NEWS
Dear AVATAR participants,
We are pleased to inform you that the AVATAR contest is finally finished. And before we announce the results, we would like to thank all artists who have participated in the competition, as well as the respective members of the jury panel and, of course, our sponsors. Thank you for all of your hard work and contributions to AVATAR.
In our 2D jury team we have 16 professional artists from all over the world, and in our 3D jury team we have 9 professionals from the CGI industry. We've sent messages to all corners of the globe and patiently waited for answers, because many judges were involved in exhibitions, conferences, working on illustrations, comics, video games, creating movies, MTV clips and groundbreaking visual effects. When we thought about the contest, we just couldn't imagine the scope; the size of the event. And we are happy that we together we have finally finished.
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13/04/09: Final phase
The judges team have finally finished their voting and AVATAR finalists have been chosen! The process takes us a whole month because of the size of jury panel. There are quite a lot of busy pros from all over the world and the number of artworks is just amazing.
We've also asked our sponsors Corel and Wacom to review the entries and select the images for Corel's and Wacom's choice nominations. So basically we've entered the final phase and preparing to announce the winners.
13/03/09: Judging phase
First off, we'd like to say thanks to every artist participated in AVATAR contest! So far we've got 130 finished artworks from all over the world. Thank you for your hard work, passion and interest in this event.
We're planning to complete the judging process before March 25th. This is an estimate date since we're depending on the judges' schedules.
02/03/09: Submission Guidelines!
Attention all AVATAR participants!
Please read the following guidelines on how to submit your artwork to the jury. To submit your final images, you should:
1) Register on the official website
We have set up a special gallery section on the CGArtAward.com website for final artwork submissions. But before you can submit your images, you need to register at: http://www.cgartaward.com/gallery/register.php. When registering, please make sure to include the following info:
Username - your username on the Threedy forums (or creaturedesign.org or cgfight.com)
Artist - your name
Country - your country
Email Address - your email
To confirm your registration, an email will be sent with a link to activate your account.
2) Upload your final image and WIP sheet
First, login to the gallery using your login and password information (which you specified during the registration), and then click Upload file and upload the final image and WIP sheet. Your files should not exceed 1024 KB in total. For the judging stage we accept submissions as .JPG files at 72dpi - screen resolution - at approx. 800-1000 pixels wide. DO NOT send original, hi-res 300 dpi files. In the description please make sure to include:
Album - 2D, 3D or Comic(Cartoon) Style Category
Image Title - the title of your work (for a collage add the WIP), for example:
Avatara (final image)
Avatara WIP (work in progress stages)
File description - description of your image and link to your thread on Threedy forums (or creaturedesign.org or cgfight.com)
Software Used in Creation of Image - program(s) used for creating your illustration
Looking forward to see your final works!
16/12/08: Website launched!
Hi and welcome to Avatar art competition website!
08/12/08: AVATAR Announcement
To all artists, 3d artists and just creative folks!
CreatureDesign.org and CGFight.com together with 3DTotal.com community present 2D/3D International Art Competition Avatar. We thought it would be great to gather artists from all over the world to fight creative task together. We really want to turn it into a remarkable, exciting and fun event so we've invited an amazing group of artists to our judges' panel and partnered up with great sponsors. On the judges panel we've got professional artists from all over the world - from Russia and China to America and New Zealand. These are world class masters Donato Giancola and Todd Lockwood; fantastic illustrator and painter Christophe Vacher (credits includes Hercules, Tarzan, Treasure Planet etc.); stunning illustrator and concept artist from Sony Pictures Animation Armand Serrano (Lilo and Stitch, Mulan, Surf's Up etc.); animator, writer and character designer for Marvel Comics Steve Gordon (Madagascar, Shrek 2, Over the Hedge etc.); visual effects designer, Gnomon School instructor and Maya 6 Killer Tips book author Eric Hanson (credits includes The Day After Tomorrow, Mission to Mars, Atlantis, The 5th Element etc.); digital sculptor Steve Jubinville, who worked on film 300, as well as popular videogame Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia series from Ubisoft; Francisco Cortina, one of the best 3d modelers on the planet (credits include full-cg movies Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris, characters for videogames Final Fantasy IX and Parasite Eve); talented Russian painter Andrei Riabovitchev, character designer for Prince Vladimir; Timur Mutsaev, great concept artist from Crytek... 25 people in total!
Avatar sponsors and partners include such companies as Corel, E-on Software, Luxology, Pilgway, Pixologic, Wacom, publishers Ballistic Publishing (Expose, Exotique, d'Artiste etc. series of books for artists) and 3DTotal.com (2DArtist and 3DCreative magazines). Our VFX partner is CINEFEX magazine, the legendary edition with a 25-year history featuring advanced technologies in the visual effects production and computer graphics in the movies. The main media partners are popular portals 3DNews.ru and DesignCollector, specialized resource for game developers DTF.RU, the largest community of digital artists CGSociety.org, as well as many other sites like 3DTotal.ru, ArtTower.ru, Comics.com.ua, Drawmanga.ru, Illustrators.ru, ipixar.ru, Lightwave3d.ru and Powerclip.ru.
The competition will run from Dec 08, 2008 with the deadline set on Mar 08, 2009. There are three nominations for submitted images: 2D and 3D illustration, as well as stylized illustration (especially for comic and cartoon style fans!). Besides the great prizes for winners, all of the participants, who will provide final submissions, will get special offers from our partners! Considering theme, Avatar is the Sanskrit word which literally means descent and usually implies a deliberate descent from higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for special purposes. It often translates into English as incarnation, although it's not quite right. In our case, we encourage artists to imagine their avatars living in fictitious worlds. Would it be a totally futuristic, alien realm or aybe something primitive and close to nature? Imagine a world you'd like to live in and tell us about it. You are free to create any life form for your avatar character, just make sure it has some charisma and personality. We'd like to see not just alien vistas but images with a story, so we encourage participants to tell interesting stories in their works. In other words, we'd like to maximize your creative output. Who knows, maybe Avatar will be the starting point in your career or a new milestone of your creativity?
Good luck and all the best,
"Avatar" Team
