Everything Everywhere All At Once, in a single spreadsheet. How nice!

So the month is over heh? A few final laps for the judges, meanwhile we can rest, at long last!
Again this year, excellent works in the animation department. How you madman can do this is beyond me. The rendertimes, specifically : I only did two animations, but I had to use a renderfarm and the costs ramp up so fast !
Still pictures bring their own challenges - like the whole concept of the motion week, for instance - but it's probably less hectic.

Anyway, let's see what the final results will be!

edit : when the boss says "png", the idiot Wolrajh provides a JPG, naturally.
edit2 : owooops I had apparently deleted the pic entirely :S

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Well, that was an interesting and very challenging month. I'm happy that I managed to participate even though rendering isn't my strongest side(a.k.a. I know nothing, but try none the less ). But seeing all the stuff everyone was doing - it was very inspiring and I'm really thankful for this experience. Congrats to everyone and hope to see you again next year.

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Thanks sidefx for holding this challenge again, so many wonderful animations and stills, thank you all.
I learned I really like the noise attribute node, and that I still have a lot to learn

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I've had some good days and some bad ones but overall very happy to have made something every day.

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Learned a lot, slept way less

I took advantage of the challenge to test Solaris and USD for some prompt, and I did not expect it to be that powerful. It is always a pleasure to discover new aspects of the software.

I am amazed by how people managed to give such wonderful and high detailed results considering we had to do each image or animation in one day, and the will to progress for some discovering the software. A lot of progress through this month!
I still don't understand how the animation people managed to get these results, that's a whole other level!

Congratulation to everyone, and thank you SideFX Team for hosting this challenge!

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So it is done. March is such a fun month thanks to you guys, but can get quite taxing.
I had a little objective for myself this year, I'm probably more on the beginner side of the spectrum here since I don't have much professional experience, so I'm not delusional enough to hope I could actually win this thing (yet...) but I wanted to make it to the daily winners page and I did! So you can take your prizes and be happy I've got my own + a kick ass iron heart T-shirt.

Sometimes I had to cut corners, hard... and I grabbed any resource available for free to be able to compete with you guys. I tried to overcome my technical difficulties with interesting and creative ideas and the element of fun, with varying results. I have once again learned a lot and played with solutions and render setting I'd usually leave alone. Karma makes it easier nowadays so thanks for that!

It's been an honor to compete with you guys and gals, massive thanks to SideFX for doing this and I'll see you next year!

PS. I'm actually thinking some of you have found a clever way to use Time Shift SOP to extend your day in real life like come on!

Aleksander Moskwa

That's me rn

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My second Mardini and Iron Heart complete !
Did better than last year which is encouraging, means hopefully I can improve next year and who knows maybe win this whole thing in a couple years

Congratulations to everyone, part of the fun of Mardini is seeing all the awesome art from everyone !

See you next year !

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