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Thank you to all entrants to the Wacom Community Gallery Staff Selections!
203 gallery postings in during the selection period, and we really had to fight it out among ourselves to choose 2 winners and 2 runner-ups! Winners will get both a Bamboo Fun graphics tablet and an Expose 5 art book from Ballistic Publishing, our partners in Australia. Runner-ups will also get Expose 5 art book. Congratulations!
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Runner-up Winners |
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| The Grand Prize |
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Prize: Bamboo Fun (medium) & Expose 5 artbooks |
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| Artist name: Jeff MD |
| Country:Philippines |
| Title: Golden Bee |
| Winner of the Wacom Staff Selections mini-contest |
Jeffrey MD has been a chef for five years now, but when he began digital painting as a hobby recently he discovered his true passion. Self-taught, he has just started working at Underground Logic, a post-production company, as a 2D concept artist trainee. Young and talented, we expect great things from Jeff in the coming years! |
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Wacom Community: How long did it take you to create the winning artwork? |
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Jeffrey MD: It took me 4 days working 4-6 hours per day. Creating the concept took the longest time. |
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Wacom Community: Which software/hardware was used to create the winning artwork? |
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| Jeffrey MD: I used Adobe Photoshop CS and did the entire sketch there. My ever reliable Wacom Graphire3 (received as a gift) is the best partner for all my digital art. |
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Wacom Community: What kinds of work experience or art-related awards have you won before? |
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Jeffrey MD: It has been a year and a month since I started digital art as a hobby. During that time, I have won contest, etc. such as:
1. 2nd Place, Annual Renderosity Holiday contest with six art software as prizes
2. Commissioned to paint the editor-in-chief's editorial image for monthly magazine ImagineFX Magazine three months in a row.
3. May challenge pixelbrush.net vintage horror movie poster making, won the King of Event (a pride to have the master of event title under the avatar)
4. 2 Artworks accepted to Exotique 3 by Ballistic Publishing
5. 2nd Place at The Gnomon Workshop's August Image Challenge, in which I won 20 training DVDs.
- and now my most awaited Wacom contest which for how many times I have been joined…but just now you honoured me with a Grand Prize! |
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Wacom Community: Are there any subjects that you prefer to work on? |
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| Jeffrey MD: Character concept art is what I love doing. Now, I'm learning about environments and matte paintings. |
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Wacom Community: What do you hope to be doing 5 years from now? |
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| Jeffrey MD: Working as a concept artist for games and films is my next goal. |
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| The Grand Prize |
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Prize: Bamboo Fun (medium) & Expose 5 artbooks |
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| Artist name: Kagi |
| Country: Malaysia |
| Title: Fridgeface Weightlifting |
| Winner of the Wacom Staff Selections mini-contest |
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Wacom Community: Tell us all about yourself |
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Kagi: Born and raised in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, I later moved on to several places before being presently located in Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam. I'm a fresh graduate from The One Academy in Malaysia not too long ago.
Formerly a science stream student, I decided to take the plunge into the field of Digital Animation 5-6 months after high school graduation. I had a console gaming station called Micro Genius at the age of six, then moved on to Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn, Playstation 1 and finally Playstation 2. However, it was Final Fantasy that ignited the spark for me to pursue an art education.
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Wacom Community: How long did it take you to create the winning artwork? |
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| Kagi: Two weeks. In that period of time I had other subjects as well. This still frame artwork was actually a part of a weightlifting animation clip for an assignment in Character Animation. It's a 17-second video clip from a well researched, trial-and-error experiment. I have to build everything from scratch?from modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, VFX to final compositing.
The requirements were simple. Perform an organic or mechanical character lifting an object before putting it to the ground again with 12 principles of animation. Whatever extras we do, is a bonus. |
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Wacom Community:Which software/hardware was used to create the winning artwork? |
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Kagi: I used Maya 7.0 Unlimited from Alias Wavefront back then. It was rendered in Mental Ray (software pipeline) and took a long time to render a single hi-res still frame. |
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Wacom Community: What kinds of work experience or art-related awards have you won before? |
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| Kagi: Before this, I won the Merit Award from The One Academy - Wacom Digital Art Competition 2006. I have also gained 3 months of retail clothing experience with Midvalley Body Glove. |
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Wacom Community: Are there any subjects that you prefer to work on? |
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Kagi: I'd love to paint more digital images?mainly portraits of people! Work was so hectic that I did not have the chance to do so while I was studying. My modern inspiration would be Marta Dahlig, Fausto De Martini and Steven Stalhberg.
I'm also determined to continue to my Zbrush experience in digital sculpting and normal mapping. I'm itching to explore as many 3D applications as possible too. |
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Wacom Community: What do you hope to be doing 5 years from now? |
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Kagi: I'm open to the right company in art, gaming or entertainment industry both local and overseas at the moment. I was afraid to venture into the gaming industry earlier because gaming became both a bad addiction and habit for me while I was studying. But, those thoughts went away when I learned to discipline myself. After all, “Animation is Discipline”
and I'm still trying, *laughs*.
Surely, I'd love to work with the big names in the global gaming industry like Blizzard, Activision, Square-Enix, Ubi-Soft to name a few. I'm interested in 3D rendering, modeling, texturing, and conceptual art or even script-writing! I'd also like to give a shot at the filming industry later in future. |
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| Runner-up |
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Prize: Expose 5 artbooks |
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| Artist name: panzergrenadier |
| Country: Malaysia |
| Runner-up of the Wacom Staff Selections mini-contest |
21-year old college student panzergrenadier hails from Surabaya, Indonesia and is highly interested in manga creation and anime-style illustration. panzergrenadier is also interested in military history, particularly World War II history, and loves to “explore the unique world of Oriental design.” |
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Wacom Community: How long did it take you to create the winning artwork? |
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panzergrenadier: It took about 10 days to finish. |
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Wacom Community: Which software/hardware was used to create the winning artwork? |
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panzergrenadier:
- Staedler pencil from various degree; 4H, HB, 2B, 6B, EE
- Standard, cheap mechanical pencil with Pilot ENO Leads
- Plastic gloves
Software: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (only for Colorization) |
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Wacom Community: What kinds of work experience or art-related awards have you won before? |
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panzergrenadier: I won The Best Character Design from a local comic contest held in Indonesia, and was one of The Best of Three from an on-the-spot comic-making contest in PKN 2 (National Comic Week) event in my campus. I've also become a Tutor Assistant for 'Illustration' subject at my campus. |
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Wacom Community: Are there any subjects that you prefer to work on? |
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| panzergrenadier: Comic and Manga as I am willing to go deeper in this field and aim to become a professional on that matter. My dream is to work in the Japanese comic industry. |
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Wacom Community: What do you hope to be doing 5 years from now? |
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panzergrenadier:
- I can publish my first tankoubon
- Have a good relationship with minimal one of the Japanese comic-industry.
- Open a small manga studio and gather the crew to make it a solid team :) |
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| Runner-up |
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Prize: Expose 5 artbooks |
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| Artist name: gnahz |
| Country: Singapore |
| Runner-up of the Wacom Staff Selections mini-contest |
Gnahz is currently a graphic designer doing work for magazines and yearbooks. He has a great passion for drawing, but claims “I don't have much talent. So, I believe practice makes perfect. I have been drawing regularly ever since failing my drawing module in school.” We think you have talent and the perfect attitude to become a great illustrator! Keep at it!
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Wacom Community: How long did it take you to create the winning artwork? |
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gnahz: It took me about 45 minutes to create the artwork. It was a daily art routine with my drawing pal and it work out great! ^^
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Wacom Community: Which software/hardware was used to create the winning artwork? |
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| gnahz: I used openCanvas for the drawing. I like it because I can rotate the drawing freely, which is very similar to drawing on paper. For my tablet, I used a Genius tablet, because I can't afford a Wacom tablet. But my tablet still does its job well. It just requires a bit more effort… ^^ |
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Wacom Community: What kinds of work experience or art-related awards have you won before? |
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gnahz: I have been short listed for an art event in Singapore called NoiseSG and another event, a T-shirt design competition, in which I won the consolation prize. |
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Wacom Community: Are there any subjects that you prefer to work on? |
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| gnahz: I love drawing crazy characters with relation to life! I love drawing creatures and animals too. But I'm not too good at them... |
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Wacom Community: What do you hope to be doing 5 years from now? |
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| gnahz: I hope to be an illustrator, drawing quirky characters everyone loves! ^^ I'm working hard on it!! |
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