Good work everyone! :)