Contest Info... Read Me!

[A.Alvarez]

Welcome to the Gnomon Workshop community gallery contest...

We have launched a small forum to allow our community the opportunity to share their work. These are not critique or discussion posts, but purely the sharing of artwork produced via traditional or digital means.

Every month our producers will select four winners from the 2D, 3D and Digital Sculpting categories (twelve winners total), who will receive up to twenty-five Gnomon Workshop DVDs! (winners get to choose of course).

Rules:

Simply post examples of what you consider to be your most accomplished work in the forum thread. At the end of each month our producers will choose their favorite images which will then be announced in the forum. The first place winner will receive 25 DVDs, second place 15 DVDs, third place 10 DVDs and fourth place 5 DVDs. Winners will be contacted via the email address used at forum sign-up, the first week of every month.

Anticipated FAQ:

Q. What criteria are used to pick the winner? Well, this should not be seen as some sort of brutal competition. We love to see new artists emerge, and this seemed as a good way to give artists exposure, while rewarded them for their talents. The winners will be judged based on our producer's personal criteria.

Q. Who are the producers? Alex Alvarez, Travis Bourbeau, David Caplan and Ryan Kingslien judge the contests.

Q. Isn't it unfair that the people who need the DVDs the most are at the biggest disadvantage in this contest? Not true... we often award prizes to people whose CONCEPTS or IDEAS are excellent, regardless of technical execution. While first place tends to bias to a combination of concept AND technical merit, we often choose winners who show POTENTIAL.

[Joes]

am I able to post all type of images, for example 3d of architecture?... or only 3d of characters

[whalerider]

Another question - are we supposed to post only stills, or is video (hosted elsewhere because of space constraints) accepted as well?

[A.Alvarez]

Hello.
Any 3D imagery is cool... characters, interiors, architecture... anything.
But just stills for now.

-Alex

[whalerider]

What are the preferred dimensions for the stills? What is the upload size limit - per image and total per user?

PS: Apologies if this questions was already answered somewhere else.

Hello.
Any 3D imagery is cool... characters, interiors, architecture... anything.
But just stills for now.

-Alex

[yogeshsherman]

Nice to hear such contest may be soon we like to see contests for 3d artists in other fileds such as rigging ,dynamics etc.
And yes I just want to know how many entries one can post in such a contest.

[FMaree]

I saw one of the Gnomon DVD's at a buddy of mine's place and was really impressed. I have been using Max for a while now to study and want to switch the Maya PLE and it's going to take some getting used to. So I was looking today at what DVD's was available on the Gnomon website ans saw the forum. Winning a couple of DVD's to help kickstart the Maya learning will be a real boost. So expect to see some of my work soon. :D

[tsr]

Wow,,, That looks interesting, (Alex, I have known your name ages ago, glorius at my area about tui...)

mm, Can the foriegner like me joint the contest ? If so, I am very pleased and will see some of my picture on line.

-Saroeun

[PixelManual]

Alex, have you given any thought towards your final point in the original post? In regards to it being a bit of an odd competition...?

Honestly, I would have no chance comparing to those who have entered so far; yet, they appear to need the 40 DVD's the least, whereas others who have less experience could put them to real use.

[oDDity]

This isn't really the case. I don't see a problem on this issue.
For example, I am a fairly accomplished (self taught) CG artist, but I have little to no knowlege of maya, and want to get to know the program, so this prize would be just as useful to me as to anyone else.
A lot of the gnomon DVDs aren't really for beginners, but for people who want to get up to speed on a particular application.

[Abishai]

Can we post more pictures or just one?

Thanks

[Szalaps8]

ya good questuion one or more? And if we have posted one but want to make a better one before the due date can we delete the first one and up load the better one as long as its before the deadline??

[A.Alvarez]

Hello.

I would prefer just one or two images... yes, you can always edit your posts to swap the images before the deadline. :)

-Alex

[3Duser]

Hi, I wanted to know if it is only for the gnomon cusotmers or can other people that is not a customer of gnomon can enter too.

Please let me know because I would really like to take a chance of getting one of those 3ds max training dvds...

[King Mango]

Sorry for posting my own image thread Alex. I misunderstood the posting criteria.

[dori3d]

I've just registered, and want to congratulate thegnomonworkshop staff for the nice forum & contest. Can't wait to see all the contest images.

[chandro]

suggestion, how about screenshot of their work from concept
to modeling, hypershade network? so all of us can learn from them?
every submission must have

[Joyce]

I am a "traditional" sculptor (stone, bronze, clay) who loves painting on the computer. I have done a lot of work with Painter. I had tried a variety of modeling programs and was always pretty disappointed until Zbrush. I feel like I am really sculpting:D I model in Zbrush and finish the paintings in Painter.

[dori3d]

Hi Alex, I'm trying to post my 3Dimage on September 2006 section, but I'm geting an upload error. I scaled and compressed my image to fit jpeg 39.1kb, and still geting upload error about dimension limits (1024 x 768). My original image size was:1100 x 804pix, and I scaled it at 658 x 900 loosing a lot of detail, and still that upload error. Other guys have uploaded images far biger than mine, how did they do that. Any help would be appreciated!...

[vigilant3]

- We love to see new artists emerge,

i like this part :D but..wooohoo... :eek:

perhaps i should back off from contests for now.....:D JK

[foxymophandlemama]

Hi! Can anyone tell me when is the deadline day? I finished my work but now some more ideas kicked my head and I want to add some more stuff to the image but i've got many work at school and i dont know if i have the time to do the improvements...

[joerka]

I've also a question, I'm living here in Germany, do you send to germany or are there troubles?

[brocklesnarf5ww]

I've also a question, I'm living here in Germany, do you send to germany or are there troubles?

I wanted to ask the same question, I'm from Egypt , I wanna compete in this contest, lets say I'm one of the winners, can u send to Egypt?

[Twilightforest]

hii, just wandering if we are aloud to use previously made models(3d objects) and incorporate it into a entry. Like I have a bunch of random things premade prior to the competition and depending on what the topic is put them together kinda like assemblng a sandwich... with all the ingredients prepared already. ^ ^" or is that a nono? (as in everything made from scratch from that month)

[stinger88]

hii, just wandering if we are aloud to use previously made models(3d objects) and incorporate it into a entry. Like I have a bunch of random things premade prior to the competition and depending on what the topic is put them together kinda like assemblng a sandwich... with all the ingredients prepared already. ^ ^" or is that a nono? (as in everything made from scratch from that month)

You can submit work from anything that you have done in the past. As long as its yours.

[Imhotep397]

Hello.
Any 3D imagery is cool... characters, interiors, architecture... anything.
But just stills for now.

-Alex

Ok, wait...are we supposed to post an image with the monthly theme or without? It seems like it would make more sense to have a separate thread for general 3D, but does it ultimately come down to the monthly theme being more a suggestion than a guideline?

[Imhotep397]

More importantly though. If I have an entry for this month that does not fall in the "Unmanned War Machine" theme where exactly do I post it?

[nicholas_caruana]

Hi Imhotep397 you just have to post it here. http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=1640&page=9