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.
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Hi Shiba.
I’m thinking of you and I hope you are managing in these strange times.
Stay safe.
Chin up Shiba. God bless!
Congrats to all winners!
Deepest condolences for the loss of your best friend and family, Shiba.
My condolences goes out to you. Take time to take care of yourself.
You have my deepest condolences Shiba. The pain of losing a beloved furbaby is indescribable. A heart doesn’t break…it shatters.
Hi Shiba, I’m so sorry to hear the sad news about your loss. May God’s peace and comfort be with you.
Take care!
I’m sorry for your loss. I hope that you can find comfort in knowing that the community here cares for you.
I am so sorry for your loss Shiba. It’s always very painful to lose someone you love. Lara was a very beautiful Husky. May she rest in peace.
Hugs and thoughts.
Rainbow Bridge poem.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….
Author unknown…
So sorry to hear of your loss, ShibaShake. My heartfelt condolences to you, and sending virtual hugs your way.
From Storypilot
My heart goes out to you, ShibaShake. Please take all the time you need. I was concerned about you recently b/c you hadn’t posted artwork for a while either, so I started to panic, and sent you a note on DA.
I just lost my sweet dog to cancer recently, and it is just so devastating. To pet people, they are so much more than pets; they are family. She was 12 years old, and we got her as a puppy, so there are so many memories.
Please take care.
dawnblade
I am so very sorry for your loss. I have had to say goodbye to many of my fur babies over my 60 years here on earth ranging from horses, dogs, cats, bunnies, and even a goat. It is never easy. There is always one, however, that is your “special” friend that becomes part of your soul. I lost my “Special” baby 5 years ago. I can only tell you that when I think of her now, I can smile instead of tears. There are no words that will ease the loss.
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. Our furry best friends are so special. I wish I had words to comfort. Sending hugs.
Hang in there, and take all the time you need. I’ve said several prayers for you. We’ll be here when you get back!
For anyone unsure of whether the product they bought was before or after Sisi, she’s currently about 7 pages deep from the front page (w/ or w/o “Hide Items I Own” checked), for reference’s sake.
Do the qualifying March 2020 items include PC+ items, even though these aren’t released as March Madness items?
Yes! Anything released during the MM period will qualify.
Shiba, the Feb 2020 qualifying vendor store links above (bitwelder, zeddicuss, etc.) aren’t working, something must be wrong with the URLs.
I think it was a Daz-side issue, which has happily now been fixed. 😀
ShibaShake,
Hi, I have a question. It may have been asked before but I didn’t find an answer. For the contest this month you said that DAZ Originals can’t used. Most of the items I own are listed as DAZ Originals and by different artists, such as the Cafe Curls by GoldTassel or the Nyo Hair by Crocodile Liu and DAZ Originals. Are items such as these excluded? Might help to keep other people like me from asking dumb questions, or uploading invalid entries, if the definition of DAZ Originals was clearer. Also, in other months where an artist is named is he/she excluded because DAZ Originals is also listed? Thanks for taking the time to make this clearer.
BronzeDragon
Hello Jeff, Sorry for the confusion. Daz Originals cannot be chosen as a featured vendor because they are a collection of artists, so that is almost like choosing a whole bunch of vendors. 🙂 However, it is totally acceptable for DazO to be listed in any featured items. Only requirement is that the featured items contain the featured vendor, any other vendors can be listed together with it. I have also clarified in the article.
Second this question but what happens IF your favorite artist products have been moved to DAZ Originals and their name removed, like Josh Crockett’s, which only shows four products.
The featured item must be listed under the vendor store at the time of the contest. Otherwise, it is difficult for everyone to keep track of. 🙂
Not to over-complicate things, but: I know we can’t choose “Daz Originals” as our featured vendor, but if the store page for a product credits both Daz Originals AND the vendor we have picked, can that product be used as a qualifying item? For example, if I pick Ravenhair as my Featured Vendor, can I use Artemis Moon for Genesis 3 Female(s) https://www.daz3d.com/artemis-moon-for-genesis-3-female-s as a qualifying product?
Thanks.
Yes, most definitely. Sorry for the confusion, I will clarify in the article as well.
Oh dear.. I have several favorite vendors, hmm how to choose one.. lol this will take some thinking 🙂
You guys and gals are already acing it, so can’t make it too easy. 😀
Is it just me, I do not see my entry for July listed.
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/826066
Oh, found the problem. there is a shiba-7-19 and a shiba-07-19 in the drop down. Picked the wrong one.
Just a question about the entries of this, some of us put a signature/watermark on our images is it ok to do that for this or do you want them unidentified?
Feel free to put a sig/watermark. 🙂
Oh dear, was I too late?
Greetings All. Well done on some lovely renders, past and present.
Here’s my first entry, for June 2018’s bikini contest. Better late than never I guess! 🙂
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/600676/
Awesome sauce! So many fun entries this month. Thank you for sharing!
I had to share somewhere! The Victoria sale on today is AMAZING! Everyone RUN! My is cart is full 😛 Swimsuits included \o/
LOL! Yeah, my cart is very full. I am trying to cut it some. 😀
Just wanted to ask, when it says any swimsuit (one-piece or bikini) does that also mean swimwear for the males? Or is it meant more as a female only month (with the exception of Floyd of course)?
Just wanted to clarify it for my own piece of mind, before I continued with the scene I had in mind 🙂
/C
Males and females are all invited! 😀
Hi Shiba..
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/578131
First time entering. I’m rather proud of this 😀
She is very beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
I did it!
An here it is.. https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/565626/
Hope you kinda like it!
Had to do a smaller image and the first one became just too big a file! LOL!
I love your articles and this contest. Congrats on a great site. I’ve entered a few times in the past and will have few for this month. I even got and honorable mention a while back – surprised the hell out of me.
Starting last month though, I’ve been having problems reading the site. It loads, but some of the text keeps disappearing, usually about which vendors can be used. I just spent a great deal of time doing some images based on the Karyssa Pro Bundle I just got as a belated Xmas present. You can imagine my consternation when when I came to the site today to see if the January winners were posted and found that Karyssa was not listed as a qualifying item. I know I’m getting old, I’m 68, and can have a certain amount of senior events, but I KNEW I saw it before.
Got my son to look into it for me. He has a degree in computer science, codes games, web sites, etc. He found that you site is riddled with tracker tags to all the links on the page. Sample below:
Karyssa 8
My adblocker/anti tracking software does not like this! The page becomes messed up which it would appear to cause the missing text.
Here are two such locations:
January started with some great sales on some of my favorite vendors including Stonemason, , and . This allowed me to pick up many items that have been on my wishlist.
The newly released Owen 8 and will also qualify.
As you can see in the first instance only Stonemason is listed and in the second only Owen 8 is listed.
Please fix your site and remove the trackers. Or at least warn visitors that such items exist and may mess up the page.
BronzeDragon
Hello Jeff! Thank you for visiting and participating in the contest. Sorry for the problems you are having with regards to your adblocker. We use affiliate links and ads on this site to fund site hosting, maintenance, and contest prizes, which can add up to quite a bit. Sadly, without these links, we would not be able to run the monthly contests.
If you are having problems loading, you can try turning off adblocker for just this site. We have also added an affiliate message at the beginning of each post. Thank you very much for your understanding and patience.
Happy new Year Shiba 🙂 i wish you the best.
And thank you for the great Dynamic Tutorial 🙂
Happy 2018 to you as well. Hugs!
Hi this is my first time entering your contest. I am not sure if the tag took or not?
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/495421/
Pretty sure it won’t do it, don’t put it as a comment but in the tag section 🙂
I put it in the tag section, when I search in the gallery for
shiba-12-17 I see my image listed so hoping it’s correct now.
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/images/?q=+shiba-12-17&x=1&y=6
Yeah, that works! Looking good!
Hi
I am trying to reach the creators of the Shiba Shake web site.
Your site is beyond incredible; I had been considering getting a Shiba Inu and the outstanding experiences and guidance you shared were instrumental in my wife and I getting one for our 20th anniversary.
I notice with sadness that you appear to not be updating the site any longer with new content.
I hope all is well on your end.
My name is Glenn and I live in Miami, Florda.
We have a 5-month old cream Shiba named Casper who we got at 12 weeks from a breeder in Missouri. He came to us fully potty trained, but afraid of everything and has thrived with many suggestions from your site.
I hope to hear from you!
Hello Glenn, Thank you very much for your message. Congratulations on your Shiba Inu and big big hugs to Casper.
Yeah, I have been spending more time with my pups, so have less time for my websites. 🙂 Time with them is very precious. Happy New Year to you all!
Thank you Sixus for the freebie 🙂
Oh so many great vendors this Month too, I hope things will calm down so I can participate this Month.
Ah and you might want to change the Month from November to December.
Changed! Thank you very much for pointing it out and Happy Holidays! 😀
I’ve noticed that days after the end of the month and prior to your announcement of the winners of that previous month’s contest, there are those who are posting/tagging entries for that month (e.g., It’s September but people were still posting entries well after August 31 for the August contest). Is that allowable. I’m just curious because there are times when I would like to enter but missed what I perceived as the deadline.
Thanks.
The end date for submissions is the end of the month. After that, the judges start their process and mail me the results. To be fair, we filter out entries that do not qualify when/if we detect them. Most of all, we hope that this is a fun event for everyone. 😀
Ohh that’s going to be a tough choice with all the great vendors.
Question ? It says that Michael 8 qualifies, does that mean we can choose a vendor AND M8 or if choosing M8 we can’t choose a favorite vendor ?
LOL that was a lot of using the word choose in one sentence, hope my question makes sense.
Btw shouldn’t it say featured vendors for September instead of August ?
A vendor AND M8 – 😀
Yeah should be September. Thank you much and updated.
Awesome, thank you. Now I just have to make up my mind about which Vendor I want to use items from 😀
“Winners will be announced at around the 10th of the month.”
Does this mean that (for example) the August contest ends August 10th?
Heh, 10th of the following month. Updated.
Sweet! Still time to get in on it!
Just thought you might want to know that the June Contest Banner still says “Featured Vendors for May 2017”. 😉
Having lots of fun regardless of what the banner says.
Opps! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
Ok, think I did it right on the submission!
Lots of cool entries thus far!
Thank you for joining in! 🙂
My first time in this contest! Here we go! 🙂
Super! Already some great entries. Will be an exciting month! 🙂
I love Rawart, I will take part in this one if I recover from my crash in time to get something done.
Yeah, I love his stuff too. Definitely looking forward to seeing what people come up with. 🙂
Hi Shiba, Can images submitted for entry in the contest also be submitted in other (non-DAZ3D) galleries? Thanks.
Sure! Good art should be shared. 😀
Well I don’t know about good. 🙂 Will enter my now rendering image then. It’s Vue so could take a day or so.
Great choice of vendors for April but can I say :
YIPEE! Arki is one of them!
I love her things and she’s among my top favourite vendors. I think I have her whole store wishlisted and is slowly making my way through getting everything. The Nightqueen Wardrobe Collection went in my cart faster than you could blink when it was in fastgrab lol
There were a lot of awesome stuff released during MM and picking a favourite ,well nope can’t do it, too many to choose from. My head is still buzzing from all the great stuff I bought and I haven’t used half of it.
Haha, yeah, I always find stuff in my runtime that I didn’t know I had. It is like getting an unexpected present each time. 😀 I must say tho that my fav. product currently is that Kadis armor. I just can’t stop using it.
I can’t express how happy I am that I discovered ThinkArtDraw. The tutorials are extremely helpful and the art contest each month never fails to leave my jaw hanging open. I could spend hours just flipping through galleries oooooing and ahhing at the talent. Thank you so much ShibaShake for sponsoring this!
Thank you so much for your wonderful words and also for participating in the contest! Wouldn’t be able to do it without all of you! Hugs!
Okay, my render has made a few more days. Who says a butterfly doesn’t wield power. Hello everybody! Some lovely renders!!! Well done all!
Woah, I might not be participating in the challenge. I see my image has been pulled from the gallery and deleted out of my account. How do I inquire or can you do that for me?
The gallery is totally Daz, so that is where you should inquire. They are pretty strict about nudity, so that would be my guess. Add a bikini and all will probably be fine. 🙂
Hey Shiba’
Congrats on a wonderful site. You’re doing a wonderful job and your art is amazing. Well done.
I’ve just recently rebuilt my system and installed all my art programs. I’m like an art junky, not knowing which software to tinker in. I realise I’m behind in Daz and it’s new, amazing renderer, hence my participation in your challenge this month. Hope it’s not to raunchy but what better way to test my skills with water. Needless to say, I’m tired of tweaking.
Have a GR8T one. Keep up the good work.
So great to see you here! Thanks for joining in! 😀
three fantastic vendors to choose from…can i resist the temptation to pick an item from them all? should i even try?
it’s a wonderful concept, this contest. i must’ve visited for TDA tutorials half a dozen times before i spotted it. thanks for hosting, shibashake!
🙂
so…is there a way to check out the results of the october contest without facebooking? once upon a time i facebooked, but i facebook no longer. turned out i was allergic to it.
yt,
j
Hahaha, extra gold stars for that. 😀
October results are not posted yet. Will be posted soon on this site, so will be accessible to all. I use Facebook and Deviantart for announcements on new things posted.
Yes, i did it, i added a entry for the contest, my first one ever…:D Good luck for everyone!!
Awesome sauce! Great to have you on-board. 😀
Ohh the possibilities with a Daz Originals month.
There were a lot of awesome items released in the PA month and I also got some “old” ones from my wishlist.
My favourites from the PA month would be everything I bought, including the stuff from my wishlist …. lol….
On the top of the list though is definitely Terradome and TerraLuna.
Yeah, me too with the oldies. Actually mostly got a lot of oldies from the mega-fastgrab. The past few days of catch-up were really killer for me. 😀
I hear you on that one. Got some really great deals and could have gotten a lot more…But…my creditcard doesn’t agree with me on that one, being a single mom and all lol…at least I don’t have a spouse breathing down my neck , only kids looking at me like I’m crazy from time to time when I drool over stuff I would like to get.
Good luck to everyone this month! My parents are coming to visit from out of town and I ran out of time. I was going to go with Fred Winkler, I just love all of his characters!
Well I actually finished one! We’ll see if I have time for two 😉
Awesome sauce! 😀
thank you so much for picking my piece as an honourable mention!! The entries last month were just amazing – congrats everyone 😀
Hello Shiba 🙂
I choose Alessandro Mastronardi as my featured Vendor, okay, not a big surprise 😀
My Question: Does the Fennec Fox count too, based on his Fox Model?
Thank you 😀
Yes it does because it uses the Foxes as the base. 🙂 So you would list as your featured item Foxes by AM but you can use the Fennec Foxes as an additional item as usual.
Hmm, can I use Fred Winkler Art again? He has so many great characters and I have a lot of them heh. If I can use FWA, am I only allowed to use the items he created alone, or can I use like say FWSA characters?
Thanks!
Yes! Feel free to pick whichever vendor. I am certainly a very big fan of Fred. 😀 And yes, there can be others on the product as long as Fred is in there, i.e. it is in his Daz store.
OK awesome! Of course I’ll be doing a new Harley Quinn, lol.
Although, I did get the Terradome!
Ohh great choice of theme for September.
Except I’m going to have a difficult time choosing a favourite vendor lol.. So many to choose from.
I assume the featured vendor items have to be from their DAZ store ?
Yeah I know right, I have sooooo many favorites. In the past I know it had to be from the DAZ store.
Yes, featured items from the Daz store please, as we are using the Daz galleries. Of course other items can be from anywhere. Thank you! 😀
Thank you both , I assumed as much, but thought I would ask anyway since some of the gallery entries had me confused 🙂
Oh boy and I almost had decided which vendor to use , but todays sale made me re-consider all over again lol.
Yeah, all that Faveral stuff in Mega Fast Grab, very very difficult to resist. 😀
Didn’t get to submit as many pics as I wanted in June ;/ I have so much DM stuff but I spent far too much time working on the Caught picture. So that Suicide Squad contest, all I see is hand drawn stuff. Im not sure what this means really, “All submissions must be original artwork (meaning not using third party pre-existing copyright materials).” Like we can use 3D stuff right, do you think, it would be just like any other contest I enter? Sorry, guess maybe I should ask them lol! I have a few ideas for July’s contest 😉 I just love these.
Yeah probably best to ask them (Warner Bros.). I just figured it was ok to use Daz stuff since Daz put it in their newsletter and offered an additional 1k GC for winners. Btw. feel free to share your submission links here. I would love to see!
Finished my entry! Man did it take me a long time. Had to make new textures for all the clothes, added blood to Harley’s bat, and kept changing my mind on what hair I wanted to use. Here’s the link, but I think we cant look at the entries after they start judging. Not sure heh, I made it with 2 hours to spare!
https://www.talenthouse.com/item/1708177/3659b08f
Wow! All the textures are fantastic! The bat looks amazing!
Thanks 😉 I’m thinking of doing a bunch of female hero and villain pics. I love all your entries! I think my fave is Hammer Time!
Heroes and villains sound like a lot of fun, probably villains are more so. 😀
Awesome! I have a ton of stuff from DM actually going back to 2002! Just got a few more yesterday even, looking forward to using the Drake Tower! Do you want us to only use the products we got from DAZ?
Yeah, try to stick to Daz for the qualifying product. Additional stuff can of course come from wherever. 😀
OK will do 😉 also thank you for the gift card, I didn’t know honorable mentions got one! Was a very nice surprise 😉
Yeah, people are submitting some really excellent images. I always wish we could give out more prizes. 😀
I just entered. I hope I did it right. The tag doesn’t show on my picture but the qualifying information does. If I did this wrong, can someone tell me? I’m new at joining contests! Thanks so much, Denise
Check out the “Contest Entries” link at the top. If you tag it right, it will appear in that gallery. Thanks for entering!
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!