Once again, I am honored you thought enough of my work to vote it first place, everyone did such great work, I count myself lucky to be among such talented people, it rubs off you know....:)

This will be refined some but here are my thoughts on the basic October Challenge;

• it will be a Historical piece, take a 'Page from History'
  it can be any period from the Ancients to Modern Day, a few examples;
  Ancient Greece
  Ceasar's Emmissary to Egypt
  Burning of Rome
  Eruption of Mt Etna, or any volcano of note
  Spartans
  Attack of the Vandals
  Attilla's Horde
  Roaring Twenties
  Chicago Mobsters
  Czarist Russia
  French Revolution
  America's War between the States (Civil War)
  World War 1 or 2
  Asian Warlords
  Fuedal England
  etc, etc....

-doesn't have to be a War image per se, romantic pre-raphaelite is nice too, the idea being to be able to identify the peroid you picked, by atmosphere, vehicles, dress, something that will allow others to look at it and say,'hey that's (England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Scotland, America...) during the 12th (13th, 14th, 15, 16th,........20th century) when they had___________(fill in the blank)

• The Industrial Revolution is a good one, lots of stuff happened then, electricity, the phone, steam power.....and so on

-Use the knowledge gained in the last challenges

-import models or make your own, if you do make a model for your render it would be nice if it was made available to other Brycers, by uploading to the backroom, AS, thoughts on this?

-postwork kept to a minimum

• on land or sea

-any time of year

• make it a notable date, like the 'fall of the Wall'

• landscape, seascape or cityscape, no metaphors, allegories or representations

• it's this or working in the sky lab making puffy clouds ;)

Any questions or suggestions to help refine this more, here's the place

Zhann

We will be in the Skylab trying to make Puffy Clouds :) Good luck to all of you participants on this Challenge! Willem and Madeleine

This is tough. I can't think of anything that doesn't need too many Poser figures to pull off. This ought to be right up Flak's alley, though, LOL. This may be a bit unfair to those members without Poser. Just my 2 cents.

I dunno tjohn, a devastated city for WW2 or other ideas spring to mind

It's OK, I usually go blank when the new challenge topic goes up. I'm sure we'll all think of something.

I'm full of good ideas, they end up badly executed :-(

Awesome call...this should bring out a wide variety of images.

I love historical renders, will be thinking about this one!

It must be something in the air. :-) There's "Roman Building" Challenge over in the Rhino forum. But... Nice! Like it! I have an idea or two, but we'll see. Zhann, must it be really historically historical or it can be fantasy situated in a historical period, like, say, chasing a werewolf in a medieval village in Germany? tjohn, the Pharos of Alexandria? Semiramis's Hanging Gardens?

whoever suggests anything one more bryce 'lab' challenge gets a special visit from me and a baseball bat. Zhann, my congratulations. Excellent theme! Drac

This is almost the same idea I had in mind for a challenge. This will be fun!

Great Challenge Zhann! LOL Drac...I would just love to meet you in person...and we are a baseball loving family so if you "present" us with a baseball bat..we will love it!

PS...gives me incentive to win this months challenge!:)))

How about mythological history? My Middle kid is in Latin. I could do a Hercules or Jason render for her report.

Nice call Zhann. :)

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Electroglyph, I thought of having a Mythology theme, where everyone picks a myth from whatever culture and illustrates it, but alot happened in Ancient Rome of note too, no myths, maybe next time...;)

And I thought of the 'Poser Problem', myself being 'poser challenged' even though I have the software, but there are lots of ways to get around that, distant pov's, vehicles, 2d planes (although not as realistic, the creative use of)
real planes, the kind you fly in (Pearl Harbor, Dog fights over Germany, come to mind),

I'd prefer an actual moment in History, not that fantasy doesn't have appeal, a historical 'sense of place', or an event that actually happened is what I'm going for....yes, historically historical...

And Drac, I was thinking of you, ;]

Everyone think about it awhile, ideas will start to flood your mind, and Thanks, Catlin, for the link to inspiration, much appreciated.....

LOL, Hyperborea, I expect to see those clouds in a render, ..:]

Zhann

Now, that's an interesting challenge: my partner happens to be a History teacher, let's see if she likes what I'm going to create ;-) Josselin

Great idea! Sounds like fun. There should be a great variety of images.

History has long, long tentacles... Is there a time limit, say, in millenia, on this one? I noticed that most of your examples were from the last 2,000 years of this planet, Zhann, can we go back further?

sounds difficult, but fun.

Absolute events. No generic "Man Discovers Fire" or "Bunch of Romans Fighting" It'll be "Thermopoli", " Battle of Hastings 1066" Cool!

What of history that is yet to happen?

I wonder if I can sneak my September challenge entry into the October challenge without anyone noticing.

Of course for you techno-geeks out there...there's always man landing on the moon or on mars (did we do that yet?) or the Shuttle launches.............food for thought here guys! Nice one, Zhann!

It all sounds great! The only thing we couldn't give away in the backroom would be the inported poser figures, but anything else shouldn't be a problem. Let's get to work....! AgentSmith

So...as this is the October challenge...do we have until the end of October to finish? Or will we finish by the end of September and just vote at the end of October...whay about this whole midnight thing anyway? lol

Sparr, history that has yet to happen is called the 'Future' not 'History' And 'yes', man landing on the Moon is history, the space shuttle accidents, the russian space station, the voyager space probe launch, the comet dropping into Jupiter, and 'no' we haven't gotten to Mars yet....;) Shadowdragonlord, as far back as the cave man, or dinosaurs, hmmmmmmmm, I don't think so, as there are no verifiable accounts of what happened....

ahhhhh but Zhann...are you then making the point that only "recorded" history counts as "history"?

So does it have to be an event? or can it be an Object or Person that was apart of history?

Claymor, no, I'm not, by that I meant, I want everyone to put some thought into the historial piece they do, and to clarify, since you brought it up, take your inspiration from 'RECORDED' history, how's that, better now...;] Telson, it can be an event (ex; first flight), an object (ex; first airplane), or a person(s) (ex; the Wright Bros.)

I am confused about the due dates...AS says this is the September challenge, but this thread says October. When (approximately) are our entries due? Do we really only have 2 wks to do these? I would really be in favor of the idea that someone else posted in a previous thread, that the challenge be decided 2 months away. ie...winner of January challenge decides on the March theme. AS could pose a small challenge of some kind for Sept and the winner could chose November's challenge, and leave this one of Zhann's to be the October challenge as she states. Just my $.02 (which might be lime colored by next month) Tres

history: "That what is written down of the past" dinosaurs = prehistory: "time before written records"

Tresamie, this is the September challenge, I'm in a temporal displacement, and have posted the wrong monthin the header...my bad

tjohn -> lol, yeah..... Flak starts looking at reference photo's of the Somme... to see what 100,000s of people look like

That's okay, just yesterday I was stuck in the year 20,003. (i.e., the august challenge results thread subject) AgentSmith

(grins!) I never meant anything about DINOSAURS, silly... I was talking about Dragons!!! (grins) I'm joking, I'm actually leaning more towards my favorite part of history, the Spanish Inquisition...

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! OUR 2 WEAPONS ARE FEAR, SURPRISE, AND AND ALMOST.... OUR 3 WEAPONS ARE FEAR, SURPRISE, AND AN ALMOST FANATICAL DEVOTION TO THE POPE............. CARDINAL FANG1 GET THE COMFY CHAIR..............!!!!!!!

OH NO! I can see this is going to be one of those months...............lol 8D

Not the comfy chair!!!

I almost posted the Monty Python stuff and thought to myself, 'myself, don't get them started on THAT!', too late, 8P

Hey, let's do "one more bryce 'lab' challenge"!! Sorry couldn't resist . . . Zhann, anything you come up with is ok by me. I might even have time to do the challenge this month.

Good thing I didn't win. I was pondering a lighting lab challenge. ;-) I did get my first point in a challenge though. Woohoo! Things are gonna start happening now.

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