It is not easy to win judges over in such high standard CG art competition. The most essential element of a good artwork is its originality combined with imagination. Meanwhile, you should respect the life form you are going to depict. You must appreciate the unique charm in its nature, and interpret all those personal feelings with your own style. It is with no doubt that this strategy will help one to create a fantastic CG artwork.

　　At present there are many works about wild animals shown in the media, results of years of hard work by many outstanding photographers. These are resources for people to learn more about wild animals, but in your entry, do not just copy them, for the act itself will cost the fundamental quality of art --- originality.

　　The competition sets no limit for artistic style; realistic or impressionistic won't be the issue; but artists must follow wild animals' physical appearance. A successful work is determined by artist's creative interpretation of wild animals. Stick with things interest you most; use your own artistic language and imagination; let viewers feel touched by your work.

　　All entries must pick species from the 100 focused species as the theme. You may pick more than one. Human character may appear in entries as supporting role. Check it out

　　The competition has ten routine categories and one special category. One entry should be submitted to one category to be judged. Check it out

　　For full Rules please download PDF

　　The title “’Share One Planet’ Wild Animals CG Art Master” will be granted to the entrant with the most striking and memorable entry of all. The winner will receive US$10,000 and one gilding copper trophy designed by special guest artist invited by organizers. Each category champion will win one silver-plating copper trophy; four finalists of every individual category will win a copper trophy each.

1. This is an invitational competition; invited artists can enter the competition with the invitation code. For the invitee list, please visit:
http://www.shareoneplanet.org/en/artistlist_pre.aspx
　　 　　Invitation with invitation code will be sent to CG art elites determined by organizers. For artist who’s willing to participate in but doesn’t receive invitation code, please e-mail one piece of portfolio works to the Executive committee at shareoneplanet@gmail.com (please send the image as attachment and enclose brief bio and description as well). Executive committee will send invitation code to eligible artist.

2. Please visit www.shareoneplanet.org to enter the competition and pay attention to possible modifications of the “Share One Planet” Competition rules.

3. After register, please log into personal page to submit your entries. The website allows you to show entry creation process.

4. The deadline of submission is April 20th, 2011 23:29(BJT, GMT+8). Regarding submission one should upload both the low resolution file and original high resolution file to complete one entry. Further notice will be given on how to submit original high resolution files.

5. The competition is gratis for all entrants.

The competition has ten routine categories and one special 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.

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.

1. The Organizers of “’Share One Planet’ Wild Animals CG Art Elites Invitational Competition” (hereafter referred to as the ”Share One Planet” Competition) are Wild Animals Cultural Project Fund, China Foundation for the Development of Social Culture, China Institute of Strategy and Management, International Association of Computer Graphic Artists and China Association for Global Development under the United Nations (hereafter referred to as the Organizers); The Organizers reserve the exclusive rights to delay, shorten or cancel the ”Share One Planet” Competition as well as to give modification and interpretation to rules and regulations. The competition is open to anyone except those involved in its organization and employees of the Organizers or sponsors. The Organizers set no limitation for entrant’s age.

2. All entrants must register at www.shareoneplanet.org with an invitation code. By registering as entrant, entrants imply total and unreserved agreement of the present rules of the “Share One Planet” Competition.

3. All entries must be completed by two files: low resolution file and the original high resolution file; entries lack any one file will be considered ineligible for the competition. The low resolution file is for on-line display and shall be submitted to www.shareoneplant.org; the original high resolution file will be used in judging and exhibition phase and shall be submitted to the Organizers’ FTP system or a storage system supplied by third party.

4. Artists can create as many entries as they want, but each artwork can enter only one routine category of the “Share One Planet” Competition. Artwork created for routine category can enter the special category as well.

5. Creation methodology, file size and requirements

5.1 For Digital Paintings, the Organizers set no limitation for software, aspect ratio or layout.

　　The original High Resolution file must be: single layer PSD file, at least 3508(h) X 4961(w) pixels, or 3508(w) X 4961(h) pixels. (The Organizers suggest artist to create the entry as large as possible in order to achieve massive visual impact during exhibition phase.)

　　The Low Resolution file must be: JPEG format file no bigger than 500KB; the image should be at least 1000 pixels on the longest dimension.

5.2 For Digital Sculptures the Organizers set no limitation for software and polygons.Entrants are encouraged to submit closed model as entry.

　　---The sculpture can represent single animal or several ones or herd. Please make a suitable pedestal besides the main objects (environmental pedestal is encouraged)

　　---The model must not be textured or mapped. All objects of the sculpture must be monochromatic. Gradient chromatic aberration caused by lighting effect is acceptable.
　　----Any lighting effect of any 3D software is allowed when comes to entry final display.

　　----The model submitted as entry must be originally created for the “Share One Planet” Competition. Previously made base meshes is not allowed. Any primitive geometry of any 3D software can be adopted (e.g. sphere, cube and zspheres etc).

　　The original High Resolution file must be: original model file (e.g. original model of 3DMAX, MAYA or ZBRUSH) or OBJ file.

　　The Low Resolution file must be: JPEG format file no bigger than 500KB; the image should be at least 1000 pixels on the longest dimension; artist need to show three shots of the model (see the picture below: one shot showing the best angle determined by artist, other two shots should chose from front view, lateral view, top view and back view).
5.3 For Low Resolution file, please submit the highest quality JPEG file you can achieve with detailed information of author and the entry (e.g. artwork title, submit to which category, contestant’s name, software applied in the entry, size of the image etc.)

5.4 The “Share One Planet” Competition sets no limit for artistic style. Realistic and free artworks are both welcomed. Entries with realistic style should pay extra attention to the accuracy of animal’s behavior, habitat and other facts. Entries with free style should make sure animals appear in artwork recognizable despite of artistic transfiguration and exaggeration.

For full Rules please download PDF