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The Story: Explosion of a nuclear reactor near the City-7 had led to absolutely unpredictable results. Radiation was spreading with incredibly fast speed striking all living beens on it's way. And only small part of the citizens was successfully evacuated in time. The rest were doomed. The city instantly became. It's hard to imagine such a picture � buildings and apartments, streets and cars, shops and trading centers were abandoned. Everything was left and it was obvious that people had taken only too valuable things they had trying to escape the catastrophe in panic. Nature elements were conquering City-7 day by day. Rains were washing out streets and roads, corroding metals. Winds were spreading radioactive garbage allover the side-streets and plazas. Buildings were peeling off, large glass windows were bursting without the human warm.

Exceeding any conceivable limits radiation doses hadn't killed citizens. Only few of them were lucky to die. The rest of them were doomed to a much more unpleasant fate. Mutations with unthinkable transforming power turned citizens, their pets and all the living of City-7 into something horrible. The only man from a rescue group survived after landing to an infected zone and got back lost the ability to speak. Such a reaction is fully explainable taking into account photos made by a rescuer. Though these photos were just a small part of the horror he had to pass through�

You would have to create an image that would illustrate City-7 view after instant evacuation, results of nature elements and mutations ruling the city for several years if you want to take part in the competition. You are free to use choose any CG mean to create an image in terms of the next three competition categories:

3D Environment � A 3D scene of a City-7 area should be created. The scene look should fully correspond to the goal of the competition. Scene modeling and arrangement skills will be judges besides the result (renderings and idea ).
2D Environment � Any 2D CG painting techniques may be used (including Matte-Painting) to paint a representative area of City-7.
3D Character � 3D character (a human, an animal or a plant) undergoing strong mutations and adopted to live in the abandoned city should be created. Character groups are also allowed to be created. Character modeling skills (geometry, texturing and materials) will be judges besides the result (renderings and idea) .

This Challenge is a Work-In-Progress Challenge -- all contestants are required to post their work-in-progress images for community to critique/comment in order to qualify.

Competition is open to everyone, worldwide
Participate in the Community by critiquing other challenger's works in the respective forums.
The entry must be created by a single artist, and only one entry per artist is allowed per contest (NOT multi-entries).
Submit your final entry before the end of the challenge (avoid the last-minute rush - get your entry in early).
Submit Work In Progress (WIP) images, obtain feedback and give feedback to other challengers in the WIP challenge. Note: Failure to do so may result in penalties during final judging. Community interaction is a must!
The image must be original artwork created specifically for this contest, and must be the property of the artist who created it. Plagiarism will result in disqualification from the current contest, and a public example will be made of the plagiarist. User will be banned!
You must submit your full name, nickname, valid email address, country of residence, and the name of the 3D application used to create the image. Optionally, you may submit your website link and commentary about the image. All information must be truthful and correct.
All winners are required to write 'making of' articles accompanied with high-resolution Work In Progress stills, to be eligible for prizes. Note: This is a requirement of the Work-In-Progress challenge.
No submission can or will be accepted past the submission deadline. Once the voting process begins, the entries are "locked," and the votes are cast immediately after the Voting Booth opens. No late entries will be accepted.
Organizers have the right to prolong terms of carrying out of competition.

Any of these rules may change at any time without prior notice. Do visit this page often

TIP: Works In Progress (WIP) step-by-step show how create artwork that is currently in development.

The competition titled
begins in October 15th, 2007.

The deadline for this contest is set to: December 10th, 2007.
Voting booth will close on: December 20th, 2007

Start competition: October 15th, 2007
End competition: December 10th, 2007.
Voting: December 10th, 2007. — December 20th, 2007.
Announcement of a winner: December 23th, 2007.

You should be registered at the CGFolks forum!
You cannot vote if you not have 10 posts in our forum.
You vote for your top 3 entries and list them in order.
Places are calculated by going through all votes with 3 points for a first 1st, 2 points for a 2nd and 1 point for 3rd.
Participants can vote, but they cannot vote for themselves.

TIP: "Entry" is an accepted submission - the image has been entered into the competition.

It is very easy, in 3 steps:

Go to Competiton forum and make your own thread.
Call your thread name of the contest'Lost World' and your name. Example of title -- 'Ghost City: Your Name '.
PostWIP thread images like Concept Sketch, Modeling, Shading, Post Effects and Compositing, Line Art, Coloring WIP, Final Coloring, Final Image etc...

Note: Submit your final entry before the end of the challenge.

TIP: Make attachment if you want see all images in first post in your thread.

All entries must be in JPG format. Your final image dimensions should be in HIGH-QUALITY (as large as you can possibly render). Do not send in a low-resolution placeholder and ask us to get back to you, as we won't.

By submitting an image, you agree to give us permission to display the image on our website in any form for any reason. The image will remain your property, but you cannot claim any right or compensation for any reason related to the display of your image on our website.
You agree to give us permission to display the image on ourcontest galleries (all credits of the artist.will be included).
No artwork will knowingly be sold, in whole or in part, by the sponsors outside of the context of the competition.
The artist will be asked permission for the use of their artwork if outside of the scope of the contest.

If an artist misrepresents a plagiarized image as his or her own, 3DM3 accepts no responsibility for determining the proper owner. All and any legal actions resulting from said plagiarism is the responsibility of the artist who submitted the image. In addition, 3DM3 will support any legal action taken against the plagiarist, to include providing record of the entry and any related correspondence.

Winners will be notified by email within 10 business days of publishing the results of the voting.
Prizes will be sent after their respective winners have claimed them.
Our sponsors are responsible for sending the prizes to the winners. We cannot be held responsible, nor can we provide a substitute in case the prize is no longer available or if the sponsors have retracted their sponsorship at any time during the contest.
In order to claim his or her prize, the contest Winner (ranked as first) is required to write the “Making of…” article. This article explains the image creation process, including any tips or tricks used during the process, as well as the solution to any problems that arose during creation of the image. The article serves as proof that the artist is the true creator of the image.
The artist will retain credit as the author of the article, but all ownership rights up to and including copyrights is passed to and retained by the 3DM3. The article remains the sole property of the 3DM3, and the artist/author may not reproduce the article or post it elsewhere without express, written consent from the 3DM3.