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For current challenges, click here. At the core of State of Flux are the challenges. Every challenge describes something that those who participate must each produce in Blender. It could be a model, an animation, a still picture, or something more complicated. Sometimes, everything must be made by the participant; other times, part of the challenge is to use something someone else has already made! Challenges are regularly tied into existing Blender tutorials, providing a complete circle of learning! Difficulty Challenges are given difficulty categories, to let participants know if it might be a proper challenge for their individual skills. There are two things that have a difficulty: Conceptual and technical skills. Conceptual difficulty is about how creative the participant will have to be with what to make. A high conceptual difficulty might mean something abstract, like visually portraying an emotion or social concept. Low conceptual difficulty usually means the challenge is an actual thing, like a vehicle or animal, that must be made. Low conceptual difficulty still takes creativity, but it is far more tangible and 'down to Earth'. Technical difficulty is all about knowing how to use the features of Blender! Low difficulty means only a feew features are used, and they are used in ways easily learned. High technical difficulty means features are involved that are complicated, or are to be used in a very odd way, requiring a much better understanding of Blender. Current levels of difficulty, be it conceptual or technical, are Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Each challenge will contain description of why it is labeled a certain difficulty. Some challenges may exist in multiple difficulties, which can be clicked on to pick exactly what is wanted! Joining! Anyone is free to join a challenge, regardless of background, profession, age, skill or anything else you might envision. The aforementioned difficulties are not meant to keep anyone out, they are just meant to help people pick their challenges to suit how they view themselves. Joining a challenge requires posting an entry in the official thread for that particular challenge on the Blender Artists forum board. Every challenge has a link straight to the proper thread. Make sure to get the thread right, especially if there are multiple variants of a challenge (typically different difficulty versions of the same fundamental challenge description). The thread links are marked very clearly in the challenge description, just make sure you read them before posting. To submit what you create for a challenge, use Blendswap for the .blend file. Make sure that everything you submit is in that one file; use the Packaging feature to pack everything (textures, for example) into one, single file. As with the thread where you post when you join, the place for submitting the final .blend will be linked to in the challenge description. Videos produced are uploaded to Vimeo. Pictures are directly inserted into the Blender Artist post you made when you joined. Note that, yes, this all means you will need to have an account on both Blender Artists and Blendswap, and possibly even on Vimeo. All these websites are free and fairly easy to use, and if you are serious about sharing your work, you should really be considering them anyway. Please do not use any other websites for the final result, because they will not be accepted as submissions. This is to ensure easy access to everything in State of Flux, both now and in the future. You are, of course, completely free to put up copies of everything you make on other websites, including your own. In fact, you should feel encouraged to, to show the world what you can do! Copyright What you submit to a challenge will be legally bound by the State of Flux Creative Commons license. You ar enever, under any circumstances, allowed to use material you are not the copyright holder of, unless that material is either existing State of Flux material (earlier submissions) or distributed by a source that State of Flux has verified as an Open Source repository. If it is not mentioned in the list of accepted sources, notify State of Flux and it will be examined. If it is accepted as a verified source, it will be added to the list, and you can use it. Note that this is the case for artistic intellectual property, as well; you cannot use characters or designs in your submissions that are the artistic creations of others! Exceptions are those that are sufficiently within public domain to be considered legal use; see the list, and if it is not mentioned, don't use it. State of Flux is not accountable for the legal consequences of breaching these rules. Anyone abusing intellectual or other property in defiance of these rules will not be protected by State of Flux. |