Just now found the challenge! Gonna have to get started in a hurry. Thanks for all the tips on 3D lettering (didn't know Anim8or could do that!). BTW, I almost NEVER do post work, and am proud of it, so this will be a real treat for me!

I was very excited when I saw this challenge and decided to make this my very first contest ever entered. After working for days to get just the image I was looking for, I posted it and then much to my dismay my picture was removed and I received a notice that said I had created it incorrectly based on the size requirements. I went back and checked the other entries and found that most of them were created the same way mine was, 600x800, which is the way most books happen to be sized. I was told that all entries would have to be fixed and after a week of checking I've noticed that none of them have been changed. Now I'm not so sure how I feel about this but just wanted to post here and get some input. Am I over-reacting? Do I feel short-changed? Yeah I guess I do. Anyway I would appreciate any comments in this regard before I decide if I'm going to bother fixing my image and re-submitting it. Thanks in advance.

Misscaly, you did not mention the 150k size limit. Maybe that is the problem : your book is too heavy... jl

No the size limit on mine was within the guidelines and when I asked about the others I was told that everyone who was not 800x600 would have to change them, yet no one else's has been changed. Mine was actually removed altogether and not one other has been. Frustrating and very disappointing to say the least.

That's silly. 600x800 is much more reasonable for a book cover.

I read thru everyone's posts and if I am to understand correctly then: NO POSTWORK ALLOWED except for text unless you decide to challenge yourself and do that in Poser as well but I am still left wondering, can backdrops be brought in for a render or does that not count since it would have been created in another program? For example: a sky made in Bryce brought in as a backdrop for a poser girl standing in a field of flowers and then it's all rendered. Would that be against the rules?

That's allowed. After all, it's not postwork. Pre-work, maybe, but not postwork. ;-)

Awesome. That's what I thought, but when I asked before the answer left me wondering if that was the case, or if I was just so out of the 3D loop that I was missing something obvious. :) Thanks for the clarity!