May 22

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From May 22th to October 15th, IT’S ART will be organizing a contest called “We Humans.” In either 2D or 3D, you must try to describe what sort of situation, real or imaginary, these few words can inspire you to create.

The best submissions will also be featured in a special dedicated book and/or in an IT’S ART Issue.

More than $21.000 prizes!

May 15

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GameRecruiter has announced its online 3D art contest, Battle of the SuperModelers! As part of their 20th anniversary celebration, GameRecruiter has designed this contest to support and promote 3D artists in the games community, professional or student. Here’s your chance to create an original real-time character model of a monster, creature, robot or alien that might be found in a fantasy, sci-fi or horror game and win fantastic prizes, totalling US$50,000!

Via: CGSociety

Jan 16

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New contest on CG-Node! You have to create your own vision of a “Medieval Battle”, and do it in 2D or 3D. Both categories have separate prizes consisting of a Exposé 5 copy and a Gnomon DVD (chosen by the winner). Competition started yesterday and ends on Feb. 24th. Good luck!

Nov 23

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After the success of the previous editions, 3DTotal has begun calling for submission for its third “Digital Art Masters” book. First you have to send your final image_; if it’s approved, then you’ll have to send a making of and several wip’s, and a descriptive text. Click on the image to read more on their website.

Oct 26

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The CGSociety has just launched a new competition with over $22,000 of prizes. It is a short competition for images only.

This competition celebrates the very essence of the creativity that defines digital art: the ability to create artistically and technically excellent images of things that are impossible in the real world.

The competition started yesterday, October 25th, and closes on January 7th.

1st Prize: 2 x NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 cards and 1 week ‘all inclusive’ holiday valued at $10,000 (USD).
2nd Prize: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card.
3rd Prize: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 and a $500 (USD) American Express Gift Card.

Click here to see the full list of prizes

Oct 23

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The people at 3DM3.com have just started a new challenge. You have to create an image that would illustrate an imaginary city view after instant evacuation (because of an explosion of a nuclear reactor), results of nature elements and mutations ruling the city for several years if you want to take part in the competition. You are free to use choose any CG mean to create an image in terms of the next three competition categories:

1. 3D Environment
2. 2D Environment
3. 3D Character

Click the image above or go here to read the rules of the competition.
There are a lot of good prizes (Vue 6 xStream, QUIDAM, SpaceNavigator, several magazine subscriptions, texture bundles…), so hurry up! competition started on October 15th and will end on December 10th.