Action Hero Contest: The Winners

[aurick]

The results are in!

175 people entered the Action Hero Contest and the results are fantastic!

After two months of effort by the community, our judging panel narrowed the list down to ten finalists.

The criteria that were used by the judges were:

Success in portraying the contest theme of a super hero or villain in a dramatic pose worthy of a comic book cover.
Quality of the sculpting and accuracy of the finished pose.
Displayed ZBrush skill, especially with TransPose.
Community Participation within the artist's own thread as well as in the form of encouragement and advice for others.

All ten finalists were guaranteed to receive prizes. The big question still remained, however: Who would prove to be the big overall winners? For that, we turned to the community with a week of voting here at ZBrushCentral. That ended on Saturday, and we have tallied the results.

Now it's time to reveal the winners. Congratulations!


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Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we post detailed "making of" articles for each of the top five winners. We have also reopened the Action Hero contest forum so that members can once again discuss each thread.

We at Pixologic would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the contest. While only a limited number of prizes were possible, we believe that everyone who joined in was a winner. It has been a great pleasure to see the overwhelming enthusiasm on everyone's parts, and all the comments about how you've learned a lot just by participating. Way to go!

We'd also like to thank our super sponsors for their generous support in donating over $12,000 in prizes for this contest: Axiotron, NextEngine, Offload Studios, Wacom, 3D World, the Gnomon Workshop and Ballistic Publishing.


Gallery of Entries
For ZBrushCentral members and those of you just coming in, we thought you might also enjoy seeing a gallery of all the completed entries. Each entry is shown with one thumbnail below, listed alphabetically by artist name.

• Click the artist's name to be taken to the thread showing the work-in-progress for that entry. (Remember that in any thread you can click the ThreadGallery link to view all images within that thread.)
• Click the image thumbnail to view the full-sized image.

Enjoy!

[cemond]

Congrats to all! Amazing contest!

[ThatDon]

Congrats Cmof. You're the man!

it's nice to see food get some kind of recognition but it still doesn't make up for the injustice given to his amazing work.

[bryzol]

Congratulations to the winers!! You've deserved it guys! I'm happy that I was a part of this contest and I've get to the final with such great artists like you here!

[slocik]

no way ;d overwatch/hedgehog schould win the grand prize, both are on the same level of awesome ;p But still the first 4 are incredible ;]

[Intervain]

congrats! to the winners and all who finished their work - a big feat!

[threetails]

Congrats to everyone, this whole process was a blast, start to finish, thanks to pixologic, the sponsors and all the participants I learned so much. It was worth every second.

[Mind Symbion]

Congrats Chris Moffitt! You did a great work and really deserve the grand prize!
And of course, thanks to all participants of this contest!

[a i r]

Congrat's everyone, great challenge, great imagery.
Looking forward to the next one!

[KrakenCMT]

My congratulations to the winners and to Pixologic for a great and challenging contest!

[monstermaker]

Congratulations to all of the winners and all of the contestants in this fine contest. I truly enjoyed watching the progress and was constantly amazed by all of the great work. Well done!

[grom]

Great stuff all around. To all those that lost, Get better at rendering and photoshop.

[Buckie]

Congrats to all, excellent comp Pixologic...

Is it me or 3rd prize the best prize???

[nebular]

Congrats to the winners! Great and outstanding models

[weirya]

Congratulation to everyone, that was a contest inspiring!