OK, so we haven't seen any of these for a long time. The idea is to make an image in 15 minutes or so. Sometimes it takes a lot longer, but that's fine. It's just a chance to try something quick and fun.

I thought this could be fun. Show us money. I know lots of us are from the US, so the above will be familiar, but you can be creative with how you portray money. And lots of us are from elsewhere in the world, so show us your money! This was a fun experiment, mapping textures on cubes, deforming them so they didn't look perfectly flat.... Hope this sparks some ideas!

Dex

Cool idea, can't wait to get home tonight to do this. One word of coution for US folk, your Uncle requests that it not be Too real & that it be around 75% larger or smaller in size to the actual thing. That gives us a built-in excuse for not being too photo-realistic!

Ok- my goal was some old coins- 3h and 15m later I can't figure out how to get a trancparency map for the missing portion of an irregular coin, so I chucked all the damn coins into the well in the yard and snapped the pic. My plan: Make a flatend cylender map the coin onto the serface with the missing areas showing up as transparent. No go! the missing area was always the color of the background of the coin. If I could have imported the coin into the spline or vertex modeler I would have just traced it. I have been looking at AG2 and wonder how this would have come out? I would like a sugestion on the transparency issue (It was so easy in Bryce!)

Well, 15 minutes & 2 hours later I call it quits. ppowellaa, you can make the cut-out in the spline modeler by drawing your two shapes on the cross section , select both of them & "combine as compound". AG2 would also be able to make the cut-out.

Oh i love those 15 hours challenges ! Will, you really like those gold and silver 10 francs coins, don't you ? Well, they won't last long, because the euro coins come on the 1st of January . That means a few administrative procedures and a lot of mental calculation when you wanna buy something ! And no, there's no escape ... ;) Hope you like the image . All modeled in the VM, post-render in Photoshop . litst litst@chez.com http://www.chez.com/litst

Now that I have the coins I needed a box and wanted to play with the depth of field.

Cool stuff, everyone! I really like Litst's depiction of the Euro. I hadn't seen the symbol for the Euro until this image.... And ppowellaa, your coins are great. I'd rotate them a bit to give them a bit more natural randomness, but cool, nonetheless. And willf, your francs look like a photo. Great job.