Hi everyone,
I think it might be high time to launch another NWDA image contest.
This time, we're up for a new idea, a different type of contest. I would like to test the idea with you, and you tell us what you think about that.
The contest is so unusual that I'm struggling to give it the correct title.
Let's call it a "NWDA & Planetside True 3D and Animation Contest".
The idea is the the following: Every contestant creates a custom scene, with a strong focus on realism. However, other than the usual 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 stations of a camera animation path.
You would put these 6 shot together into one image that you submit, and it would be like a little animation story board.
The winning scene and story board will be fully animated, as the winning prize (along with a few other prizes probably). Oshyan from Planetside was so gracious to offer his time and rendering computer resources to create a full camera animation based on your scene & story board, and render away. The winning, final animation would get full visibility on the Planetside and NWDA websites, and potentially in other places (if there's an opportunity for that). At least, that's the plan so far.
The way the contest works, we think everyone can participate, no matter if you have the animation version of Terragen 2 or not, no matter whether you have the deep or free version.
So your turn now: what do you think about that? Sound good? Are you interested? Any questions or suggestions regarding this contest idea?
Best regards,
Frank