3D designers, at your keyboards and mice! The first edition of the NVIDIA Studio STARS competition is officially launched, with the theme “your ideal winter landscape”. The opportunity to show the extent of your talent and try to win up to 4,400 euros in gifts.
Until January 20, 2024, Numerama, NVIDIA and LDLC are joining forces to organize a major creation competition using Blender 4.0. This first edition of NVIDIA Studio STARS is aimed at graphic artists and 3D designers. The objective? Create a table in Blender 4.0 under the constraint of the theme “ Your ideal winter landscape “.
At the end of the competition, a jury will meet to examine all the submitted creations and decide of the three best artists and a 4th encouragement prize. This jury is made up of ATOM, the famous YouTuber specializing in 3D creation, and experts in 3D creation from NVIDIA and Numerama. For these three winners, three prizes with a total value of 8,300 euros are up for grabs.. Here’s everything you need to know before you get started.
How to participate in NVIDIA Studio STARS?
To participate in this competition, simply go to this dedicated page on Numerama. Here you will find all the information, constraints and the form to participate.
Here are the main points for participating in this competition:
- Create a table in Blender 4.0 with the theme “ Your ideal winter landscape »
- Complete the form on the page dedicated to the competition on Numerama
- In the form, send us an image of your Blender creation. It is she who will be judged by the jury
- In the form, send us a short video (between 15 and 30 seconds) of your project running Blender 4.0. It will prove that you have designed this table in Blender
And that’s all ! The NVIDIA Studio Stars competition is free and open to all residents of Metropolitan France, regardless of their age, profession and computer equipment.
We insist on the fact that this project must be carried out entirely using Blender modeling software. Powerful and comprehensive, this tool also has the advantage of being completely free.
Blender is also known for its ease of use, as well as the numerous tutorials available online. The 3D and VFX Creator “ATOM” has produced numerous tips videos to help you create more efficiently in Blender. For the occasion, he produced a recommendations video for this NVIDIA Studio STARS competition.
More than 8,000 euros in RTX gifts to be won
Starting January 21, all creations will be closely examined by a three-person jury, including a representative from NVIDIA, 3D and VFX Creator “ATOM” and a member of the Numerama editorial team.
Composition, creativity, technique will be scrutinized for each work transmitted within the allotted time frame. The jury will then award three big winners, each benefiting from a different prize:
THE LDLC fixed PC PC11P Zi Artist 9 Studio equipped with a GeForce RTX 4090
Designed for professionals in 3D modeling and video editing, the LDLC PC11P Zi Artist 9 Studio stationary PC has all the assets to allow you to successfully complete your projects, even the most ambitious. On this tower, LDLC has brought together all the best components of the moment.
14th generation Intel Core i9 processor, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM, 24 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, 2 TB M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD: all the latest technologies are on the program. With such a configuration, there is no risk of creativity being restricted by technology.
Specifically, the GeForce RTX 4090 offers great possibilities. Its high performance makes it possible to manage sophisticated and ultra-realistic 3D projects using ray-tracing, and to deliver renderings in record time.
Much more than a PC for designers, the PC11P Zi Artist 9 Studio is also an asset for movie buffs and gamers. They can also discover the most advanced games of the moment, enjoy all their graphic effects in 8K, all without experiencing the slightest slowdown.
So many advantages to which is added an ultra-quiet Be Quiet! Pure Base 500. Far from the colorful gamer towers, this model is very discreet and will blend elegantly into your decoration.
This PC, accompanied by a Windows 11 Professional license, is currently offered by LDLC at a price of 4,399.94 euros. This is a great reward for the big winner of the NVIDIA Studio STARS competition.
THE MSI Stealth 16 Studio laptop PC equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
This is a high-performance portable PC that can accompany you everywhere and help you bring all your 3D projects to fruition. Ultra-thin and relatively light with its 19.95 mm thickness and light weight of 1.99 kg, the MSI Stealth 16 Studio laptop PC fits easily into any backpack.
However, the equipment manufacturer has not skimped on power. This model is powered by a 13th generation Intel Core i9 processor and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. For the graphics part, MSI has focused on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. To complete everything, this laptop PC has a 1 TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD. Enough to create your most beautiful 3D modeling at the speed of lightning fast, especially if you rely on NVIDIA Studio drivers.
And it’s not on the comfort side that the problem lies, this laptop PC benefits from a magnificent 16-inch QHD IPS screen, refreshing the image at 240 Hz and a SteelSeries gaming keyboard with individual backlighting of the keys.
Finally, MSI has also thought about these relaxing moments spent playing or watching videos and has equipped its Stealth 16 Studio with a high-quality sound system including 6 surround speakers. Guaranteed immersion.
The MSI Stealth 16 Studio laptop PC with its Windows 11 Professional license is currently available from LDLC at the price of 1,299.95 euros.
There Gainward GeForce RTX 4080 Phantom graphics card
What’s better than the latest generation of NVIDIA graphics cards to optimize your 3D creation work?
Ultra-high performance and equipped with a 3-fan cooling system, the Gainward GeForce RTX 4080 Phantom card delivers all the graphics power you need for your Blender projects and promises to stay cool even during rendering phases.
Coupled with NVIDIA Studio drivers, this graphics card gives you access to technologies that have become essential in 3D modeling such as ray-tracing, bringing depth and realism to all your graphics. An undeniable advantage to which is added a clear acceleration of image processing.
Awarded to the 3rd winner of the NVIDIA Studio Stars competition, this Gainward GeForce RTX 4080 Phantom graphics card is usually offered by LDLC at a price of 1,299.95 euros.
Blender and NVIDIA Studio, the winning duo for faster rendering
Designers and graphic artists know it well: the last stage of a project, rendering, is often the most painful. On large projects, rendering times can exceed several hours, if not the entire day or night.
A problem that NVIDIA has been tackling for several years by working in collaboration with Blender developers. This solution has a name: NVIDIA Studio. The principle is as simple as it is ingenious: exploit the capabilities of your PC’s NVIDIA graphics card to speed up rendering times.
NVIDIA Studio allows you to significantly accelerate the rendering of your projects, especially those run by Blender’s Cycles engine. The promise: image processing up to 4.5 times faster on PCs equipped with NVIDIA graphics cards.
To benefit from all the advantages of NVIDIA Studio in Blender, you must have an NVIDIA graphics card of generation 20, 30 or 40. To benefit from the power of these cards on creative applications (Blender, Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Da Vinci Resolve and hundreds of others), simply install the NVIDIA Studio drivers in the GeForce Experience interface, available and downloadable for free for all GeForce users.
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