Thanks again, folks, and especially RimRunner for being so patient. Okay, here goes.

I challenge you to take those old standbys, the primitives -- the basic sphere, cube, torus, cylinder, cone and their ilk -- and make them interesting again. You can use as many or as few of the above in your image(s) as you please, as well as as many or as few other objects, lights, textures, materials, Boolean operations and any other dirty tricks you may have up your sleeve. One restriction: the primitives must be recognizable. So if you're using a cube, for example, you may distort it to your heart's content so long as it still has six sides and eight vertices, but not into, say, a fish, unless there's some other primitive in the scene. (Or unless it's a cube-shaped fish.)

Have fun. :)

Fantastic topic. FanTAStic!

I feel the need to point out that, under normal circumstances, I do in fact know all the names of the months and their order. No, really. They made me memorise them in school and everything. I thought 'July', typed 'June' -- ah, the joys of human error. And also to point out, a bit belatedly, that 2D and 2.5D artists are absolutely encouraged to join, though from what I remember from art class, the prospect of drawing more spheres and cubes may not exactly entrance them. And, finally, that this is all very exciting and the entries are great, even if Baztd did beat me to the puzzlebox idea. Sigh. ;)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=212252&Start=1&Artist=CrystalWizard&ByArtist=Yes

even if Baztd did beat me to the puzzlebox idea.<< sorry ;o) it was there, it had to be used. (i have one sat next to the PC)

Neat stuff. Kind of retro-3D. :D This is going to be a very interesting challenge... and a hard choice when it comes to voting. LOL!!

Fantastic work Pidjy. That's a HOOT!

Hmm, re: Gorodin. I see some things in there that look enough like tori, even if they're just reflections of the actual torus, for me to give it a tentative yes. Plus it's, y'know, gorgeous.

ijack99-very cool!

2 lights, 2 spheres, and a whole mess of tori...

it's not voting time yet, but pidjy and ijack999 have my vote they're just hillarious cough anyway i might try to add an entry to this, it sounds pretty interesting :)

This is actually the same geometry as the last submission. Different camera angle, different material, volumetric atmosphere... At least you can recognize some of the primitives...

scenes like that must take ages to put together like, making it so it doesn't like they're all running into each other and suddenly disappearing, giving it depth and all that it's pretty awesome

Ok, submission time is up... and now it's time to Vote for your fave'... and this isn't going to be an easy one by any means! Lots and Lots of great entries this month.... So.. to start things off... My Vote goes to: pidjy with the boxing Primitives. - James

I think pidjy really captured the spirit of this challenge. My vote goes to pidjy.

I vite for Pidgy too!

Pidjy. Fantastic image - one of my favorites on the whole forum actually.

i guess i should specify too i vote for the boxing primitives of pidgy really cool piece of work :) me give congradulations to ijack999 as well though. even though there can only be one winner, both of them did an awesome job of this challenge

Yup, it has to be Pidjy's boxers. a perfect representation of the challenge if you ask me.

i vote wozzyke for original and new work

Easy to tally the votes this month... pidgy seems to have walked away with this one :) Congrats to Pidgy!! Please start a new thread with the Aug. Challenge. :) - James