CGSociety and NVidia have announced the new NVArt competition, the fifth, which focuses on the amazing artwork of Syd Mead.
The Master Futurist, famous for his concept designs in Blade Runner, TRON and 2010, will lead a panel of star judges: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (cohosts of Mythbusters), Mark Frauenfelder (founder of boingboing.net) Kevin Kelly (the founder of Wired Magazine), Brian Gernand (Creative Director of Kerner), Lorne Lanning (of Oddworld fame), David Wright (Creative Director of NVIDIA) and Mark Snoswell (President of CGSociety).
Together these luminaries will choose the top five entries, who will share in over $35,000 in prizes.
No doubt the entries will be fantastic, but I’m a little disheartened to see half the judging panel outside of the Computer Graphics industry. Nothing against the Mythbusters guys (I love the show, personally) but I don’t much see the point of them judging a graphics art competition.
Deadline for entries (2560×1600 JPEG images) is June 30th. Check the CGSociety site for all the details.
Hi Randall,
I dont think the contest is about graphics, is about Syd Mead. Syd is huge among industrial designers, matte painters, SFX people like Adam Savage, car designers, futurists, etc. Is about futurism not about graphics. Graphics is the tool, what will let the artist enable. Artist here can actually submit drawings by hand, or in 3D, up to them. I actually think nVidia is doing a great job thinking at a much higher level. I am in the industry and I get it.
Bob