Congratulations to Shishido for the winning entry! Here are the comments by Antoine Clappier. 1- Best image: - Image #12 in the gallery - Author: Shishido - Comment: good modeling, good texturing, very good composition, perfect lighting! In my opinion, this is by far the winner. Second and third are very difficult to choose! There are a lot of good images. 2- Second Best image: - Image #14 in the gallery - Author: Claudiomil - Comment: very interesting use of metaballs, very good texture. 3- Third Best image: - Image #8 in the gallery - Author: rsvit - Comment: a bit dark but excellent textures and good modeling. Other very good images: - #13 (Songkann), #18 (scifirex). Overall, I very impressed by the quality of the images. Special thanks to Eovia and especially Antoine for sponsoring the contest! We're going to take a break on contests. Renderosity has asked for contests to quiet down for a little while so we can concentrate on the new site logo contest. Again, congratulations! -Kix

Great render, Shishido! Claudiomil and rsvit's work were excellent too.

Wonderful work. Congratulations Shishido. Good job Claudiomil and rsvit's. I find organic shapes very difficult to make convincingly - I am amazed by all the entries. memaci

Congrats to the winners. I liked the mood in #13. Reminded me of the "A Bug's Life" movie which I really enjoyed.

Congratulations, Shishido. That is really a good exemple of a balance between realism and artistic. Very good work of rsvit and all artists on this contest. Thanks for all the comments.

Thanks for everyone.

I want to be pleased with the ability to be awarded on behalf of a Japanese Carrara user.
Though regrettable, there are not many Carrara users in Japan. I want to enlarge the ring by making a work.

It is thankful to the judges who chose my work.

Congrats to Shishido and the other winners! Really nice work; inspiring stuff (literally, makes me want to try out some of these techniques). Jez's entry #5 was quite interesting as well. Marc

Big Congrats to Shishido and the other Contestants! Awesome images. I know it must have been a tough one to choose. Good job again. Mike Ps. Could it be possible if the winners of these contests create a tutorial on how they created their winning image to assist novice modellers to a higher level? (And I think with this contest the level of creativity did step up.)

Uhhh... Stupid question, but is there a link to "the gallery" where the contest images can be viewed?

just click on the banner at the top of this page

Congratulations, Shishido san. It is a really excellent Japanesque image :-) I am a Carrara user in Japan. You might know, there is a Carrara Mailing List in Japan. Please visit www.carrara.jp/com/index.html to join the ML, if you take an interest in it. The ML subscribers will be pleased with your win :-)

Congrats all around! Well done!

Which "banner at the top"? The advertisement at the very top? No. The "Contests" link in the Renderosity section? Nothing there looked right. The Renderosity Logo contest? That's also not a Carrara exclusive contest. Somewhere in the Backroom? Didn't see it there. Sorry, I'm feeling clueless. - Jasen.

Jasen, The link on the banner must have been taken down. You can find the contest entries in the "Back Room" under "Archived Carrara/RDS Contests." Keith