About a year ago, I came across Dr. Grordbort’s Raygun Shootout and I thought it was a cool project to get your students involved in, but at the time it was only for Blender users. I just came across the 2010 August-September challenge and now there are two categories, Blender users and an open category. The deadline for the August-September category and the whole competition is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on September 31st, 2010. So you still have time!!! Also to keep in mind that Weta will own all copyright of your submitted designs. It definitely looks like a fun competition -- Cornell
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Competition Concept
Dr Grordbort needs your help in the fight against the moon men!
Help him by using your digital design skills to design new Rayguns to ensure his men are better equiped for their fight.
Design your Raygun in whatever 3D content creation suite you want and then simply submit your entry into either the Blender, or Other Application content section. The Blender submissions will be rendered via GreenButton, whereas all other submissions will need to be rendered prior to submission on the users own PC. The folks at GreenButton are hard at work developing GreenButton plugins for other content creation suites so they will hopefully have other applications GreenButton enabled soon!
Design your Raygun in whatever 3D content creation suite you want and then simply submit your entry into either the Blender, or Other Application content section. The Blender submissions will be rendered via GreenButton, whereas all other submissions will need to be rendered prior to submission on the users own PC. The folks at GreenButton are hard at work developing GreenButton plugins for other content creation suites so they will hopefully have other applications GreenButton enabled soon!
The competition has been running for four successful months and now has two months to go. The category for the last two months will be to design Ray Rifles - large guns in other words!
The judgment criteria are:
The most ostentatious example of personal Ray Armament. Two-handed operation is a must in this category and your contraption must have the power to dissolve at least 7/9th's of an African elephant in two blinks of an eye. Approved materials are cast iron, wood, bakelite, porcelain, brass, copper and tremontium. So get designing and you could win some very cool prizes!
The judgment criteria are:
The most ostentatious example of personal Ray Armament. Two-handed operation is a must in this category and your contraption must have the power to dissolve at least 7/9th's of an African elephant in two blinks of an eye. Approved materials are cast iron, wood, bakelite, porcelain, brass, copper and tremontium. So get designing and you could win some very cool prizes!
