Hey, Blendermaniacs ! It’s time for our new Weekly Challenge !
Theme : “Gold”
Accepting entries : Starts at 2025-09-16T07:00:00Z ; ends at 2025-09-22T07:00:00Z
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Read the Rules & Guidelines (including prizes) HERE.
Please submit your entry to this thread by hitting REPLY at the very bottom.
haha so cool man!
thx, had to choose which idea to pick, to many poped up. 
I’ll bet the three of us could wrestle him away from that gold lol!
Rendered out in Cycles and Blender 4.3.2 everything done by me textures were found through 3Dassets.one - The asset search engine
Gold Prospecting
Wow-Super good render-
OH! Yea! Just need a bait, anyone interested to play along. HAHAHAHA!
That looks great Steve! Nice
That looks so real! Awesome scene! Mine’s really childish, don’t think I’ll enter this time!
@cjscreatives Thanks, but real doesn’t mean good. I would love to see what you are doing. And you may be surprised at the way votes go, it’s not always the best one that wins. If my entry is keeping you from doing what you were going to do I will list mine as a non-entry without hesitation. Last thing I want to hear is that something I did was deterring others from possibly entering.
Oh FB - it’s time to do the dishes ;-).
Flying, bannana can i see your blend file
@Aarav I’ll have to see how large the file size when packed, otherwise none of the textures will work.
lol-you are pro Po
@Aarav as you can see here that it is mainly the textures that drive the majority of this piece. Without those this would look rather plain.
Some of the objects are using multiple textures and without the packed textures and such it is a 46mb file size, however if I pack the resources as I mentioned earlier in the post it becomes an 750mb file size. The below is just the texture on the top strainer basket. All but the wood fencing uses more than one texture.
nice!-ty FB
I appreciated your advice but wish you would put yourself in as an entry! Those nodes about threw me, seeing all it took to create the wonderful scene you created! Nodes make my head spin but someday I’ll master them, then Look Out! lol. I did as you suggested and there you go, you see my head is someplace else, quirky, I guess! But I did it! I did take a deep breath when I hit enter to add my scene! lol
@cjscreatives Honestly I love the more different styles. My brain just never works that way, it gets hung up on more analytical style and it has a hard time breaking away from that. I have been a Salvador Dali and M.C. Escher lover for as long as I can remember. I am really glad that you had a change of heart and posted it.
