Our mission:

The whole idea behind this competition is quite simple: to gather artists from all over the world and fight creative task together. There are so many art contests these days but they are all binded to single resources and benefit local communities. We are goin' beyond that.

We wanted to have an amazing group of artists on the judges panel. So we look for the best artists from all around the globe. It's important for the participants to feel that their work would be judged by the world class masters and industry professionals.

Finally, we really want to turn it into a remarkable, exciting and fun event both for artists and partners/sponsors.

AVATAR Team:

The competition were created and realized by:

Alexander Novoseltsev
CreatureDesign.org community founder,
graphics designer and artist.
www.creaturedesign.org
novoseltsev@gmail.com

Leonid Kozienko
CGEvent conference co-producer,
digital artist and illustrator.
www.leoartz.com
leo@leoartz.com

For any questions and suggestions regarding this competition as well as advertisement, partner/sponsorship inquires feel free to contact us.

Special Thanks To:

AVATAR 2D Judges Team: Albert Garafutdinov, Andrei Riabovitchev, Armand Serrano, Bobby Chiu, Christophe Vacher, Don Seegmiller, Donato Giancola, Jim Murray, Ron Lemen, Ruan Jia, Sergey Kondratovich, Steve Gordon, Steve Marino, Timur Mutsaev, Todd Lockwood and Vincent Dutrait.

AVATAR 3D Judges Team: Alessandro Baldasseroni, David Giraud, Eric Hanson, Francisco Cortina, Jinwoo Lee, Richard Wright, Steve Jubinville, Sze Jones and Valery Plaksin.

AVATAR SPONSORS: 3DTotal, Ballistic Publishing, Corel, e-on Software, Luxology, Pilgway, Pixologic and Wacom.

AVATAR Media Partners: CINEFEX magazine, 3DNews.ru, DesignCollector, CGSociety.org, DTF.RU, 3DTotal.ru, ArtTower.ru, Comics.com.ua, Drawmanga.ru, Illustrators.ru, ipixar.ru, Lightwave3d.ru and Powerclip.ru

Lynette Clee from 3DTotal team for her enormous support.

Georgi Markov, founder of CGFight.com community for competition assistance and support.

Svetlin Velinov, great artist (www.velinov.com) who've painted an Avatar banner.

Anna Kozhukhovskaya, for translation assistance.

Stas Klevtsov, for website programming assistance.