Here is an excerpt of orbital's announcement:

"Well I given this some thought, and I 'd like to go with a Space theme if thats ok. As it's the first time I've entered I'm not sure if that has been a recent theme, so if it needs changing Tresamie let me know.
So think planets, stars, spaceships, rockets, aliens etc.
Cheers
Joe"

It sounds fine to me, and I am sure it will be a fascinating subject.  I can't wait to see what you all will come up with! 

Let's run this until the 29th of June, I will give you a day or so heads up and if anyone needs more time they can let me know.  You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all!  You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately.  Please, please, please put titles on your entries, especially if you have more than one.

Let your creativity flow!!!

~Viv

Attached Link: emergence

Made in Cinema4D 9.6 and rendered with Maxwell Render 1.6

The construction of this scene is outlined at this renderosity thread: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2738550&page=1

A full size image is located in my Renderosity gallery:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1681501

I would like to enter these past works:

1. Sunset Edge's Space Patrol
2. Moving Day

I have another fresh in the pipe. Will upload it and link it when I finished rendering it.

TS

Here is the last and newest entry from me:
3.  Canyon Patrol

Good luck to all... I see we're all off to a good start.

Here is my entry. :) Strata 

Attached Link: Yellow Dwarf System

Attached Link: Starhawk

These are great!  I am really enjoying all of your entries!

~Viv

I just saw a rerun  of the movie Starman and there was a scene near the end just before the "visitor" gets picked up. Here's my version.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1527802

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1440134

Title: Is anybody out there?

seeya  Tunde

seeyus  Tunde

Some pretty neat entries! :)

Attached Link: Spacial Rift!

Here's one from me, 'Martian Sunrise':

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1633443

Attached Link: Gibson Nebula

My entry.
Above the remains of some collapsed planetoid, a distant galaxy is raised imposing itself in the depth of the space.
Terragen 0.9.43 and Photoshop CS2

Lots of fine entries here - good luck to all!

Here's another entry from me:

Red Sun Patrol Corp

It's already in my gallery... Hope it's not too late.

So many great entries... Mine pales beside them but I keep trying....

eek! 

I wish I'd peeked into the forum earlier, since this is a great theme for me personally.

We do have plenty of fine entries, so even if I don't get something new pulled together this weekend, there is a good challenge. :)

What a great bunch of entries so far!   Monday, June 30, I will be closing the entries at 23:59 Renderosity time (US Central) and opening up the voting.  This will give you the weekend to finish up any entries.  If you need a few more hours to render, let me know and we can adjust the time a bit.

Last call... get those images rendered!

~Viv

Here is another one. An updated version of  "Moving Day" : It is called:
"Moving Day Revisited: Exodus End" It has a little short short story to go along with it.
I got it in just in time for this challenge.

Good luck everybody... Have a good weekend!

Attached Link: .*. starseed .*.

However, it doesn't appear that this image was ever submitted to a contest or challenge, so I'm going to pop it in over the transom and under the wire.

STARSEED

Maybe if more poems and stories were submitted, the guys in the Writer's Forum would join us again?  Follow the link to the only sonnet I've ever written.

Carolly

Sooo, when do we start the voting?

It's wonderful to see so many new faces this month!  We have a number of linked images this month, so be sure to look at them all.  Also, there are two pages of entries, don't miss them!  It's time to let the voting begin!  The voting will be in this thread, after this entry.  You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points.  Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist.  If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice. 

Your vote should look something like this:

Star - "Trek" - 3 points
Space - "Station" - 2 points
Earth - "Rise" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

~Viv
 

Here's my vote:

Jlcid - "Via Regia" - 3 Points
melancon - "Gibson Nebula" - 2 Points
bandolin - "Starhawk" - 1 Point
hawksdottir - "Starseed" - Honourable Mention

All entries were fantastic, which made it hard to choose!

Becco_UK - Thunderbird 3 --3 points
Rich2  - View of Saturn from Titan -- 2 points
jlcid -Via Regia -- 1 point

Everybody else works were just super and out of this world.

jlcid - Via Regia - 3pnt
Porthos - Spacial Rift - 2pnt
melancon - Gibson nebula - 1pnt

great entries...good luck!

seeyus  Tunde

orbital - The Discovery - 3 points jlcid - Via Regia - 2 points Becco_UK - Thunderbird 3 - 1 point Well done to everyone - lots of great work here!

There were some very good entries!

Alex clark  - 3 points, the one with the shuttle as no title is provided.
jlcid via regia - 2 points
Becco uk Thunderbird 3 - 1 point

bandoli: Starhawk - 3 points.
Thunderstone: The Red Sun patrol Corp - 2 points.
orbital - The discovery - 1 point.

Thunderbird -3 (Bekko_UK)
Yellow Dwarf - 2 (Porthos)
via regia - 1 (jlcid)

View of Saturn from Titan

of rich2
 hope  this is the right thread

I will be doing the final count tonight (Monday, July 7) at 23:59 Renderosity time.  Please get your final votes in!

~Viv

This was a different and interesting challenge, I really enjoyed seeing so many unusual ideas about SPACE!  I was impressed by the quality of the entries and the passion of the inspiration.

Here is the count:

Tied for sixth place, with 2 points:  Porthos' 'Yellow Dwarf', Porthos' 'Spatial Rift' and Thunderstone's 'Red Sun Patrol'

Tied for fifth place, with 3 points:  melancon's 'Gibson Nebula' and alexclark's 'Shuttle'

Tied for fourth place, with 4 points:  bandolin's 'Starhawk' and orbital's 'The Discovery'

In third place, with 5 points:  rich2's 'View of Saturn from Titan'

In second place, with 8 points:  Becco_UK's  'Thunderbird 3'

In first place, with 12 points:  jlcid's 'Via Regia'

Kudos to everyone who entered!  You all did a marvelous job.  Congratulations to jlcid for that great entry! jlcid, please let me know what you want to challenge for July.

I can't wait to see what you will all come up with for this new challenge!

~Viv

Good selections, all, and congratulations to the winner.  Via Regia is classy and the light source is accurate.

Sorry that I missed the voting, but I now have a new monitor.  It is one of those flat screen thingies (I miss real pixels!).  After 10 years, the old one had lost the entire lower range and much color, so perhaps this will be an improvement after all.  (Hey, you don't want me voting if I can't see half your image, right?)

Carolly

This was fun.

I enjoyed the challenge, congrats everyone! :)

Attached Link: Summer Challenge

~Viv

Hi, Everybody!
First of all I beg your perdon because I didn´t appear before. I have some particular problems to solve and recently  saw the contest result and it surprise myself to be the winner.
Thanks very much all of you for your votes and opinions, it was a pleasure to get involved in such exellent enviroment. I want specially thanks to tresamie for the organization and again I apologize because I cannot brig you an subjet for the contest. But I see that you have chosen another interesting proposal, I could not done better.
Go ahead! and good luck for everybody. Thanks! Your sicerely jlcid

We're glad that you showed up again... and congratulations. ;)

Thanks so much hauksdottir!