You have been given a mission, should you choose to accept it! Design a cover for the paperback publication of your favorite book! It could be a SF novel, a mathematics text, even a book of poetry. Choose any medium, including photography; pencil or paint; fractals or poser. You can choose to design the complete cover, including text or just the background illustration. Your entry should be in 'portrait' format, so as to conform to the book cover shape and size, and since we are limited to 600w x 800h pixels in this forum, those will be the largest dimensions. The challenge deadline will be 10:00 pm Renderosity time on Tuesday, November 25, 2003, with voting from that time until 10:00 pm on Friday, November 28, 2003. Winner will be announced on Saturday, November 29, 2003. Best of luck to all. ~Stotty and tresamie~

Neat challenge! There should be some fun results from this one. :)

Oh man, this is gonna be great!!!!! Should it be an existing novel that we're re-doing the cover for or a novel that's totally made up, should the author be known? If you're taking suggestions, I'd love to re-do a cover for an existing novel or 20. :)

Attached Link: My favorite book.

Excellent, another favorite, my best friend's favorite book by far, he loves that book. I was actually going to do a Spider Robinson cover, close to Heinlein eh? :)

I don't think we're limited to SF as a theme. I love these entries. You all are awesome at creating impressive graphics on short notice.

That's downright beautiful. Amazing work Azha! And nope, I don't think there's a sci-fi theme. Anything works. My entry would be more Horror than Sci-Fi.

Thanks Pyro I did so love your bookcover Anne Rice is actually the woman who made me want to write, I just missed her signing here in New York and was simply heartbroken. Hey is that Tom Cruise on the cover?

I don't think 600x800 is big enough for 'WAR & PEACE'......

I don't read much. Howbout a mock cover for a mock book? I.E. "An adventure in sewers surfing" by "Joe 'dude' Boarden"

LOL, Bryster....just do the "PEACE" part...that's usually small. ;) Tres

2 questions: 1. do these need to be new works, or can we post previously posted works? 2. Are we limited to 1 entry? If the answer to either is "no", please ignore the pics I post when it comes time to vote...

Oh Good Lord! How am I going to do a cover for 'First Steps in Winemaking'?...

LOL Darkginger. :) Some great works there Gorodin.. while we don't exclude prior works.. it is kind of the idea of a challenge, is to be challenged. ;) Also love the one for the Dragonbone chair. Nice to see Simon before the whole snowlock thing ;)

I think Gorodin just won this without a shot being fired....

Well this is my entry....... . . Adventures of a Black Cat At Midnight

Thanks RR. Please disregard my entries when it comes time to judge, in that case. Esp. since I probably spent more time on some of those than many people will be able to spend on this challenge. That probably would not be fair. Cheers! -G

Not my fault if you don't have the right colour scheme....ROTFLMAO.........I just didn't think about it....DOH!

;)

Hmmm I thought Bryster had miss titled his and it was actually The Invisible man. Wow... such wonders at such an early stage ... oh the anticipation of the late entrys.

Gee, my cat was rather purplish... maybe a Russian Blue at Midnight in Gorky Park. ;^) Carolly

LOL...maybe Bryster wins for having the amazing morphing graphic, done without animation!

Wait... Are those actual book covers that are in print that you did previously? If so... "No fair! Wahhh", seriously, wow, amazing. Azha, yeah, it's my attempt at Tom Cruise at least. :) I'm just guessing that mixing mediums is not verbotten here. (i.e paintins + photoshop + 3d Rendering, etc).

My book covers have not been published... but I have a dream... :-)

Wonderful covers everybody. NOW STOP PICKING ON THE DAZ DRAGON!!! Everybody wants to kill the poor little dragon.

Whoops. That last one was 800wX600h as opposed to 6OOwX800h... is that ok?

Excellent. I would say there are no clear winners here but you all have very competative entries. It's going to be hard to decide. Well done!!!

5 days left on this one... Deadline closing in fast. :( Just never seems to be enough time in the month sometimes huh? Anyway.. time to crank it up and hit the render button. :) Some great entries as always... looking forward to the final few to this challenge.

This is going to be one difficult challenge to judge. Can we pick 10 this time maybe?

I'll go for that. There are too many good ones this time.

LOL! That's so appropriate. :)

Interesting, I don't think a human could possibly sit Fractal Zazen, that would be, well, infinatly painful. :)

Thanks dialyn! I have often told people that working on fractals is very zen-like. I get so lost in the meditation! This was fun! When will we see yours????? Tres

This turned out to be a month devoid of imagination for me....I'm sitting this one out. About the only book I've read lately is "How to Train Your Rambunctious Puppy," and my Bella ate that one!

Hmm.. perhaps you should read "how to live with a neurotic dog". ;) If nothing else, that one would give Bella gas. ;

Two apologies. First to anyone who might be offended by the title - Niall's choice not mine! For anyone outside the UK, this is an unpleasant derogatory term for a male of Welsh nationality.

Second apology to Niall Griffiths for making his book appear so lurid! It may (and does) contain some of the most appallingly graphic descriptions of violence that I have come across, but it is very far removed from the "pulp fiction" impression this image might create. With alternating chapters in a high prose style and coarse vernacular, this is a very powerful novel that creates an almost Blakean and apocalyptic vision of alienated youth today. Not a comfortable read, but highly recommended.

HA! Believe ot or not, sitting on the sink in my bathroom is that exact book (How to live with a neurotic dog that is). :) I have a 4 year old neurotic dalmatian. :) Flycatcher, no need to apologize for your choice of author or subject matter. Didn't know that about the derogatory term there though, that's odd.