A few weeks ago we ran a customer satisfaction survey. As part of the survey, we had a prize draw, with the winners bagging a masterclass with our VFX tutor Lee Danskin and the runners up all receiving Amazon vouchers.
We’re pleased to announce that the following three respondents have been drawn as the winners of the masterclass: Ben Nuttall-Smith, Keiron Campbell and Mark Robin. Congratulations to you all!
We’ve also got 20 runners-up, who all receive an Amazon voucher worth £25 (or $40, if you’re into that sort of thing): Kevin Rittenhouse, Jaime Rivera, Dan Nastasa, Marcus Williams, Surapen Yosravikul, Curtis Cooper III, David Godefroy, Carla Gomes, James Pruszkowski, Hugo Guerra, Amanda Carrington, Joe Williamsen, Satoko Kojima, Jason Mullin, Mi Li, Artur Leao, Tom Crate, Luke Caulfield, Jeff Chen and Denise Ebanks.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey – we’ll be posting next week about the results and the insights we’ve drawn from them.
Regular readers of the blog will know that last week we had the awards ceremony of the CG Whiz competition. We managed to grab the three winners and some of the judges, including Steve Venning from The Mill, to film their views on the competition. We think everyone had a great time, and over the next few months we’re hoping to have blog posts from Adam Droy, the overall winner, and runners up Ronan McMeel and Marco Barrato, to see how the competition prizes have helped them break into the CG industry.
Well done to all who entered – we were astounded by the standard of the entries. For all those of you inspired by the entries keep an eye out for next year’s competition, and the chance to win another potentially career transforming prize.
Congratulations to all the finalists of our CG Whiz competition. We had a great time at the Reveal Event last night, meeting the future stars of the CG industry. As we’ve said before, we were overwhelmed by the sheer number and quality of the entries we’ve received.
It’s clear that there’s a lot of talent out there, but there could only be one winner – Adam Droy (spikeycactus)!
Adam excelled across the board. His showreel highlighted his creative flair whilst demonstrating a sound understanding of the techniques involved. We’re very much looking forward to Adam studying with us at Escape next year, and wish him the best of luck during his work placement at The Mill.
The two runners up should also be commended, having fought off stiff competition from over 130 entrants.
Ronan McMeel’s (MrMeel) showreel earned him the runners up position, impressing the judges with his creativity and incorporating a storyline throughout his work.
Marco Baratto (smileandwave1987) also wowed the judges with a technically sound showreel – inspired by the “HP Hand” commercial.
Ronan and Marco – we hope you enjoy Escape Studios’ online courses and exclusive tour of The Mill.
For those of you that missed out this year, or didn’t get around to entering, don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for information on next year’s competition. You’ll hear about it here first.
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
Escape Studios and The Mill are delighted to announce the shortlist of our CG Whiz competition. We’re astounded by both the level of interest and the standard of entries: we’ve had 136 entries, whilst the videos have received over 8,300 views!
The shortlist (in no particular order) is:
The shortlisted entries beat stiff competition and will now go forward for a chance to win the top prize of a course at Escape Studios followed by work placement with The Mill. Two runners-up will win online courses, and ten other runners-up will receive subscriptions to leading industry magazines Shots and 3D Artist.
The winners and runners-up will be announced on the 8th December at a prize giving event at Escape Studios.
Stephen Venning, 3D Executive Producer at The Mill, said: “We were very impressed by the sheer creativity and diversity of the entries we received from applicants around the world. It’s been extremely hard to pick the top entries so those we’ve shortlisted should be very proud of what they’ve achieved.”
The following have been specially commended by the judges:
All those listed in the ” Specially Commended” list are invited to contact Escape Studios in the coming days. Your entries have attracted our attention and we would like to hear more about you.
A few weeks ago we ran a survey to find out what people thought of the CG industry, with a prize draw and some fantastic prizes for a lucky few. We’re please to say we can now announce the winners of the prize draw.
Andrew Segal, of Essex, won a Lenovo ThinkVision L2440P Wide LCD Monitor and a Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet. Claude Gayle, won a Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet and a Nvidia FX1800 graphic card. Dave Wollard, of Glasgow, won a Nvidia FX1800 graphic card.
All the winners are involved in the CG industry in some way, and the prizes should give them a helping hand in the future.
Congratulations to all our winners, and many thanks to all who completed the survey. Look out for the results soon!
So the CG Whiz competition has finally come to an end. We’ve been blown away by the number of entries we’ve received and the quality of the submissions.
The judges are currently making their way through the entries and the tough decision of a final shortlist will be announced on Friday 20th November. The winners will be revealed at a get together in early December.
Keep your eyes peeled for the news, you’ll read it here first.
The deadline has passed, and we’re now reviewing all 136 entries we received. We’ve been amazed by both the number and quality of the submission, so well done to all who’ve entered.
Anyone who would like feedback should get in touch, letting us know the name of their entry and an email address. We’ll be announcing the winners soon, so keep an eye out.
We’re almost at the end! The CG Whiz competition ends at midnight tonight, so if you’re going to enter act now. We’ve had a tremendous response so far, with over 125 entries posted here.
To enter, all you need to do is post your portfolio as a response to our video. As a reminder, the winner of CG Whiz will get a place on one of Escape’s world class 3D training courses, plus a much-coveted work placement at Oscar-winning visual effects company The Mill. There are also two 12 month online Maya courses and a behind-the-scenes tour of The Mill on offer for the runners up, plus subscriptions to leading industry magazines 3D Artist and Shots.
What are you waiting for? Get your entries in now! We won’t count any entries posted after 00:00 31st October, so don’t waste any more time.
There’s just two days until the end of the CG Whiz competition, so if you’re going to enter you’d better post your videos soon! We’ve had 96 entries so far, will yours be joining them? Check out a couple of the things we’ve been getting:
Remember, the deadline is Friday 30th October, and to enter you need to post your entry to this video. Don’t leave it until the last minute, get posting now!
There’s just a week to go until the end of the CG Whiz competition. We’ve had 74 entries so far – is yours one of them?
Here’s a couple to give you an idea of what other people are doing:
Inspired to enter? Enter via YouTube, by posting a video response to this clip. The competition closes on 30th October 2009 and the winner will be announced in mid November. Good luck!
