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Silent Quest Contest Winners
Submitted by DigitalFX 10/22/05 5:32 PM GMT
In an effort to encourage our youngest members towards excellence, DigitalFX managed to get Adobe to donate a copy of Photoshop CS as a prize. A second prize was contributed by Gnomon Workshop. The contest was a bit unusual, in that the contestants never even knew they were in a contest. The board nominated 8 of our youngest members whose submissions have been outstanding, have massive karma, are helpful to others and who demonstrate both technical skill and a sophisticated artistic eye. In addition they needed to NOT own a copy of Photoshop 7 or later. The Candidates, all known for their excellence were (in no particular order):
Winternight, MiLo_Anderson , tbhockey , Digital_Angel , LiquidguitarJP, d_spin_9, PrettyFae , and stuffnstuff.
Selecting the final winners was extremely difficult because they were all very qualified in each category so in the end it came down to age. The two winners are the two youngest. LiquidguitarJP at 13 is a remarkable young man who knows how to use PhotoshopCS, but lost his use of it when his brother returned to college. He has contributed handsomely and maturely to Caedes in every way, including giving advice when asked. Just take a look at his work and if you haven't...please vote on it. He will be receiving a new shrink-wrapped Photoshop CS and the congratulations of us all.
An alternate winner was selected despite the fact that she owns Photoshop 7. PrettyFae has also contributed deeply to the Caedes community with her many votes and helpful comments, with sage advice to others. At 14 years of age, she shows an artistic maturity beyond her years. Her submissions have been both popular and of high quality. DigitalFX was able to obtain a second award selected specifically for Fae. Because of her interest in fantasy characters, she will be receiving a copy of both volumes of Gnomon Workshops Visual Storytelling with Iain McCaig DVD training course.
If you dont know him, Iain is the fellow who designed most of the Harry Potter fantasy characters for the movie series. He also designs many of the fantasy characters in the Starwars series including Queen Amidala and Darth Maul. This two volume set, which features the design of his Cosmic Mermaid, will give Fae -- already a great designer -- a complete professional course in both story and character design from a master.
Congratulations to all the contestants and to the winners; and a heart felt thank you to both Adobe and Gnomon Workshop and Design Studio Press.
DigitalFX will be hosting a new silent contest in a few weeks. In this one, he will be looking for the most worthy older member. They must be retired or disabled; be a strong contributor to the Caedes Community, and have an excellent artistic eye. They must also have contributed a number of high quality submissions in any standard category. They must also NOT own current commercial image manipulation software. Please nominate members by PM-ing DigitalFX directly. Please do NOT mention the fact that you are submitting their name as we like these awards to come as a surprise.
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I'm excited for you guys. Way to go! Congratulations!
Thanks so much! It was an honor just to be nominated. :-D
Peter, you rock, and thank you for coming up with such a delightful idea for encouraging participation and development. Thank you also to Adobe and Gnomon Workshop and Design Studio Press for your philanthropy.
This kind of community is why I came to Caedes.net and why I stay at Caedes.net. Now if we can only come up with a silent contest for middle-aged farts like me :-)
How delightful. I'm so happy that such positive young people are able to be recognised. It made my evening to read this. I'm off to check out all the galleries in full!
Congratulations "young'uns" - all of you, and good on those who made it happen.
I haven't uploaded anything in a while due to massive amounts of homework (sigh) but this has certainly persuaded me to get creative again!
Thanks again to everyone involved,
Peace:)
keep up the excellent work 8)
And to Peter----Great job and the warmest thanks for your work giving these young artists encouragement and new materials to inspire them.
- Sean (winner) !!
- Fae (winner) !!
- Peter (cool organiser) !!
- and Adobe & Gnomon !!
WELL DONE !!
"I wrote your name on a piece of paper but by accident I threw it away...I wrote your name on my hand but it washed away...I wrote your name in the sand but the waves whisked it away...I wrote your name in my heart and forever it will stay..."
Its a great idea to have a secret contest, and I am glad you could do something for these young talents.
So young TALENTS..bravo for winning and please honour your skills with sending us more beautiful pictures.
Good luck
