In this contest, I want to feature and thank the very talented people who create wonderful 3d-content for us ~ the 3d-art vendors. I have great respect and admiration for their talent, work ethic, and general awesomeness!
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Thank you very much for all your condolences and well wishes.
For those who did not see in my previous posting, I just lost my best (furry) friend to cancer. It is a terrible thing to suddenly lose someone that you spend so much time with every day, creating light and happiness. I am still trying to muddle through this, so I will be taking a break from posting new contests for a while.
Hopefully, we will be back soon. Thank you to all for participating, viewing, posting comments, as well as for your positive energy and support. The Daz Studio community is totally awesome and I hope everyone stays safe in these very difficult times. Big hugs to you all.
May there be light in this darkness.
If you have ideas on how to improve the contest or other fun contests you would like to see, please let us know in the comments section below. If there are vendors you would like us to feature, also let us know.
Prizes
I love gift certificates because they are easy to deliver, claim, and use. Prizes will all be in DAZ gift certificates.
- 1st Place – $50 Daz3D Gift certificate.
- 2nd Place – $25 Daz3D Gift certificate.
- 3rd Place – $15 Daz3D Gift certificate.
- Honorable Mentions – $10 Daz3D Gift certificate.
Winners will be announced at around the 10th of the following month. Please remember to post a comment with your email in the monthly winners page to claim your GC.
Contest Rules
- Anybody can enter except judges and organizers of the contest.
- Entries need to contain at least one item from any of the featured vendors. Each month will feature one or more vendors, but your entry only needs to contain one item from one of the featured vendors.
- Please include the qualifying item used in the description of your image. For example –
Qualifying items used –
FW Sebastian by Fred Winkler Art,
Paladin HD MMXV by Luthbel. - Enter as many times as you like.
- Old and new images are welcome. Entries can be submitted to other contests.
- Postwork is allowed and any software may be used.
- By entering this contest, you give us permission to post your contest images on this site, for example in an article announcing the contest winners.
We want everyone to have fun, so there aren’t many rules or restrictions. The only real requirement is to include at least one item from one of the featured vendor stores. Links for the featured vendors and stores will be updated at the beginning of every month.
How to Submit Images
We will be using the Daz3D gallery for contest entries.
- To submit an entry, you will need to have an account at Daz3d.com. It is very simple to create, and takes very little time to make one.
- Then, click on your account icon to the top-right (step 1 in the image to the right), and go to MY GALLERY (step 2).
- Next, simply drop an image at the “drop image” icon, or click on it to load an image from your local directory.
- Hover your mouse over the image, and click on the Edit Image icon (circled in red to the right).
- In the description section of the image, enter in the qualifying items used for this contest. Qualifying images must contain at least one item from one of the current featured vendor stores.
- In the tag section of the image, enter the current contest tag. For example, shiba-6-15. Click on the plus [+] button to the right to add the tag.
- Save your image, and that is it!
Hope You Have Fun!
And thank you for participating! If you have any additional questions, suggestions, or comments, please post them below.
Indeed, that’s a great list! Enough great material for inspiration. Thanks for the contest ^^
Hi Shiba, does one have to use DAZ Studio to qualify or can you use a different application as long as a qualifying item is used? I am starting to work with a different app (still love DS) but it is work related and limiting my time using DS at the moment.
Hello Anne, there are no software restrictions. Use whatever you like as long as it includes a qualifying item. 🙂
Ha… I’m laughing ShibaShake… Like you once Daz made punches permanent… my purse got emptier and emptier! chaa chiiiiiiiiing!!!
Love the website… I just found it… I’ve got it in my favs. 😉
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Haha! I am glad I am not the only one. 😀 Happy New Year to you! Last year just flew by.
Many vendors sell on multiple sites. In past contests you have included vendors’ listing on RDNA. Can you use models by the listed vendors purchased from other sites in September’s contest?
Great question Anne.
In general, qualifying products are only those that are in the posted featured links. Since September is Vendor month at DAZ, we wanted to keep it mostly to daz stores. Also, we are using the Daz Gallery and doing Daz GC as prizes, so Daz Vendors will generally be the focus.
However, on regular months, we usually include vendor stores from other places as well, in which case they will be listed in the featured vendors section.
Shiba, thank you for your answer. Totally understand your position. I have a couple of lovely models by Sabby but not from DAZ. I’ll have to look through my runtime and see if I can come up with some other ideas. 🙂
Sounds great, but I don’t usually purchase 3D stuff for Daz because I’m kind of new, so I can’t enter 🙁
Do you buy all the stuff in your renders or some items are free?
Daz does offer a bunch of free items – Daz Freebies page.
I’m wondering – if I use an outfit as the qualifying item, then just how much of the outfit needs to be used ? (I like mix-and-match)
Hello Pete, Mix and Match should be fine, as long as enough of the qualifying outfit is shown. For example, don’t just include little bits of the glove in a zoomed out shot. 😉
Judges should be able to look at the image and recognize parts of the qualifying outfit.
Great artists you listed there! Will certainly give it a try!
Awesome! Gonna need more popcorn soon. 😀
this sounds like a lot of fun!! do we need to post here to let you know, or do you find the images just by searching tags in teh daz gallery?
No need to post here, I can get to all the images through the tag. You can too. 🙂
Link to current contest entries.
Thank you both very much for dropping by and for joining the contest! There are already some cool renders so this is going to be fun! 😀
Thank you for this contest and what a great idea that the items used in the images need to be vendor based.
Great idea! This will be fun!