Evermotion Challenge 2020 - My own 2020

WINNERS ANNOUNCED! See the best works here.

We invite you to join Evermotion Challenge 2020 - "My own 2020". The Year 2020 is a breaktrough on a global scale. The consequences of events around us will be felt for decades to come. Make an art using 3d techniques (still image or animation) that will be your personal interpretation of this year and its local, national or global consequences. It can be small, personal image or a grand scale epic visualization - you choose.
You have two months for creating this art. And the prizes are nice - we listed them below. Good luck!

Join Evermotion Challenge 2020!

Prizes:

1th Place: approx. 7881 euro

• Evermotion: €1000 in cash, 5 Evermotion collections of winner's choice
• Pulldownit : 2 years pro single license (€540)
• Rebusfarm: 700 Render Points (€700)
• Fox Renderfarm - render credits (€504)
• Humano 3d: five collections (€895)
• Chaos Group: 1 year V-Ray licence (product of choice)
• Corona Renderer - 1 year license - 3 render nodes, the winner can pick the 3ds Max or Cinema 4D version (€869)
• iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter, MadCar 3, CityTraffic licence (€760)
• RD-Textures - the whole product-library with over 260 highend scans (€982)
• TopoGun single license (€85)

2nd Place: approx. 6275 euro

• Evermotion: €750 in cash, 5 Evermotion collections of winner's choice
• Pulldownit: 1 year Pulldownit pro single license (€270)
• Rebusfarm: 500 Render Points (€500)
• Fox Renderfarm: render credits (€336)
• Humano 3d: three collections (€537)
• Chaos Group: 1 year V-Ray licence (product of choice)
• Corona Renderer - 1 year license - 3 render nodes, the winner can pick the 3ds Max or Cinema 4D version (€869)
• iCube R&D Group - MadCar 3, MultiScatter licence – (€400)
• RD-Textures - the whole product-library with over 260 highend scans - (€982)
• TopoGun single license (€85)

3rd Place: approx. 4798 euro

• Evermotion: €500 in cash, 5 Evermotion collections of winner's choice
• Pulldownit: 1 year Pulldownit pro single license (€270)
• Rebusfarm: 300 Render Points (€300)
• Fox Renderfarm: render credits (€252 euro)
• Humano 3d: one collection (€179)
• Chaos Group: 1year V-Ray licence (product of choice)
• Corona Renderer: 1 year license - 3 render nodes, the winner can pick the 3ds Max or Cinema 4D version (€869)
• iCube R&D Group: MultiScatter, VRayPattern (€350)
• RD-Textures - Collections 6,7 and 8 - (€447)
• TopoGun single license (€85)

1st, 2nd and 3rd award:

• Corona Renderer - 3 months license (€224) of 3 render nodes, the winners can pick the 3ds Max or Cinema 4D version
• TopoGun single license (€85)
• 2 Evermotion collections of winner's choice

This year your works will be judged by:

Lucia Frascerra is an Italian architectural visualizer with a great passion for dogs, good food and CGI. Her career started in 2015 when she moved to London. There she worked for some of the most influent studios in the Industry such as DBOX, Cityscape Digital and Secchi Smith.

Her personal work was nominated in the CGArchitect's 3D Awards 2015, gained a 1st Award in the Evermotion Challenge 2015, a Honorable Mention in the Project Soane Competition 2016 and it was also featured in "Great talks About Photorealism", a book by Bogdan Sasu. Between 2016 and 2019 Lucia had the honour to be speaker at multiple CG and Archviz events like the Architectural Visualization Day 2016 in Goteborg, the UY!CG conference 2018 in Montevideo and D2 Conferences 2019 in Vienna.
Today Lucia works in London for Secchi Smith as Senior Visualisation Artist and she is post-production teacher at the Master in Digital Architecture (MADI) at the University of Venice (IUAV).

András Kaldos (Brick Visual) is a true architectural artist. Having extensive experience as an architect, visualizer, functional supervisor and trainer in technology, and he has received recognition in a number of competitions such as the Junior Prima Primissima award of Hungary. He is the CEO of Brick Visual since its establishment, grew the company from scratch to its current more than 70 professionals, while being active as senior 3D artist as well. His interests cover experimental architecture and fractals. He sees education as one of his missions and he wishes to share his extensive experiences with newcomers of the industry.   

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.         

Michał Horba (Evermotion) - Degree in architecture and urban planning mixed with passion for 3d - during my university times I discovered the most fun part for me was making the project look great. And so my journey began. Ten years of experience as 3d generalist shows that my main interests are architecture illustrations and material making. I am responsible for some of Evermotion's crazy scenes as well. It is a honor for me to be here, have fun!

Register now, you can submit your work at any time till 20th of December2020!  (you can submit your work to 20th of December 2020, 23:59 (GMT +1)

Join Evermotion Challenge 2020!

Good luck!

Evermotion Team

Special thanks for AESDE Studio for providing this awesome image for our header. This work was created for "Tomorrow challenge" by tmrw.se contest.  :)

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