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rmagee
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Congrats to everyone who entered for day 1. Now off to day 2 which focuses on Animal!

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Igor Backstrom
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Let this week will be fun and productive for you,

no horse where harmed during the production. Only curves

Also, I don't have time to post-process in COPs but will definitely do that.





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Day 2 : Animal

🐾🐻🐻🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🧸🧸🐾





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Houdini Mardini.

Daily Art Challenge Day 2.

Pollywag Stranger Things {From my DO Series : 256}

#houdinifx #mardini2026
Edited by siddheshsawant321 - March 2, 2026 02:49:05

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afermier
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had some un with vellum haha



Edited by afermier - March 2, 2026 04:30:56

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Furuya Takumi
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Day2_Animal

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Day 2 - Animal ✅

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Viswesh Rameshkumar
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This was so satisfying to do with COPs!

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Mardini Animal:

https://youtube.com/shorts/F1v-D7c-_EQ?si=4MNrrSj39uI9OFrb [youtube.com]

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Animal Day 2. Thank you

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Day 02 - Animal

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mickstorm2
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For animals my go to would be zbrush, but the rules are the rules, so I tried out the sculpt node in houdini for the first time, and its really hard compared to zbrush, but no bad considering...with more time I could have probably made something less dumb than this, think I'm going to keep up with the cartoon style renders though

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Hi Everyone here is my Day 2 of Mardini2026 prompt Animal
I made A Bioluminescent Jellyfish.
Edited by Sudeep-astrosynth_logs - March 2, 2026 15:43:00

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Day 2 | Animal

"Sheeep"



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Hello

Mardini 2 Render



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rasmusx94
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"cowboyBara"

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Here is my contribution for Day 2 — I present to you my paper sharks!

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yonatanbary
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Here's my entry for Mardini Day 2 - Animal



I used a custom hda that I made to interpolates between two sets of curves using landmarks points. Pretty handy to morph shapes with great control.

Rendered in Karma with greyscalegorilla textures.


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Feeling lazy lately… crawling at full worm speed 🐛💨
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checopster
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Hey! Here's my entry for DAY 2!

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