FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

**The Legends of Mernac Announces Debut Art Contest September 1, 2006 Grand Opening
**Never-Ending Fantasy Series Launches Grand Opening!

POMPANO BEACH, Florida – August 22, 2006- The Legends of Mernac (www.mernac.com), is an on-line fantasy saga built on interlinked stories. The mythical world of Mernac is created by the registered users of the site, in the fashion of “spinning tales” that tell the 10,000 year history of Mernac. This is done from the prospective of well-written characters that keep readers riveted and wanting more. The Legends of Mernac is a site jam-packed with contests for writers and artists. The Legends of Mernac is structured to promote unfound talent and for the Grand Opening on September 1, 2006, the site will host a huge international 3D Art contest. The challenge will be to illustrate a current short-story from The Legends of Mernac. The Grand Prize will be $500.00, a feature in the print magazine ImagineFX, and a feature on the world’s largest online art community, renderosity.com. Full contest details available at www.mernac.com.  

The Legends of Mernac is driven to providing an audience to up and coming talent and will host various contests at all times in the search to find that next great writer and/or artist. The only requirements are that participants must be registered users, which is free. Contests will include, art contests, writing contests, even programming contests! And, users can also sponsor their own contests! publicity@mernac.com

The developers of The Legends Mernac are also working on additional phases which are slated to include music and/or soundtracks, RPG Gaming, animations, movie clips, and, eventually, full-feature movies. All of these functions will be available to the public-at-large, providing users an even more means to create their own “LEGENDS” in the world of MERNAC.

Founder of The Legends of Mernac, Rick Merriman, has based his creation on a philosophy of people helping people. The goal being thousands of talented (yet undiscovered) writers, artists, musicians, programmers, promoters or business people provided an outlet for their passions and a possible ultimate escape from the standard 9-5 job. According to Mr. Merriman, *“The Bottom line: I believe that the surest path to success is to help other people become successful. I believe that after providing my family with a comfortable living (and a way for others [who contribute to, or promote Mernac] to provide their families with a comfortable living) that the bulk of any profits should be used to fund and help talented people create their art.”

To learn more about this project or to schedule an on-line interview with Founder, Rick Merriman, please contact Heather Merriman, Director of Publicity at 954-298-5481 or

publicity@mernac.com

Heather Merriman
Director of Publicity
The Legends of Mernac
954-298-5481

Lillian Hawkins
Renderosity Marketing Manager
Phone: 866-220-2949 ext 27
“Because the art matters!” Archived Press Releases can be found at:
www.mernac.com (http://www.mernac.com/modules/mernac/?cid=53)

;) i've bee doing some art pieces for that ... i'm a BT at mernac.. altough it seems that the contest is on both sides, so i do have to post some art here in renderosity right?

Warmin up the Wacom.

Hi sonek,

The contest will require that you submit the entry to both Renderosity and Mernac. Other than that, no additional images are required, but they are always welcomed ;-)

Uh-Oh...ICM is warming up the Wacom! This is going to be a good one!!

I can't wait to see what everyone creates

humm how do i submit the images for the contest?

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/contest/index.php

This contest will be opened today around 15:00 system time on Renderosity.

All the rules will be available for the Legends of Mernac contest at that time in the Contest area.

If you have any more questions, please let us know!

Okay, I'm being .... nagging here.  I can't seem to get to the voting area, says I'm not permitted to be in that area.  ????
Boni

Hi Boni,

Sorry for the frustration.

I'll contact Rick over at Mernac and see what we can do to get it resolved for you. You should hear from Rick shortly.

Thanks for letting us know.

Best regards,
Lillian

Lillian,

Perhaps it's my error.  Is all the voting on the Mermac site?  I thought the voting was on both sites.  If it's only on Rick's site, that's cool and I've made an error.  Sorry about that.

Boni

Hi Boni,

Yup, that's correct, the community voting is on the Mernac site. However, we will be posting the winners over here and on Mernac.

No worries, thanks for letting me know.

Best wishes,
Lillian

My submissions for this contest is suddenly under this persons nick and account : Jude Mason http://www.mernac.com/modules/profile/userinfo.php?uid=273 !!!??

And my account has dissapared, im on vecation so i just found this out.. I had to make a new account, MyDiva is my username.. Can the images PLEASE be moved to my account? Its a BIG logo over the tumbs that sais Christel Bro, and a smaller logo on the images..

My name is Christel Bro and im XTrinityX here on Ren, and this is the link to my gallery where you can fint thise images: http://www.mernac.com/modules/mernac/story.php?id=538&aid=636

Regards Christel/XTrinityX/MyDiva

Hi XTrinityX,

I will alert Rick at Mernac about your post.

Thanks for letting us know,
Lillian

Just a quick question - when will the winners be posted? o.O

Hi summer1412,

Sorry for the delay. The results will be posted later on tonight.

Due to technical issues on Mernac, we did not receive their judging scores until late yesterday. cartesieus is getting everything together now.

I can't wait to see who the winners are!

Best wishes,
Lillian