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CGHUB.com is partnering with our friends at ArtTalk.ru, a Russian CG website, to bring you an exciting new 2D and 3D challenge! This event has been organized by Art Talk, which is primarily a Russian language site, and CGHUB.com will be handling English language entries from our community. Final entries must be submitted to the Art Talk via email for final review and judging. You are not required to create an account on Art Talk.ru, but you must mail them your final submission with details outlined here. Below is the brief and guidelines from Art Talk. If you have any questions please post them in the forum we have created on CGHUB.com just for this event.

If you are a CGHUB.com member who would like to participate, create a WIP thread in this forum: http://cghub.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=101

If your entry is 2D, preface your thread title with "2D" and if it's a 3D entry, preface it with "3d" and then Ethnique 2010 and your entry name:

Example: 2D - Ethnique 2010 - <My Entry>

Click here to visit the challenge page at Art Talk.ru

Female beauty
An eternal theme that runs throughout all forms of art. Every year artists from all over the world create images portraying the fair, and the work they inspire is unstoppable.

The idea of this challenge is quite simple - to create a series of artworks united by one theme – female beauty as national or historic legend. Woman’s beauty has many faces – you can find it in the Aztec goddess or Scandinavian Valkyrie, Chinese princess or English duchess. There is nothing better than their historical background and their ethnic environment to emphasize their characters, to frame their beauty. That's the first reason why we've chosen such an "academic" theme. And the second - we just find it pretty interesting and useful for every artist to turn to historical roots for inspiration. Every participant can choose for artistic presentation any dramatic female character of any culture from all over the world. Best pieces of art will be chosen for an art book "Ethnique Women - Legends" a publication that we intend to do.

Goal
Create an iconic image of famous female legends in their ethnic and historical environment. The only restriction is that the character should have a historical, mythical or legendary background and suitable ethnic environment.

The final image must be a self-sufficient artwork appropriate to the challenge theme and clear in its idea and background. The image can be 2d illustration or 3d render as much as any of the traditional art materials. It can be even a sculpt or a doll – if it is presented dramatically and interesting on the photo. Photo art itself is excluded because the subject of the image must be handmade.

Rules
1. Challenge starts on April 13,2010 and finishes on July 13, 2010.
2. To participate each challenger is required to create his own theme in WIP-section of ARTTalk.ru or any other convenient forum. There challenger should submit Work In Progress (WIP) images, from the initial concept sketch (for both 2D,3D and sculpture/dolls entries) to wire frame models, texturing in progress all the way to the final render (for 3D) and final colored piece (for 2D) or sculpture shot.

Note!
For those participants who will make the artwork using Z-Brush, you should duplicate your WIP on site www.zbrushcentral.com, with reference to this page at the beginning WIP threads.
Photos accepted as reference, as soon as they do not violate copyright. You should post reference photos you use too.
3. At the beginning of the WIP it is necessary to present your character as an idea. And at the end - brief description of its history.
4. Challengers are allowed to post as much entries as they can. But remember - it’s better to make one really completed artwork than few half-done ones.
5. All forum submissions will be in JPG format, with the exception of the final image, which will be both JPG and a print-resolution uncompressed format (PNG or TIFF) 2000-3500 pixels.
6. Final image should be aesthetically acceptable, reflecting essence of character’s background. Nudity is accepted when it’s necessary for displaying character’s essence and environment. Aphrodite, Cleopatra or just native African –characters like these really require some nudity.


After the end of challenge all final images should be sent to admin@arttalk.ru during 5 days.

The form of message:
Author:
Email Address:
Website: http://
WIP theme (Work-In-Progress): http://
Image Title:
Copyrights Owner:
Software Used in Creation of Image:
Brief Description of Image: Tell us about the image – background info, inspiration – the more, the better!

Prizes
The best three dimension work (3D Art, Schulpture, Arts & Crafts)
- ZBrush license, which will be free upgradable to ZBrush 4
- Forum medal
- 15 skill points
- T-shirt with Autodesk logo

The best two dimension work(2D Art, Painting, Graphics)
ZBrush license, which will be free upgradable to ZBrush 4
- Forum medal
- 15 skill points
- T-shirt with Autodesk logo

Bonus
Challengers, whose artworks deserve to be printed in the art book but lack completeness, can finalize them after the deadline during the two weeks-long additional time. In this case they won’t be allowed to participate in the challenge results.

Below are presented some examples for the styles of artworks. You can use them as guidelines or create something in your own style.

[pier_abbondanza]

Justa a question since tomorrow it's the last day of the challenge: if we've opened up a thread for our piece on CGHub are we ok or should we do anything else to partecipate? Thank you.

[RIDDICK]

Hello from ARTTalk!
Let me remind you that the works are welcome up to 18 July
email admin@arttalk.ru

[RIDDICK]

Attention, contest voting theme opned:
http://arttalk.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3943

Thank you all for the wonderful ART and lots of positive emotions!

[RIDDICK]

(!!!) Attention all who have not found their work among the published results in the subject theme http://arttalk.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3943 (!!!)
Please duplicate your letter and we will add the work to the rest of the ballot as soon as possible!

Apparently the problem arose on the side of your email service provider. Some put restrictions on the weight of the submitted file. In this case, try another email service or one of the dozens of free file-hosters.

And just in case, let us know in the forum topic of the contest as soon as the work will be sent again.

I am sure we will resolve these misunderstandings.

[RIDDICK]

Thanks a lot for your works and for participation in the contest!
Results of the contest can be found here http://arttalk.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3943 (see the last post)