Winners and videos for the Cartoon Animator software’s annual ‘Animation at Work’ 2023 Contest.
The winner in Nandor Toth, from Hungary…
Category Archives: Competitions
3rd Annual Swimsuit Contest
Renderosity’s 3rd Annual Swimsuit Contest, now on. The theme is, you guessed it… swimsuits! No AI images. Deadline: 25th July 2023. Prizes include Poser 13, store gift certificates etc.
3rd Annual Pinup Contest
3rd Annual Pinup Contest at Renderosity. Win licences for Poser 12 and more. Live now, with a deadline of 28th February 2023.
Mission to Minerva
KitBash3D’s new art challenge is “Mission to Minerva”. Entrants get a… “free, 3D asset-kit filled with everything a spacefaring explorer needs” with the aim of creating a space colony in “concept art or animation”. Prizes include “NVIDIA RTX 4080 graphics cards, Wacom Cintiq 16” and more. Deadline: 2nd December 2022.
Blender movies wanted
The Amsterdam Blender Conference, set for late October 2022, is calling for Blender-made films. No deadline that I can see, but… “The list of nominees will be published a few days before the Blender Conference.”
2nd Annual Swimsuit Contest at Renderosity
Who knew? 2nd Annual Swimsuit Contest at Renderosity. Deadline: 26th July 2022.
Just as the UK’s two days of summer ends, and the rain comes pouring down…
There be Dragons
CARRARA CHALLENGE #63: There be Dragons (July-August 2022), with four contest prizes totalling $195 of DAZ Store vouchers. Deadline: 20th August 2022.
Freebie competition for Poser 12
Craft some 3D or scripted freestuff for Poser 12, pop it on Renderosity, win stuff. Deadline is 2nd August 2022.
DAL # 39: the Deserts issue
The latest Digital Art Live, the free monthly magazine for science-fiction and fantasy artists: Digital Art Live Issue 39: Deserts.
MediBang! Contest 2019
Tokyo’s MediBang! and Manga CPO have joined forces for a new contest with two sections, Manga and Illustration. They want a max. 32-page manga style comic, and / or an unpublished comic-style illustration on the theme of “Journey”. Free entry, and it appears to be open worldwide though they obviously expect to see a Japanese style in the entries. Deadline: 7th May 2019.
MediBang appears to be a sort of store platform for indie manga creators to sell their comics and illustrations in the Japanese market. They also offer the free MediBang Paint software, now fairly mature at version 23.x, and Jump Paint which is more of a guided experience with embedded tutorials for new manga creators. The contest doesn’t appear to restrict you to just this software.
Call: Google Summer of Code 2019
Google Summer of Code 2019: Call for Coders! You’ll be at university but also already be involved with development of an open source software (such as the free Krita, hint hint…). You’ll focus on one hands-on project, and will have mentors to help you. Google will bung you a nice stipend, and most likely a fat bundle of t-shirts too (that last bit is just my guess). Individual student application begin: 25th March 2019.
Winners: Adobe’s ‘From the Moon to Mars’ Challenge
Adobe’s “From the Moon to Mars Challenge Award” has announced its winners. Competitors had to use the Adobe Dimension software, which is Adobe’s catch-up competitor to the excellent KeyShot, to make their entry.
They also had to use 3D stock models from NASA, which were pulled from the free public archive into the Adobe Stock website. I think I like Chris C‘s picture the best, though he only had an Honorable Mention. It has the proper NASA feel to it, despite the unfortunate use of the Space Shuttles.
News of the contest also led me to this dinky little Mars explorer manned vehicle which is free from NASA’s Advanced Concepts Lab’s in .OBJ format with a texture atlas (which means textures can’t be easily replaced with drag-and-drop).
I’ll make my quickie test-render of the explorer vehicle ‘Creative Commons Attribution – excludes Alamy, Getty and Shutterstock’. Anyone else, please feel free to use it. The three blended backgrounds are public domain from NASA and ESA.
Competition: Metropia 2042
NVIDIA Metropia 2042 art competition, with chunky prizes. Registrations and submissions have just opened.
Manga Studio competition
There’s a new worldwide student competition from the makers of Manga Studio (now called Clip Studio). They’re calling for digital comics artists who are at degree level, in a technical/vocational school, or even in a formal “school art club or extracurricular art program”. There are loads of prizes, from Celcys and their partners, including Wacom Cintiq pen-monitors. Entry is free, and the deadline is early May 2019.
Opportunity: Adobe Creative Residency
Apply now for the 2019-2020 class of Adobe Creative Residency. Highly personalized with small class sizes, 1:1 mentoring, and a year’s salary with travel stipends and networking opportunities! Applicants must… “speak and write fluent English and live in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan or Canada.” Deadline: 7th February 2019.