Judging
All Master and Servant judging will be performed internally by the jury. First and foremost, submitted images will be judged on the strength of their emotive and narrative elements, with technical excellence as secondary criteria. The depth of feeling and the power of the relationship as portrayed by the image is the primary goal of this challenge. Participating artists must demonstrate clarity of thought and emotion in their finished images.
Panel of Judges (preliminary)
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Pascal Blanche
Pascal Blanché is Art Director at one of the world's biggest gaming companies, Ubisoft Canada based in Montreal . His most recent game project was Myst IV: Revelation", the fourth in the cult adventure game series. Pascal started on the path towards a career in art/design for games at the Art School of Luminy, Marseille. Following art school, he freelanced for TILT magazine, an early video games magazines and then worked in modeling, concept art, texturing, lighting and animation for various French gaming companies. |
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Daryl Mandrake
Daryl Mandrake has worked on many projects in television and games, most recently completing a three and a half year stint at Electronic Arts. There he worked as a Concept Artist on the Def Jam series of games, as well as contributing to other projects. He is currently the Lead Concept Artist at a brand new production studio, which has yet to be officially revealed. He is known for both his 2D and 3D work character work. His work has appeared in many books, magazines and web sites, and his bold, action heavy designs have won him the last two CG Challenges (2D). This time around, Daryl will be participating from the other side of the contest as a member of the Jury! |
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Meats Meier
Meats Meier is a resident artist and instuctor at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects where he teaches the first ever ZBrush course. An award-winning digital artist, Meats has over a decade of experience in a wide range of artistic fields. His past titles include: airbrush artist, lead artist at Beyond Games, a video game studio, and technical director/compositor at the Orphanage on such feature films as Hellboy and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He also maintains a successful career as an independent artist. Meats' artwork has been featured on the covers of numerous books, magazines, and web sites. Meats was honored with the prestigious "Maya Master" title by Alias at SIGGRAPH 2003. |
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Steven Stahlberg
Steven Stahlberg is a co-founder of Optidigit, now partnered with VisualXtreme to form Androidblues, The Virtual Talent Studio. Steven is the head of 3D animation and art director of Androidblues in addition to being an artist, illustrator and animator. After completing his art studies in Sweden and Australia Steven worked ten years as a freelance illustrator for leading advertising agencies and publications in Europe and Asia . Steven is internationally acknowledged as a world class digital artist and was the first artist in the world to have a virtual character sponsored by a major modeling agency (Elite) back in 1999.
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Philip Straub
Currently employed by Electronic Arts as Concept Art Director, Philip Straub has been working as in illustrator/concept artist in the entertainment industry for over 10 years. He is currently represented by 3 galleries across the United States and has a thriving licensing business. Philip's luminous and meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings have classical influences but are purely based on the fantastic. He has illustrated over 30 children's books, created concept art, paintings, and 3D content for more then 12 CD Rom and console games, and published multiple digital art tutorial books. Philip has been a featured artist numerous times in several publications including; The Society of Illustrators NY and Los Angeles Annuals, Spectrum Fantasy Annuals, Expose' digital fine art book, and on dozens of digital art websites and forums. A partial list of clients include: Scholastic, John Wiley and Sons, Fantasy Magazine, Universal Studios, Cendant, Fisher Price, Mattel, Utne Reader, RJ Reynolds, Bonner and Co, Big Tuna Trading and Mercer Mayer, McGraw-Hill, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, TSR, Random House, Draft Worldwide, Ballistic Media, Golden Books, Harper Festival, Electronic Arts, and Nickelodeon. |
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