congratz to the winners, I think schosch's image really stands out a little...
totally agree with the decisions, zeitmeister, your limes really look somewhat juicy and "fleshy", and suvakas is the only one who rendered a "simple" jug in a perfect way.
when does the next copmpetition start?

+1!!!

Foil material IS awesome!!!

just noticed I was probably wrong about the default values... which doesn't really matter as they're relative values as I understand them.
matsta: haha I found out that I have a render quite similar than yours!! reminds me that I wanted to try some skin but never did...

Pre-scale affects mid-tones and shadows. it is always set to 4, lowering it means darkening mid-tones and shadows without affecting bright ares that much. Post-scale affects the bright tones. Moving it above the default setting brightens them, finally clipping them to white. This also affects nearby...

Nice render indeed! I like the donut and especially its chocolate topping. And the cup texture is great. Just the handles need a little more love, it seems there is some space between the handle and the cup. We need tonemapping cause indigo outputs images much more dynamic than any monitor could dis...

so I'm calling this final version @ 8800ssp. don't care about the fireflies anymore... nickname: Polinalkrimizei Version of Indigo used: 1.1.18 Rendering time / CPU's: 12h on three core2duos @2.0 GHz List of tools used: Blender 2.48, Copper mat from Sparlin (great mat, thanks!) EDIT: used gimp to ch...

Please add it to the matDB once it is ready. It does look like chocolat.
The only thing I wanna do now is to cut out a piece to see what's inside!

Thanks for the comments guys! WytRaven also complaint about the handle already, the bigger-handle-version is cooking right now... glossy transparent just takes too much time!

Nice! Chocolate cake!
perhaps a little less red component and some decoration, then it's gonna be delicious...

I really don't know what I want... this one is called "Jug in twilight", and I exaggerated the DOF... :( There are such good renders in the competition and I know I don't really have a chance, but just for the fun of it I wanna participate with something nice. 8) Just not sure what I want. Comments?

if I tell blendigo to turn off hybrid, it is changed to "false" in the igs, I checked. Who can reproduce this? Perhaps it is just me making a stupid mistake.

enough cooking: hybrid is off, and it is clearly brighter. But still too dark/too purple.
Ono, what happened to my nice water?!!

Nice!! Love the couch-material, beautiful and subtle.
But why you dare to take on a speed contest with indigo?

it is really feeling faster this morning! wow!