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Thank you to the Core4D crew for organizing and managing this contest. Thank you to the sponsor(s) for providing the motivational push in the form of cash prizes. Thank you to all participants for taking up the competition, and making this a challenging one. And finally thank you to the judges for picking me as winner. I honestly wasn't expecting to win this challenge, especially not with the chosen winning submission. Fact is that I almost did not submit this entry. While I was pleased with the overall basic resemblance of the entry with its real-life counterpart, I though it missed too many of its features to make for a worthwhile entry. I mainly submitted the winning item to inspire others to participate, as I found the numbers of participants to be quite on the low side. That is actually also the reason why I submitted any of my entries to start with. I didn't really think to be on that level of winning the challenge, so I entered my first submission just to get the ball rolling. Then, when no other entries got submitted I entered another one, hoping to trigger other people. It all stayed relatively quiet, with only a few entries from others. So I went at it again to fire the flame for others to join. While it all started as a way to push others to join, I still got bitten by the challenge-bug. And am obviously super excited to have ended up first place. Now, if it had happened a while ago, I would not have hesitated and used the winning prize to purchase a perpetual license of U-Render for my R20. I would then also gladly have put some money aside to build a new computer rig with an actual GPU, now that those crazy GPU prices are becoming slightly more affordable than past two years. However, since U-Render have decided to go subscription only I won't be wasting money on any of that. Instead, I will go back to the original idea I had when I joined the challenge. Which was to donate the cash prize to the Core4D forum if I ever won first place. I am sure the Core4D crew (and members) will enjoy this donation, knowing that it will help keep running the forums. Again, a big thank you to all participants to have made this an interesting challenge. Hope to see you soon in another competition. TL;DR Thank you all! I donate the winning cash prize to the Core4D forum.

I thought this might be of interest: DreamWorks Animation are planning on making their in house render engine open source later this year. https://openmoonray.org/