Topic of this competition is to create an image related to this theme. Every one of us saw many movies, series or played some videogames. So how could look life on earth in the future. Holographic phones? Life without any illness? Be creative but do not forget on following rules. It must be created with Blender. You may use any external renderer you wish. Photographic elements are allowed, but must not be a central part of the image (e.g. sky backgrounds are okay) and etc. For all condition follow the link at the end of the article.
CGArena released the first version of a collection of procedural shaders for 3ds max. The release r|shaders 1.0 got the codename "Core Zero" and will feature 8 different shaders to give the possibility to create many kinds of natural surfaces. The initial release contains following shaders; Ice, Ocean, Sand, Snow, Ice Land, Snow Land, Magma and Ground. With r|shaders, users can simulate a lot of natural surfaces using single shader or mixing more of it to create, for example, some snow area at cold temperature that can seems like ice. Rendering time, even at high resolutions, are generally very low.