e-on software has announced the opening of the 2014 3D Environment Competition!

With judges that are leading experts in the major fields of the 3D entertainment industry, and with over $18,000 worth in prizes, this competition represents a unique chance to get noticed, and win an extensive set of 3D tools and resources at the same time!

This competition is always amazing, with artists from around the world participating. It's a great opportunity to show off your vision and skills.

Read all about it here:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/showcase/competition/2014/

Have fun, and good luck to all!

I've never entered this, but I'm wondering how can anyone just being an amateur go up against all of these skilled artisted that most likely will enter. Somehow it doesn't seem fair that everyone is thrown into one huge category, various categories might be better. Sure that poses different problems, who goes into which category :)

Well, let me think about this, it's fun entering a contest, but knowing what I'm up against takes away some of the fun.

By the way.... why only 3 winners? Wouldn't it be much more interesting and rewarding if those prizes would be divided over more people? Why make the winning chance so slim and give one winner such a huge amount?

Well enough to think about :) I may still give it a try, even though I know I've got some huge disadvantages when it comes to expertise and hardware. Yes, hardware us a huge breaking point in such a competition as well. However much I would like it, I canot pump out the scenes others can do. I have to make choices, my hardware is limited and upgrading would mean I need completely new hardware that I can't afford. So, with my limited 6Gb, I'm up against someone with 32Gb or more. Everyone owning Vue knows what that means in a building and rendering a Vue scene!

     I have hardware, but can't bring it to bear; :rolleyes:  e-on broke HyperVue with the 2014.5 update. :glare:   

     Aeilkema, with 6GB, you have triple channel memory?  DDR3?  Is it PC3-12800?  How many RAM slots?

     What processor model (ex:  core i7-930)?  What CPU socket - LGA1366?

     Can you find what the max memory is for your motherboard, main chipset, and processor combination?  (Speccy, free from Piriform.org would give you this info).

i7? Nah.... i5, 6Gb is the max, it's a laptop :) I work on it, since I can't sit too long and with it I can lay down.

I had some luck last week and did get someone else's laptop. It's an i7 2.0Ghz, 4 cores, 8 threads with 8Gb of RAM, that's the max.

     Oh, yah, laptops tend to be limited in that respect.   Valkyrie has 8GB (her max), but only two cores (not HyperThreaded).

Yes, they are. My previous HP Pavilion was quite limited. The i5 also only 2 cores and for working with Vue it was kind of slow but no choice. Someone got rid of his HP, it's not the newest one, it's a DV7, but it is an improvement. It has 4 cores, 8 threads and I really notice that. The 2 extra Gb's or RAM give me a little more to work with. The graphics card is faster and better then the one in the i5 and has 2Gb of dedicated memory. Overal the 'new' laptop is a nice improvement over the old, but compared to what most Vue user have, it's still lacking. I'm happy with the huge step up though!

Oh, almost forgot, it has a 17" screen, instead of 15" on my previous one. More space to work in :)

About prizes, Geekatplay will provide "Master collection" all tutorials to the main winner, 10  and 5 selected by winners (2 and 3 place) tutorial sets of their chose. All runner up will recive one set of their chose and to make even better if you just proticipated in competion, set to me link to your image (After they are posted to public) and i will send to you 25% off code.

If you computer is not powrefull enought, you always can render in layers and put together after in Photoshop.