Thanks to all,.....I've never won anything in my life. OK,...The April theme will be "A Page from Literature",....depict a scene or quote from any form of literature,......it can be anything from a Stephen King novel to a Shakesphere play,....the rules are pretty much wide open, imports are fine, keep post work to a minimum, and of course it has to be rendered in Bryce., Congrats to all who placed and all who entered. I am in a bit of a rush right now,.....so if needed, I will elaborate more later. OK, let's have at it and good luck to all. Thanks again,...what a thrill,......TOM(sackrat).

Nice one Tom, time to get the nose to the grind stone for this months compo then.

As for the definition of "literature", which i've never really been clear on, we're talking about fiction only, right? No non-fiction, like the Tao Te Ching, for instance, or even The Naked Lunch, correct (or the Bryce manual)? Does religious text fall in this category? Can you tell i need some clarification here?

but i was so waiting for the short video!!! drac runs before zhann can catch him

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that image was mildly disturbing... :D drac

Which one Gimpy, "for in that sleep" or Zhann's noogie patrol? 8P

Sorry guys,.........I had to rush out for a bit to pickup a paycheck(I love you people and all that, but......). @bigbadelf; no not just fiction(is that what's called a double negative ?) ANYTHING goes ! Heck you can even use websters dictionary (probably a 12 month render though), I would like to have the quote included in the 5 sentence limit under the enrty though(that might actually be more difficult than the challenge itself). Keep in mind the Renderosity TOS though(that probably means the "Kama Sutra" is off limits. Any further qustions,....post them in the forum and I'll try my best to answer. (can you believe they shorted me on my check !) Later,...TOM(sackrat).

Literature isn't just fiction. Medical Literature for example. Not that I'm suggesting that anyone use the British Medical Journal as inspiration. Just [I think] literature is any body of written works. OK, my thinking cap is well and truly on.

Oh boy, a real thinker of a challenge. Thanks Tom and congrats. I work in a library, surrounded by literature but I don't get to read much. I'm currently reading Stephen Hawkings "the universe in a nutshell" hmmmm....

Oh! And this comes AFTER I cook up that Silver Chair thing. pouts

Hm, maybe you should narrow down the theme a bit more, for ex: the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet... ;-)

Ooohhh....Stephen King. My favorite! I have to now choose between Stephen King (horror) and Robert Jordan (fantasy). I don't model, so it will have to be landscape of some sort....hmmmm.....don't mind me, I'm just thinking "out loud". grin I am determined to enter this challenge! Thanks Sackrat! And congrats again! :)

I've got dibs on "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"!!!

Actually,......I,m toying with the Idea of an R.Crumb offering.

Aye, it's an easy choice for me. Robert Jordan is the greatest story-teller of them all, in my small encapsulated world... (bows to Damia)

Do Forum posts count as literature?? (there are a couple of posts in this thread alone that make for interesting images..) :-) LOL!! Diolma scans 1'000 book sci-fi/fantasy collection and sighs. "eeny, meeny, miny, mo........" Cheers, Diolma

curtsies to Shadowdragonlord (love the name by the way), you are correct. The greatest story teller. I am reading number 10 and I can't wait for more. Now it's just going to take me forever to find a scene to do, or should I say choose between all the wonderful scenes. I always have written horror, but he makes me want to try fantasy. Could you imagine all the outstanding images someone could do from his books? I wish I could, but I'm not that good yet. You can bet that if I ever get that good, I will be attempting many things in that series. Sorry to hijack this thread.....I think I'm done now. acknowledges Shadowdragonlord as I sweep gracefully out of the room ;)

Does a chess set of books count as literature?

@ddruckenmiller-Darn! I was going to base my entry on Nimzovich's "My System"! I guess all the good literature ideas are already taken. Oh well.;-)

This one sounds like fun.... I am up for the challenge and hope I can get it done in time to enter it this time around. lol

DO DVD subtitles count? Cause im working on a simlar sort of pic to behind enemy lines mixed with a desert style war movie....lol

great idea, i bags Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, i've got and image in my mind of the Lab a sort of a cross between the 50's movies and a Bernie Wrightson sketch. and i'm gonna make Bryce render in black & white,

lol, i thought it wouldnt be allowed

Bu**er, had my thought's set on an image from a sci fi book I read ages ago (White Wing by Gordon Kendall (sp??)), I don't have a copy so I thought I would finally get round to buying it. It's been out of print for several years :-(. My quote may therefore not be exactly verbatim from the book :-(

Here's my current idea (amazingly early wip). I'm posting it incase anyone else is thinking of it and I can claim I was first. :-)

Drawbridge must live in England! Death On The Nile is on tv this weekend....LOL I was gonna do War & Peace but there's a size limit on the up-loads.....sigh.....................

@ The Bryster,......or how about Will and Ariel Durrants "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",.....I understand it's only about 4 volumes.

@The Bryster - Is it?! Well, what a coincidence. Who would have thought, what are the chances of that? (Phil creeps away to finish reading this weeks TV Times under the covers with a torch)

*For you fellow Yanks and others who read the previous message by drawbridgep with alarm,don't worry. People in the UK call a flashlight a torch...either that or Phil sleeps in nomex jammies under asbestos sheets and blankets.

oh...great...a challenge that i have to THINK about... Yeah...thanks.. In all seriousness, great theme...and i look forward to...coming up with an idea the day before deadline.

So...are songs considered literature?

@Slakker,......yeah sure,....why not.

Finally got here, the ebot that didn't make it to my mailbox, so SciFi and Fantasy literature is okay? I claim Edgar Rice Burrough's 'Pellucidar' series, or Jules Vernes, 'Journey to the center of the Earth'

Jules Verne another great choice. One idea I had was From the Earth to the Moon, a giant canon is used to shoot people to the moon. Also thought about HG Wells and George Orwell. When you think about it, there are a ton of ideas. @danamo, thanks for the translation. I keep forgetting how the US has butchered our Queens language. ;-)

ROFLMAO @ Drawbridgep. The only people I know who really use the 'Queens English' come from Sweden :) There are so many cool books to work from be they factual or fiction, could do some great scenes from say Bravo two zero or even David Attenborough's guide to the world :-)

How about Catch 22? Then again I'm a bit of a fanatic on Stephen Kings books, his books always give me the willies, which means they scare me. 8) Catlin

Congrats on the win sackrat. Just a quick question. If we choose to depict a scene from our choice of literature I presume we need to quote the written passage of text in our 5 lines? Luckily I've just finished reading, 'When Blizzards Strike: The Life of a Polar Bear'. PS. AS could you please change the colour of the Forum Challenge text under the main banners from that vibrant yellow to a colour that doesn't result in a cerebral haemorrhage when trying to read it? A nice shade of blue for example. Thanks. ;)

Hey hey! how about this... does comic book art or comics count as literature too? =)

Out of curiosity, if it was a WIP already, does that disqualify it from the challenge? If someone would let me know about that soon...?

I've decided to do a book cover as well. I love the one that drawbridgep is doing, and I think mine will be set up much the same way ... not that I'm doing Death on the Nile, but with the book title and author's name on it. I'm not going to post a WIP, just my final entry -- which is rendering as I write.

SO, WAIT. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET AN IMAGE FROM A BOOK? NOT WRITE AN INSPIRATIONAL PARAGRAPH OR SENTENCE FROM A NOVEL? OK, I'M CONFUSED! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! THANKS!!!

BlackSabbathBabe: (Nice name) Please go to the highlighted link in the box at the top of this page. April Bryce Challenge - "A Page From Literature" - Info - Here!!

Okay, I just uploaded my entry to the challenge. Now I'm wondering if it's okay to upload the render to my gallery also?