Danny Posted May 13, 2022 Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) HORIZONS CONTEST PAGE Entries must be submitted by July 4, 2022 Midnight EST Submit Entries HERE CONTEST RULES & GUIDELINES: Contestants are to create a "HORIZONS" themed piece of their choosing with the highest level of Photo-realism as their goal. (Open to Artist Interpretation - Real Life, Space, Sci Fiction, Fantasy, Anything Goes) -The contest is open to any 3d software package -1 entry per contestant to be completed by a single artist (No Teams) -The final render must be rendered within a single application. -Image Size – 0.6MB Min – 10MB Max -Rendering layers and composing in 3rd party application(s) is permitted. -Approved Post-Work – Sharpening, color/level adjustments, resizing, and other subtle techniques that simulate 'typical' lens effects, ex. chromatic aberration, DOF, and lens flare. NWDA has the right to reject any image that is deemed overly 'enhanced' by Photoshop or other image editors. -Non-Approved Post-Work – Replacing and or adding any element via Photoshop or any image editor. All elements must be rendered within the artist's chosen application. -NWDA reserves the right to question any entries construction and may require the artist to submit the Gathered project before approval. NWDA will reject any entries that do not conform to the above guidelines or images that are deemed 'incomplete' by NWDA. -Contestants must submit judged entry with raw render output image (Composed layers into a single image, Pre-Postwork). -Submitted entries must be submitted by above date and time and include an Image title, Artist name, email, & judged entry with raw output image (ex. Composed layers into a single image, Pre-Postwork) Grand Prizes Totaling Over 6,800 USD 1st Place SideFX Houdini, 1 year indie license E-On VUE Enterprise & PlantFactory, 1 year subscription E-On PlantCatalog, 25 render nodes, 1 year subscription Terragen 4 Professional (Transferable), or $600 voucher for upgrades, or multi-year maintenance XFrog Plants Vol 1 & 2, 2900 Plants (tgo, obj, vob, & 3ds) iToo Software Forest Pack & Railclone, 1 perpetual license each, plus 3 years maintenance 2nd Place SideFX Houdini, 1 year indie license E-On Vue Professional, 1 Year Subscription E-On PlantCatalog, 1 Year Subscription Terragen 4 Professional (Transferable), or $450 voucher for upgrades, or multi-year maintenance XFrog Plants Vol 1 or 2 (tgo, obj, vob, & 3ds) iToo Software Forest Pack or Railclone, 1 perpetual license, plus 3 years maintenance 3rd Place SideFX Houdini, 1 year indie license E-On Vue Creator or PlantCatalog, 1 year subscription Terragen 4 Creative (Transferable), or $350 voucher for upgrades, or multi-year maintenance XFrog Plants Vol 1 or 2 (tgo, obj, vob, & 3ds) iToo Software Forest Pack or Railclone, 1 perpetual license, plus 1 year maintenance HORIZON'S JUDGES: Allan Mckay Award-winning VFX Supervisor, Owner of Catastrophic FX, VFX Artist Industrial Light + Magic, Blur, Prime Focus, Pixomondo (Chalk Warfare 4.0, Bloodshot, The Equalizer, Star Trek Into The Darkness, Transformers Dark Side Of The Moon, 2012, Superman Returns) IMDb Profile Greg Teegarden Supervisor of VFX Digital Domain (Black Adam, Terminator Dark Fate, Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Oblivion, X-Men First Class, TRON Legacy, The Fifth Element, Vanilla Sky) IMDb Profile Alex Jevon VFX Artist Britannia, The Planets, Teletubbies (Lola Post), Mars (Framestore), The Alienist (Peerless) (The Bible, Atlantis: End Of The World, Birth Of A Legend Earth's Extraordinary Journey, Exodus God and Kings) IMDB Profile Edited May 13, 2022 by Danny Links Quote
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