Art War 3 - Prizes Announced

Art War 3 has officially begun! This year, our prizes are better than ever! AND we're letting the community choose which artist is worthy of a trip to Paris for IAMAG '19 Master Classes!

1st Place Winner

Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 (3D)
Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 (2D)
$1500 USD Cash
ZBrush 2018 License
Quixel 3-Month 8K Megascans License (3D)
Marmoset $200 Store Credit
Corel Painter License (2D)
Allegorithmic Substance License (3D)
3D Total- Anatomy Figure
Firestarter Magazine's last 3 editions + featured in an 8 page article about Art War 3

2nd Place Winner

Wacom Intuos Pro
$500 USD Cash
ZBrushCore License
Quixel 3-Month 8K Megascans License (3D)
Marmoset $100 Store Credit
Corel Painter License (2D)
Allegorithmic Substance License (3D)
3D Total- Planar Bust
Firestarter Magazine's last 3 editions + featured in an 8 page article about Art War 3

3rd Place Winner

Cubebrush Marketplace- $200
Quixel 3-Month 8K Megascans License (3D)
Marmoset $50 Store Credit
Corel Painter License (2D)
Allegorithmic Substance License (3D)
3D Total- "Beginners Guide to Digital Painting Characters" (3D) or "Mythical Beasts" book (2D)
Firestarter Magazine's last 3 editions + featured in an 8 page article about Art War 3

4th Place Winner

Cubebrush Marketplace- $100
Quixel 3-Month 8K Megascans License (3D)
Corel Painter License (2D)
Allegorithmic Substance License (3D)
3D Total- "Beginners Guide to Digital Painting Characters" (3D) or "Mythical Beasts" book (2D)

5th Place Winner

Cubebrush Marketplace- $100
Quixel 3-Month 8K Megascans License (3D)
Corel Painter License (2D)
Allegorithmic Substance License (3D)
3D Total- "Beginners Guide to Digital Painting Characters" (3D) or "Mythical Beasts" book (2D)

Our Sponsors

Designed for creative professionals who want the freedom to tackle the biggest projects – anywhere. Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 offers you a whole studio of creative tools for a seamless workflow from 2D to 3D on a bigger canvas. Plus the powerful mobile pen computer features the new Wacom Pro Pen 2.

Wacom Cintiq Pro 16" (2D)

Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 offers our latest Wacom Pro Pen 2 and screen technology – and more space to connect to your work. Whether you work on Mac or PC, Wacom Cintiq Pro is our most advanced creative pen display, built for professional artists and designers.

ZBrush

ZBrush 2018

ZBrush is the industry standard in digital sculpting as well as a one stop shop for powerful modeling tools, quick concept design and rendering.

ZBrushCore

ZBrushCore is the most essential elements of the award-winning ZBrush in a simplified, easy-to-learn package designed for new users, hobbyists and anyone looking to intuitively create high quality 3D assets.

Quixel- 8k Megascans

The world’s largest and fastest growing scan library — with thousands of PBR scans for games, visualization, and VFX.

Quixel Bridge

Easily manage your 3D & 2D assets and send to any DCC, engine or renderer. Bridge comes with an arsenal of Live Links to make your exports faster. Brand new plugins for Autodesk 3ds Max, SideFX Houdini, Marmoset Toolbag, and improvements to Live Link for Autodesk Maya and Unity are at your fingertips.

Quixel Mixer

Rapid texture creation with Quixel Mixer. Blend, paint, and sculpt tileable materials in no-time! Sampling colors with the all-new Eye Dropper, using the Orthographic View for precise edits, and Straight Line Painting are just some of the new features Mixer now offers.

Marmoset

Marmoset is the developer of Toolbag - the industry leading real-time rendering and texture baking suite, the WebGL-powered Marmoset Viewer, and the 2D grid-based painting and design suite, Hexels.

Corel

Achieve painting perfection with the most realistic and professional digital art studio. Painter^® 2019 offers Natural-Media^® and unlimited art materials to delight any Illustrator, photographer or fine artist.

Allegorithmic Substance

Substance is the reference solution for parametric PBR materials. It regroups Substance Painter, the 3D painting software, Substance Designer, the tool for creating and editing digital materials, as well as Substance Source, the online library of materials.

3D Total

Featuring a brand new site 3D Total has evolved into a comprehensive platform for online artists, offering a variety of free tutorials, informative interviews, and an inspirational gallery. Whether you sketch in pencil, paint in Photoshop, or model in ZBrush, we strive to create a friendly and educational environment that not only helps budding and experienced artists alike, but also showcases some of the best artwork in the world.

Community Pick!

IAMAG is excited to welcome the Community Pick Winner of Art War 3 to Paris! Included is:

-VIP pass to IAMAG Master Classes

-Flight to Paris and accommodations

-An invitation to all VIP event parties (a unique chance to meet all artists and studios and boost your network)

BRIEF

The art community's ultimate fight is about to begin once again...

On the verge of the year 2019, heroes and villains have started to clash in an all out ART WAR! As artists, your mission is to help your side win by designing the most epic champion this world has ever seen.

Which side will you take?