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Here is an early posting of the Day 1 Challenge for Mardini 2026. The Day 1 prompt is Plant.

To be eligible for the daily prizes, you must post your Day 1 images to this thread before midnight EST on March 1st. There is another thread for animation. You can enter either an Image or Animation on any one day. You cannot enter both on the same day. You can create an Image one day and an Animation another.

Please go back to the Rules Page [www.sidefx.com] before diving in. Best of Luck!

Note: if you are posting to the SideFX forum for the first time then your post needs to be reviewed. You don't need to post multiple times. We will get to it! Also be sure to stick with the same username for the whole contest - if you change your username partway through your points could get mixed up.

Edited by rmagee - 昨日 11:15:08
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Day 01 Plant.
Edited by AlfredoSMC - 昨日 17:01:13

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Hi everyone!
Let's get party started!


Edited by beyonick - 昨日 17:07:03

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A colorful cactus to kick things off!

I love the new, more flexible rules. Have fun everybody!

Edited by BrianHanke - 昨日 21:23:18

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Day 1. Found out that ants use plants to produce a fungus to feed the colony


Edited by johancc - 昨日 19:41:04

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Hey world!
Here’s my opening piece for this year’s Mardini 🌿

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Ah Sh*t, Here We Go Again

Day 1 : Plant

Another year, another Mardini. Here's a plant for ya!

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Day1_Plant
Edited by Furuya Takumi - 今日 00:36:55

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Mardini 2026. All the best to everyone.
Day 01 Plant
Fern plant at fiddlehead. Tried my best to replicate reference image.

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Heya everyone, this is my first time joining the Mardini challenge. Here's what I got for the first day. Good luck, everyone!

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All the best to everyone!
I used a tool called Natsura [www.natsura.com] to create the plant models.
It's a great tool that can be used in Houdini.



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Dry twigs:)

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Houdini Mardini.
Daily Art Challenge Day 1.
Procedural Plant {From my DO Series : 196}

#houdinifx #mardini2026

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Day 01 Plant

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Hi everyone. Im happy to be back this year. This is a well known plant. nothing to add.

Cheers!

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Day1 : Plant
I joined to learn and work with Houdini. Excited and honored to be part of Mardini2026
Edited by AJun5 - 今日 10:53:10

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Hi everyone! 👋
Good luck to all participants - excited to see everyone’s work!

Here’s my Day 1 entry 🙂

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Hi, this is my very first post on SideFX!
Since I've just started to study Houdini, I got the idea for these clovers from "Houdini grasslands lesson" by Rohan Dalvi.
Hope these clovers bring you good luck!







Edited by EricaKim - 今日 17:56:09

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This is my first Houdini challenge! I will do my best.

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