Fri 6 Oct 2006
"EON" CG challenge
Posted at 23:33 +1000
Whilst looking for something in the Blender forums tonight, I stumbled upon a reference to the latest CGChallenge competition. Creating artwork around Greg Bear's novel Eon. Cool!
I've mentioned previously that Eon is one of Bear's books that I like a lot. In fact, it is probably my favourite Science Fiction book. I clearly remember first reading it during mid-year vacation during year 12 at high school (so mid-1988) and I've read it countless times since then and still enjoy it. So this competition, particularly the competition to create a movie trailer for a hypothetical Eon movie, will be fun to watch. There's no way I will have time to compete, but hopefully some people who have read the book and truly enjoy it will be able to show off their skills (a lot of the forum chatter over there so far is from people who haven't read the book, which is a hole in their education to date as far as I'm concerned).
They've even asked Greg Bear to help judge the competition and he's agreed (along with David Brin). So the judges will have taste, too.
Topics: books, software/graphics