Neo Tokyo: Exponential Reality Community Challenge (Production Phase)
Art: Cyberpunk Oriental Bar, Egor Kayali, Concept by Lok Du
ArtStation Community Challenges help you to improve your skills, connect with and learn from fellow artists, create new material for your portfolio and show the ArtStation Community what you’re capable of. We hope you’re ready because an exciting new ArtStation Community Challenge begins now.
The theme of the twelfth ArtStation Community Challenge is Neo Tokyo: Exponential Reality. We’re challenging artists to imagine the future of humanity in the megatropolis of Neo Tokyo. A place where humanity and technology meld into new realities. How would fashion, customs, architecture and transport look when humanity gets an upgrade?
Join the Challenge
The Challenge started with five Concept Art categories (Keyframe Design, Character Design, Environment Design, Prop Design and VFX Design) and ran for four weeks. We’re now opening up five Production categories (Game Character Art, Game Environment/Level Art, Film/VFX Character Art, Game Prop Art and Game VFX Art) which start on Tuesday 5th September, 2023.
Enter Phase 2
You can now register for the Production art categories and begin the challenge.
Learning from the best
ArtStation Learning is a free learning resource with amazing videos from industry artists on many aspects of creativity and production. We’ve highlighted videos for each category of the challenge to get you started which you can find on ArtStation Learning.
- ArtStation Learning: Game Character Art
- ArtStation Learning: Film/VFX Character Art
- ArtStation Learning: Game Environment/Level Art
- ArtStation Learning: Game Prop Art
- YouTube (VFX Apprentice): Game VFX Art
Challenge feedback system
An important part of ArtStation Challenges is posting WIPs so that the judges, hosts and recruiters can follow your process can give you feedback along the way. To streamline the process we’ve added a new Feedback Request feature to the challenge platform so that you can request feedback when you need it. Every artist will receive three (3) feedback requests per submission.
Deliverables
Each challenge category has its own set of requirements, so we’ve improved the way deliverables are managed to reduce the chance of incomplete entries which don’t get judged.
Challenge Hosts
In order to help you push your submission to the next level, each category has hosts to give constructive feedback on your submissions and general tips along the way. As always, we have a talented team of working artists to share their knowledge:
Challenge Hosts
- Bogna Gawrońska (CD PROJEKT RED): Keyframe Design
- Rembert Montald (Lightspeed LA): Keyframe Design
- Sang Nguyen (Freelance): Character Design
- Jeanne Plounevez (Amplitude Studios): Character Design
- Thomas Chamberlain-Keen (Freelance): Character Design
- Randall Mackey (Freelance): Environment Design
- Marina Ortega (Freelance): Prop Design
- Elodie Mondoloni (Umeshu Lovers): Prop Design
- Jason Keyser (VFX Apprentice): VFX Design/VFX Art
- David Hall (Worldspark Studios): VFX Design/VFX Art
- Dmitry Parkin (COLD SYMMETRY): Game Character Art
- Karolina Vieira (VISYON): Game Character Art
- Yumi Batgerel (Batgerel Studio): Game Character Art
- Hasan Bajramovic (GATE21): Film/VFX Character
- Reinaldo García (Roarty Digital): Film/VFX Character
- Karen Stanley (PlayStation Visual Arts): Game Environment/Level Art
- Javier Perez (PlayStation Visual Arts): Game Environment/Level Art
- Dorine Laplanche (Airborn Studios): Game Prop Art
Challenge Judges
The judging panel for the Neo Tokyo: Exponential Reality Challenge is fantastic!
- Virginie Bourdin
- Yekaterina Bourykina
- Raphael Lacoste
- Liz Kirby
- Donglu Yu
- Amy Sharpe
- Devon Fay
- Tyler Smith
- Sandra Duchiewicz
- Suzanne Helmigh
Share your Progress
The official challenge hashtag is #ArtStationNeoTokyoChallenge. Share your progress with us and others using the hashtag when you post updates on your other social media.
Deadlines
The concept art challenges began on Tuesday 8th August 2023 and closed on Monday 4th September 2023. The production challenges begin on Tuesday 5th September 2023 and the entry deadlines will be Monday 30th October 2023. The deadline to register for the production challenges is Monday 23rd October 2023.
Eligibility
We’re happy to welcome Quebec residents to ArtStation Community Challenges. A number of countries have competition/contest legislation that makes it impractical to run our contest in its current form (Italy, Brazil). We’ll continue to investigate solutions for future challenges, but right now it’s not possible to include these locations.
Good luck!
Finally, huge thanks go to Egor Kayali for his wonderful execution of Lok Du’s Cyberpunk Oriental Bar concept for the main challenge banner artwork.
