Evermotion Challenge 2018 Winners Announcement!

Our judges have chosen the best works - three main prizes and three awards. We also included honorable mentions.

Our jury:

		Marek Denko - NoEmotion - Marek Denko was born in 1980 in former Czechoslovakia in the small town in the central part of Slovak republic. He fell in love with computers in 1991 with his first Atari 800XL. In 1995 he discovered the magic of 3dstudio R4. He finished High school in Banska Stiavnica and Faculty of Civil Engineering at Brno University of Technology. In 2007 he co-founded NOEMOTION studio located in Prague. He is mostly known because of his personal artworks. Through the years he worked on dozens of AAA game trailer cinematics, archviz projects, advertisements and movies.
		Hrvoje Cop - Polymachine - (commonly known as chopmeister) is a 3D artist, obsessive tinkerer and the CTO of Polymachine, an archviz studio from Zagreb, Croatia. In the archviz business since the early 2000s, he enjoys discovering new ways to solve technical problems, and is addicted to most things that feature LEDs and buttons.
		Kuba Dąbrowski -  Evermotion - 3d artist with 10 years of experience. Kuba focuses mainly on environments and foliage and is the man vbehind the most engaging scenes and models. He is also a hobbyist photographer.
		Nguyen Manh Hung - is Co-founder of the CGRecord.net. He has made a good reputation having numerous CG Awards plus having his work featured in Expose, a collection of the most beautiful cg Imagery published by Autodesk INC. and Ballistic Publishing.

The method of voting

This time voting took a bit more time than expected, because it wasn't an easy choice. But here we are, after two weeks after closing submissions we have the results. The best works were evaluated in the following way:

1. We sent a complete folder with works (including WIPs) to judges. We also included a file with works descriptions, so they could read about the mindset behind work of an artist.

2. Each judge had to choose 6 works and assign them to 3 places and 3 awards. Points have been assigned to each place:

• 1st place: 10 points
• 2nd place: 8 points
• 3rd place: 6 points
• 1st award: 4 points
• 2nd award: 2 points
• 3rd award: 1 points

Then we added points from each judge and got first results. 

Two of the works got the same amount of points, so we asked judges for play-off. And that's how we got the final results! After counting all points from all judges the results are...

1st place - Misty Chicago (by Mohit Sanchaniya)

Kuba Dąbrowski: I really like everything about this work, composition, colors, excellent texturing and many small details. Very realistic depiction of a misty atmosphere in a city.

Hrvoje Cop: I believe this work is spot on in all segments, from composition and mood, to modeling and materials. Well designed and beautifully executed.

2nd place - On the Top of the City (by Peter Sivi)

Kuba Dąbrowski: I love the use of fish-eye lens, it creates this cool angles and a bit unusual look of the city. Combined with the city lights and vehicle light trails, it makes the scene dynamic.

Hrvoje Cop: Great concept and mood. I just found the camera right above the main character a bit weird. Perhaps if we were looking from the character's actual perspective it would be more natural, but perhaps not. I love the light trails, but I wish the streetcars were in motion as well, which would help sell the shot.

3rd place - Cobweb (by Oleg Lutsik)

Kuba Dąbrowski: Commieblocks are depressing but it seems they can look beautiful sometimes. Amazing atmosphere of a freezing winter morning.

Hrvoje Cop: The spider web of power lines is beautifully executed, and visually very interesting. I also like the subtle fog, and the little details in the far areas, like the train and construction site. What I think could be improved is the fact the sky is so burned out on the left - I would have loved to see more detail in the sky, and also the foreground plan on the right hand side, which could have used something interesting on the large area of snow.

1st award - After the flood: Miami (by Jake Williams)

Kuba Dąbrowski: Cool idea of a futuristic flooded cityscape I love the sunken highways. Work could use some more detail/variance in texturing and shading.

Hrvoje Cop: Cool idea! The sunken highways look great and there's a crazy amount of detail all around. With some weathering on the buildings it would be even better. Maybe some more atmospheric lighting would make the whole scene even more interesting.

Honorable mentions: 

Hopeless (by Anderson Alencar):

Blizzard (by Britta Wikholm):

Nobody's home (by Davide Weber)

CSFNM (by strale)

Traffic (by antonio3ddi)

FINAL NOTE FROM EVERMOTION TEAM:

Thanks for all participants - you are great! :) We want to also thank our sponsors - without you this challenge would not be possible. And finally we want to thank our jury that spent a lot of time revealing Evermotion Challenge 2018 winners. Congratulations to all and see you in the next Challenge!

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