## Digital Design and Rendering contest
A few years ago, I organised a digital design competition based on the Scooby Doo sets. The old timers from Mecabricks may remember it. This year Mecabricks became a Recognized LEGO Online Community (RLOC) which allows us to receive support from the LEGO Group for activities. To celebrate this achievement I have decided to organise a new contest.
## 1. Goal
Participants shall select ONE of the official Speed Champions cars, build a diorama made of LEGO elements and produce a rendered image of the scene. Only the final image will be judged.
## 2. Submitting your entry
Image shall be posted in the render section, of the official set the car belongs to. Copy the link and post your entry in the designated Entry topic along with the image.
## 3. Deadline
Entries shall be submitted by Sunday 20th May 2018 11:59pm UTC. Entries submitted after will not be considered.
## 4. Summary and Additional Rules
- Contest is open for all digital design tools and rendering software.
- Contest is open to all Mecabricks members except judges.
- Diorama and rendered image shall be made especially for this contest and shall not have been posted before on the internet.
- Only ONE official Speed Champions car is allowed in the scene. Other vehicles may be included but shall be original creations.
- Use of custom decals is allowed.
- Custom LEGO elements are not allowed.
- Scene shall be almost exclusively built with LEGO parts however, none LEGO elements like water, rocks, etc. are allowed in small quantities to make the landscape more interesting if required.
- No part count limitation.
- LEGO logo shall not be used in the image.
- Minimum resolution shall be 1920x1080 portrait or landscape.
- Only one entry per person.
- Entry may be updated up to the deadline. Do not post another entry but modify the image link instead.
## 5. Prizes
- 1st - 75889 Ferrari Ultimate Garage
- 2nd - 75888 Porsche 911 RSR and 911 Turbo 3.0
- 3rd - 75886 Ferrari 488 Scuderia Corsa
Prizes have been donated by TLG however shipping to the winners is courtesy of Mecabricks.
## 6. Judging
Three Mecabricks power users will rank the entries according to three criteria:
- Stas: Diorama Build
- Zanna: Image Composition
- Renderbricks: Rendering technic
The entry will be judged and given a score being the average of the three judges on a scale of 0 to 10.
@Masman8675 Okay. Well, at least I would be helping the competition... that doesn't sound right... 😛
"A LONG TIME 😛" doesn't really help... I have an i7-6500U 2.50GHz Quad Core on my computer, only problem is, it is rated "unstable". So I turn rendering projects over to other computers. 😄 I prefer to use a non-rendering computer too. I can do a max render time of nine hours on Thursday or Friday though.
Hey guys,
This is not really the best place to discuss this. You can either open a new thread or use private messages. Cheers.
@Scrubs Sure. I'll open continue this thread with Masman8675 in a PM.
@Masman8675 I guess you already know what I've done (if you read the line above this ;)).
Okay, thanks Scrubs. I've moved the posts to another thread. 😃
Hi, I just submit my rendering. Something went wrong? Please advise.
First did this but wrong.
Re-try to upload to Rendering. Got this.
https://www.mecabricks.com/image/rendering/o/b7zGXD.undefined
Hi, It is okay now. I got it fixed. Thanks.!
How do I post a image on the Entry's page, I can't seem to figure it out? (Edit) I figured it out!
@FallingBrickStudios
Check my post on this on page 3 of this discussion.
Edit: Aaaand I should put my own house in order as well. You sent your entry in already, and I totally didn't see it. Ignore the message above, will you? 😁
@Scrubs When will the winners be announced?
It will depend on the availability of the judges. Hopefully next week.
@Scrubs Thanks!
If no mistake, I didn’t read anywhere when you will give the names of the winners ?
Update : oups, I just saw the answer once posted... Forget my question 😉
Good luck for the judges. It's going to be a hard decision with all these amazing renders. 😃
@Sim They certainly do have their work cut out for them. 😛
So far, my favorites are Masman8675's, Carlierti's, and MrmoTarius's. I'm not sure how mine will rank up. Hopefully the judges will tell everyone who ranked where (basically they do not just tell the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners, they tell everyone).
Scrubs can i upload a render with 1223 x 1344 px??
There are a lot of awesome entries!
This is really fun to see that we all have different rendering skills 😉
Congrats and good luck @everyone !!
My Top 5 is:
1 - kriegaa (very original)
2 - NGCHunter2 (nostalgic, old glory, love it)
3 - Carlierti (beautiful scene, with a cool color scheme)
3 - Helo (well done, a lot of details and a great diorama)
3 - MrmoTarius's (ultra realistic race scene, I can really feel the speed)
Aaaand deadline strikes.
Wonder who the winners will be? 😉
Wow, great job everyone! I didn't think I would enter, but I had an idea suddenly so I did it. It's not that great though, more of an experiment than anything 😛 I'm eager to hear who won, though! Good luck judges! 😃
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