I really enjoyed making this. It wasn't one of those 'this is taking forever' projects, just something quick. I've wanted to make something like this for a while now, because I can never seem to take a photo of the moon at night (over here in SA we have some of the most beautiful moon shots to be taken I've ever seen), but I just don't have the equipment to do it. So, I made one, only because HE enabled me to do so btw.

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This is a technique for rendering sand. It still needs some refinement, but this is the closest I've come to what I want it to look like. Believe it or not, there exists sand that looks like this. It's found on any shore where there is a mild amount of black oil that got mixed into the sand, creating a lot of black specs, forming what you see here. I believe I know what to adjust to make it lighter, but for the sake of impact, I want to leave it as is. Cool to think that procedural textures a...
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What a looooong wait for the results. When HE had and helped me make the entry, it only took a short time to finish and it was submitted. So for just over a month I was waiting to see what would happen with it.

Anyway, the competition went on and I was afraid of the result; what people would think of it, since it's not a very rosy theme. It came out well and we'll see what people think of it (though no comments were made about it so far on the results page on Blender Guru dot com).

I learned a ...
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