We would like to invite everyone to our 2010 NWDA Contest. There are some great prizes to win, so read on! 
This years' contest title will be "NWDA & Planetside Animation Contest".
Important is that this contest is open to everyone who's interested, regardless whether you are a registred "Deep" or "Deep + Animation" Terragen user, or a user of the Terragen 2 Free Edition.
Contest Theme/Goal:
The goal of this contest is that each contestant creates a scene of choice, with a strong focus on realism. However, other than a still, your scene needs to hold up from different camera positions and angles. Every contestant creates 6 shot each with a different camera position and perspective, with these 6 shots mimicking waypoints of a camera animation path. You will put these 6 shot together into one image that you submit. This image will serve as your animation story board.
NWDA is excited to announce the following premier sponsors for this contest, who have agreed to support us with some awesome prizes:
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Read on for more details on the actual contest theme, rules and prizes!
These are the contest rules:
- Theme: True 3D and Animation. By True 3D we mean that your scene must "hold" at different camera positions and angles, in order to be animateable.
- Submissions: one submission per person.
- Submissions must be natively rendered within TG2.
- Image format and size: 6 still images, 640x360 each, combined to a 1920x720 image (3 columns, 2 rows). Maximum filesize is 1 MB.
- Images below a certain minimum quality threshold will be rejected. We only accept submissions of finished work.
- Postwork: allowed, but as minimal as possible; levels, color-corrections and the like are all allowed, except for adding elements to the image.
- Please keep in mind that the more postwork your image needs, the less suitable it is for animating.
- Contest Start: May 2nd
- Deadline for submission: August 14th, but you can submit whenever your work is finished.
NB. Contest-rules may be subject to modification
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How to submit and submission conditions:
Please send your finished work through email to: nwdacontest at hotmail.com
Information needed with submission:
- Storyboard title
- Your name
Please be aware that by submitting an image to this email address, you agree that the image can be posted in the contest gallery on NWDA along with your name and that Planetside will gain non-exclusive rights to use your submission for promotional activities, which includes the storyboard and/or animated-storyboard.
You can find the contest gallery here, which will get filled up as contestants submit their final works over time.
Contest Jury:
- All NWDA members, Oshyan Greene (Planetside), Stewart McSherry (Xfrog Inc.) and Stephen Schmitt (World-Machine).
The contest prizes:
1st prizes:
Terragen 2 Deep + Animation License
XfrogPlants Bundle, all 1,300 plants in .TGO-format
Fully animated storyboard
6 NWDA products of choice
PlugNPixels magazine, "making of" coverage
2nd prizes:
4 NWDA products of choice
World-Machine v2.2 Pro license
3rd prize:
2 NWDA products of choice
We strongly recommend to create a Work In Progress (WIP) of your project in the following board:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?board=21.0
This way everybody can keep track of each others progress and also exchange ideas/tips/tricks and other useful discussion.
We are looking forward to seeing your submissions. Game on!
Best regards,
The NWDA and Planetside team