Snow Man Contest Winners Announced!

by Wes Burke

Okay… we thought you guys were crazy on the pumpkin modeling contest with the amount of entries, but darn near 200 entries were submitted to this contest!

So again thank you for being involved in the Blender and CG Cookie community here. So awesome to see so many entries and creative ideas. So next time your in front of a mirror, point to it and say “You rock!”

Enough of my rambling though… on to the winners! This contest was judged on overall impressions and wasn’t mean to be overly technical. The new thing this time around is the community vote which is based on the amount of likes from the community on our facebook page. 

1st Place -

2nd Place -

3rd Place -

Community Vote

This was a close call, but just barely one with 100 likes!

Honorable Mentions

With so many entries, there were quite a few that made us chuckle and generally enjoy. Those are honorable mentioned below.

You can view all of the entries on our facebook page: http://facebook.com/blendercookie/

Thank you again for all the awesome entries and see you on the next contest!

Discussion

34 Responses to “Snow Man Contest Winners Announced!”
  1. Joshua Maule
    Posts: 281

    Congrats to the winners and honorable mentions. You guys definitely deserve it.

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm
  2. DirigibleCG
    Posts: 1

    When did the voting stop? One of my friends is in the contest, and he has 126 likes…

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 3:22 pm
  3. Pollo Guilbert Gabriel Andrew
    Posts: 203

    congrats to the winner!
    There were awesome entry!
    so, when is the next contest?

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 3:53 pm
  4. Ryan
    Posts: 17

    Great pictures, congrats to the winners and all those who had thier pictures up there :D Really good stuff!!!

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm
  5. David Lee
    Posts: 12

    They ALL look like they should have came in first place. But since there is only one first place congradulation to the winner. I think that every single one of these is great.

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm
  6. Joshua Cole
    Posts: 42

    Wow!! Honorable Mention!! I didn’t think I could get that! Congratulations to the winners. Can’t wait until the next contest.

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 5:20 pm
  7. Max Berends
    Posts: 169

    Congratz to the winners and to the hounerable mentions offcourse,:)

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 5:25 pm
  8. GoBurlIves1964
    Posts: 7

    Congratulations winners! My favorite is Sam the Snowman from Rudolph.

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm
  9. Ron Boygott
    Posts: 105

    Congrats to 1st prize winner, I really love your composition and colors. I was surprised, really surprised to come in second, there were so many awesome entries, I didn’t think I would win. Congratulations to all winners and everyone who entered the contest, Thanks Johnathan for all your tutorials I really utilized them in this contest especially your tuts on nodes. I look foward to next year!

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 6:35 pm
  10. Guilherme Pupo
    Posts: 10

    Well, i should congrats the winners from the Snowman Contest.

    And i only regret from not beying able to be at least on the Third Place.

    PS:my work was the “Winter’s End”

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 11:49 pm
  11. Aditia A Pratama
    Posts: 14

    Congrats for the winner…Happy new year everyone ! thanks CG Cookie..you’re awesome

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     Dec 27, 2011 at 11:56 pm
  12. Samuel Moxham
    Posts: 7

    Congratz to all who entered! So many of them were good, I’m glad for the one that won, i like that on facebook. However the last honourable mention (castle one) I beleive should have come third.

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 1:01 am
  13. ANEESH KR
    Posts: 5

    Congrats for the winners and all participants…It was a learning experience.. It would be much better ,if the winners reveal the techniques for the creation of their wonderful works.(like, how to create snow in blender etc..)

    Happy new year to alllllllllllllllll….. happy blending.

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 2:07 am
  14. Callum Tweedie-Walker
    Posts: 49

    Congratulations to the winners – all excellent pieces of work, and well done to all the participants; a lot of effort shown :) Its good experience working to a dead line, so that definitely helped me! :)

    Happy new Year everyone! :D

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 3:31 am
  15. Yves Perera
    Posts: 40

    Community Vote, thats awsome !
    I didn’t expect this (I don’t have fb).

    A big thanks to all of you guys that voted for me, I’m really touched !
    Honestly I never thought I’d get that place (even though I hoped it).
    thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks etc…

    I love you guys, have a nice end of year and happy blending ;)

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 3:35 am
  16. naughty ogre
    Posts: 8

    congrats to all the winners and the mentions! i really love some of them :D

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 4:50 am
  17. Carlos Standard
    Posts: 1

    Well done everyone, great work

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 5:54 am
  18. Felipe DR
    Posts: 10

    So many amazing entries, I was very surprised to find myself in third place.
    Thank CgCookie. Thank Guys.
    Cheers

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 7:36 am
  19. Robert Harris
    Posts: 61

    Great job guys, lovely work!

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 9:41 am
  20. Nicholas Tindall
    Posts: 96

    Congratulations to all those mentioned, but especially to the winner;

    I love the way the winner’s render tells a story.

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 10:25 am
  21. Michael C.
    Posts: 48

    Congrats to all teh winners! :D

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 12:57 pm
  22. Chris Erickson
    Posts: 2

    Fantastic contest with loads of brilliant entrys. Cant really believe that I won. I Voted for Ronboygotit which came in second. Just loved that rabbit. And thought the lighting and texturing made a fantastic piece. Congratulations to every one that entered.

    Now im getting stuck into my epic free training series which is brilliant. Thanks again guys.

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 4:56 pm
  23. Joey Baltrusch
    Posts: 86

    Really Nice Work, Wonderful stuff!!

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 7:16 pm
  24. jeremiah r
    Posts: 440

    Im glad I didnt have to judge they all look good! congrats to all winners take care cya

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     Dec 28, 2011 at 8:23 pm
  25. Robert Moffatt
    Posts: 34

    Congrats to all the winners and honourable mentions. I wasn’t one of them (rats!) but I didn’t expect to be. It was a great learning experience – I used a bunch of tools and techniques I had never tried until now, and it felt like my skill set took a huge leap forward as a result.

    Along with my snowman, I hoist a beer to the winners! Cheers!

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     Dec 29, 2011 at 12:37 am
  26. vithee singburaudom
    Posts: 3

    …Fantastic Snowman , Congratulations to all of the winner…Cheers :D

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     Dec 29, 2011 at 10:00 am
  27. vithee singburaudom
    Posts: 3

    YO…YO…YO :D Congratulations to all the Winners :D

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     Dec 29, 2011 at 10:13 am
  28. Alaric Powell
    Posts: 25

    I may be a sore loser but I hoped for at least an honorable mention, oh well there’s always next year. but seriously congrats to all the winners an to the horseshoes and/or hand-grenades.

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     Dec 29, 2011 at 10:47 am
  29. Anthony
    Posts: 20

    these are absolutely amazing looking, great job guys
    and congrats to the winners

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     Dec 31, 2011 at 12:48 am
  30. GraphiX
    Posts: 1

    Who made the #1 entry? I’d very much like to know how they made the shader for the snow.

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     Jan 2, 2012 at 7:47 pm
    • Chris Erickson
      Posts: 2

      Hi GraphIX, With the base snow it was made using an image of wave patterns in sand from CGtextures. This was then combined with a noise texture and used as a displacement map. The snow spray was made by extruding a plane in a sort of arc shape, UV unwrapping it, then painting a simple alpha map in photoshop. I then repeated this process to get another variation. Then rendered in cycles, composited in blender with some very minor colour correction in Photoshop. Hope this helps.

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  31. Connor Palmer
    Posts: 6

    Congrats to ever got first place thats a very funky snowman your very talented and two second and third and so on so forth

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     Feb 11, 2012 at 11:09 am
  32. Juan Nicolas Gomez
    Posts: 146

    So funny!

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     May 29, 2012 at 7:13 pm

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