January's Challenge is set by Drawbridgep (Phil) and Dennisld (Dennis), joint winners of the October Challenge and set aside until this month to allow for the Christmas Challenge.

The Challenge Theme for January is 'Realism with Bryce - Undersea'.

We think it a difficult subject for Brycers in creating the atmosphere and ambience of the sea beneath the waves and therefore a worthy challenge to even the best of our artists.

Parameters for the Challenge as follows.............

1. Image to be under the sea and NOT river, pond or bathwater and not a split scene or above the sea.

2. The main attribute should be REALISM within your image as you see it in an undersea environment and we would ask when judging the winners for voters to consider this aspect of the entries in the first instance.

3. The usual objects, meshes and picture imports are allowed, mermaids are fine, futuristic subs are fine. Fantasy and Sci-fi themes are o.k. as long as the undersea environment is the prime consideration.

4. This is mainly a BRYCE challenge so please be minimal with postwork, perhaps just contrast, colour adjustment etc.,

Renderosity is a place that lets us show and share our ideas. It's through sharing ideas that we've been able to push Bryce beyond it's original premise and in most cases push ourselves to create better and more original art.
We wanted to create a challenge at the very heart of Renderosity that would inspire people to be creative and push the envelope within a more confined environment.
Undersea might sound too confining, and our rules more restrictive than a normal challenge but we know you people, we know what you're capable of and we are confident that we will see artwork that will be inspired and more varied than either of us possibly imagined.

We'll do our best to answer any questions you may have.

Phil and Dennis

cool idea guys! cheers! m

Things are gonna get busy at the Toucan site, LOL. (Free Fish models)

Yup...anyone know of underwater specific tutorials for people? I think I know of a couple, somewhere in my thousand or so links....;o) (or any other relevant links) Woohoo...it's ON baby!! Thanks Phil and Dennis! AgentCousteau

Here's some tutorials which may help, or not, as the case might be!! http://visualmagic.awn.com/archive/archive06.html http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutorials/bryce/underwater/underwater.asp http://www.wolfiesden.com/flash/bryce/tut/adv-lighting2.html (could help with lighting your scene) http://members.tripod.com/~JerryLS/tutorial1.htm http://www.brycetech.com/tutor/bryce/underwater.html http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorial.cfm?tutorial=bryce/Underwater&title=Underwater%20Scenes ( this is from a links page, the original website no longer exists, but may be useful to some) Dennis and Phil

that's a great challenge.

A real Challenge for sure, Great Choice!!

Awesome! I'm getting ideas already!

Cool idea for a challenge!

Thanks guys I've been looking forward to this one. 8)

Yes! I hate postwork, woo hoo. Now if I could just get my new pc running I'd be all set. rj001-lmao nice pic, you've nailed the realism aspect.

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I might just go for this one..................anyone for Dolphins?

No thanks Bryster, I couldn't eat a whole one......

ROTFL!@Gog

woohoo this sounds liek a very interesting and fun contest! Good job thinkin it up !!

Didn't we have this theme quite recently, or something extremely similar?

Nope, but we did have something like it in 2002. 8)

I wasn't around in 2002, what was the similar challenge?

We had to make an image of the deep sea, like the Mariana's trench. It was quite difficult because, as you know, there isn't much light that far down, so the one I did had a deep ocean research sub with lights. It was very different from your challenge so don't worry about it drawbridgep. 8) Catlin

Was it really 2002? 8{ I still think we need an index of previous challenge topics ...

Maybe like the monthly challenge archive at the top of this page? ;-) But it is a bit out of date and doesn't give an idea what the topic was.

Catlin: I think the theme of the challenge you mention was 'The Abyss'

Yup, that's the one. I didn't actually enter my image 'cos I had a couple of versions of it and when I finally decided which one I liked best the challenge was over. boohoo 8( Catlin

Where do you upload the new challenge images?Anyone have the link yet?

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/contest.ez?contest_id=285

Great catch! Thank You! AS

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is the contest still OPEN?? can i submit mine??

I think the last day to submit is today.

What's going on? Shouldn't the January challenge be in its voting stage by now? I'm eagerly awaiting the next challenge! :( Drekinn

Attached Link: January Challenge Voting

Thanks drawbridgep for the link, but how the heck was I supposed to know about it? There's no obvious mention of it anywhere on the challenge page! :( I hope the voting link is more apparent for future challenges so newbies like me don't miss out. Thanks.

Yes, apologies for that, usually I change over the message in the forum and gallery headers from challenge info to "vote now" Agentsmith