...Ornaments have a long history during the festive season. The tradition of decorating an evergreen tree during winter goes all the way back to 16th-century Germany. Ornaments were first decorated with apples, candles, and pastries in the shapes of angels, flowers, hearts, and stars, later made of glass. 
They also appeared long ago in the Dassault Systèmes Universe, albeit disguised as a simple geometric construction of a sphere. Grab your digital tools and get to work on your version of the virtual glass sphere by applying your favorite DSBPR materials on it... 

✨🎄 Join our Holiday DSPBR contest! 🎄✨

How to enter?

3DEXCITE has prepared a festive scene with fir branches and some bling for you - your task is to cover an ornament with a beautiful DSPBR material.

There are no limits to your imagination - the ornament can look traditional, funny or stylish... Use the DSPBR properties as you like: with or without textures, reflective, matte, with flakes or sheen or any other look-n-feel you like. Use the Dassault Web Apps, Rich Client Apps, or other tools that can render the DSPBR material with rasterizer or raytracer.

DSPBR stands for Dassault Systèmes Physically Based Renderer. It is an easy-to-use, renderer-independent, PBR material model for a large variety of industry use-cases, ranging from high-performance VR applications to high-quality GI renderings. The DSPBR material technology is backed by the STELLAR render engine. 
For the edition of Material Appearance with DSPBR on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you need one of the applications: CATIA Rendering Scene Design, CATIA Live Rendering, 3DEXCITE Creative Experience, 3DEXCITE xStudio. 
DSPBR is also integrated in some stand-alone software by Dassault Systèmes, such as: Deltagen or Solidworks Visualize. 

How to receive the assets?

The assets are available in various file formats as a zip archive under the following One-Drive link: CONTEST ASSETS_ZIP FOLDER. There is a scene with predefined materials in two formats (3dxml and 3dx) included.

You are free to:

• Change materials of the fir branches scene if it doesn't fit your needs
• Use textures as you want
• Use DSPBR material configurations as you like
• Use SBSAR files 
• Insert Lights as many as you deem necessary 
• Use the geometry UVs or procedural UVs 
• Change camera
• Use any Environment / Ambiance or backplate as you want

You are NOT free to:

• use additional models - Please only use the models in the asset pack that we provided.
• use other Materials than DSPBR
• use copyright protected Textures, Substance files or others

👉 Submission Deadline:  December 6, 2021.

Post your best artwork as an jpeg/png image (best is 1920 x 1080) in this community and add the 6w-tag: DSPBR contest or add your render as a comment to this post. 

By participating in this contest, you agree to the terms & conditions of the competition.