Challenges

CONTEST RULES & GUIDLINES

Closes July 6th, 2020

• Contestants are to create a “Travelers” themed piece of their choosing with the highest level of Photo-realism as their goal. (Open to Interpretation – Real Life, Sci/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 – 8MB 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)