The Journey Challenge: Award Winners and Honourable Mentions

ArtStation’s first Community Challenge, The Journey, launched just over two months ago, and our primary goal was to foster community-based learning. The submission process was entirely open, anyone could see anyone else’s work, and users could even livestream their works in progress on Twitch and ask for feedback. 3,388 artists took up the challenge with some artists putting in hundreds of hours into their submissions, and showing great community spirit with their feedback and encouragement.
We’re very pleased to announce the winners and honourable mentions for The Journey Challenge as judged by James Paick, Justin Fields, and the ArtStation team. The winners each receive a complete virtual trophy, designed with meticulous attention to detail by industrial designer Ivan Šanti? (check out the process of designing the Awards, download the graphics here).
We’d like to thank James Paick (Brainstorm School) and Justin Fields (Ironklad Studios) for the daunting task of judging the respective 2D and 3D categories, Ivan Šanti? for his outstanding work on the design of the ArtStation Awards, and Twitch Creative for their support of the first ArtStation Challenge.
The Journey Challenge was broken into the following categories, and you can see all of the entries here:
- 2D Character Art Challenge
- 2D Environment Art Challenge
- 2D Transport Art Challenge
- 3D Character Art Challenge
- 3D Environment Art Challenge
- 3D Transport Art Challenge
We’re very pleased to present to you the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each of the categories along with the Honourable Mentions.
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge 1st Place: Jean Baptiste-Monge
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge 2nd Place: Kan Liu
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge 3rd Place: Ivan Smirnov
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Grace Liu
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Alexis Rives
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Karl Levy
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Florianne B
The Journey 2D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Robin Ruan
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge 1st Place: Yan Yang
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge 2nd Place: Adam Varga
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge 3rd Place: Ned Rogers
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Klaus Pillon
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Romain Jouandeau
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Igor Artyomenko
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Alayna Lemmer
The Journey 2D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Xiaoyu Wang
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge 1st Place: Kait Kybar
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge 2nd Place: Anton Kazakov
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge 3rd Place: Jeff Bartzis
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Igor Zhovtovsk
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Robert Ryminiecki
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Kory Cromie
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Joseph Diaz
The Journey 2D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Alex Thomas
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge 1st Place: Layna Lazar
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge 2nd Place: Safwen Laabidi
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge 3rd Place: Saimon Ma
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Gregoire Binetruy
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Karina Bastos
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Hung Nguyen
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Rico Cilliers
The Journey 3D Character Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Eric Kim
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge 1st Place: Wojciech Piwowarczyk
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge 2nd Place: Damien Peinoit
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge 3rd Place: Tobias Koepp
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Albert Valls Punsich
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Stepan Zaletskiy
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Corey Hill
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: James Morgan
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Jody Sargent
The Journey 3D Environment Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Dmitry Kremiansky
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge 1st Place: Darko Markovic dar-mar
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge 2nd Place: Rory Björkman
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge 3rd Place: Zacharias Reinhardt
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Andrew Hodgson
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Andreas Ezelius
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Jason Tonks
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Vardan Aleksanyan
The Journey 3D Transport Art Challenge Honourable Mention: Julian Andres Chaverra Ramirez