Calling all game artists and fan artists! We are super excited to launch what may be our biggest competition ever: The Game Artist of the Year Competition 2021! It’s the first time we’ve run a game art competition and we can’t wait to see all the awesome game illustrations, character designs, concept art, and fan art that you submit. Best yet, we’re making the contest totally free to enter.
About The Game Artist of the Year Competition 2021
We want to give the opportunity for more talented artists to showcase their work and get the recognition that they deserve. The Game Artist of the Year competition is a completely free-to-enter game art competition open to absolutely everyone: hobbyists, amateurs, and professionals alike.
The talented winners will be crowned as our Game Artist of the Year, have their work featured in a special feature article, and win over $1000 worth of gaming goodies. And we’re not talking about in-game items and skins, but awesome high-quality hardware. It is a Christmas competition after all. And if you win, trust us when we say there won’t be much space left under your Christmas tree.
Who Can Enter The Game Artist of the Year Competition 2021?
Whether you’ve worked on developing and designing games before, or you just have a passion for drawing your favourite characters, anyone can enter for free. We welcome all levels of experience, all styles, all ages, and all games. Whether you’ve had your work featured in a AAA blockbuster or you’ve never yet had an image published, we’ll judge your work as equals.
What Should I Submit to The Game Artist of the Year Competition 2021?
We want to see all sorts of game art, so there is no theme and we are open-minded about what we receive. It could be digital illustrations of classic game scenes, it could be creative re-imaginings of your favourite gaming characters, it could be pencil-drawn designs for a game you’re making or simply artwork inspired by a game. While all our judges love MMO Games, it does not need to be based around the MMO genre.
We want the competition to be as easy as possible to enter, that means your work does not need to be exclusive to our contest. It can be work you have submitted in other contests or published elsewhere. As long as we are allowed to publish it without it encroaching on someone else’s rights, you’re allowed to submit it.
While we welcome all nationalities to enter our competition, we can only send the physical prizes to one of the 230 countries that the British Royal Mail delivers to. Click here to confirm your country is included.
The Judges
Alex Sinclair-Lack – Head of Content at MMOGames.com
Oliver Bradley – Chieftain of News at MMOGames.com
Steve Hantke – Head Honcho at MMOGames.com
The Prizes:
Our game art contest is about celebrating your talent, but it’s also about celebrating Christmas. Only this time, we’re the ones playing Santa Claus. As well as being crowned MMOGames’ Game Artist of the Year 2021 and having your work showcased on our site in a special Featured Artist article. We’ll be sharing out over $1000 of gaming loot from high-quality gaming brands to our first, second, and third place winners.
Here’s what you could win:
1st Prize (RRP $731)
Amazing low-latency gaming earbuds by EPOS audio with dual microphone design, a slick metal charging case that extends battery life to 20-hours, high comfort, and true audio excellence. Precision gaming engineering at its most sleek and compact.
Lag-free high-definition game audio with a lift-to-mute flexible boom arm, high-comfort ear cups, and a staggering 100 hours of play on a single charge. Combining understated style with top-of-the-range quality; if these aren’t the pinnacle of gaming audio, they sure are close.
Designed for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Windows 10 PC, the Nacon Revolution Pro takes controller customisation to new levels with changeable weighting options, stick styles, and a companion app. Combining these customisation options opens the door for precise and professional gameplay that will leave your competitors in the dust.
Mobile gaming is getting more hardcore by the day, give yourself the edge with a comfortable and compact high-performance controller with Bluetooth connectivity and a 20-hour battery life. Works with all Android phones.
Everything you need to look after a Nintendo Switch, including a premium design hard case, a tempered glass screen protector, a game card case, and a USB charging cable.
The coolest way to “reload” your next-gen console controller; the charging dock is compatible with PS5 DualSense, features USB-C connectivity and comes with a fast-charge USB-C 2m cable.
- Featured Artist Showcase and the title of MMOGames.com Game Artist of the Year 2021
2nd Prize (RRP $195)
Give yourself the mobile gaming edge with a comfortable and compact high-performance controller featuring Bluetooth connectivity and a 20-hour battery life. Works with all Android phones.
If you can’t afford a fully mechanical keyboard, the Trust Odyss is a nifty little compromise – featuring a “gaming mode”, media keys, LED light shows, and everything in between. It’s comfortable and it satisfies that iconic gamer look.
Level-up your Nintendo Switch gameplay with a more traditional style wireless controller with quick fire triggers, anti-slip tech, and an awesome urban-camouflage pattern. Also, PC and PS3 compatible.
- Have your artwork and bio promoted in a Featured Artist Showcase on MMOGames.com
3rd Prize (RRP $75)
If you can’t afford a fully mechanical keyboard, the Trust Odyss is a nifty little compromise – featuring a “gaming mode”, media keys, LED light shows, and everything in between. It’s comfortable and it satisfies that iconic gamer look.
Level-up your Nintendo Switch gameplay with a more traditional wireless controller with quick fire triggers, anti-slip tech, and an awesome retro-platformer pattern. Also, PC and PS3 compatible.
- Have your artwork and bio promoted in a Featured Artist Showcase on MMOGames.com
Runners Up
- If we were particularly fond of your work, even if you didn’t win our main prizes, we may contact you to ask if you’d like to be chosen for a Featured Artist Showcase.
How to Enter:
Entering our free game art competition is simple and easy. Here’s what you need to do:
Email: contact@mmogames.com with the heading “Game Artist Competition Entry”
Include in the body of the email between 3 to 8 images of your own artwork (these can be a series or completely independent pieces)
Provide us with a couple of sentences describing each of the images that you’ve provided.
Provide us with your name and a short public bio about yourself (no more than 300 words required) as well as your social media handles.
Share this post and tag us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook and tell us that you've entered.
Rules and Regulations:
Participation in the competition is free of charge.
Entrants must submit their work before Christmas Day (25th December 2021 at 12.00 CET).
Winning entrants will be chosen and announced during the first week of January 2022.
Images should be included in-line in the email, we may not be able to open them as attachments.
All work must be the creation of the submitting artist, do not submit anyone else’s work.
You may submit artwork that you’ve submitted or published elsewhere.
You must have the right to share the artwork you’re submitting. If you have given exclusive usage to someone else, you cannot enter it in our contest.
If entrants are below 18 years of age, they must submit permission from a parent or guardian.
1st Place, 2nd Place, and 3rd Place prize-winners give their permission to have their artwork shared as Featured Articles on our website (see example)
Prizes are not exchangeable for their cash value. Prize valuations have been based on UK RRP.
Each participant may only submit once, although each submission can and should contain multiple pieces of artwork.
Results of the competition are not open to appeal.
The competition has no monetary or financial objective.
The competition cannot be participated in by organisers or management of the competition.
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