{"id":107,"date":"2013-06-03T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-06-03T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:10:15","slug":"may-contest-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"May Contest Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of getting back into using Daz Studio more I decided to enter the May Freebie Challenge over on the Daz 3d Forums (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/forums\/viewthread\/21454\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/forums\/viewthread\/21454\/\">http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/forums\/viewthread\/21454\/<\/a>). I mean the theme was pulp sci-fi\/world of tomorrow, how could I not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pulp sci-fi idea reminded me of a site that I had seen linked a while back, the <a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/derange-o-lab\/pulp-o-mizer\/pulp-o-mizer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pulp-O-Mizer<\/a>. While playing around with that to get some ideas I also checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/derange-o-lab\/title-o-tron.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Title-O-Tron<\/a>. One of the titles was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Titanium Detective\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I immediately thought of a combination of noir style detective fiction with a sci-fi setting and I had my idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After several hours prowling around to find freebie content that could be made to work and more hours building and lighting the scene followed by about 4 hours of rendering (even with 6 cores and a decent GPU rendering raytraced lighting with metallic objects takes a while) this was my entry:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TitaniumDetective-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"TitaniumDetective 2\" alt=\"TitaniumDetective 2\" src=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TitaniumDetective-2_thumb.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"205\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite happy with how it came out and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m even happier that I got honorable mention in the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of getting back into using Daz Studio more I decided to enter the May Freebie Challenge over on the Daz 3d Forums (http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/forums\/viewthread\/21454\/). I mean the theme was pulp sci-fi\/world of tomorrow, how could I not. &nbsp; The pulp sci-fi idea reminded me of a site that I had seen linked a while &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}