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Anastasiy |
Anastasiy is a creative software company named after its creator, Anastasiy, that makes Photoshop plugins called panels. These panels make it easy for artists of all kinds to control colors, brushes, fonts, and reference images within Photoshop. In this year’s Halloween and holiday contests, they are offering for every category a 1st place prize, a 6 Panel Bundle consisting of their individual software programs, MagicPicker, MagicTints, MagicSquire, MagicRefs, MixColors, and DiskFonts; a 2nd place prize, a 4 Panel Bundle consisting of MagicSquire, MagicTints, MagicRefs, and MixColors; and a 3rd place prize, a 3 Panel Bundle consisting of MagicPicker, MagicSquire, and MixColors.
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Anthropics |
Anthropics is a software research and development company and a leader in imaging technologies, such as their AI clothing software. In the photography category of our Halloween and holiday contests they are offering their professional retouching software, PortraitPro, that uses artificial intelligence to enhance every aspect of a portrait for beautifully natural results as a 1st place prize and as a 2nd place prize they are offering, LandscapePro, the world’s first intelligent landscape editor that adapts to the features in a photo and replaces skies, adds atmospheric effects and watermarks, and more.
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Blacksmith3D |
Blacksmith3D is a Renderosity-owned exclusive vendor that makes texture and 3D painting programs that are compatible with various 3D and 2D programs. The vendor has provided us with two sets of 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place prizes for the 3D category in the Halloween and holiday contests. One of the prizes is Blacksmith3D PRO Vresion 7, a program used for high-resolution texture painting, auto-UV mapping, hair creation and editing, converting skin textures from various formats and figures, and sculpting, and the other prize is Texture Transformer Version 2, a powerful utility that transforms skin texture maps from many popular figures to another. Utilizing a simple wizard-based interface, the user simply selects the source file(s) that are in a cr2, duf, pz2, or mc6 file format and then assign a destination for the output file(s).
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BorisFX |
Boris FX is a leader in the creation of tools for editing, visual effects, and motion graphics that are widely used in the film, video, and photography industries. They are sponsoring our Halloween and holiday contests with three prizes in three categories. In the 2D category, they are offering a 1st place prize, Mocha Pro, a world-renowned software and plugin for planar motion tracking, rotoscoping, object removal, image stabilization, and new PowerMesh tracking. Next in the photography category, they are offering a 1st place prize, Optics, a definitive toolbox for image editing and photo-based visual effects including 174 unique filters and 1000’s of creative imaging presets in 10 categories: Color, Diffusion/Blurs, Film Lab, Grads/Tints, Image, Lens/Distort, Light, Render, Stylize, and new Particle Illusion. Finally, in the animation category they are offering a 1st place prize, Boris FX Suite, which offers the best-in-class complete library of Boris FX award-winning visual effects, planar tracking, and rotoscoping tools including Sapphire, Continuum, Mocha Pro, Silhouette, and Optics.
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Design Bundles |
Design Bundles is a digital marketplace that allows crafters, graphic designers, businesses, and educators to buy, sell, or offer for free high quality design resources. Some of the design resources they offer are graphics, graphic software add-ons, SVG files, sublimation files, paper cutting files, laser cutting templates, patterns, fonts and more. For the Halloween contest in the 2D category, they are offering a 1st place prize, a 3 Month Gold Plus Membership. This membership will allow you access to over 212,118 exclusive fonts and designs, give you 50 credits a month to spend on their exclusive Plus products, add freebies to your Plus membership account every week, give you 15% off purchases, give you extra Plus credit points for completing everyday tasks on the website, allow you unlimited access to their design editing software, DesignScape, and much more.
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Escape Motions |
Escape Motions is a small studio bringing original innovative tools to creative people of all levels. This year they are offering prizes in both our Halloween and holiday contests in two categories. In the 2D category, they have provided us with the 1st place prize, Rebelle 5 Pro, and the 2nd and 3rd place prizes, Rebelle 5, which is painting software with an intuitive interface that lets you create realistic oil, acrylic, watercolor, and wet and dry media artworks. Pro adds State-of-the-art solutions for artists seeking the hyper-realistic behavior of various painting mediums supported by the latest technology. In the photography category, they have provided 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes of Flame Painter, the State-of-the-art solution for artists seeking the hyper-realistic behavior of various painting mediums supported by the latest technology.
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FaçadeSignage |
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FaçadeSignage is the brainchild of Tabula Natural Interfaces Their mission is to build products that merge the physical and digital worlds, and they definitely did that with FaçadeSignage. This software allows you to dress objects with images or videos with the power of projection, this technique is called video mapping. This type of digital signage isn’t just for agencies anymore, it’s for the masses. This is the easiest projection/video mapping and media server software on the market. Tabula Natural Interfaces has provided us with a one year subscription, not permanent license of FaçadeSignage for 1st place prizes in the 2D and animation categories for the Halloween and holiday contests.
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iPi Soft |
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iPi Soft is a developer of markerless motion capture technology. With their technology, you can shoot a video using Kinect or webcams and convert it to 3D animation on your computer. Their technology is used by digital artists from all fields, such as filmmakers, CG animators, video game developers, and more. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they are offering their iPi Mocap software, which tracks an actor’s motion by analyzing multi-camera (or depth sensor) video recordings, as prizes in the animation category. 1st place prize is an iPi Mocap Pro Perpetual License, 2nd place prize is an iPi Mocap Basic Perpetual License, and their 3rd place prize is an iPi Mocap Express Perpetual License.
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JixiPix Software |
JixiPix Software is one of the award-winning leaders of professional photo effect and artistic software for computers and mobile devices. Their software can be installed on Mac and Windows operating systems and mobile operating systems, such as iOS and Android. Most of their software is stand alone and comes with a plugin that can be installed into Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and Affinity Photo. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they have graciously offered prizes for the photography category. The 1st place prize is Premium Pack, a photo and artistic effect mega pack, which includes 18 software programs or mobile apps, the programs included are Aquarella, Artista Haiku, Artista Oil, Artista Sketch, Artoon, Chalkspiration, Dramatic Black & White, Grungetastic, Kyoobik Photo, Moku Hanga, NIR Color, Pop Dot Comics, Portrait Painter, Rainy Daze, Romantic Photo, Simply HDR, Snow Daze, and Vintage Scene. Another 1st place prize they are offering is Chromatic Edges, a program that gives you unlimited vintage photographic edges. Watercolor Studio, a program that transforms photos to fluid watercolor paintings is being offered as a 2nd place prize. Lastly, their 3rd place prize, Impresso Pro, is a program that transforms photos into paintings and lets you have all the control, like adding edges, canvases, and various paint effects.
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Kotobee |
Kotobee is an award-winning ebook software company that specializes in ebook creation, ebook reading tools, and digital bookshelf management. Their software has been used in the creation of interactive textbooks, training manuals, and recreational and professional ebooks. In our Halloween contest, they are offering Kotobee Author Basic as a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize in the writers category. This software lets the user create and edit interactive ebooks with a few bells and whistles, such as adding your own brand theme or logo, adding audio and video, exporting to more than 12 different ebook formats and mobile apps, and more.
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Lazy Nezumi |
Guillaume Stordeur is the man, the indie developer behind Lazy Nezumi. His Windows app, Lazy Nezumi Pro, helps artists draw smooth, beautiful lines with a mouse or stylus by adding stabilizers, rulers, and scripting to their favorite art programs, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and many others. Artists and designers from all over the world and various industries, such as gaming, animation, entertainment, architecture, and fashion use the app in their creative process. For our Halloween and holiday contests, he is offering Lazy Nezumi Pro as a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize in the 2D category.
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Mediachance |
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Mediachance is a privately owned Canadian corporation that has been developing easy to use, original multimedia, video, DVD authoring and graphic software since 1998. They are proud of the regular and business customers they have helped and worked with over the years, such as NASA, HBO, CNN, Coca Cola, Corel Corporation, and more. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they have kindly offered prizes for every category. Their prizes range from image editors to screen capture software. In the 3D category, they are offering a 1st place prize, Photo-BRUSH 5; a 2nd place prize, Pattern Studio; and a 3rd place prize, AI Photo & Art Enhancer. Dynamic Auto Painter 7 is the 1st place prize in the 2D category along with Reactor Player as the 2nd place prize, and Real-DRAW PRO 5 as the 3rd place prize. The 1st place prize in the photography category is Photo Reactor followed by the 2nd place prize, Dynamic Photo HDR, and the 3rd place prize, Photo Blend 3D. CQUILL Writer PRO is the 1st place prize in the writers category, 2nd place prize is Windows Text Clipboard Expander, and 3rd place prize is ReDynamix. UltraSNAP PRO 5 is the 1st place prize in the animation category, 2nd place prize is Style Animator, and 3rd place prize is Multi-Keyboard MACROS.
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NeatLab |
NeatLab is the magic behind the software Neat Video Pro. This software is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise, flicker, and other imperfections found in various types of video footage. Besides being standalone software, users can also use it as a plug-In for popular video editing programs, such as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and more. Don’t let the video in Neat Video Pro’s name fool you, because it’s being used in creative ways by artists of all types, such as in the 3D artist’s Geert van Hooff’s workflow. For our Halloween and holiday contests, NeatLab is offering Neat Video Pro as a 1st place prize in the 3D and 2D categories.
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Novel Software |
Novel Software kept every aspect of what a writer goes through in mind when they created their software, The Novel Factory. This software helps writers stay organized while taking their novel from idea to manuscript. The Novel Factory’s specialized software tools help writers create their characters, build bold new worlds, and help writers figure out ways of keeping a reader enthralled in their words. The tools included inside the software are dedicated sections for characters, planning, locations and more; a plot manager to help you develop your plot; detailed character development prompts; plot templates for popular genres; a panel that holds your notes; an optional step-by-step guide to writing a novel; and more. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they are offering this software as prizes in the writers category. The 1st place prize is The Novel Factory 3.0 Premium Annual Subscription, 2nd place prize is The Novel Factory 3.0 Standard Annual Subscription, and 3rd place prize is The Novel Factory 3.0 Basic Annual Subscription.
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Pixarra |
Pixarra has always had a focus on digital fine art, which is why it’s only natural that they would create tools for artists that mimic natural media, enhance photo editing, and brings illustrative styles to the forefront. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they are graciously offering two prizes for the 2D category. The 1st place prize is TwistedBrush Pro Studio 25, which has over 9000 brushes to create whatever effect or image you can dream of. The 2nd place prize is Pixarra Studio Bundle 4, which is a collection of art software that has everything from natural media brushes to painting with light, the software included is Paint Studio, Tree Studio, Blob Studio, Liquid Studio, Luminance Studio, Pixel Studio, and Selfie Studio.
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Poser Software |
Poser Software is the home of Poser, a 3D computer graphics program optimized for 3D modeling of human figures that has been around for almost three decades. Digital artists can create 3D animations and digital images with the software as well as create digital content that they can share for free or sell. Renderosity is another home for Poser and is pleased that Poser Software is offering Poser 12 as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes for both the Halloween and holiday contests in all the categories.
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Reallusion |
Reallusion is a leader in the development of 3D cinematic animation tools for consumers, students, and professionals. They make it easy for the user to create animations using effects that big companies were only able to create decades ago like facial morphing and voice lip-syncing. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they shared with us a link to their new software called AccuRIG that they wanted to offer as a gift for all entrants. AccuRIG is an automated rigging software designed for fast and easy character rigging that eases the production process. They are also offering three prizes in both animation categories. The 1st place prize is iClone 8, the fastest real-time 3D animation software that helps users easily produce professional animations for films, previz, animation, video, and games. Character Creator 4, is the 2nd place prize, it is a full character creation solution for designers to easily generate, import, and customize a variety of character-centric items for use with iClone, Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, or any other 3D tools. The 3rd place prize is a 10,000 DA Points Voucher for ActorCore, which are Reallusion direct action points that are digital credits that can be used in their ActorCore store.
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Redfield Plugins |
Redfield Plugins is a long-time Photoshop plugin creator that makes plugins that create a variety of special effects for graphic designers. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they are offering twelve different prizes for the 2D and photography categories. In the Halloween contest’s 2D category, the 1st place prize is Quad Pencil Plugin, it creates a pencil sketch of your images. Fractalius 2 Plugin, the 2nd place prize, creates unusual artworks full of effects based on the extraction of the hidden fractal texture of an image. The 3rd place prize, Elementary Plugin, creates simplified pictures that can be used for posters, book illustrations, internet site development, and much more. In the Halloween contest’s photography category, the 1st place prize is Unobtanium HD Plugin, it provides high quality sharpness and dynamic range control without the use of expensive photographic lenses. Fractalius 3D Magic Plugin, the 2nd place prize, adds a 3D fractalizing effect to photos. The 3rd place prize, Barbiedoll Plugin, it creates strong portrait retouching and “doll face” effects and it’s also good for removing digital noise, smooths surfaces, and more. Their holiday contest prizes in the 2D category are Sketch Master 2018 Plugin, a 1st place prize that creates realistic-looking hand drawings from images. The 2nd place prize is Fractalius One Plugin which adds a fractal glow effect to images. Umatrix 3D Plugin, a 3rd place prize, is a multifunctional tool that creates images by layering various 3D objects. The holiday contest prizes in the photography category are Unobtanium Plugin, a 1st place prize that removes excessive photorealism and smooths over details in your images. Fractalius G4 Plugin, a 2nd place prize, offers a new way of fractalizing images. Abstraction TX Plugin, a 3rd place prize, creates abstract art from your images.
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Renderosity |
Renderosity, our Halloween and holiday contest host, is an artist community website and digital art marketplace that is made up of members who have a passion for helping others learn, share, and grow in digital art and other forms of art. The participation and interaction among members has slowly built a family and a place known as a "home." The Renderosity membership is a very interactive community with forums, chats, free content, and a marketplace for digital products and 3D models. For the Halloween and holiday contests, they are giving away prizes in every category. In the 3D category, they are offering a $100 Gift Certificate and a 1 Year Subscription to Renderosity Prime as 1st place prizes. Their gift certificates can be used at their marketplace, which is one of the largest and most diverse marketplaces on the web for digital content where you can buy 2D and 3D content with other CG artists from around the world. The 1 Year Subscription to Renderosity Prime allows you to get Prime gallery access, a free product from a different vendor every month, monthly coupons, a dedicated newsletter, a 55% discount on clearance items, and much more. The 2nd place prize is a $75 Gift Certificate and a 1 Year Subscription to Renderosity Prime, The 3rd place prize is a $50 Gift Certificate and a 1 Year Subscription to Renderosity Prime. For all the other categories, they are offering a 1 Year Subscription to Renderosity Prime.
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RPublishing |
RPublishing is a Renderosity-owned exclusive vendor that collaborates with several talented Renderosity member vendors that create top notch 2D and 3D products to sell at reasonable prices on the Renderosity website. For this year’s Halloween and holiday contests in the 3D category, they are offering prize packs in which contest winners can choose a certain number of 2D or 3D products from their store in the marketplace. The 1st place prize is a 10 Product Prize Pack, and the 2nd and 3rd place prizes are a 5 Product Prize Pack.
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Shapelab |
Take your 3D sculpting experience to the next level with Shapelab! |  |
VR sculpting with Shapelab’s intuitive interface and extensive toolset makes it easy to create organic 3D objects, from simple shapes to complex designs. Visualize your creative ideas and print them in 3D or VR sculpt high-quality props, characters, and concepts for applications, games, and virtual worlds, as well as digital concept art and storyboards!
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Beautiful artworks sculpted in VR with Shapelab |  |
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Created by Dorottya Kiss, lighting, mapping, hair and render in Blender |
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Created by Peter Gregor, rendered in Blender |
Useful links:
Shapelab’s website:
shapelabvr.com
Shapelab on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ShapeLabVR/
Shapelab on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/shapelabvr/ Shapelab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shapelabvr
Shapelab on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/shapelabvr Shapelab on DIscord: https://discord.gg/QHZwxedNVp
| Shapelab is a 1st place prize in the 3D category in our Halloween contest. |
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The Gnomon Workshop |
The Gnomon Workshop was founded by Alex Alvarez in 2000 as a way of sharing professional techniques with people unable to attend the award-winning Gnomon School in Hollywood, California. Since then, it has become the place to go for high quality CG training. They know that trying to make it to classes in person or online in different time zones can be a hassle, so that’s why they offer a library of over 300 video workshops that can be watched in any time zone from anywhere in the world. For our Halloween and holiday contests, they are offering some awesome CG training subscription prizes in the 3D, 2D, and animation categories. The 1st place prize is a 12 Month CG Training Subscription, 2nd place prize is a 6 Month CG Training Subscription, and 3rd place prize is a 3 Month CG Training Subscription.
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The Hero's Journal |
The Hero's Journal is a small and growing company that creates products that inspire the hero inside of everyone. Their hardcover and digital journals take people through different whimsical journeys in which they can add some of themselves in them, they become the hero of their own journey. Journal owners love their journals, because they are beautiful, creative, fun, thought provoking, motivational, and therapeutic. For our Halloween contest, they are offering a 1st place prize in the writers category, their Legend of Istoria Hardcover Journal + Digital PDF. The Legend of Istoria Journal is an undated 91-day planner/journal hybrid that starts with a storyline that takes place in the High Fantasy Land of Istoria The main character is asked to leave their home of Humble Hills to save the land from the mighty dragon Volgrimm the Red and that’s when the customer’s journey begins. This journal is perfect for fans of The Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, Dungeons & Dragons, or anyone that loves a good adventure.
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Victory Academy |
Anne Victory is a freelance editor that has been editing fiction books for over a decade now. At this moment, she has edited over 500 books and some of the books she has edited has been for New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors. She realized that she was only one editor and couldn’t edit all the books in the world so she decided to focus on starting an academy, Victory Academy, in which she could share her writing and editing techniques with other authors to help them produce a polished manuscript. For our Halloween contest in the writers category, she is graciously offering a gift to all entrants of the writers contest, the gift is Manuscript Makeover Class with Lifetime Access. The gift is a class, basically a 48-hour guide, that will take your manuscript from rough draft to ready for submission in a weekend. It consists of 10 quick video lessons, which is perfect for the person that’s on the go or needs results fast. The 1st place prize that is being offered is Refine Your Lines Class with Lifetime Access, an in-depth class for editing your manuscript. After 12 hours of video lessons, you will know the most impactful tweaks to more quickly create a tantalizing storyline. He Said, She Said Class with Lifetime Access, is the 2nd and 3rd place prize, this class helps you refine your characters’ dialog to make them more engaging and real for your audience in just 15 video lessons.
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GarageFarm.NET |
GarageFarm.NET started out as a team of two technology and 3D enthusiasts that didn’t like their experiences with render farms that wanted to provide a better experience. Later their team grew to 45 and their commitment of letting CG artists focus their time on creating art and not worrying about render times and render finish times was cemented. Their company is committed to making their customers happy, being there for their customers 24/7, giving great technical support, supporting all major 3D apps in the market, being affordable compared to AWS/Google, having the ability to farm customer’s rendering locally, and more. GarageFarm.NET wants to be the render farm that CG artists can always count on. For this year’s holiday contest, they are offering three prizes in the 3D category and they are a 1st place prize of $500 in render credits, a 2nd place prize of $300 in render credits, and a 3rd place prize of $200 in render credits.
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