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# 1 29-10-2009 , 06:51 PM

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Hi guys,
this obviously isn't an official contest, but still. It is the brainchild of Hammer.Horror and I. The goal will be to create a pumpkin. You can end it there, or you can make the pumpkin an integral part of a scene.
Some examples of what I mean would be:
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Be creative!

This ends on Halloween night, and the winner will get a badge-type thing to put in there post signature. Just for fun.

Ok, so post any WIP's in this thread, if you please!

Good Luck!

P.S. The winner will be determined by a vote

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# 2 29-10-2009 , 07:44 PM

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Mine so far, just a basic pumpkin. no stem yet.

Trying to figure out mental ray still. It always washes out my colours!

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# 3 29-10-2009 , 07:56 PM

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Stem!

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# 4 30-10-2009 , 12:53 AM

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https://www.floze.org/2008/07/six-tut...e-part-iv.html
add a MI_exposure to your cam and the change the framebuffer settings like in that tutorial and set the gamma to 1 in the MI_exposure, it makes the colors very vivid. anyway, nice challenge. i might join

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# 5 30-10-2009 , 04:26 AM

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My first pumpkin!

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# 6 30-10-2009 , 02:16 PM

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I forgot to make a thread beacuse i was so engrosed in this but still heres my " made in 5 minutes" entry :attn:

Edit: Haunted house picture in the background courtesy to Daniele Montella user added image

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Im Back and now 13 (:

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# 7 01-11-2009 , 01:08 PM

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so who won?

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# 8 01-11-2009 , 05:42 PM

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the deadline has changed to the end of November 1st to allow more entries.

cool?

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# 9 02-11-2009 , 04:00 AM

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Geez, honestly I am surprised so few people made pumpkins, considering they don't exactly take all that much time out of your day to make.

Oh well, here is mine.

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# 10 02-11-2009 , 08:03 AM

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2 hours later i got this:

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just for you guys

not bad considering i don't actually know what pumpkins look like really... never seen one in real life

that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"

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Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

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