Charette#14 - House in Alenquer

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Hi everyone,
we would like to start this year with new challenge.
It is house again, but this time we are heading to south of Europe, beautiful Portugal and very interesting Casa am Alenquer/House in Alenquer by Aires+Mateus
A I R E S M A T E U S

Due to unusual structure of the house we are not going for specific exterior or interior shot, the house exterior and interior are hard to separate, so you go for what you like.
We hope you will find this interesting and join us in this challenge!

- Rules and criteria

1. The model is made based on reference material and does not include any equipment. You are free to add stuff, anything you find appropriate to make great shots.
You can not change overall house geometry.
2. Viewpoints are not set, go for whatever you find interesting, you may or may not match photo reference material...
3. Contestant should produce at least two shots for final submission
4. Contestant should post at least one WIP image before posting final rendering
5. Deadline will be after two months from now
6. Judging, as always, will be conducted by 3dallusions team. Criteria for judging are based on overall accepted standards in CG - composition, lighting, materials and texturing, mood and drama conceived in the image, other misc. qualities such as original approach etc...
7. By downloading and/or using these files you agree to:
a.) All credit for the materials provided should go to the author of the model and '3DAllusions' when posting images off site.
b.) You are free to post the renders to other sites and forums, but you must link to this site/challenge thread.
c.) You are free to use renderings for your personal portfolio with appropriate credit to author and 3dallusions site...

So warm up your render engines, let us start!

-Challenge ends on Monday March 16th Midnight GMT (Extended)-

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In this post you can find model files. Additional file formats will be also posted here...

Note: Thanks to 'AntonG' for the C4D version.

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We are excited to announce that our good friends at -Got3D- are the official sponsors of our quarterly challenges. Be sure to stop on by Got3D and check out their terrific product line.

The Prize packages for this challenge will be:

1st: a $298 Value
12 Vine Textures
44 Ornamental Grass Textures
63 Shrub Textures
35 Bush Textures – Vol.1
35 Bush Textures – Vol.2
35 Bush Textures – Vol.3
35 Bush Textures – Vol.4
52 Vertical Flower Textures

2nd: a $195 value
12 Vine Textures
35 Bush Textures – Vol.1
35 Bush Textures – Vol.2
35 Bush Textures – Vol.3
35 Bush Textures – Vol.4
52 Vertical Flower Textures

3rd: a $133 value
12 Vine Textures
44 Ornamental Grass Textures
63 Shrub Textures

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DHFrame's - Winning Image

It was a really tough challenge to judge, but we have made our selection and the winners of the 'House in Alenquer Render Challenge' are as follows:

Grand Prize: DHFrame (Post 444)
Runner Up: am34012 (Post630)
Honorable Mention: Neells (Post 651)

Special Mention to the following entries that ranked high in the final round of judging:
Small Pixel (Post 510)
paultwyman (Post 640)
XXbinXX (Post 335)
Fietter (Post 597)
MarlaS (Post 107)

We want to thank all the members of the community who participated in the challenge and we look forward to seeing your submissions in the next one. We will soon be launching our new challenge.
Check out the winning entry of 'DHFrame'.
Charette#14 - House in Alenquer
Check out the challenge thread
Charette#14 - House in Alenquer

[Russell L. Thomas]

Awesome as usual my friend, thank you for all your hard work.

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Hey, no problem, it was fun, the house is really unique, I hope people find it as interesting as I did...

[Rod]

cool stuff Branko, thanks so much for your efforts to put a twist on the challenge. This one really will allow creativity to flow...

[bokkins]

cool! another great challenge! first of all, congratulations 3da for the successcul charrettes last year! thanks branko and russell. and also to Rod who's always there in all the challenges, thanks mate!

Good luck to all the participants.

[Russell L. Thomas]

I consider Rod our welcoming committee, he is always here to welcome whoever stops by. I actually find it kind of warm and inviting to know he is always here. Kind of like the WalMart greaters! LOL Just kidding my friend

[Rod]

is that a comment on my gray hair LOL, if not it should be!!