On behalf of Tresamie and myself, we would like to issue the following challenge for September.

We both decided that since the Autumn season is fast approaching we would like your submission to have an 'Autumn Theme'. Open to everyone!

Good luck and I look forward to seeing all the submissions!

Deloulark (Deb)

That's a great theme. Good idea! Be sure to spread the word. I've posted the theme on the forums I hang out the most (Poser, Writers, and Paint Shop Pro). It's fun to have representatives from different forums to join in. :)

Thanks! We picked it because we thought it can include everyone and all styles of art. :) Tresamie is also posting at some of the forums she hangs out with. Hopefully we can get lots of submissions to choose from!

Oooo very nice Linda - I live in Canada where we get to experience the fall colours in all their stunning beauty. Love this image, fits right in with our theme! :)

We're moving into spring now here in Australia, but i love the warm colours of autumn, its one of my favourite times of the year. This is my entry, titled 'Autumn Apple'

Are there any rules to this?

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Well I'm new to submitting anything in the Challenge arena so I'm going to submit something different for me... I've started playing with fractals and this one very definitely made me think of fall... I called it Harvest Wreath

Wow, these three are just splendid. Not a lot of rules. Post a graphic or a link to a graphic to this thread and free your imagination so you can post to the theme before the challenge ends. And it's a great challenge when there are already three amazing graphics online. Good job!!!

Yup, dialyn pretty much summed it up. Post one of your own creations here in this thread following the theme for the month. This month is "Autumn". Photographs, fractals, MS-Paint, 3DS, etc. are all welcome. :)

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This will be my first participation to a challenge. So here goes!!!!! Autumn in the Scottish Highlands. Ahhhh HOME! Good Luck to all!

Thats just brillant Marc and I love the other entries too... This is so cool... Have fun everyone....

Attached Link: Autumn Faeries.

OK! You asked for it....this is my entry...LOL Our Faerie friends are leaving for warmer climes now that autumn is approching. Poser characters, rendered in Bryce 5. No postwork.

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Awesome Faery Scene.... Great work and I love the colors... Isn't fall the greatest!!

Here's my entry. Its a Bryce render of early Autumn.

Created in Photoshop7 using some of the new brush options.

Is it my imagination or are the graphics this month uniformly stunning? Awesome.

**Six Pumpkins.** Created in Painter 6. Inspired by a photo I took of a portion of our crop last year. Sadly, this year the deer discovered our plants and nibbled them to death, so I am left with the memories of last year's crop, and this digital painting.

Wow, autumn has inspired us all - I can't believe the number of entries so far. It's going to be really hard to pick a winner!

Spoke too soon the rain came today. Done in Bryce5 with Bryce trees and some bushes I created.Think it's and Ornlu grass.in corner.PSP7 for some lighting and secret effects.Not sure if I am done with the Bryce yet. Cutting this down in pixels so much might ruin it so may have to try tomake the Bryce smaller.Here's the under200

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My humble submission. Harbinger of the coming winter.

Wow, some of these are outstanding. I think Autumn Fairies is my personal favorite but they're all very good. Here's my humble submission.

-Michael

I really need a grammar program for my text. LOL

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You just keep making the cool pics Amethyss, the grammar police are on vacation. :) -Mike

I am very new to the forums but not new to renderosity. Nor am I new to an artist's challenge. Here's a simple one I did just last week. (Corel)

Entering the final few days for the challenge. :) Get those entries in ...

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Grand choices. This is one of the toughest challenges yet to vote on.

What's the deadline? I am doing a bryce piece, and the rendertime is ridiculous for what I'm doing!

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I could have sworn I saw a post with the deadline in it but I guess I was mistaken. Well, it's only halfway through the month so I'd guess we've got time to go yet. We do something similar to this on my pyrography web site, it's not really a competition though, just a "monthly burn" but we have categories and so forth, people really enjoy it. I can't wait for October, which I'm only hoping is going to be a horror theme, then I can go to town and do something wicked. :) -Mike

I like to try and give about 5 days for voting... but I also take into consideration folks who are doing complicated renders... Lets say Friday Midnight.. that should give your system enough time to choak it's way through it... but post if things are going bad and we'll see what we can do :)

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I feel afraid... Very afraid... Don't hurt us tresamie. :) Honestly, sounds like it should be a good'un, can't wait. So, on average, how many people usually participate in these monthly contests now-a-days? -Mike

It varies from month to month. Weve never had the turn out of say, the Bryce Forums monthly challenges, but we do a respectable volume. I wouldnt mind seeing more cross-platform challenges but with so many forums, so many challenges, its really easy to understand where some folks just dont have the time. :)

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When the challenge is posted in most of the forums, we get a nice turnout! As to my render...it's not that complicated, so I really don't understand why it is taking so long! Tres

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I wasn't even aware there were other challenge forums. I've had this bookmarked (along with the main page) for, uh, years, but didn't know of other challenge forums. This place is huge. :) Tresamie, without knowing more about your hardware and the image you're trying to render it's hard to say what could be causing the lag, it could be any number of things. Maybe when it's finished it'll be more apparant what about it could have taken so long. Looking forward to seeing it though. Regards, Mike

There aren't other 'Challenge' Forums, but there are lots of other forums...some are software specific, or type specific (I belong to the Fractal forum and the Bryce forum). Many of those forums issue monthly challenges to their members. This is the only one I know that is open to any and all, including writers! My suspicion on my render is that it is taking forever because I can only render sporadically, and I am on Bryce with the DOF option! Tres

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DOF in any application can really choak the processor. That and any type of Ray-Trace/Transparentcy. I had a Bryce image using crystals & water.. 10 minutes to setup (total experiment nothing fancy), 18+ hours to render on a dedicated system. DOH!

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Ouch.. That IS a long time. I imagine your hardware has a lot to do with that though. I've done several rather complex renders on my new machine and none of them took more than 30-45 minutes. On my previous rig, they'd take at most an hour. But I'm not using Bryce most of the time, I use TrueSpace for most of my stuff. I need to find my Bryce CD and reinstall. I'm still putting things back together here, haven't done a Bryce piece in a long time. I've always found that most people are a lot better than I am with that particular program. Ah well.

Yeah, that's one reason I switched over to trueSpace as well... Anyway... getting back on track.. Tres, hows the render coming ? Not to call an end yet, as we're waiting for Tres... but I did want to change the voting a little. Since it's always so hard to pick just one... we're going to try something that's used in some of the other Forum Challenges.. Pick your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favs.. 1st = 3 points 2nd = 2 points 3rd = 1 point. Highest total points = Winner. Now.. I'll also be throwing in a small twist starting with Octobers challenge, to go through until Decembers... but that will be posted shortly after the start of Octobers challenge. :)

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I would like to give 3 points to knot4u's Harbinger of the coming winter. 2 points to pyrographer and 1 for Autumn Faeries.

I like the change in the scoring system....I often like more than one of the entries. I'll wait to vote until tresamie posts, but I know it's going to be hard to decide. :)

Don... jumpped the gun a little. :) we're still waiting for Tres. :) She's having a 'Render' Moment. ;) Just giving everyone a heads up on how voting is changing. :)

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Finally! It's done cooking! Hope you enjoy it, and best of luck to all entrants.

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Opps I'm a wee bit late but my entry can be found here :)

You're not late Stotty. :) Just in time actually... Ok... so.. since Tres has finished.. we can close the entries on schedule... midnight RST (Renerosity Standard Time. ;) ... voting to open Thursday Morning. Good luck everyone. Great entries all the way around!! And Don.. (dontrip), if you want to re-cast your vote with these latest entries.. .go for it. :)

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1. Bryster 2. Ang25 3. Stotty (That is, 3pts for Bryster, etc)... Hope this is the right way to vote. Sorry if it isn't.

I think I will re-cast, sorry about the jump start. Knot4U still first for me. Tresamie, worth the wait for second. Pyrographer for third. BTW, Stotty, if you were to take the 'y' off the end of your name, it's my last name.

I love #41! Are you ready for some football...

SigmaDog 3 points Layla-Rose 2 points Stotty 1 point and thanks to all the others who made choosing so difficult.

3 pts to sigmadog (This image has a lot of impact: great) 2 pts to pyrographer (Don't you think the image somehow fits the name?) 1 pt to ang25 (Love that tree!) Ed

3 pts to Stotty 2 pts to Tres 1 pt to sigmadog

3. Tres 2.Stotty 1.Amethyss Excellent job by all who participated, so very difficult when have to narrow it down to vote.

3points = Amethyss 2points = Ang25 1point = RainbowGypsy Good luck to everyone.......!

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3pts to Sigmadog 2 pts to theBryster 1 pt to Dawnstar

3 pts DawnStar 2 pts sigmadog 1 pt RainbowGypsy And 100 points to everyone for making it really, really tough to pick!

It was always hard to choose just one...and this month it is just as hard to choose 3! Here is my list: Knot4U-3 points(Great concept, wonderful autumn colors and mood) Stotty-2 points(An astonishing flame fractal in lovely autumn colors) Marc-1 point(Beautiful Autumn in the Highlands) This was an agonizing decision for me, since I was astonished at the high quality of each and every single entry.

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Hi guys,great submissions from all ,Making it hard to choose but...:) 3 points Pyrographer ..Love the bold, simple image, with great autumnal colours . 2 points Ang25 Lovely composed serene autumn scene. 1 point Sigmadog I just love those pumpkins :)

There are so many great images it was hard to make up my mind. Sigmadog...3 points pyrographer...2 points Stotty...1 point

I meant to enter but then forgot! Can I still vote? Stotty 3 points Sigmadog 2 points Rainbow Gypsy 1 point Very well done every one it was hard to choose.

I'd have to say this has been one of the most impressive showings... making it one of the hardest to choose from. 3 points: Layla-Rose 2 points: Stotty 1 point : Pyrographer Would love to give 'em all 3 points.. all equally impressive in their own way. Great images all, and contratulations to all who entered. :)

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Oh, I agree. These are all so beautiful, and so different...I want framed copies of them all. 3 points to Pyrographer - stunning 2 points to Layla-Rose because I love the unusual colors -- I can almost taste those apples 1 point to Marcs-ArtworkStudio for the breath taking landscape

Great job to all of you, my votes are: 3pts - amethyss 2pts - Ang25 1pt - TheBryster

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Holly crap. My third post in this forum... Anyways. Let's cut to the chase. 3 points: Marcs-ArtworkStudio 2 points: TheBryster 1 point: amethyss

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Wow, I didn't expect to get any votes at all. Next month I promise to do something a lot more interesting though. This is fun. I hope whoever wins picks a good spooky theme (no pressure here, I just dig horror). :)

Hello, I'm new here, but this looks interesting... Here are my votes 1. Layla-Rose - 3pt 2. sigmadog - 2pt 3. Stotty - 1 pt All were very nice, hard to choose. Good work! Outr

And the votes are in... WOW.. First off, great work everyone. It's an honor to see so many fantastic renders/drawings/paintings/whatevers. ;) Anyway... here we go: 20 Points: SigmaDog 16 Points: Stotty 12 Points: Pyrographer 10 Points: Layla-Rose 9 Points: Ang25 8 Points: Amethyss Bryster Tresamie 6 Points: Knot4U 5 Points: Marcs-ArtworkStudio 4 Points: Dawnstar 3 Points: RainbowGypsy Congratulations to all!! A terrific showing all the way around !! Simgadog, if you would be so kind as to pick a theme for October, and start a new thread with that theme. :)

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Congratulations, SigmaDog!

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Congratulations from me also

Congratulations from me too :o)

Congrats! Excellent challenge entries.

Wow, this was a hard one to vote! Congrats to Sigma Dog for that lovely painting. Can't wait to see what the next challenge will be. Hope it's spooky! Tres

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Congratulations to sigmadog for the excellent pumpkins :)

What Happened??? Did I have a blackout? I missed this voting.Feel real stupid now entering and not voting.My appologies to anyone who's image it could have made a dif on...Next time.Also thank you to all who pointed my image.

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Congrats Sigmadog... Sorry for not posting sooner, been sick and only just able to get back on the computer. Looking forward to the October challenge. -Mike

Golly! Thanks everyone! My sincerest apologies for not setting up a new challenge. I just got back from vacation and only now signed on and learned of the final results. Looks like RumRunner has done what needed to be done and set up a new challenge for October. Sounds great to me. And again, thanks so much for all your encouragement. It's the nourishment upon which every artist grows.