Thanks bhoins - I eventually figured it out (did it through studio). :)

And I can say for certain that it is definitely starting up much faster than it did before.  I'm not sure why, but I'm not complaining either. :)

I don't know - I personally like these short challenges - it forces me to just pick an idea and do it instead of overthinking and being precious about it.  I don't know about anyone else, but when I have more time I just keep messing around with it endlessly, making never ending little changes to shaders and lighting and camera angles.  It's nice sometimes to just take something "just good enough" to get across the idea and throw it out there.  That's not to say that I don't spend thought and time on these, but I'm not worrying about meeting some internal standard of perfection when there is a rapidly approaching deadline.

This week has just been a bit crazy.

I guess my theme must be unpopular  :-(

Anyway, here's one with more of an "incongruous" slant.

I like your theme - I have an idea but haven't had any time to work on it this week - hopefully Saturday morning.  Also, awesome image.

People said that my horrifying portrayal of one beer's untimely demise would be too terrible for general audiences, but as usual the excellent judgement of our distinguished judges has been proven greater than the scoffing of the nay-sayers. ;)

For the next theme, let's go with "Song Lyrics."

Could be - but all the extra Carrara folders Iadded to the browser are there and all my various libraries appear under Content - it's just the Smart Content that doesn't appear.

After one day with the newest release:

It's nice to finally be able to re-size the font for the interface - I ended up not changing it because I've gotten so used to it, but it's nice to have the option for days when my poor old eyes don't feel like working so hard.

It seems to start much faster: from clicking on the icon to being able to start working is about 5-6 seconds now, before it was 20-30 seconds on my system.

I lost all my smart content due to the change in the content management system from Valentina to PostGres (until I can figure out how to reimport it) but I didn't really use that feature much.

That's about it - I haven't noticed any other changes since I never ran into any of the issues that were fixed.

I think they moved the most recent BETA to production, so it's out of the testing phase and now (supposedly) an actual stable release update. I didn't try it as a BETA but I think I'm going to risk it today - I still have my installer for the last version so I can always go back. :).

Grand Prize Winner! Upon reading the description, my brain started up the soundtrack from Apocalypse Now, with Col. Kurtz saying, "The horror, the horror..."

My Cup (Has Been) Runneth Over and now I am sad and beer-less.  But I repeat myself.

"Nest Egg"

Also I apparently cannot spell.  Infinite, not Infinte.

I love the impending puppy apocalypse. Nice use of the replicator and distance g-buffer too.

I really need to stop playing around in Carrara while watching TV.  I think it is warping my brain.

In order to conserve brain power I'm just free-associating off the last topic... let's go from "Sharp" to "Soft, Fuzzy or Fluffy."

MODO2010 shoots and wins. Well done. 

Please, pick the next subject and post it in this thread. I need an excuse to not work on my jobs during the week and this should be just the thing...

Magnificent Grand Prize Winner! Nice, simple and the epitome of digital doodling.

Tacks. Tacks and case modeled and textured in Carrara in about 10 minutes.

Moderator Edit: This was really, really close for fist place. It should probably have been a tie but then the winners would get in a fist fight over picking the next theme.

Mr. Bremmer...um, my project...um...is about the...um, moon landing...  

I saw the topic and immediately thought if this elementary school project type image.  :)

Great job Tim,  And an excellent choice for a new theme...

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.... although on rereading it, I might have missed the apostrophe.