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The winner is: Gordon McGladdery

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Vancouver Film School (VFS), Canada’s premier entertainment arts institution and one of the most distinguished worldwide, is pleased to announce its partnership with SoundCloud, the world’s leading social sound platform, to offer a full-tuition scholarship for its one-year Sound Design for Visual Media program. So exciting!

Contestants will be stretched to create a brand new soundscape based on five different categories describing entities not normally associated with sound.

Open globally to all SoundCloud users, the scholarship is valued at $28,250 for Canadian students and $43,250 for international residents.

Create a Sound That has Never Been Heard Before!

Sound is the glue that holds visual media together, and the professionals that create every sound you hear in a movie, game, and TV show are masters of evoking emotions, advancing narrative, and revealing character through sound. Prove you have what it takes to join their ranks for a chance to win a full scholarship to the Sound Design for Visual Media program at Vancouver Film School.

Pushing your creativity and imagination to the limits while using any sounds or techniques you like, create an original audio track that communicates your interpretation of the following:

• The colour red
• The birth of an idea
• An imaginary animal being born
• Falling in love
• A post-apocalyptic landscape

Entries should be a maximum of 90 seconds in length.

Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:

• Creativity
• Originality
• Frequency spectrum in mix
• Dynamic Range
• Sound fidelity
• Listenability
• Diversity of sounds used
• Stereo image
• Selling factor/Engagement
• Consistency

Win a Full Scholarship to Vancouver Film School’s Sound Design for Visual Media Program

One (1) first place contestant will win a full scholarship to Vancouver Film School’s Sound Design for Visual Media program, valued at up to CDN $43,250. In addition, second and third place winners will receive CDN $10,000 scholarships to Sound Design for Visual Media.

The VFS SoundCloud 2011 Scholarship Contest is Open Worldwide

• You need to meet the following criteria to be eligible to enter:
  • You are 19 years of age or older at the close date of the contest or have graduated from high school
  • You are able to obtain a Canadian study permit and visa (if applicable)
  • You are a registered SoundCloud.com user
  • You are committed and able to attend VFS in 2012
• You can submit a maximum of three entries, but only one entry per category.

To Enter, Submit Your Creations on SoundCloud

All entries must be submitted via the contest page. You basically need to create your track and name it properly. Then upload it on SoundCloud and tag it properly. Include a description and that's it!

If you don't have an account on SoundCloud, you can create one for free.

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ONWARD Compé is Project Basho's annual international photography competition for emerging photographers. The competition's main goal is to increase the exposure of talented image-makers and create new outlets for their work.

Juried each year by a leading figure in contemporary photography, ONWARD Compé spotlights new envelope-pushing work that continues to further the medium.

Now in it's fifth year, ONWARD Compé has been steadily growing, drawing submissions from around the U.S. and across the globe.

ONWARD Compé - A Journey for Emerging Photographers

ONWARD Compé has an open theme and any photographic medium including but not limited to historical processes, traditional silver printing, chromogenic printing, and digital processes can be submitted for consideration.

Selected Works Exhibited, the Best Works Awarded!

Photographs selected by Todd Hido will be exhibited by Project Basho's gallery in Philadelphia in from 9 February - 25 March, 2012.

Two Juror’s Awards will be awarded, consisting of the following:

• A two-person show at Project Basho Gallery
• $500 cash prize
• Choice of Ricoh GR Digital III or GXR+S10 Kit
• Invitation to present your work at the ONWARD Summit ’12 on 11 February 2012 in Philadelphia
• Spyder 3 Elite & Spyder Cube
• Camera/laptop bag from Crumpler
• Portfolio printed by Sous Les Etoiles in New York City

A few additional prizes will also be awarded.

ONWARD Compé is an International Photography Competition

• ONWARD Compé is open to individuals who do not currently have a contractual agreement with any gallery commercial gallery representation.
• Previous ONWARD Compé selected photographers are permitted to enter the competition.
• A maximum of 7 images will be accepted per artist.
• Images must be sized and saved at 150 ppi by 1200 pixels at the longest dimension in JPEG format.
• Images must be submitted digitally. Entries submitted by mail will not be considered.

Submit Your Best Photographs Online

To enter, visit the official website and follow the onsite guidelines to complete the registration procedure.

Entry Fee

The entry fee is $40 for up to three images, $50 for four, $60 for five, and $100 for 7.

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DeviantART is organizing a monster mask making contest!

Halloween is just around the corner and many deviants are already preparing costumes, pumpkins, and decorations. But our favorite spooktacular holiday just wouldn't be complete without gruesome ghouls and dastardly demons. Are you ready to Face Your Monster?!

Open to all deviants older than 13, the Face Your Monster Contest will award the best four monster masks, coming from any part of the world. You can either make a real monster mask or you can digitally turn your face into a monster.

There are lots of interesting prizes reserved for the winners!

Face Your Monster With Real or Digital Masks!

1. Using traditional art materials, make a monster mask. Take a picture of yourself wearing your creation and upload to the contest gallery.

OR

2. Take a photograph of your face. Open it up in your favorite image editor and turn your face into a monster.

Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:

• Creative use of materials or tools for turning a face into a monster
• Artistic merit
• Cleverness, in whatever degree the judges believe to be appropriate in reaching a decision

Lots of Interesting Prizes for the Winners

There will be one 1st Place Prize Package, three Runners Up Prize packages awarded, consisting of the following:

1st Place Prize Package:

• Any 20" X 30" Fine Art Print + frame,
• $50 Amazon.com gift card,
• 2 deviantWEAR shirts (any 2 in stock),
• 1 year deviantART Premium Membership,
• Plethora of deviantART stickers

Runners Up Prize Package:

• Any 20" X 30" Fine Art Print + frame$25,
• Amazon.com gift card,
• 1 deviantWEAR shirt (in stock),
• 6 months deviantART Premium Membership,
• Plethora of deviantART stickers

Open to All Deviants Older Than 13

• You must be older than 13 to enter the Face Your Monster Contest.
• You must be a member of deviantART, membership is free.
• Entries must be submitted in a single .jpeg or .png file.
  You may not use stock (except for licensed brushes or textures).
• Must use any medium including digital image manipulation software to represent the entrant's face as a monster.

Enter Your Creations Online on deviantART

To enter, submit your work on deviantART. You'll need to create a deviantART profile, if you're not already a member. Registration is free.

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Fotoblur is currently looking for photographers who would like to become contributors to Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 12 (The B&W Issue). Fotoblur Magazine is a community based photography publication which has published works by many up and coming photographers including some of worlds top known talents.

Fotoblur loves photos that communicate ideas, stimulate minds, and open eyes to the beautiful world around us. The community at Fotoblur is dedicated to exploring the creative and artistic aspects of photography.

Submit your best black and white photos for free.

Black and White Photography Wanted!

The theme for Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 12 (The B&W Issue) is Black and White. Images which are monochrome, containing hues of black and white can be submitted.

What's In For You?

Selected images will be published in Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 12. In other words, Fotoblur will get your photos publicized.

Important Regulations for This Call

• Submit as many photos as you like. No restrictions and its FREE!
• Submitted photos are voted on by the Fotoblur community. From top picks, editors make their final selections for publication.
• Submit your photo as a 300dpi jpg file. Save your image so that the width is 7 inches or greater (7" @ 300dpi = 2100px). Fotoblur Magazine asks that you submit your images in high (80 - 100%) quality. Please keep the file size below 10 MB. Please refrain from adding borders, watermarks, or text of any kind.

How to Submit Your Images?

• First, join the community.
• Then submit high resolutions versions of your best gallery photos for possible publication.

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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a juried art competition for the month of October with the theme "The Elements". This is the 14th monthly Light Space & Time juried art competition.

A group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery for the month of November 2011.

You can send your best interpretation of the theme "The Elements" now!

2D Artworks on the Theme: "The Elements"

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery conducts monthly art competitions and monthly art exhibitions for new and emerging artists. The theme for the October art competition is "The Elements".

Submit up to five 2D works on the this theme, including experimental and mixed techniques artworks.

Online Exhibition + Worldwide Exposure

Awards will be for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places, honorable mentions and special recognitions. All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on 1 November 2011 for a month. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist's websites.  There is extensive worldwide publicity for the winners.

Competition Regulations

• "The Elements" juried competition is open to all amateur and professional 2D artists worldwide.
• Only 2D work is eligible and each file may not exceed 1MB and must be in a jpeg format.
• No images from previous Light Space & Time competitions are allowed to be entered again.

How to Enter Your Artworks?

Submit your works online through Light Space & Time Art Gallery's official website.

Entry Fee

The entry fee is $10 for two (2) entries or $15 three or more, up to five (5) entries.

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HUGO Create is back with another creative challenge. This one's quite different from the previous contests. Instead of designing posters with the HUGO Boss bottle, for the Game Challenge, HUGO Create is asking you to create a level for the HUGO Create Game.

HUGO Create - The Game is a free iPhone app, a unique fusion of sound and motion, that you can download and use for your creations.

In this challenge, ten winners will be selected randomly and each will receive $500 cash.

Create a Level for "The Game"

Combine your technological expertise and your musical flair with the HUGO Create iPhone App and design a level for "The Game". All instructions are available when you have downloaded the iPhone App.

10 Times by $500 in Cash

Ten winners will be selected at random and each will receive $500 cash.

iPhone and iPod Touch Exclusive

• The Game iPhone Challenge is open to everyone.
• You must register on an iPhone or iPod Touch to take part in this competition.
• Upon registering in the Create mode of the App, entrants will be placed in a raffle. Ten winners will be chosen at random.

How to Enter "The Game"?

Download the HUGO Create iPhone app, then create and submit you level.

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To celebrate the launch of their new website, Development Gateway are calling on photographers around the world to share their images and stories of people in developing countries working to build a better world.

Show your image of development in action, and you could win a $500 prize from Development Gateway.

This competition is open to all photographers worldwide and each participant may submit up to 3 photographs total.

Celebrating Development Gateway's New Website With a Contest

Development Gateway is looking for images of empowerment and people finding solutions. The photographs should be related to one of the following:

• Images related to the thematic areas of Development Gateway’s work: Governance; Knowledge and networking; and Transparency and accountability
• People using information and communications technologies
• People making something, selling wares, working in a field, constructing a building or type of infrastructure, teaching, learning, or interacting with each other
• Abstract images representing hope, the future, or capacity building

Please do not submit photographs of groups of people posing.

Images will be judged on technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit.

One Prize - $500

Development Gateway will be awarding a prize of $500 to the best entry.

Development Gateway Photo Competition Regulations

• The Development Gateway photo competition is open to all photographers at least 13 years of age, except employees of Development Gateway and their immediate families.
• Each entry must include a brief written statement (100 words maximum) explaining how that image is representative of development.
• Entrants must not infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.
• Each participant may submit up to 3 photographs total.
• Original files of camera-made digital photos must be five (5) megapixels or larger.

How to Enter the Contest?

Send submissions (or questions to): photocontest [at] developmentgateway.org (please replace [at] with @).

Your submission should include your full name, email address, a brief statement describing each photo (100 words maximum), and the photo(s).

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Back for 2011, the Web Font Awards is the ceremony celebrating the newfound typographic freedom that Web designers are experiencing across the globe. The competition recognizes designers and websites that are putting this emerging technology to greatest use.

Aimed at promoting Web font awareness and adoption, the Web Font Awards is open to eligible users of any Web font service or technology that uses an @font-face declaration.

The competition culminates with a live award ceremony at the Future of Web Design conference, to be held 7–9 November, in New York City.

Websites Using @font-face Can be Submitted

This is a skill-based contest. Entrants create and submit for judging a web site that uses web fonts, through the @font-face declaration. To be eligible for judging an entry must be a website designed using Web font technology that serves fonts to the client machine through an @font-face declaration.

In addition:

• your entry must be your own original work;
• you must have obtained any and all consents, approvals or licenses required for you to submit your entry (including from any site to which your entry links through a “click through”); and
• your entry must not otherwise violate the rights of any other person or company by using their trademarks, music, logos, names or images without their express written consent and without appropriate ownership attribution.

Entries will be judged on three criteria: typography, creativity and usability, each of which will be equally weighted.

Even if you’re not a designer, you can participate in the Web Font Awards by rating and commenting on submissions.

Attend Future of Web Design London 2012 for Free

There are 3 Judges's Choice prizes and 1 Community Choice prize to be won.

The prizes include invitations and VIP tickets to the 2012 Future of Web Design London Conference, 32GB iPad tablets, original font libraries, font management software and much more! The total approximate retail value of all prizes is US $111,936!

Who's Eligible for the Web Font Awards?

You are eligible to enter 2011 Web Font Awards only if you meet all of the following requirements at time of entry:

• You are a professional or a hobbyist in the field of web design;
• You are 18 years of age or older;
• You are NOT a resident of any of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria (as U.S. export regulations prohibit the export of goods and services to these countries);
• You are NOT an employee of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype GmbH, Carsonified, FW Media, MAGMA Brand Design, Stiebner, Font Bureau, Typekit, Extensis, Google, FontShop, Emboss Fonts or any media affiliate identified at webfontawards.com, or any of their affiliated companies;
• You are NOT involved in any part of the administration and execution of this contest; and
• You are NOT an immediate family member (parent, sibling, spouse, child) or household member of any person identified in the prior two bullet points.

There is no limit on the number of entries that you may submit.

How to Enter Your Website?

Websites can be registered online, through the official website. A free registration is required to submit.

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CGarchitect.com and Autodesk are seeking for heroes! Not any kind of heroes, but 3ds Max designers with big creativity and imagination.

Submit a scene or design you’ve created using Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 or Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software, and it could be featured on the next version of 3ds Max Design box cover and splash screen. But that's only one part of the prize. The creator of the winning entry will be awarded with a Quad GPU Workstation and $5,000 in cash!

And finally, the best part of this contest - entries will be judged on imagination, innovation, not production quality.

Imagination, Innovation, and Ingenious Use of the Max Logo

Autodesk is looking for inventive concepts or renderings of architectural design, mechanical or industrial/product designs like buildings, bridges, vehicles, furniture, and consumer products. Entries will be judged on imagination, innovation, and ingenious use of the max logo, not production quality.

The context of the scene should be design-centric, for example: buildings, bridges, cities, vehicles, consumer products, machines, furniture, building products, landscapes, etc. (no monsters or aliens or please!).

It is important that your renderings integrate the provided 3ds Max logo model.

Oh, Boy! A Quad GPU Workstation for the Winner!

Not only will the winning submission be seen by thousands of 3ds Max Design users on a daily basis, to the winning designer will also receive a 3DBOXX 8550 XTREME Quad GPU Workstation (with 4 Nvidia GPUs; 1 Quadro and 3 Tesla), plus US$5,000 in cash.

Runners-up will receive an NVIDIA® Quadro® 5000.

Important Competition Regulations

• The 3ds Max Design Hero Competition is open to all visitors of CGarchitect.com.
• You, as a competitor, may submit up to five different competition submissions.
• Still images must be a minimum of 3,000 pixels in the smallest dimension.
• Your scene or design must be created with 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 software and integrate the 3ds Max logo model provided.
• The production quality of your submission can range from an un-rendered wireframe to a photorealistic rendering.
• Autodesk will have final ownership and copyright of all the final submissions and 3d scene files.

Submit Your Scene(s) on CGarchitect.com

To participate, you must submit a scene or design created with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 software or Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software.

If you do not currently own 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 software, you can download the free 30-day trial. Students can download 3ds Max Design 2011 from the Autodesk Education Community.

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Another branded competition is currently open for entries on jovoto. "The PENNY Plot" is a contest about telling a story that can fit the brand of one of Germany’s biggest discount supermarkets. PENNY is searching for new, creative stories, which build up to and follow up the “First to PENNY” claim.

This is a huge contest on jovoto as it combines telling a story for radio, TV or both. It's open to everyone!

The overall community prize of this contest includes €15,000, €3,000 of which will be awarded to the story that wins the first place.

Story About the PENNY brand

Tell a story that fits in with the “First to PENNY” claim.

It should be possible to use your story for radio or TV, preferably for both media. What counts is the idea of your story – the more creative and surprising the resolution the better. But it’s up to you which form you decide to present it in.

• The story as a pure text concept.
• The film idea as a treatment, storyboard, animation or even a film (layout).
• The radio idea as a script or even a recording (layout).

Your story should focus on the campaign claim “First to PENNY” and at least one of the aforementioned key PENNY topics (e.g. “friendliness of staff”, “freshness guarantee” etc.) or a PENNY offer (like “bread and baked goods”, “fresh meat” etc.)

Overall Community Prize of €15,000!

There is up to €3,000 that people can win in cash as well as a €3,500 licensing fee.

Contest Requirements and Regulations

How to Submit to the PENNY Plot?

Submit your entries on jovoto. You need to be a jovoto member to submit.

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