Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted January 24, 2005 Administrators Share Posted January 24, 2005 I just wanted to put a bit of a teaser out there for a new competition we will be launching on Feb 1. "Contestants in the 2005 Architectural Visualization competition will be tested in the full range of skills used every day in the field of Architectural Illustration. Upon successfully passing a qualifying round, 30 contestants will continue on to compete in 5 challenges spanning five months. With each challenge contestants will be eliminated based upon the judges evaluations until 3 finalists are selected. The awards of 1st, 2nd and 3rd places will be annouced at the 4th Annual CGarchitect.com Party at SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles. " So you might be thinking, so what, another challenge right? Absolutely not! The main difference is that the contestants will receive individual critiques from some of the top people in our industry and the prizes contributed by our sponsors are currently valued at just under $90,000 USD. Here is the list of sponsors so far. First place will walk away with $36,293 in software and hardware including a brand new xw6200 HP workstation. Second place will receive $18,539 in prizes and $13,164 for third place. HP, ArchVision, Eovia, Discreet, TurnTool, Greenworks, @Last Software, Marlin Studios, NPower Software, Lowpolygon3d, Realworld Imagery, MAXON, Next Limit/Maxwell, DrapeFX, TurboSquid, WaveGen, Bionatics, E-on Software, Absolute Textures, Rendercore, Informatix, Got3d, SOFTIMAGE/Avid, ASAI, Hyperfocal Design, Iridas, DigArts, Ambient Light and 3DQuakers. Our judges include Ernest Burden III (Acme Digital), Lon Grohs (Neoscape), Eric Hanson (Gnomon School), Matthew Bannister (dbox) and Hansy Barraza (Studio Luz). More details will be released in the coming week, but I thought I'd wet your appetites in anticipation of arguably the largest competiton the CG industry has ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Woah....drooling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 looking forward to the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseDog Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 now THERE'S some heads up work jeff. looks like a fascinating concept. congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Well:) this was worth waiting for! Thanks Jeff, getting this going was no small effort I'm sure! Collaborative efforts allowed? (just impatiently curoius) WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Consider my appetite whet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Interesting... but what a disappointment not being able to compete with Ernest or Eric ,-p nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 what is This ?? "a Conflict of The Interested" ?? what about The likes of me (a lower life form still learning 3d) The Top Guns already know how to make excellent renderings great Idea, Jeff cant wait to watch This happen i learn by osmossis, sitting on my brains Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 tested in the full range of skills used every day in the field of Architectural Illustration. Does this include paying other people to do the work for you? A "delegation" category! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Does this include paying other people to do the work for you? A "delegation" category! That's worth an LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 hi Randy, The likes of me??? not for me... when you do archviz about 16hours a day, all day... you want to do something else in your spare time ,pp well, at least I do... ;-) rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 nisus you must be psychic nowadays i was specifically Thinking of you and quite a few Others too ** randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted January 27, 2005 Author Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2005 Just a quick update that the total prize value for the competition is now $90,000 US. I would hazard a guess that this is probably the biggest CG competion ever run period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtiscareno Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Man Jeff you guys sure make it sweet!!! And the whole "survivor" or "american idol" format is very interesting and the personal critique sounds very constructive. Thanks and see you all there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Wonderful Jeff! Great effort. Tell me if you need support or an extra hand ,-) rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted January 29, 2005 Author Administrators Share Posted January 29, 2005 hey Jeff so what are you going to call the winner? Likely they will just be called "the winner", second place, third place....etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 so what are you going to call the winner? The Grand Vizard That's very good! But maybe you can explain the similarities between these two avatars--one is yours, one is a member of the cgtalk Cinema4D forum, a guy from South Africa. It's almost creepy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 That's very good! But maybe you can explain the similarities between these two avatars--one is yours, one is a member of the cgtalk Cinema4D forum, a guy from South Africa. It's almost creepy! Both 'children of the corn' ...weird ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McCarthy Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 LOL ! Hey Ernest want some job? hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McCarthy Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 hey Jeff so what are you going to call the winner? The Grand Vizard ?? CG Arch Master of The Universe ?? The Arch Illustrator ?? just some idle curiousity Randy I think it should be called "Iron renderer" "THESE ARE THE MEN OF INVINCIBLE RENDERING SKILLS !! YOURS TRUELY.... IRONNNNNNNNNNN RENDDDEERRRERRRRR" (cue dramatic music.... 3 men ascend to the throne) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 hey The other Guy is wearing a Tie no way That could be me or even close hey wasnt "Racing Stripes" filmed on location in South Africa? The grass on the Other side of The fence looked pretty green to me Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Are the official rules to be posted in a week or will the competition start in a week? I'm spreading the word about this but am getting asked lots of questions with no answers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted January 30, 2005 Author Administrators Share Posted January 30, 2005 Are the official rules to be posted in a week or will the competition start in a week? I'm spreading the word about this but am getting asked lots of questions with no answers.... The official contest site will go up tommorrow night. I just have a few things to do before I can go live. The contest starts officially on Feb 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelfoZ Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 a special url(page)/forums for the contest ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted January 30, 2005 Author Administrators Share Posted January 30, 2005 a special url(page)/forums for the contest ? Yes there will be a special URL for the contest. It's still on the CGA website, but not yet public. We willl be using these special pages and the forums to run the contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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