TerraContest

As of today, and up until June 30th, TerraContest will be accepting scenary renderings from any member of deviantART who is interested in having their work recognized and turned into a DA Print.

The rules for the contest are as follows:

1) Use one program to render the scene. Terragen, Bryce, or Vue D'Esprit. Photoshop may be used for color correction but not airbrushing a scene.

2) Make the final rendered image 1280x1024. If your picture is chosen, I will have you render the scene at 6000x4000 and send it to me so I am able to submit it to DA Prints.

3) You may get a DEM of a real place, but you must represent it like it would look in real life as much as possible (that means surface map and water).

4) Only send in one rendering. If more than one is sent, I will delete the additional scenes.

5) All pictures that are submitted must be emailed to aleks@hackernetwork.com in a zip file that includes a text file describing the picture and what lead you to come up with this so I can add this to the description if your picture is chosen.

6) The zip file must be named as follows: DAmembername-nameofscene. This way I know who did it and what to call it.

All files that are submitted will be looked over and in the days following June 30th, I will make my decision on the winner. I will then submit the work onto my site (giving credit to the user of course) as well as submitting the text file with the reason they made it and what lead them to make it.

Once a scene is submitted I will not send a copy of it back. Be sure to make copies for yourself, and after the contest is over, I will make a collage of thumbnails of all the pictures submitted so everyone can see the scenes submitted, listing all those that participated in the contest.

Anything submitted after 5:00pm PST on June 30th will not be accepted. I will have the results in the following days after the contest, as it will take me a while to go through all the pictures and make a final decision.

After I have chosen the winner and submitted it so everyone will know who did it, I will contact that person and have them render a 6000x4000 image for me to submit to DA Prints, as well as have them tell me their address. I will submit the image and purchase one for the winner and have it mailed to them.

Good luck to everyone. I can't wait to see how many responses I get on this.