Hello everybody,

New World Digital Art is pleased to announce the kick off of our 2014-2015 Theme Challenge "IceLand" Starting right NOW!

CONTEST GUIDELINES:
• Contestants are to re-create a region of Iceland of their choosing with the highest level of Photo-realism as their goal.
• Open to all versions of 2 and 3, Free or Registered
• 1 entry per contestant
• Image Size – .6 Min – 2MB Max
• Terragen’s DOF is permitted. Rendering Terragen layers and composing in a 3rd party applications is also permitted.
• Contestants must submit judged entry with raw Terragen output image (Composed layers into single image, Pre-Postwork).
• Approved Post work – Sharpening, color/level adjustments, resizing and not limited to chromatic abberation another subtle techniques that simulate ‘typical’ lens effects. NWDA will reject any image that is deemed overly ‘enhanced’ by Photoshop or other image editors.
• Non Approved Postwork – Replacing and or adding any element via Photoshop or any image editor. All elements must be rendered within Terragen.
• NWDA reserves the right to reject any entries that do not conform to the above guidelines or images that are deemed ‘incomplete’ by NWDA.
• Submitted entries must be submitted by the below date and time and include Image title, Artist name, (Forum or Real name) email & judged entry with raw Terragen output image (ex. Composed layers into single image, Pre-Postwork).
• Judging Details – To Be Announced.

Reference Imagery www.pinterest.com/NWDAstore/iceland/

Contest Begins October 26th 2014 ending February 14th 2015 23:59 EST US

Submit entries to http://nwdastore.com/theme-challenge/

Awards totaling over $5500 USD

• 1st Place:
XFrogs Plants Vol 1 & 2. tgo Format 2900 plants
Planetside Software’s Terragen 3 Professional With Animation
WorldCreator Indie Bundle
bitethebytes ShaderTool
World Machine 2 Professional
Quadspinner’s Geoplyph – A professional suite of 51 Custom Macros for World Machine (Single Node,Free Upgrades)
Silva3D – Mega Bundle Vol.1
Silva3D – Balcony Plants Vol.1
Silva3D – Garden Flowers Vol.1
Silva3D – Boxwood Bundle Vol.1
3d Art Direct – Interview “The Making Of”
3d Art Direct – 1 Year “Back Issue Access”
Plug and pixels – Interview
Rendering of animated winning scene file on Pixel Plow’s advanced render farm !

• 2nd Place:
XFrogs Plants Vol 1 & 2. tgo Format 2900 plants
Planetside Software’s Terragen 3 Creative With Animation
WorldCreator Indie license
bitethebytes ShaderTool
Silva3D – Mega Bundle Vol.1 (or pick 4 from either Archive Grasses,
Balcony, Wildflower, Garden Flowers, Boxwood or Shrubs)
3d Art Direct – Interview “The Making Of”
3d Art Direct – 1 Year “Back Issue Access”
Plug and pixels-Interview

• 3rd Place:
XFrogs Plants Vol 1 & 2. tgo Format 2900 plants
Planetside Software’s Terragen 3 Creative
WorldCreator Indie license
bitethebytes ShaderTool
Silva3D – Choice (pick 2 from either Archive Grasses, Balcony,
Wildflower, Garden Flowers, Boxwood or Shrubs)
3d Art Direct Interview “The Making Of”
3d Art Direct – 1 Year “Back Issue Access”
Plug and pixels- Interview

• Honorable Mention:
Silva3D – Choice (pick 1 from either Archive Grasses, Balcony,
Wildflower, Garden Flowers, Boxwood or Shrubs)
NWDA - $50 Coupon to our shop.

**As with Roadside it is strongly recommended that you create a Work In Progress Thread here in Planetside forums forums.planetside.co.uk/**

Good Luck !!
NEW WORLD DIGITAL ART