CINEMA 4D Contest: Compact Living

Starts: Thursday August 21, 2008.Closes: Tuesday October 21, 2008.Entries MUST be timestamped by Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:00p.m. Renderosity Server Time - CST (18:00 GMT).Judges voting: Tuesday October 21, 2008 to Friday October 31, 2008. Winners announced: Saturday, November 1, 2008.

Managers: cartesius, kromekat

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As of July 2008 it was estimated that the Earth inhabited close to 6.7 billion living humans. If the population continues to grow at the current rate this figure is expected to reach 9 billion by the year 2042.

Contest Theme: Compact Living

Renderosity is proud to present the Compact Living contest for the CINEMA 4D forum! We want you to create in 3D your vision of the concept of compact living, be it the life in an ant hill with millions of inhabitants or someone living with a mansion cramped into a 1 room apartment in London's SoHo. You are encouraged to explore the many possibilities the concept offers and do not necessarily feel restricted to human dwellings: compact living as a concept can span from the microcosmos to the extra terrestrial, from the Jurassic era to the future!

The goal is to create a complete scene based on the theme Compact Living and the judges will consider all relevant factors when reviewing your submitted piece: concept, modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, etc.

The Renderosity
Cinema 4D Forum 2008 Contest
is sponsored by:

Prizes

We are very proud to present our sponsors for this contest: MAXON Computer, VRAYforC4D and Pixologic! All three are well known and respected in the 3D community and without them this contest wouldn't be possible.

1ST PRIZE: $1200 MAXON Voucher* + 1 year subscription to Cineversity.com

2ND PRIZE: 1 license of VRAYforC4D

3RD PRIZE: 1 license of Pixologic ZBrush 3

* MAXON products only: CINEMA 4D, modules, BodyPaint 3D, upgrade or 2nd license. This voucher worth of $1200 of MAXON software has no cash value and may be redeemed only through MAXON Computer.

How to enter

Entering the contest is easy: you just upload your final entry on this page. You have to be a registered member with Renderosity.com (free) but there's no requirement to announce your participation anywhere or to start a thread in the forum. We do however strongly encourage you to do so as peer review and constructive critisism can be very helpful!

This contest requires you use CINEMA 4D. If you don't have a working version of CINEMA 4D you are allowed to use CINEMA 4D CE (free with several magazine CD's) or you can download a demo of CINEMA 4D from the Maxon site.

Contest Rules

1. The contest opens for entries on August 21, 2008 and closes on October 21, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. Renderosity Server Time (18:00 GMT). This is an absolute deadline and entries must be time stamped by this date/time.

2. The contest is open to all Renderosity members except contest managers, administrators and persons affiliated with the corporate sponsors. No other 3D application but MAXON's Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D are allowed. Exceptions ate sculpting applications like ZBrush or Mudbox used to add detail to C4D models or specialty applications like RealFlow, used to add liquid. This is a contest for the use of CINEMA 4D and if you have any doubts wheather an application is allowed or not, please don't hesitate to contact the Contest Managers. External render engines are allowed as is postprocessing.

3. Submissions must be created by a single artist and only one entry per artist is allowed. In case of multiple entries through clone member accounts, all entries in question will be disqualified.

4. All participants of this contest are required to add their real name in the note field.

5. Images must not exceed a resolution of 1024 x 1024 pixels and a file size of 300 KB. Thumbnails must be of a 100 x 100 pixels resolution and not exceed 15 KB. Images must be in JPEG (.jpg) format only. Your final render must be one single image, not one image showing different POVs.

6. Submitted images must be in accordance with Renderosity's Terms of Service and copyrights policies.

7. Images must be original artwork and ownership of the contestant. Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated.

8. Absolutely no pre-fabricated models allowed. All elements of the scene must be modeled by yourself. Participants caught using pre-fabricated models will be disqualified. You are free to use existing models if you have created them yourself and they have not been used in any previous artwork.

9. All submissions must be made specifically for this contest. The contest entries should not be submitted work from past contests on other web sites, images already displayed in online galleries or published in magazines.

10. Creating surface textures in 2D paint programs or using pre-made textures is permitted. Post-processing in 2D paint programs is allowed, but keep this to the bare necessities (compositing, sharpening, saturation, contrast and so on).

11. At any time during the contest you could be asked to provide the contest managers with more details about your image (wireframe screenshots, model files, etc) if it is believed that there are any issues or concerns related to it. The contest managers also reserve the right to request the complete Cinema 4D file if that situation should arise.

12. Judging will be carried out by a panel comprising of representatives from each of this contest's corporate sponsors and the Renderosity Team. The judges decision is final and not open for discussion. Winners will be announced within 14 business days after the contest's deadline.

13. Artists grant permission to Renderosity.com for the use of submitted images for an undetermined period of time. This is strictly for posting the image on the front page and within the contest archives. The Artist will remain the intellectual property holder.

By entering this contest, I agree to all of the above guidelines and rules. I understand that the contest managers have the right to accept or decline any submitted images, based on these guidelines and rules. Any entry which falls outside these rules or the given theme will be ineligible.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact the contest managers, cartesius (Anders Kjellberg) or kromekat (Adam Benton)