New Year's open themed still image competition winners

[enricocerica]

Once again you've been wonderful and we got a lot of great publications and once again it was very difficult to choose among all those high quality images. I would like to thank all of you for your participation and for the hard work you put into this successful competition.

So we have all the winners and 7 prizes to grant, congratulations to all of them.

If you don't need the won license, you can give it to somebody else.

Best image:

1st place : Dave62 with Mixing stuff
Dave62 wins one jacket* & two GTX460 / GTX560 2GB (depending on availability)

2nd place : Madcoo with KitchenAid's blender
Madcoo wins one jacket* & one GTX460 / GTX560 2GB (depending on availability)

3rd place : Mlody with Leukaemia's Diary
Mlody wins one jacket* & one GTX460 / GTX560 1GB (depending on availability)

4th place : Noelnoel with Chees and mouses
Noelnoel wins one jacket* & 2 free beta licenses

5th place : Mauricio Gomes with Santa Claus Stuck
Mauricio Gomes wins one jacket* & 1 free beta license

Best artistical concept:

Baloom with Robot postman

Baloom wins One GTS450 / GTS550 1GB (depending on availability)

Best technical concept/achievement

Rman1974 with Early television camera tube

Rman1974 wins One GTS450 / GTS550 1GB (depending on availability)

* Limited edition OctaneRender® jacket for New Year's competition

Congrats to everyone !

[suhail_spa]

Congrats to all the winners!

It was a tough one really
Cheers!

[cornel]

Congratulations everybody!
These are stunning renders!!

Hope you guys enjoyed the challenge as much as I did...

[suhail_spa]

cornel..i really like your entry but..
anyway- it was really gr8 participating in this

[kubo]

congrats to all, well deserved prizes!
I have to say it's been a tough one this time. I truly had a great time and learn a lot.
Don't forget to show us a picture of you guys on those jackets!

[madcoo]

congrats to all, well deserved prizes!
I have to say it's been a tough one this time. I truly had a great time and learn a lot.
Don't forget to show us a picture of you guys on those jackets!

I also learnt a lot during this competition (which was my first one by the way), and I really had a great time too !


Congrats to everyone, there were many many great pictures posted.

Cheers everyone!

[andrian]

Congratulation Dave, you really deserve it..

[marco diulgheroff]

Great final selection!
Happy to have entered this competition, I've learnt a lot!
Thanks to all and congrats to the winners!

[radiance]

It was really difficult, there were so many images, many of identical quality, making the end selection really tough.
I personally liked cornel's hairy monster render most, aswell as some of andrian's images, but interpolating all the judges' selection gave this result, so best to stick with it

I think increasing the number of prizes was a good idea, maybe with the next competition we can do something extra, like a cost-free price for all submitters (like a forum badge or something)

Radiance

[m.arc.in]

Congratulations to the winners. Very good choice.