These battles exists to provide you with a challenging and entertaining way to hone your skills in the arena of 3D modeling. Competition is a large part of what drives creativity, so these battles are meant to be competitive in order to drive innovation and help you get practice in. No scoring or rankings will be kept, for the moment.
These rules are simple, meaning you can be as creative as you see fit.
-Your entry must be completed in 2 hours, give or take an hour. Any and all time spent on creating your final images, whether it be rendering, cropping, resizing, etc. should be counted. I'll make exceptions for beginners, but usually anything over 3 hours is kaput.
-Post render, wireframe, triangle count, and time spent in the challenge thread.
-No post-processing allowed (I.E Photoshop) other than cropping resizing. Your images should be pure renders or screen captures of your scene, with nothing external added in.
-Models should be judged based on amount of time spent making them, how well they fit within the theme, how visually appealing they are, and the amount of technical skill required to make them.
Battles usually start on Friday or Saturday mornings GMT and end Monday mornings GMT. Polls generally end about the time a new challenge begins.
That's about it. Let me know if you've got suggestions on how to improve the rules or the battles in general.