Mixamo, a company that provides innovative online 3D character animation services is challenging you to model a character. Make it a humanoid 3D character with a maximum poly count of 12,000 triangles.
Must be your original work and not purchased or stolen. Your character will be featured on Mixamo website, in Mixamo advertisements and around the web.
Architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe design the cities of tomorrow mainly skyscrapers. This opportunity is sponsored by eVolo magazine. Create high-rise architecture, present the most outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design.
Use novel technologies, materials, aesthetics, and spatial organization, along with, encompassing skyscrapers from a globalization perspective. Show flexibility, adaptability, and include the digital revolution. Examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.
Lend Your Voice Through Lens
Take humanitarian action, show international cooperation and social exclusion for human rights violations, armed conflicts, natural disasters, refugee and immigrant populations, socially excluded groups, etc. and showcase through photographs (individual picture or series) your efforts at building a fairer, more egalitarian world
Plans Gone Wrong
We are all familiar with plans gone wrong, and this opportunity is all about plans gone wrong pandas, lights and pies. Stock images are provided and your job is to combine them in an unusually creative way and in relation with the theme. DeviantART and Fotolia are joining forces and this time they’re challenging you to use the theme of “plans gone wrong” and create artworks. What is on the table, is goodies for 25 semi-finalists, and the selection of three award winning entries.
Fashioning your Creations using Silver, Precious & Semi-Precious Stones or Gems
Create unique body wear for encouraging and promoting jewelry design. Pretty much covering any jewel, metal, gem, jewelry or ornamentation art that can be used on the body, such as glasses, belts, earrings, brooches, pins, rings, pendants, combs, tiaras, cuff links, watches, bracelets, etc for example.
The Center for Design and Development of the Industry of Jewelry and Silversmithery extends an invitation to all designers, jewelers, students and general public to take part in the 23rd International Jewelry Design Competition, specifically planned for the presentation of skills, knowledge and creativity.
To be submitted by sketches, illustrations, renders and photographs. Your submission should reflect experimental or cutting edge design, distinctive and inspirational, and, display your international level of competitiveness.
Make A Creative Difference Where it Counts
This opportunity should pull on your heart strings, use your creativity to make a 30-second video that promotes, celebrates, or teaches about being a living organ donor for MatchingDonors.com. You can exercise the creative approach you would like, however this is a serious matter and lives could depend on how you highlight the cause, be it noble, heroism or showing compassion towards those generous and kind enough to donate a piece of themselves to save lives.
Living 4G LTE, Voice, Video, and Multimedia, Network Capacity, increased Bandwidth and High-Speed Data
Goal is to demonstrate how awesome life is with the country’s fastest and most advanced 4G network in the palm of your hand and encourage and educate consumers; share experiences about the Verizon 4G LTE network and products. Create a video to be posted on Verizon Insider.com where visitors can view and vote for their favorite videos, possibly yours. Show how amazing life would be with 4G LTE through video. There will be additional opportunities, so social network, and rally your friends to vote for your video so you all could win. Product can be the hero and the center of the story or it can fit into an existing concept and humor is strongly encouraged.
Make Some Noise
Well, to be clear ”graphic remix” noise. Shaolin Jazz wants participants to submit designs for the next album/cd cover in the series. This is an international opportunity. For those who may not be familiar with the artist, Shaolin Jazz is a music project by Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones embodying a unique mix between legendary jazz and iconic hip-hop.
SHAOLIN JAZZ — The 37th Chamber, the brainchild of Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones, is a specialty mixtape project that has 2-Tone artfully blending the acapellas of rappers from the Wu-Tang Clan with hand picked jazz instrumentals. You design the image and feel for the cover art.
Technology Has Its Own Language
You get a dictionary and 30,000 ($10,000 to one person) reasons to put together a 60-second video about high-tech telecommunications jargon — tech talk. This should be fun and you can make it comedic or serious. There is a lot of room for humor, but the tech talk needs to come through loud and clear. You can use graphics, text or props to make clear the more complex terms.
Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Florence, Madrid and Barcelona
Bicycle Chain Lamps
Show your ability to “Reuse” meaning use an item more than once, for the same function, giving it a second life, or making it useable for a different purpose. Create new shapes from old materials; reusing is slightly different from recycling, which consists in processing used materials for the production of new objects. To reuse can help save, money, energy, and sometimes create new resources. Discover what quality products you can offer through reuse focus in on people, environments and organizations with limited means. See if you can generate an entire new industry, jobs or business activity that could contribute to the economy just from reuse pushing sustainability.
Add Stimulating Eye-Popping Motion
Bringing greater awareness for animation as an art form, and celebrating the spirit of independent, underground, and experimental animation is the focus for the upcoming 7th annual GIRAF (Giant Incandescent Resonation Animation Festival) at The Plaza Theatre in Calgary, Canada in November.
Wanted: Animation submissions, in all genres, lengths, and mediums. Bring a strong eclectic mix of animation, representing the best of the medium from Claymation to CG that push boundaries well past what you thought could be done, bringing forth new techniques, unique visions, and stimulating subject matter
Inspire the Human Spirit
The Freedom to Create is a celebration of the courage and creativity of artists, and the positive influence of their work to promote social justice and inspire the human spirit. Open to all forms of art, in any creative field and any individual or group of any gender, religion or nationality; 2,000 artists entered from more than 100 countries last year and this year 2011, a total prize fund of US $100,000 will be awarded to the winning artists and their nominated advocacy organizations to further the cause their artwork has highlighted.
The Future is Now
Create spectacular projects in interactive digital art and new media: Interactive installation & interactive art, 3D-mapping, Interactive games and applications for iPhone and Android, Short films including animation, 3D and generative video, Audio-visual performances including VJ-sets and all other creative experiments based on new technologies and media. The invitation is open to any country in the world with: artists, programmers, graphic designers, 3D-graphic artists, architects, students and professionals from all related fields
Fun, Art, and Experience
At an open air theater a showcase of the best short films from around the world to an international audience of art and film lovers who descend each year for fun, art, and experience. Have your short film screened at this event.
Featuring 39 Billboard-sized images of the selected Artworks
Embracing Our Differences is the theme and artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students are all invited to participate in its 9th annual outdoor art exhibit celebrating diversity, national and international submissions are wanted. The exhibit viewed by more than 1,100,000 visitors.
