"CHRISTMAS DOESN'T COME FROM A STORE.
MAYBE CHRISTMAS PERHAPS MEANS A LITTLE BIT MORE"
DR. SUESS
You maybe thinking of giving Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh to your friends and family this Christmas.
Or we could break from tradition and do something different this Christmas,
something special for our loved ones.
A Christmas Gif.
On the first day of Christmas
My true love sent to me:
A Christmas Gif made for free
The Challenge:
Create a short animation in Blender (about 5 to 10 seconds)
Then use a free online gif maker to convert your animation into a gif. (I used giphy.com)
Rules:
You are encouraged to create a WIP thread in the community forum for review with the title Christmas Gif 2021 WIP.
Your WIP thread should consist of progressive images with a short explanation of the process at each stage.
Why a Challenge
A challenge rather than a contest because its for you to challenge yourselves and the knowledge you gained from a course to create a masterpiece of your own making. A rules based challenge to maintain consistency and fairness, whilst also maintaining safety to prevent accidents. A challenge to be the best you can be from the knowledge you have today, while striving to be even better tomorrow than you was yesterday. Most importantly, a challenge to have some fun.
How we'll rate your Christmas Gif.
Four Wise Men, Wes, Kent, Lampel and Wayne will review and pick 4 Christmas Gif's.
Criteria to include Christmas spirit.
The 4 picks get:-
Make sure to add your social media handles to your profile.
How its made
For the above gif:
I used geometry nodes for the tree, based on a tutorial on YouTube by redjam9
redjam9 - YouTube
A simple particle system for the snow
And the text, I used a text object with my chosen font as a template. Using a curve and extruding the handles to follow the text object as if writing with a pen. With an extrude of 0.02 under geometry of the curve settings. Converted to a mesh. Straighten the UV's and used an empty to drive the x location of the mapping node of the shader.
With the use of multiple scenes, I was able to get a blurred effect on the tree and snow, and a sharp image of the background and text. Bringing it together in compositing.
I have uploaded the file to Google Drive for you to download
We wish you Happy Blending
A huge amount of Christmas spirit around the CGC community,
Take a look at all the entrants,
techworker1 - Christmas Gif(t) -- WIP Thread
daphne2 - Reindeer and his Gingerbread Friend -- WIP Thread
ttanya53 - Simple Snowman -- WIP Thread
slenaerts - Christmas Season Love Delivery -- WIP Thread
otowa - Merry Go Round -- WIP Thread
amblender - Christmas Snow Globe -- WIP Thread
spikeyxxx - Christmas 2021 -- WIP Thread
waiwai1287 - Christmas Polar Bear -- WIP Thread
melinmotion - Aussie Santa 2021 -- No WIP
yyandrak - Christmas Challenge -- No WIP
@drakewho - The Griswold Advent House Calendar -- No WIP
aamit20052020 - Christmas GIF Challenge -- No WIP
Merry Christmas
Sorry for the delay with the top 4 picks.
Apparently some of the CG Cookie crew actually have time off over the Christmas holidays.
How cool is that?
Christmas is a time for patience.
Patience to wait until Christmas morning to open all your GIFts under the Christmas tree.
The wait is over for the judges favourite 4 GIFs of part 1 of the GIF challenge.
In no particular order,
@drakewho -- The Griswold's Advent House Calendar
waiwai1287 -- Christmas Polar Bear
Congrats to the top 4,
and well done to all entries,
the judges expressed how good all the GIFs are, and how difficult it was to choose their favourite 4.
Happy Blending
Yaaaaay! I won something!
Congratulation to all participants! It's very nice to see so many different ideas and executions!
Makes me want to enter more future contests!
