ArtStation’s fourth Community Challenge, Beneath the Waves, launched in mid-November 2017 with more industry-based challenge hosts, two new Props categories (championed by new host Alexandre Grynagier), and the very popular option for production category entrants to base their submissions on viz dev categories. Like all of our community challenges, the submission process was entirely open, and 2,799 artists took up the challenge over the holiday break with some artists putting in hundreds of hours into their submissions, and showing great community spirit with their feedback and encouragement.

A dedicated all-star judging panel took on the difficult task to sort through the very strong entries in all categories. Huge thanks to: Te Hu (Industrial Light & Magic), Andrius Balciunas (Fox3D), Joy Lea (Lightstorm Entertainment), Ian Spriggs (Oats Studios), Eddie Bennun (Ubisoft) and Sylvain Sarrailh (Freelance).

The challenge winners each receive a virtual ArtStation Challenge trophy, designed with meticulous attention to detail by industrial designer Ivan Šantić (check out the process of designing the Awards).
We’d also like to recognise the challenge hosts for their dedication to helping entrants every day of the challenge with feedback and encouragement. Thank you to: Rembert Montald (Riot Games), Suzanne Helmigh (Freelance), Randall Mackey (Freelance), Kait Kybar (Goodbye Kansas Studios), Satoshi Arakawa (Amazon Games), Gavin Goulden (Insomniac Games), Mathew O’Halloran (Ubisoft Massive), Karen Stanley (Ubisoft Massive), Frankie DeRosa (Blur), and Alexandre Grynagier (Freelance).

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. A record 64 amazing artists received awards in the Beneath the Waves challenge!

VIZ DEV CATEGORIES

Beneath the Waves – Keyframe Concept Art

1st Place Keyframe Concept Art: Lap Pun Cheung

2nd Place Keyframe Concept Art: Dominik Mayer3rd Place Keyframe Concept Art: Daria Rashev

Honourable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Daniel Correia

Honourable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Rob Foote

Honourable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: DOFRESH

Honourable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Vivian Wu

Honourable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Eduardo Brito

Beneath the Waves – Character/Creature Design

1st Place Character/Creature Design: Giorgio Baroni

2nd Place Character/Creature Design: Taran Fiddler

3rd Place Character/Creature Design: Tano Bonfanti

Honourable Mention Character/Creature Design: Jack Hamilton

Honourable Mention Character/Creature Design: Zhengyi Wang

Honourable Mention Character/Creature Design: Inkognit / João Fiuza

Honourable Mention Character/Creature Design: Esther Smisdom

Honourable Mention Character/Creature Design: Mole Wang

Beneath the Waves – Environment Design

1st Place Environment Design: Grace Liu

2nd Place Environment Design: Hector Mateo Pino

3rd Place Environment Design: Fernanders Sam

Honourable Mention Environment Design: Aleksei Liakh

Honourable Mention Environment Design: Suresh Pydikondala

Honourable Mention Environment Design: Olga Orlova

Honourable Mention Environment Design: Paweł Latkowski

Honourable Mention Environment Design: Jort van Welbergen

Beneath the Waves – Prop Design

1st Place Prop Design: Tom McDowell

2nd Place Prop Design: Braydan Barrett

3rd Place Prop Design: Sheng Lam

Honourable Mention Prop Design: Level2048 -Arya

Honourable Mention Prop Design: Gediminas Einikis

Honourable Mention Prop Design: Gregory Chryssaphes

Honourable Mention Prop Design: Joé Lesaffre

Honourable Mention Prop Design: Andrian Luchian

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Beneath the Waves – Game Character Art (real-time)

1st Place Game Character Art (real-time): Natalia P. Gutiérrez

2nd Place Game Character Art (real-time): Joe Tolliday

3rd Place Game Character Art (real-time): Benjamin Retter

Honourable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Juan Novelletto

Honourable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Ilya Gagarin

Honourable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Raul Garcia Latorre

Honourable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Rodrigo Gonçalves

Honourable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Pavel Protasov

Beneath the Waves – Game Environment/Level Art

1st Place Game Environment/Level Art: Lucas Zilke

2nd Place Game Environment/Level Art: Benjamin Dolo

3rd Place Game Environment/Level Art: Jon Arellano

Honourable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Yeghor Gallagher

Honourable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Jody Sargent

Honourable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Anton Antonov Marinov

Honourable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Simon Barle

Honourable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Fernando Quinn

Beneath the Waves – Film/VFX Character Art (rendered)

1st Place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Frederic Arsenault

2nd Place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Hamish Mitchell

3rd Place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Huascar Torales acosta

Honourable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Crystal Bretz

Honourable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Quentin Chaillet

Honourable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Marcio Rabelo

Honourable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Julian Santiago

Honourable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Giovane Henriques

Beneath the Waves – Prop Art (rendered)

1st Place Prop Art (rendered): Javier Perez

2nd Place Prop Art (rendered): Linus Scheffel

3rd Place Prop Art (rendered): Ilya Zakharovskiy

Honourable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Vishakha Gupta

Honourable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Dmitry Danylenko

Honourable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Jan Smrž

Honourable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Anton Fomenko

Honourable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Serhan Dereli