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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
You are challenged to flaunt your Autodesk® Mudbox® skills by sculpting and painting the ultimate armed and dangerous character.
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...
in this, the fifth NVArt competition, artists from all over the world are challenged to create vehicle designs for a future on the move...
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...
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...
A vibrant fusion of light, color and texture... a triumphant folly of architecture and landscape that unfolds in subtly different ways every day....
Liquid sculptures, fractal growths and knotted freeways, are all examples of amazing things that only exist in virtual reality....