E-on software, Daz3D, 3D Artist magazine and Cornucopia3D have set the ’3D Character Rendering Challenge 2010′
Setup and render your 3D Characters in Vue, and submit them to win a copy of the soon-to-be-released Vue 9 Complete, Vue 9 Studio or Vue 9 Esprit, as well as other prizes. You can use any version of Vue to create your character’s world, including free versions.
Images can be in any style and genre, realistic or imaginary and the main character can be anything: human, animal, alien or something even more strange.
Judging will be based solely on the quality, realism and artistic merit of the entries, not on the version of Vue used to create them.


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