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The CG Challenges are the largest online art contests of their kind, with huge amounts of sponsorship and publicity for each challenge. Working within guidelines and software limitations, artists are challenged to create outstanding artworks based upon set themes while showing their work-in-progress to the community.

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    CGChallenge XXVII: TEN
    12 October 2012 - 11 January 2013

    CGSociety is celebrating our first ten years as the premier site for CG artists worldwide. As part of the celebration we challenge you to incorporate the number ten into an im...

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    CGChallenge XXVI - Dreamscape
    22 November 2010 - 3 March 2011

    dream·scape (drmskp IPA) n. A dreamlike scene or picture having surreal qualities. Sleep transports you to a new reality; where realms are conjured f...

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    CGChallenge XXV - B-Movie
    10 January 2010 - 19 April 2010

    Since the dawn of movies there was always a creepier, scarier, and unintentionally funnier cousin to the big budget blockbusters... the B-Grade Movie. Cinema screens aroun...

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    CGChallenge XXIV - Secret Agent
    11 June 2009 - 13 September 2009

    In this, the 24th CGChallenge, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to depict characters and events involving espionage, gadgets, guns and evil geniuses, via a sti...

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    CGChallenge XXIII - Steampunk Myths and Legends
    10 November 2008 - 3 February 2009

    This challenge asks you to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power. Re-imagin ratese legendary char...

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    CGChallenge XXI - Uplift Universe Challenge
    19 March 2008 - 16 June 2008

    The CGSociety is home to one of the largest and rapidly growing collections of the most fantastic alien images. In Uplift Universe - Alien Relations, you are challenged to go...

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    CGChallenge XXI - Strange Behavior Challenge
    25 June 2007 - 15 November 2007

    This challenge draws on one of the most popular artistic themes – unusual behaviors and relationships. Whether it’s a giant robot admiring a fluffy teddy or a sheep in wol...

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    CGChallenge XX - EON - Worlds Within Worlds
    4 October 2006 - 31 January 2007

    For the very first time the CGSociety introduces one of the world’s best writers to the digital artist community in the first CGChallenge to focus on one of the most success...

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    CGChallenge XIX - The Journey Begins
    27 February 2006 - 27 May 2006

    In this Challenge entrants must depict a scene that encapsulates the emotions and trappings of a character (or group) setting out on an epic journey. The final works must demo...

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    CGChallenge XVIII - Spectacular
    5 September 2005 - 6 December 2005

    Your challenge is to conceive and create an image that could potentially become part of future history as one of those iconic spectacular images that grasps viewers by the thr...

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    CGChallenge XVII - Master and Servant Challenge
    21 March 2005 - 18 May 2005

    The Master and Servant Challenge explores and exposes the motives, emotions and expressions evoked in a myriad of unequal relationships that pervade the human condition. The t...

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    CGChallenge XVI - Grand Space Opera Challenge
    18 October 2004 - 17 January 2005

    Create an iconic image that captures a moment of galactic civilisation or conflict. Entrants are to construct an entire, complete scene depicting anything that is relevant to...

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    CGChallenge XV - Machineflesh Challenge
    16 March 2004 - 18 June 2004

    Create an image depicting a mechanically altered or enhanced organic lifeform. The lifeforms do not necessarily have to be human. The mechnical additions need to have a clear...

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    CGChallenge XIV- Alienware
    20 October 2003 - 20 January 2004

    You are standing on some unknown alien setting. This location seems to be whispering to you, you have a feeling that something was created here; maybe even the land itself is...

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    MARI: Texture Challenge 2012
    20 September 2012 - 21 November 2012

    The Foundry and CGSociety are looking for the world's best MARI artist! The Foundry, makers of the 3D digital paint tool, MARI, has supplied us with "Witch Doctor" by the w...

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    V-Ray Anniversary Challenge: A Decisive Moment
    14 May 2012 - 17 July 2012

    “The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gi...

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    Mudbox Challenge - Armed and Dangerous
    20 January 2012 - 13 April 2012

    You are challenged to flaunt your Autodesk® Mudbox® skills by sculpting and painting the ultimate armed and dangerous character.

NVArt

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    NVART 06: MOVING INNOVATION
    3 May 2011 - 19 July 2011

    The evolution of portable technology will empower all of us in exciting new ways. To do more, in more places. To bring our home, or our work, with us wherever we go. Or leave...

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    NVART 05: ACCELERATE
    7 April 2010 - 30 June 2010

    in this, the fifth NVArt competition, artists from all over the world are challenged to create vehicle designs for a future on the move...

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    NVART 04: AMAZING CREATIONS
    9 November 2008 - 10 February 2009

    Artists have created strange and wonderful imaginings that are surreal for a long time. Now the digital medium allows the artists to bring their wildest dreams to life. In an...

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    NVART 03: DESIGN FUSION
    24 April 2008 - 9 June 2008

    A great design leaps off the page and into our imagination without hesitation. In contrast a great 3D design lives in a world of its own waiting for a viewer to experience its...

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    NVART 02: ARTSPACE
    21 January 2008 - 10 March 2008

    A vibrant fusion of light, color and texture... a triumphant folly of architecture and landscape that unfolds in subtly different ways every day....

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    NVART 01: AMAZING CREATIONS
    5 December 2006 - 9 January 2008

    Liquid sculptures, fractal growths and knotted freeways, are all examples of amazing things that only exist in virtual reality....

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