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Escape Motions is back with an Artwork Contest! In cooperation with our incredible partners, we have put together a great collection of prizes worth more than $11,000. Show your talent and get a chance to win fantastic prizes that will help your creative work. We will be accepting entries from March 15 to April 15, 2021.
Whether you are a professional or an enthusiastic artist, whether you like to work in Rebelle, Flame Painter, Amberlight, Inspirit, or using all of our creative software, this invitation is for you! Choose the category that suits you well and enter the contest! It is your time to shine!

Contest now closed

Thank you all for showing your talent by submitting great art pieces in our four categories. We have received 413 entries from 255 artists. We are honored to present the contest-winning contributions to the world of art. See the complete winners list here.

Categories

Portrait

If you love to capture facial expressions and paint realistic or fantasy portraits this is a great category for you to enter.

Figurative Composition

If you enjoy creating realistic or fantasy figurative compositions placed in natural, urban, or fictional environments, join this category.

Landscape

If you are more of a landscape kind of artist, we have a category for you as well. Submit your realistic or fantasy landscape artwork expressing any time of day, weather conditions, or natural habitats.

Abstract Composition

If you love to experiment with shapes, light, or colors and expressing your vision in an abstract atmospheres, submit your artwork to this category.

How to enter

  • Log in to your Community Account
  • Upload the artwork to the Contest Gallery
  • Add description and tag the software it was created in
  • Choose correct category
  • Submit the Artwork

Prizes

Portrait

1st Prize

  • Wacom Cintiq 16’’ ($650)
  • Poser 12 ($250)
  • $200 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • One-year Print Subscription to ImagineFX Magazine ($136)
  • Moho Debut ($60)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Publishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • Mighty Deals $50 Gift Card
  • Art Print Express $25 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 30% Discount

2nd Prize

  • Annual Subscription to the Paintable Digital Painting Academy ($400)
  • Black Smith 3D ($130)
  • $150 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Moho Debut ($60)
  • Artstation Marketplace Gift Card ($50)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • One-year Subscription to Character Design Quarterly Magazine ($40)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $35 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 25% Discount

3rd Prize

  • Mediachance Bundle of Dynamic Auto painter, Photo reactor, Reactor Player for Photoshop, and Style Animator ($190)
  • $100 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Pubishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • One-year Subscription to Artists Magazine ($24)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $20 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 20% Discount

Figurative Composition

1st Prize

  • Wacom Intuos Pro M ($380)
  • Moho Pro ($400)
  • Poser 12 ($250)
  • $200 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • One-year Print Subscription to 3D World Magazine ($136)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Publishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • Mighty Deals $50 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 30% Discount

2nd Prize

  • Annual Subscription to the Paintable Digital Painting Academy ($400)
  • Black Smith 3D ($130)
  • $150 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Moho Debut ($60)
  • Artstation Marketplace Gift Card ($50)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • One-year Subscription to Character Design Quarterly Magazine ($40)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $35 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 25% Discount

3rd Prize

  • Mediachance Bundle of Dynamic Auto painter, Photo reactor, Reactor Player for Photoshop, and Style Animator ($190)
  • $100 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Pubishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • One-year Subscription to Character Design Quarterly Magazine($40)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $20 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 20% Discount

Landscape

1st Prize

  • Annual Subscription to the Paintable Digital Painting Academy ($400)
  • Moho Pro ($400)
  • Poser 12 ($250)
  • $200 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • One-year Print Subscription to Digital Photographer Magazine ($123)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Publishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • Mighty Deals $50 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 30% Discount

2nd Prize

  • Annual Subscription to the Paintable Digital Painting Academy ($400)
  • Black Smith 3D ($130)
  • $150 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Moho Debut ($60)
  • Artstation Marketplace Gift Card ($50)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • One-year Subscription to Artists Magazine ($24)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $35 Gift Card
  • Art Print Express $25 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 25% Discount

3rd Prize

  • Mediachance Bundle of Dynamic Auto painter, Photo reactor, Reactor Player for Photoshop, and Style Animator ($190)
  • $100 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Pubishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • One-year Subscription to Artists Magazine ($24)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $20 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 20% Discount

Abstract Composition

1st Prize

  • Moho Pro ($400)
  • Poser 12 ($250)
  • $200 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Mediachance Bundle of Dynamic Auto painter, Photo reactor, Reactor Player for Photoshop, and Style Animator ($190)
  • XenoDream 2 ($119)
  • One-year Print Subscription to Digital Photographer Magazine ($123)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Publishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • Mighty Deals $50 Gift Card
  • Art Print Express $25 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 30% Discount

2nd Prize

  • Moho Pro ($400)
  • Black Smith 3D ($130)
  • $150 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • XenoDream 2 ($119)
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • One-year Subscription to International Artist Magazine ($38)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Mighty Deals $35 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 25% Discount

3rd Prize

  • XenoDream 2 ($119)
  • $100 Escape Motions Shop Credit
  • Tablet Pro Artist Pad ($26)
  • Renderosity Pubishing 5 Product Prize Pack ($50)
  • One-year Subscription to Artists Magazine ($24)
  • Renderosity Prime Membership ($30)
  • Art Print Express $25 Gift Card
  • Mighty Deals $20 Gift Card
  • Creative Closeup 20% Discount

Rules

Contest has four categories: Portrait, Figurative Composition, Landscape, and Abstract Composition. Each entrant can have multiple contributions - one artwork to each category. To enter the contest, publish artwork fully or partially created in Escape Motions software to the Contest Gallery. Using third party software is allowed. You can submit your entry by uploading your art from your Community account to a relevant contest category or directly from the software using hashtag:

#contest2021

and category hashtags - choose one of the following:

#portrait #figurativecomposition #landscape #abstractcomposition

Uploading Artworks to Contest Gallery starts on March 15, 2021 00:00 GMT

Deadline for receiving Entries is expected on April 15, 2021 23:59 GMT

Results will be announced by April 26, 2021

Read full contest rules.

It's not only the winners who get freebies!

We encourage you to join the fun and show off your skills! Every entrant gets exclusive 20% discount on all International Artist subscriptions and a 20% discount on Escape Motions products.

Judging

We believe everyone can be a creator. Express yourself and submit your artwork to the category that suits you best, or join them all. Only artworks made fully or partially in Escape Motions software will be accepted. We will be judging composition, technical excellence, strength of emotive elements, and overall appearance. Three winners in each category will be selected internally by the Escape Motions team.

Read full Terms & Conditions here.

Why to enter

Wacom Cintiq 16

Wacom Vibrant color, HD clarity and ergonomic design combined together with the super-responsive Pro Pen 2, offer a natural experience and help take your creative ideas and illustrations to the next level. Its durable, scratch resistant materials make Wacom Cintiq reliable day after day.

Wacom Intuos Pro M

Wacom Wacom Intuos Pro lets you illustrate, edit or design with more natural creative control than ever before. With its sleek design, the high-quality materials and built-in bluetooth connectivity, it looks ideal on your desk and is easy to set up.

Moho Pro 13

LostMarble Moho Pro combines powerful animation technology with state-of-the-art professional animation tools. You can make your best animation projects come to life faster and easier.

Moho Debut 13

LostMarble Formerly Anime Studio, is an animation software that will forever change how you animate and what you create. Whether you’re a professional or you want to animate like one, start using Moho Debut 13.

Poser 12

Renderosity Poser’s animation tools help you create stunning, realistic animations without much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Software includes automatic keyframe creation, non-linear animation, lip syncing and a walk simulator to simplify the animation process.

Black Smith 3D

Renderosity 3D painting and 3D morphing software application for Windows and MAC designed to provide artists and studios with easy to use tools that generate high-end realistic visual results.

Dynamic Auto Painter

Mediachance The most advanced software that automatically repaints photos in the style of famous world masters such as Van Gogh, Monet, Benson, Corot, Cézanne, and many others.

XenoDream 2

XenoDream Software Procedural modeler with fractal capabilities, for casual play, artistic exploration and professional projects. It can produce images, meshes, point clouds, depth maps, also stereo images, and animations.

The Artist Pad

Tablet Pro The Artist Pad is used by casual note takers to seasoned professional artists at the highest level. It lets you use your tablet like a tablet, comfortably, where ever you choose with no keyboard, desk or mouse needed. You get to lose the keyboard but keep your keyboard shortcuts.

Photo Reactor

Mediachance This Nodal Image Processor let’s you create new effects that can be then applied to your photos directly or used inside Adobe Photoshop with Reactor Player plug-in.

Rebelle 4

Escape Motions Rebelle is the award-winning painting software with phenomenal oils, watercolors, and other wet and dry media. It convincingly mimics the way natural media interacts with the canvas and itself thanks to real-world color blending, wet diffusion, drying, and a selection of 83 paper sets

Flame Painter 4

Escape Motions Create special effects & original artworks with life-like particle brushes. Make paintings, photorealistic effects, or dynamic compositions with Particle Systems nowhere else to be found.

Reactor Player for Photoshop

Mediachance The most powerful Adobe Photoshop plug-in by Mediachance. It comes with a number of expertly created Art and Photo filters.

Style Animator

Mediachance Style Animator is easy to use motion graphics animation software for web, social media, explainers and video.

Amberlight 2

Escape Motions Amberlight is a unique art tool that creates beautiful computer generated images and animations. Create fantastic swirls, glows & light trails with millions of particles flying around.

Inspirit

Escape Motions Inspirit is a relaxing painting app for creative souls that lets you create mesmerizing mandalas and kaleidoscope artworks.

Digital Painting Academy Annual Subscription

Paintable Join the world's #1 online digital painting school! Get instant access to all lessons, resources and more that have already helped 4000+ students just like you master digital painting!

Marketplace Gift Card

ArtStation Browse digital products for artists and developers, created by artists from around the world. Download ready-made solutions and put your unique ideas into practice. Learn, create, sell, and grow with ArtStation.

International Artist Magazine Subscription

International Artist In each 148 page bi-monthly issue of International Artist magazine we take you inside the studios of the world's best artists. They tell you the thought processes behind their creative methods and reveal their painting techniques.

Artists Magazine, Watercolor Artist, Pastel Journal Subscription

Golden Peak Media Whether you’re a sculptor, painter or illustrator looking for techniques to improve your skills, or you just want to relish the wondrous cultural journey that is fine art, Golden Peak Fine Arts magazines can help every step of the way.

ImagineFX

Future Publishing Ltd. The world's best-selling art magazine that inspires you to draw and paint digital & traditional art. Each issue contains a mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, galleries and interviews, features, community news, reviews, and the latest sci-fi and fantasy films and comics.

3D World

Future Publishing Ltd. 3D World is the best-selling international magazine for 3D artists, covering the fields of animation, VFX, games, illustration and architecture. Each issue provides analysis of latest trends in the market, artistic and technical advice, product reviews, and exclusive behind-the-scenes articles.

Digital Photographer Magazine

Future Publishing Ltd. Digital Photographer is the ultimate monthly photography magazine for enthusiasts and pros in today’s digital marketplace. Every issue offers interviews with leading expert photographers, cutting-edge imagery, practical shooting advice, latest news, and reviews.

Character Design Quarterly Subscription

3dtotal Publishing Exciting print magazine for illustrators, artists, animators and character art enthusiasts. Releasing four times a year, the magazine offers inspirational and educational articles, tutorials, and interviews from top industry professionals.

Prime Membership

Renderosity Enjoy Prime Annual Membership and get access to top-quality products only available at Renderosity.

Discount Coupon

Creative Closeup Get beautiful and stunning collections of digital assets to use in photo retouching, image post-processing, create special effects and increase visual interest in design projects of all kinds.

Gift Cards

MightyDeals Mighty Deals is a daily deals website aimed at creative professionals. Get amazing deals on quality fonts, templates, apps, ebooks, icons and much more.

Gift Cards

Art Print Express Do you need to print your art? Enjoy the discount from Art Print Express and let professionals handle it. An in-house artist ensures the best quality print available of your work!

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