Congradulation to the 2 winners and everyone who spend time and effort for this competition.
Thx a lot everlite !
I hope u will give us other subject like this. I like that when i have a theme to creat, it give me some limit and help me to find what i can draw !
cya guys and girls !
Oh my goodness I wasnt expecting this! Fantastic!! Im really honored -especially being amongst such superb entries.
Thanks to everyone for their great comments and critiques and helping me as I worked on this challenge.
That plate cleaning part alone was a real eye-opener!
Everyones images were winners. Theyre so inspirational it keeps one going even when the day has been long.
I really enjoy what the judges had to say here. They make great points in their critical feedback. This is why I enjoy this site so much in that you can really learn from those around you and thus grow and put more into the next piece.
Wow this really made my day. Thanks again for such a great challenge and heres to the next one! See you there.
Markg (big smile)
great challenge ! congratulations to the winners they deserve it for sure, special thanks to the judges , guys thanks for your time and for supporting this challenge and forum it was a great experience I bet and people really learned new techniques , thanks to David Edwards for the whole organization and idea , he’s a winner too!
thanks to CG society and Ballistic publishing 
and of course thanks Leigh
Congrats to the winner MarkyG and the runner up Samsons Reaper. You bothreally deserve it.
Thanks again Dave for the organization.
Congrats for the winner and runner-up. Very strong works indeed.
Just one question: Dave, can you post all the comments of the judges, so we can all learn someting from the masters? Thanks.
Congratulations guys ! You did amazing job !!!
And Dave thanks alot mate. It was great fun
Well done guys it was a challenge, now looking forward to the next comp
thank you Dave for organising this challenge, I had my favourite to win whom didnt but looking at the judges comments I understand why.
Well done MG
Rich:bounce:
congrats to the winners.outstanding effort. and thanks to Dave and the judges for taking the time.
Howdy guys,
I’ve received a few emails over the last 12 hours from people requesting personal feedback from the judges, in most cases they only provided feedback for either the first place winner or in a few cases the first and second places. However, through my own ‘numpsy’ lack of attention one judges did provide feeback for a third entry and even though there was no third place i feel it’s only fare to post their critique. So unofficially you could say that third place goes to:
Sorin Bechira
pros:
nicely framed composition, viewer “stays” in the picture,
original idea to place a grave yard in the middle, destroyed building in the background works well.
interesting ambience and subtle choice of colors.
contras:
overall, very blurry feel. The foreground elements could have been worked out better, with different levels of detail and depth following the perspective.
Compositionwise a lot of space is “wasted” in the dark on the left and right side. Additionally it feels very symetrically framed.
The lighting of the midground structure, doesn’t match the lighting of the background structure on the left.
Lots of elements feel very “painted”, due to the blurryness and uniform distribution of details, while lacking some subtle color and value variation.
overall:
Nice piece to look at - the “dead” feeling goes very well with the topic of an aged building.
[font=Arial]Daniel Kvasznicza
www.inetgrafx.com
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Apologies to Sorin. And to everyone else, that’s everything folks
Congrats to the winner and runners up, and to all the participants for making it a really great contest! Watching everyones work evolve and the quality of the entries was fantastic, and I learned a lot from that even though I myself didnt compete this time.
Im looking forward to the next challenge, coz after how good this one was, I will be eagerly awaiting round 2
I have to say, I was a little worried that this would never get judged, which would have been one of the major atrocities of the century, but now that its all wrapped up im just looking forward to what will happen in the next challenge!
Nick
Congrats MarkyG and Levi. I do have to say MarkyG’s entry was my fav and I was really really hoping that one would win and IT DID :bounce:
I had a lot of fun with this challenge and I might have to try a few more matte paintings in the future. They are quite fun to do
Wow…these pieces are just awesome…it must have been very hard to judge!
Great work everybody! Makes me really want to try matte painting some day, looks like fun