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It’s THAT TIME AGAIN!!!

10AM Sept 28 – 10AM Sept 29th

This year, Interactive Design & Game Development is teaming up with Animation to offer up an amazing creature design challenge. In this design challenge, contestants will be creating a creature based on an environment of your choice. This is a team challenge (3 members per team) in which each member is responsible for 1 phase of the design process:

1. Full color creature illustration with background.
2. Physical concept sculpture (creature maquette) done with clay or super sculpey.
3. Digital 3D model/sculpture in ZBrush.

Industry Advisors:

We will bring in these industry advisors on site to advise and critique contestants work:

WETA Workshop: Scott Spencer (Designer; renown ZBrush trainer and 3D artist)
Hi-Rez Studios: Ben Knapp (Senior Character artist), Sean McBride (Art Director) 
Xaviant: Wayne Williams (Senior Character Artist)

Prizes:
The 1st place winning team will receive:
1. Three ZBrush 4R4 commercial license ($2,100 value), sponsored by Pixologic (the maker of Zbrush).
2. Three maquette sculpting kit ($560 value), sponsored by Binders Art Supplies Atlanta.
3. Three SIEGE 2012 conference passes* ($150 value).
4. Lunch, studio tour and portfolio advising session with the Art Director and Senior Character Artist at the Hi-Rez Studios or CCP Games.

The 2nd place winning team will receive:
1. Three SIEGE 2012 conference passes* ($150 value).
2. Three copies of Scott Spencer’s latest book on digital sculpting in ZBrush.
3. Lunch, studio tour and portfolio advising session with the Art Director and Senior Character Artist at the Hi-Rez Studios or CCP Games.

The 3rd place winning team will receive:
Three pairs of movie passes to Regal Cinemas.

Click here for the complete details of this challenge.