Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World Challenge Award Winners and Honourable Mentions
Art by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen
ArtStation’s ninth Community Challenge, Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World, launched in September 2021 with more industry-based challenge hosts, and thousands of excited artists. Like all our community challenges, the submission process was entirely open, and close to 4,000 artists took up the challenge to imagine the animal world. Submissions across all categories approached the levels of quality you’d expect in game or film projects, with hosts and fellow entrants providing the encouragement and feedback to push artists to create their best work.
An all-star judging panel took on the difficult task to sort through the very strong entries in all categories. Huge thanks to: Christian Alzmann (Lucasfilm), Craig Mullins (Freelance), Virginie Bourdin (Art of Direction), Claire Hummel (Valve Corporation), Devon Fay (Riot Games), Sandra Duchiewicz (Freelance), Conar Cross (Playground Games), Tyler Smith (Probably Monsters), Finnian MacManus (Terraform Studios) and our amazing challenge hosts Bogna Gawrońska (CD PROJEKT RED), Rembert Montald (Riot Games), Grace Liu (Monomi Park), Randall Mackey (Freelance), Suzanne Helmigh (Ghostfire Gaming), Thomas Chamberlain-Keen (Playground Games), Marina Ortega (Freelance), Elodie Mondoloni (Freelance), Karen Stanley (Ubisoft Toronto), Javier Perez (PlayStation Studios Visual Arts), Gavin Goulden (Insomniac Games), Yekaterina Bourykina (Riot Games), Hasan Bajramovic (Gate21/Blur Studio), Magdalena Dadela (Blur Studio), and Dorine Laplanche (Cyanide).
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’re very pleased to present to you the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each of the categories along with the Honourable Mentions. 64 amazing artists received awards in the Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World challenge!
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Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Hue Teo
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: QiYin Ma
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Louise Meijer Åström
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Florent Boston
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Alex Accorsi
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Mohammad Noureddini
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Nicolas Derio
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Keyframe Design: Oliver Harbour
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Epple Rice
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Didier Nguyen
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Yue Hai
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Roy XVI
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Khoa Viet
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Zhengyi Wang
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Camille Peyrebere
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Character Design: Moxuan Zhang
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Vignesh Gopalakrishnan
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Paul Trochu
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Jin Kim
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Floris Roding
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Gabriel Tan
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Kenn Yap
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Alexandr Melentiev
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Environment Design: Jakub Chełstowski
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Adam “Forange” Törn
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: DENIS WIPART
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Alizé Giraud
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Gaëlle Mazeau—Triaut
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Anastasia Bubnova
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Nova Villanueva
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Lara Gonzalez
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Design: Gomez Lucas
PRODUCTION
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Olya Anufrieva
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Julia Acherontias
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Karolina Vieira
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Hugo Aubert
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Vasili Kravtsov
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Albert Novikov
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Marleen Vijgen
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Character: Konstantin Chulanov
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Khoi Nguyen
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Javier Zuccarino
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Thành Nguyễn
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Julie Bijjou
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: James Manlangit
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Sebastian Fischer
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Reinaldo García
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Film/VFX Character: Chris Thürsam
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Glen Fox
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Glen Fox
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Tuur Sangers
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Jonas Bauer
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Victoria Zavhorodnia
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Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Victoria Zavhorodnia
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Bart de Vries
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Bart de Vries
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Tim Burroughs
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Tim Burroughs
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Isa Raaijmakers
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Isa Raaijmakers
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Rosie Jarvis
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Game Environment Art: Rosie Jarvis
Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art
1st Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Robbie Walker
2nd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Elsa Alexandra
3rd Place Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Svenja Rösner
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Charly Avila
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Edward Vanderghote
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Shreyash Pai
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Lucile Thyrard
Honourable Mention Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World – Prop Art: Miray Scheidel
Check out the submissions
You can see all of the entries for the Untamed: When Animals Ruled the World Challenge here:
- Keyframe Concept Art
- Character Design
- Environment Design
- Prop Design
- Game Character Art
- Game Environment Art
- Film/VFX Character Art
- Prop Art
Huge thanks to Thomas Chamberlain-Keen for his Year of the Ox challenge banner.