Concept Art Competition

Napoleon Bonaparte once said "Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours," or "A good sketch is better than a long speech". We tend to agree with him, great ideas do come from great artwork and the creative minds of concept artists who dream up many of the characters and scenes we face in games today. And that is why we want you to show us why a picture is worth a thousand words in our Concept Art Competition.

Mod DB, The Art Institute Online and Alienware challenges you to bring forth your single most striking, awe inspiring and breathtaking original game art. Bring us your best work... the rendering you are most proud of... the one you show to anyone you want to consider you as a "game artist"... the one you would like the world to see.

The results are in!

That's right, after a few weeks of community voting and AiO judging the best entries (it wasn't easy believe me), the winners have been decided and are now on show. Big thanks to everyone who participated, we were simply overwhelmed by the amazing quality of the artwork, and plan on running another similar contest in the not too distant future.

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Update: The results are in!


After a month of sketching, drawing, painting, brainstorming, thinking and arguing, 57 pieces of candy, "eye candy" that is, have been submitted and are now available for your viewing / voting pleasure.

There are some amazing artists on this site, so do yourself a favor and browse the art. Here is a quick taste which will leave you wanting more (my stick figure entry was sadly denied):

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Thanks also goes out to the competition sponsors, Art Institute Online and Alienware who provided the awesome prizes up for grabs.

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MadKill40
MadKill40 Jul 2 2008, 12:08pm says:

If only everyone who entered would join and contribute to the DeviantArt Group ^^;

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vfn4i83
vfn4i83 May 23 2008, 3:42am says:

Many awesome work in there.

Best luck for all.

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MadKill40
MadKill40 Jan 7 2008, 1:57am says:

so what did get 1st exactly? was it GodWins?

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ambershee
ambershee Jan 9 2008, 3:47am replied:

Follow the link at the top of the page...
Moddb.com

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Bluedrake
Bluedrake Dec 23 2007, 7:00pm says:

Congrats to all the participants, We couldn't live without your invaluable expertise and talent.

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WhiteGuardian
WhiteGuardian Dec 19 2007, 10:45pm says:

Congrat for all the winners. And for all the entries, you all rock!!!

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BlightedArt
BlightedArt Dec 18 2007, 8:25pm says:

Congratulations on the winners. :) Even if I didn't win it was still an awesome competition and I learned a lot from working on that piece!

Agreeing with the others that it would've been the icing on the cake to get some constructive criticism from the judges, or even other participants now that the contest is over.

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CaptainSource
CaptainSource Dec 18 2007, 10:59am says:

Congratulation to those who won and a big, good on you guys, for entering in the first place to those who didn't get any prizes... well done..

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DJ-Ready
DJ-Ready Dec 18 2007, 6:31am says: Online

Congratulations :)
Some really cool stuff here
Somebody wants to recreate that spider tank thingies pic on a canvas for me? j/k ^^
So awesome xD

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Shadow_man
Shadow_man Dec 18 2007, 4:06am says:

AI choosed the best one in my opinion

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