Welcome to the MARDINI Daily Art Challenge which gives the Houdini community the chance to compete for cool prizes by creating a new image or animation every day during the month of March 2023.
Each week has a theme which you can see in the graphic on the rules pagewhich is meant to be used to create and inspire the artwork that you submit.
Nice! <strike>So no daily requirement this year, only the weekly theme and we can get crazy ?</strike> Obviously there is a daily prompt, it's even mentionned in the rule page ,) Learning to read, people, it starts at school !
Hey Rob, I filled in the form for the 2022 prizes but actually just got my package, so you can remove me from the list of people that didn't get their prize, sorry about that !
HandcraftedMedia With external textures and models being allowed, are you allowed to texture an asset in substance as part of the process?
You could create textures using substance but then they need to be assigned to the geometry in Houdini via materials/shaders.
Allowing outside models is an experiment with this year's Mardini. If it feels like people are spending more time outside Houdini then inside Houdini then the option may be removed in future contests.
Robert Magee Senior Product Marketing Manager SideFX
I'm new this year, but do the prompts get released on the day? Are they all released on the first? At the beginning of the week? Was pondering if it would be possible to plan things out to relate to each other.
Houdini TD, I focus on tools for procedural asset creation.
Have there ever been discussions about allowing real-time renderers like Unreal or something in these challenges? Game-dev here so I feel like most of my time on these challenges go towards figuring out solaris/usd/karma etc and not modeling/scene generation. Especially with Houdini engine plugin and viewport sync to unreal for example.
So asking for a quick clarification about the Iron Heart Rules.
"Everyone who submits entries for all 31 challenges AND submits them as a contact sheet to the Iron Heart forum by April 4, 2023 at Midnight EST/EDT wins the Iron Heart"
Does that mean we need to submit the contact sheet AS WELL AS post our art before the the Midnight EST/EDT deadline for each day?
MitchRease So asking for a quick clarification about the Iron Heart Rules.
"Everyone who submits entries for all 31 challenges AND submits them as a contact sheet to the Iron Heart forum by April 4, 2023 at Midnight EST/EDT wins the Iron Heart"
Does that mean we need to submit the contact sheet AS WELL AS post our art before the the Midnight EST/EDT deadline for each day?
The contact sheet must be submitted at the end for the iron heart.
Robert Magee Senior Product Marketing Manager SideFX
Emomilol1213 Have there ever been discussions about allowing real-time renderers like Unreal or something in these challenges? Game-dev here so I feel like most of my time on these challenges go towards figuring out solaris/usd/karma etc and not modeling/scene generation. Especially with Houdini engine plugin and viewport sync to unreal for example.
Not for this contest.
Robert Magee Senior Product Marketing Manager SideFX
Hello Rob, I won day 12 in 2021 and waited thinking I would be contacted in some way, it's been a while but is there any chance I can get the lovely t-shirt?
?</strike> Obviously there is a daily prompt, it's even mentionned in the rule page ,) Learning to read, people, it starts at school ! 