ArtStation’s fifth Community Challenge, Wild West, launched in April 2018 with more industry-based challenge hosts, and a record number of entrants for an ArtStation Challenge! Like all our community challenges, the submission process was entirely open, and 4,500+ artists registered for the challenge with some artists putting in hundreds of hours into their submissions, and more artists than ever giving their feedback and encouragement to their fellow entrants.

An all-star judging panel took on the difficult task to sort through the very strong entries in all categories. Huge thanks to:  Raf Grassetti (Santa Monica Studio), Peet Cooper (Gamers for Good), Jeff Simpson (Ubisoft), Frankie DeRosa (Blur) and our amazing challenge hosts Pablo Carpio (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), Hasan Bajramovic (Blur) and Javier Perez (Intrepid Studios).

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). 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners also receive a free 12-month ArtStation Pro subscription.

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 Wild West challenge!

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Wild West – Keyframe Concept Art

1st place Keyframe Concept Art: Sina Hayati

2nd place Keyframe Concept Art: Lap Pun Cheung

 

3rd place Keyframe Concept Art: Samuel Smith

Honorable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Ihor Tovstohan

Honorable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Ricardo Guimaraes

Honorable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Schwinn M.

Honorable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Gabriel Björk Stiernström

Honorable Mention Keyframe Concept Art: Andre Pinheiro

 

Wild West – Character Design

1st place Character Design: Moxuan Zhang

2nd place Character Design: David Ardinaryas Lojaya

3rd place Character Design: Mole Wong

Honorable Mention Character Design: Mateusz Mizak

Honorable Mention Character Design: Vlad Gheneli

Honorable Mention Character Design: Tony Sart

Honorable Mention Character Design: Dave Greco

Honorable Mention Character Design: Michael (Mick) Mowat

Wild West – Environment Design

1st place Environment Design: Chang-Wei Chen

2nd place Environment Design: Stoyan Stoyanov

3rd place Environment Design: Dave Jones

Honorable Mention Environment Design: Yi Lo

Honorable Mention Environment Design: Connor Sheehan

Honorable Mention Environment Design: Ксения Ррр

Honorable Mention Environment Design: Helio Frazao

Honorable Mention Environment Design: Kasogi Yose

Wild West – Prop Design

1st place Prop Design: Alex Thomas

2nd place Prop Design: Eugene Shushliamin

3rd place Prop Design: Billy Machin

Honorable Mention Prop Design: Level2048 -Arya

Honorable Mention Prop Design: Becca Hallstedt

Honorable Mention Prop Design: Mathieu Lamble

Honorable Mention Prop Design: Glenn van Driel

Honorable Mention Prop Design: JiaYing Liang

PRODUCTION

Wild West – Game Character Art (real-time)

1st place Game Character Art (real-time): Jared Chavez

2nd place Game Character Art (real-time): Nikita Svechnikov

3rd place Game Character Art (real-time): Aidin Salsabili

Honorable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Farzin Izadyar

Honorable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Guillaume Mahieu

Honorable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Ali Noori

Honorable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Georgian Avasilcutei

Honorable Mention Game Character Art (real-time): Ksenia Shumikhina

Wild West – Film/VFX Character Art (rendered)

1st place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Stavros Karagiannis

2nd place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Aditya Chauhan

3rd place Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Ellie Dupont

Honorable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Ali Sadeghi

Honorable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Ale Barbosa

Honorable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Zacharias Reinhardt

Honorable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Rodrigo Avila

Honorable Mention Film/VFX Character Art (rendered): Frédéric Arsenault

Wild West – Game Environment/Level Art

1st place Game Environment/Level Art: Jon Arellano

2nd place Game Environment/Level Art: Maarten Hof

3rd place Game Environment/Level Art: Anthony Trujillo

Honorable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Dominique Buttiens

Honorable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Vincent Moubeche

Honorable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Christoffer Radsby

Honorable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Maxim Dorokhov

Honorable Mention Game Environment/Level Art: Nastya Ermakova

Wild West – Prop Art (rendered)

1st place Prop Art (rendered): Lukas Walzer

2nd place Prop Art (rendered): Bohdan Lvov

3rd place Prop Art (rendered): Doru Butz

Honorable Mention Prop Art (rendered): James Horn

Honorable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Suraj Jangid

Honorable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Praveen Nagar

Honorable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Oleksii Tkachuk

Honorable Mention Prop Art (rendered): Dawnson Chen