July 6th Challenge "Judge a book by its cover" - Winners
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First Place - 04 - Dasch
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Second Place - 09 - Nobuhide Natori
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Third Place - 06 - Carlos E. Vega
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July 6th Challenge "Judge a book by its cover" - Entries
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01 - Tyler Godby
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02 - Mark Loertscher
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03 - Peter Caday
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05 - Don Hillenbrand
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07 - Seikoh Hokama
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08 - Cory Storm
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10 - Mr Tea
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11 - Berndt Moosmann
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12 - Mike Patton
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13 - Peter Hirt
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July 6th Challenge "Judge a book by its cover" - Outline
Sakari Tiikkaja got me inspired today =)
The challenge this time around is to create a cover for your favourite book. Books are often so inspiring and emotional that it's hard not to have an image in your head of what the characters and scenery from the book looks like. Create a cover for your favourite book that reflects what you saw when you were reading it. Maybe it's a shot of your favourite character, set or scene from the book, or possibly just a montage of imagery from the book.
This challenge is a little more involved than other challenges. As well as the illustration, the title, author and other cover information is required. It's really a complete design for the cover of the book. Novels, non-fiction and comic books are all appropriate. It must be an actual book, though, no made-up titles to coincide with work you're already doing =)
You may decide to work only on the front of the book, or on the entire unfolded jacket (back, spine, front, and interior flaps). Either is fine.
The rules on this one are expanded somewhat. Models may be imported from external modelers (eg. Wings, Amapi, etc.). Any amount of post work may be done in Photoshop or other image editors, but try to avoid excessively "hand painting" the cover, as that doesn't really jive with the spirit of the competition. This challenge will be focused more on your design and illustration skills than simply your technical 3D skills.
Models must be original, and created by you. No publicly available models may be used, nor can "3D in a box" solutions, like Poser or Bryce. All 3D rendering for this project must be performed by Strata3D.
It's preferred that the design of the cover is original. 3D recreations of existing covers are acceptable, but be sure to include the original artists name or other copyright information so that the original design can be properly credited. Scans of the original cover, or pieces of the original cover are not permitted.
Rules and Conditions
The 3D rendering in this challenge must be completely entirely in Strata3D. Modelling can be done in any program (except for Poser or other model collections), as long as the models are imported into Strata3D for rendering. Photoshop, Illustrator, or other image editors or page layout programs may be used for post-processing, texture creation or page layout.
No Poser or Bryce models or images. All models and textures must be created by you.
If you have any questions regarding challenge rules or theme guidelines, please email me at michael@stratacafe.com
Entries must be JPG files, but they can be any size. Just try to keep it reasonable. If it doesn't fit on anyone's screen, it doesn't leave a good impression. Excessively large or uncompressed images may be resized at our discretion.
Entries will be accepted until midnight on Sunday July 6th 2003. The judges will be considering the quality and creativity of the modelling, texturing and rendering.
Entries will consist of a JPG file, and a screenshot of your model in Strata3D. The image cannot contain your name or email address anywhere on it, as the judging will be anonymous. Original artist copyright information must be submitted separately if the image is a 3D recreation of an existing peice.
Judging will be done by a panel of 7 or more judges, preselected as part of our resident judging group. The judges will not know the names of the contestants.
These rules may be subject to change without notice before the close of the contest.
Please, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the contest, please email me at: michael@stratacafe.com
The benefits of the contest:
1) Winners will receive a charming banner to place on their website.
2) There will also be a smaller graphic, that looks a lot like the larger graphic, that will reside on the winners profile page on StrataCafe, forever and ever.
3) People can come to this page to get information on up and coming contests and view past winners (That would be you!)
4) You will receive the adoration of your friends and family, as well as most of the people who visit StrataCafe. (Note: Adoration not a guarantee.)
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