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Intention

    The purpose of this contest is to provide participants and viewers with a learning experience and a fun time. Similarly to the Imagine Mailing List it is meant to be another means of tips, tricks, help and ideas. It is not really about winning, although we do have a first prize for each contest round.

    All Imagine users, independant of experience level, are very welcome to participate. The newest user may have a design technique that would benefit the cunniest expert. And the cunny experts and professionals are quite welcome to join in and share their knowledge with the rest of us.

    In short; experiment, learn, and have fun!

General

  • The contest is open to all. Anyone may participate.
  • Your image should reflect your interpretation of the contest theme.
  • All entered pictures must be rendered with Imagine.
  • Images may be post-processed using paint programs or image editors after rendering as long as the image composition is not altered.
      Example: You may add lensflares and motionblur, but not add objects or characters except for text information such as your name.
  • Objects may be modelled using other software, such as Organica.
  • You may use objects and brushmaps downloaded from the internet or purchased commercially, but it is not encouraged. If you use such objects or images, you must make this known with proper acknowledgments in the text-file accompanying your submission.
  • You may not violate copyrights of any sort.

Entries

  • Only one entry per person per contest round is allowed.
  • All submitted pictures shall be in JPEG format with a file size of less than 100 kB.
    Do NOT use progressive JPEG.
      Note: Image resolution may be chosen freely. So entering, for example, a letterbox format picture is quite alright. Although we recommend using 800x600 or smaller.
  • Entries shall be submitted through email according to the instructions on the entry page.
  • Submitted entries will be acknowledged with an email within 3 days. If you do not recieve any acknowledgement you must assume that your submission was not recieved.
  • Entries must be submitted by the deadline. Entries received after the deadline will not be accepted.

Copyright

    By entering this contest you submit to the following copyright statement.

  • The uploaded files are the original work of the entrant, who retains all copyright and ownership rights.
  • The entrant insures that the entrant is the sole creator of and owns all rights to the submitted work except for material that are public domain and/or for which the entrant has received permission from the owner and copyright holder.
  • The files may not be used or distributed for any purpose without the entrants express prior written consent except for in the circumstances described below.

  • The entrant grants the contest administrators the right to use the submitted files on the contest website.
  • The entrant grants the contest administrators, in cooperation with Impulse, Inc., the right to include all files in their submission on a CD-ROM which may be sold to the general public.

  • The entrant grants the right of private recreational or non-commercial use to the general public. This DOES NOT include distribution on any storage media that are accessible over the Internet or similar Wide Area Networks. This prohibits the use of these files on FTP, WWW, gopher sites, etc. Nor is distribution allowed on any CD-ROMs or other high capacity media (optical disks, DVD, etc).

Judging & Voting

  • After the submission deadline the entered pictures will be made available on this website and the winner will be judged through voting, which will take place the week after the submission deadline.
  • Voting will be performed by email.
  • Anyone may vote, but only once.
  • Contest participants should not to vote for their own picture. It is not forbidden, but it is concidered bad form.
    Nor should participants encourage friends, family or others to vote for their picture.
  • The voter has to decide for him/herself the basis for his/her vote.
  • The voter must decide on the three pictures he/she likes the best and vote for first, second and third place.
  • Pictures will be given 3 points for every first place vote, 2 points for every second place and 1 point for every third place vote.
  • All ties will be just that; ties.
  • Comments about the pictures are quite welcome and will be forwarded to the respective artist.

Winning

    When the winning picture has been decided through public vote, it will be announced by email to the winner and the Imagine Mailing List and on this website.
    First prize is a t-shirt printed with the winning entry, kindly sponsored to this contest by Impulse, Inc.

    If not already included in the submission email, the winner and other top placing entries are encouraged to post short descriptions of how their respective image was created, to be included with the pictures on this website. This could include textures used, modeling techniques, design techniques, and other tips and tricks.