Fox Renderfarm’s FGT3D Hunter Challenge Winners Revealed

3D artists were challenged to create their own ‘hunter;’ 3 professional and 3 student works were awarded a variety of prizes from event sponsors.

Fox Renderfarm has announced the winners of its FGT3D Challenge; this year’s contest theme was “Hunter.” Hunters have played central characters in many movies and TV series, including Monster Hunter, the magic hunter in The Huntsman: Winter's War and the witch hunter in The Last Witch Hunter.

In this render challenge, 3D artists from around the world were invited to use their imagination to create their own “hunter.”

Between June 8 - August 15 creative 3D artwork was received from the international community. Three professional artworks and three student artworks were selected by the jury, winning a selection of prizes from the event’s sponsors.

1st place in the FGT3D Hunter Challenge professional group - “Elf Hunter” created by Hideyuki Ashizawa.

Professional Category Winner:

First Place: “Elf Hunter” created by Hideyuki Ashizawa

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $500 Render Coupon
6 months license of Corona + Corona Academy Online Courses (unlimited access for 2 years)
Raysync Larger File Transfer 1 year license (SMB version)
Textures.com 1 year subscription with 2500 credits per month
Friendly Shade 32K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter, MadCar, CityTraffic license x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 6 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
Marmoset 12 Month Individual Subscription for Toolbag 4
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

Second Place: “Return from Hunting” created by Floriane Tiam

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $300 Render Coupon
4 months license of Corona
Raysync 240GB download traffic
Textures.com 2500 credit pack ×1
Friendly Shade 16K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter, SplineLand license x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 4 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

Third Place: “Guide Many” created by ManWai Chuk

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $300 Render Coupon
2 months license of Corona
Raysync 120GB download traffic
Textures.com 1000 credit pack ×1
Friendly Shade 8K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 2 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

1st place in the FGT3D Hunter Challenge student group - “Hunter Game ready” created by YanniCk Knöller.

Student Category Winners:

First Place: “Hunter Game ready” created by YanniCk Knöller

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $500 Render Coupon
6 months license of Corona + Corona Academy Online Courses (unlimited access for 2 years)
Textures.com 1 year subscription with 2500 credits per month
Friendly Shade 32K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter, MadCar, CityTraffic license x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 1 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
Marmoset 12 Month Individual Subscription for Toolbag 4
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

Second Place: “The Green Hunter” created by Umral Ismayilov

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $300 Render Coupon
4 months license of Corona
Textures.com 2500 credit pack ×1
Friendly Shade 16K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter, SplineLand license x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 1 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

Third Place: “The Hunter” created by Antoine Destailleurs

Prizes:

Fox Renderfarm $200 Render Coupon
2 months license of Corona
Textures.com 1000 credit pack ×1
Friendly Shade 8K resolution Bundle x1
iCube R&D Group - MultiScatter license x1
Texturebox Legendary Membership x 1 month
Graswald Pro Personal license x1
TopoGun SINGLE license x1

Professional Category Finalists:

“Always Aim for the Eyes” by Budee Mendoza
“Big Bad Mother Dwarfer” by Jake Clark
“Cyberpunk UAZ Hunter” by Roman Zhuravlyov
“Guide Man” by ManWai Chuk
“Hunter Goblin” by Anderson Rosas
“Life Hunter” by Jeffrey Frias
“Red hunter” by Alexandr Melentiev
“Return from Hunting” by Floriane Tiam
“Orc Hunter” by Jeffrey Frias
“The Hunt” by Victor Bok
“Erys” by Fily Dembele
“Invasion” by Amaru Zeras
“Holy Fire” by Kay John Yim
“Terror Birds” - by Bell Deus
“The Hunt” by Reyaz Alankandy
“The Huntress” by Dzung Phung Dinh
“Treasure Hunter” by Sidharth Ganguly
“Elf Hunter” by Hideyuki Ashizawa

Student Category Finalists:

“Hunter Game ready” by YanniCk Knöller
“Lev the bounty hunter” by James Jiang
“The Hunter” by Antoine Destailleurs
“The Apprentice” by Jay Topham
“THE GREEN HUNTER” by Umral Ismayilov

All finalists’ artwork can be seen here.

FGT Community is short for Fox’s Got Talent Community, a platform for 3D artists to show their CG talent, consisting of two programs, the FGT Art and the FGT3D Challenge. FGT3D Challenge is a 3D theme challenge held three times each year. All 3D artists are welcome to participate. FGT Art is a platform for Fox Renderfarm users to display their 3D artworks rendered with Fox Renderfarm and get free render credits. Sign up for the FGT Community here.

Source: Fox Renderfarm