Before we announce the winners we just want to give a big thank you to all the participants for joining in on CryDev's first official competition! It was something a little different, a bit of fun and we look forward to running the next competition soon.

There were many excellent entries which made judging them very difficult but when it came down to the wire there were only a couple of votes between the top 3 places, making it very tight competition, so well done there guys

Third place
Coming in at number 3 we had a very smart entry from The Vulture with "Cry-Museum". In this entry, The Vulture put together some beautifully detailed set pieces which were created by shrinking objects down to miniature size, then placing them inside glass cabinets. This was really thinking inside and outside the box and as such, we're happy to give the following prize pack for this entry!

• Roccat Kova+ Mouse
• Roccat Sota Mouse Pad
• CryDev t-shirt

Second Place
Talk about capturing an amazing scene with an immense amount of detail and precision! Inspired by the first Alien movie, this futuristic sci-fi scene called "Journey to the sun", created by Duruk, shows the inside of space ship headed straight for the sun, geared up and on high alert to a nearby alien presence. With so much detail being applied to what started out as just a solid box, we say congratulations to Duruk and we hope you enjoy your prizes:

• Roccat Kone+ Mouse
• Roccat Sota Mouse Pad
• CryDev t-shirt

First Place
With such tight competition nearby, it was difficult to place an overall winner but we hope you all join us in congratulating Vert-X for the astounding work on his entry called "Ancient". This amazing set piece takes a giant leap outside the box and while being remarked by the author as "not very imaginative", we think this couldn't be further from the truth. Reminiscent of something you'd find in an Indiana Jones movie, this inspiring entry captures its title exactly with beautifully placed vegetation and lots of giant, well-placed custom assets. As a reward for your efforts, we hope you enjoy the following prizes:

• Roccat Kulo Stereo Headset
• Roccat Kone+ Mouse
• Roccat Sota Mouse Pad
• CryDev t-shirt
• Signed copy (by the Yerlis & the Tracys) of the CryENGINE Cookbook

That wraps up our first official CryDev competition. To our winners, we'll be contacting you via PM shortly to grab your details. To those of you who didn't make the cut, keep your heads held high and know that there's much more to come. We're going to put your skills to the test with more innovative and exclusive competitions to not only find special talent hidden among you but to help you develop your skills even further, perhaps skills you weren't even aware you possessed!

Thanks to everyone from the CryDev Staff Team

Congrats

Congratulations to the winners.

Oh, wow, thanks guys! Also big congrats to Duruk and Vert-X!

Congratulations Vert-X and The Vulture.

Hey, you're a winner too! Great job!

Congrats to the winners If im honest i have to im dissapointed i din't make it too final 3 but din't no this was a "custom asset" comp i thought it was a level design comp . Gg all

Gratz guys! You all did an awesome work!

Congratulations for all the winners

Thanks
BTW: I only used some custom textures and materials, no custom models. And as far as I can see The Vulture didnt use custom assests as well.

Thanks alot guys!
Congratulations Vulture and Duruk, lets dance a dancy dance
Special congrats to grim and Tiesto for their entries, awesome work you two!

Congratulations

Congrats to all, but i also have to say that these arent the best imho, since this was meant to be an artistic challange, tho it must have been very hard to find artistic characteristics in most of the pics. May i ask who the jury were ?

Thanks, but..

From the rules:
Why do you say it had to be artistic only, it doesn't say so in the rules. Plus I do find the entrys artisic enough imo. And if you think it had to be artistic... then why didn't you make one artistic ?
I would have loved to see another different (artistic) view in the challenge.

I asked Adam in the competition thread, and he said that it was a purely artistic challange. So for this, you gotta have style first of all, then a good composition, using shapes to lead the eye, good color balance to make impressions, and also content to tell a message or to make people think, whereby the artwork becomes living in the observer.

IMO the best works are grims, Tiestos and Kenturracs, and i also have to mention Ruans pic, tho he wasnt allowed to take part, but this pics has a lot within, humor, irony, parody, it looks a bit gay tho, yet it has a good contrast to the "Rambo world" of Crysis 2 with its "cinderella" design. Really good mix of styles.

BTW i was also planing to hop in, i think i figured out a good idea, but then i realized that i wont have nuff free time to make it reach that quality that i found worth showing to others.