Contest Deadline: 28th Feb 2011
Share The Planet: Categories
The competition has ten routine categories and one special category.
Routine Category
1. Portrait (digital painting): entry must portray no more than five wild animals. Recommended strategy: to capture their expression and behavior.
2. Portrait (digital sculpture): entry must portray no more than five wild animals. Recommended strategy: to capture their expression and behavior.
3. Herd (digital painting): entry must portray no less than 5 animals. Recommended strategy: focus on representing magnificent scene and the sociality of the animal.
4. Herd (digital sculpture): entry must portray no less than 5 animals. Recommended strategy: focus on representing magnificent scene and the sociality of the animal.
5. Mother’s love (digital painting): entry must portray mothers and their cubs. Recommended strategy: focus on representing emotional interactions or communication between mother and her child.
6. Mother’s love (digital sculpture): entry must portray mothers and their cubs. Recommended strategy: focus on representing emotional interactions or communication between mother and her child.
7. Prey and Predator (digital painting): entry must portray a scene of animal hunting animal. Recommended strategy: portray the moment of killing, the silent waiting for ambuscade etc.; focus on representing the hunting behavior of the animal.
8. Prey and Predator (digital sculpture): entry must portray a scene of animal hunting animal. Recommended strategy: portray the moment of killing, the silent waiting for ambuscade etc.; focus on representing the hunting behavior of the animal.
9. Harmony (digital painting): entry must portray a scene that shows the harmonious relationship between mankind and animals. Recommended strategy: emphasis the emotional interactions of your characters, or create a scene that mankind and animals share the world peacefully.
10. Harmony (digital sculpture): entry must portray a scene that shows the harmonious relationship between mankind and animals. Recommended strategy: emphasis the emotional interactions of your characters, or create a scene that mankind and animals share the world peacefully.
Special Category
Swan Lake (digital painting): entry in this category must choose Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) as its sole theme. Artists are allowed to portray any scene as long as it contains only Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus). This category is set to support “’Rongcheng Swan Lake’ Wetland Ecosystem Restoration Project” carried out in Shandong province, China.
