I thought it would be cool to do a Blender Splash contest again (via the forums here, but will do calls via twitter, fb etc). As a theme for the splash we picked the most underrated animal of the web: a cat!.
The simple rules:
All cat renders will be fine, but preferred are the hairy fluffy Cycles rendered ones.
One cat, many cats, cartoon cats, crazy cats, angry cats, happy cats. All is fine.
Has to be a single F12 render+composite (no post process in other editors)
The selected artist should be willing to share the .blend with textures with everyone under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY.
Deadline Saturday March 7.
Jury duties to pick the winner: the active Blender devs who have cats. (Not me, but Sergey does!)
Forum regulars here can organize own voting if they like to, to make a selection easier.
We need Grumpy Cat, L’il Bub, and Business Cat sitting around a table playing cards or having drinks. My modeling isn’t nearly good enough to pull it off, though.
Textures can be made in any program (preferably GIMP, Krita or other free/open tools). Just try to be sensible. If all the render does is to show a cat texture on top of a matte paint, it’s not really “made with Blender”.
Please note the rectangular shape of the image in Blender’s splash. If it’s not in that aspect (wide, not square or tall), the image will get cropped. Keep that in mind.