Beneath the Waves: Award Winners and Honourable Mentions
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
You can see all of the entries for the Beneath the Waves Challenge here: