The Grand Challenge Ends - Nish, Patch, Sharni, Bradley, Laurina Steal Thunder!

UWA-BOSL Amphitheatre hosting the Grand Finale (photo: Gingered Alsop)

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Nish Mip's UMBRELLAS & THE LAST OCEAN, incredibly took 1st (L$75,000) & 2nd Prizes for the Imagine Challenge of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge following the deliberations of the 23 strong judging panel viewing the 31 Grand Finale works, while Patch Thibaud almost did the same in the Flagship Challenge, taking top spot (L$75,000) & sharing 2nd with DB Bailey. MachinimUWA II: Art of the Artists was won by both Laurina Hawks & Bradley Dorchester, as we had a tie for 1st Place (@ L$55,000). Sharni Azalee won 1st prize for the IMAGINE non-scripted.

Nish Mip celebrates at the afterparty

NISH MIP @ THE AFTER PARTY

Commenting on her win, Nish said, "Thank you! What can I say that I havn't said 3 times already :) But it doesn't go without saying another big Thankyou to Jayjay and quad and all the judges and sponsors and the artists and people who voted and to everyone in whatever way who have made this event so very special it's been a lot of fun and probably the best time I've spent doing anything in SL apart from driving a bus over a waterfall :)"

Laurina Hawks @ the Announcements - with Malburns Wrtiter (in purple )
and quadrapop Lane (in green) in the background

LAURINA HAWKS @ THE ANNOUNCEMENT

Laurina chimed in, "When I created the scene of the falling Billion Trillion Lindens I never expected to hear that sound by myself. But I did. I am very proud on my team and cannot express how good it feels to see such a hard work as success. I thank all the artists of the Gallery without them there would not have been so much overwhelming Machinimas. The entire challenge enriched Second Life extremely."

PATCH THIBAUD @ COMMENTING ON THE WIN

Patch was delighted, "I am delighted to receive the Grand Award for the University of Western Australia's Flaship Competition in Second Life. This program is one of the most exciting developments in the exploration of architecture in Second Life, and I wish to acknowledge the terrific contribution that the UWA has made to our virtual community. I am convinced that ultimately, whether it is Second Life or some future realization we cannot begin to predict, that virtual worlds will become an indespensible tool for architectural visualization, prentation, and design collaboration.

I am greatly inspired and appreciative of the tireless efforts of Jayjay Zifwane, by the vision and commitment of Professor Ted Snell, Chairman of the UWA Cultural Precint Program. Above all, I have had the great good fortune to have as my inspiration and my mentor DB Bailey, who both in the guise of his second life persona and as David Denton, Architect, has transformed my life, my work, and my understanding of virtual worlds. Our joint submission to the Flagship Competition proved to us both, in the most dramatic way, the collaborative value of a virtual envionment. And all of us who are interested in architecture in Second Life are the beneficiaries of his passionate avocation to the greater world outside our virtual universe."

SHARNI AZALEE @ RUNAWAY WIN

Sharni who ran away with the non-scripted prize revealed how the challenge shaped her entry to the artworld, "Firstly I'd like to thank Jayjay Zifanwe, quadrapop Lane and the awesome people at University of Western Australia. I find it hard to put into words how grateful I am for their support and encouragement. My very first piece of art work in s/l or r/l was my first entry into the Imagine Challenge and from that moment they embraced me and made me feel worthy of entering. This led to so many wonderful creative experiences in s/l and the start of my r/l art experiences (see Mr Zifanwe, you do change lives). I was honored to receive 2nd in People's Choice (non scripted) and the judges award for Non Scripted Exhibit, for my piece The Abyss. A woman’s handbag, the mystifying abyss, where the bravest of men fear to tread. Amazing to me how many took the challenge and returned unscathed from dark realms of a woman’s handbag. Thank you to all the people that voted and all the judges, I am truely humbled and honored to recieve such an award at an event I hold in such high esteem and close to my heart."

Transcript of the announcements & full winner's list
(summarized winners list at bottom)

This is the speech delivered by Jayjay Zifanwe:
Greetings everyone, and welcome to the University of Western Australia, or UWA as she is known and also welcome to the Grand Finale of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge & MachinimUWA II. As is tradition at UWA, I would like to acknowledge that the University is situated on Nyoongar land and that the Nyoongar people remain the spiritual and cultural custodians of their land and continue to uphold their values, languages, beliefs and knowledge.

Jayjay presenting the Grand Finale prizes at the UWA- BOSL Amphitheatre

Today brings to an end the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge which was launched on the 15th of August 2009, with 841 entries received across the Imagine Art Challenge and the Flagship Building Design Challenge. Today also sees the conclusion of MachinimUWA II: Art of the Artists and with this, we had 45 machinima submissions where the theme was to film the artworks submitted to the UWA Challenge.

Its been an absolute pleasure for me to work with all of you over the year, and especially to those who went above an beyond the call of duty to make all of this a success. Thank you quadrapop lane, curator of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge, thank you Taralyn Gravois , thank you LaPiscean Liberty, thank you Raphaella Nightfire. Also much thanks to those who have provided support and sponsorship which raised the overall prize pool from L$100,000 to more than L$1,000,000 now across Art, Architecture and Machinima. So I would like to also thank the Cultural Precinct at the University of Western Australia, ShedworX.com, the Casey Family of Western Australia, the Residents of Artemesia, MidnightRain Glas, Phillip Vought, Bohemian Ghost, Gumby Roffo, Sasun Steinbeck, Galea Yates, Kip Yellowjacket and a host of others.

Before any further announcements, first on the agenda today is our Special Guest Speaker whom I would like to sincerely thank for agreeing to attend and address everyone at this event. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce the creator of the legendary Ivory Tower Library of Primitives, and Grand Finale judge for the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge, Lumiere Noir.

Lumiere Noir's Speech on Virtual Art:
Calling it “digital art” isn't specific enough, Art 2.0 is cliché and the term “new media” seems like just another dismissal to me. I don't think anyone knows much about what virtual art really is. It's too recent and there's too much of it so we're just going to stick some label on it so we can throw it into the closet until somebody comes along to figure it out.In the meantime, the scholars and critics are going to be probing each other to see who is fit to define the art being created in virtual worlds.

Lumiere Noir inspects the venue before his speech

All definitions of art are deliberately vague because art is too varied a thing to pin down in one place for very long. Love might be easier to define than art and we've been working on the definition for that for centuries. Love is different with every generation, as is each generation's art.

But virtual art it isn't like all the others. It is different by its very nature. Atoms have been replaced by bits and molecules by bytes. Virtual art is not tangible in the way any physical object is. That's okay; we can't touch the art that's in museums unless the guard is looking the other way. For all we know, museum art might be intangible too. Virtual art can be infinitely reproduced and propagated directly to millions, yet only in the sort of world in which it was created. And virtual words are uncertain things.

Virtual art could exceed physical art's ability to be seen all over the world. But only those eyes that are internet enabled. For a work of art to be considered great art over time, I think it needs to be seen by a great many eyes. People need time to think about artworks; they need to look at them, compare them, talk about them, argue over them, publish articles, magazines, books about them...then they need to hold retrospectives and talk about the works some more.

Art needs time to grow in people's minds. Lots of time, centuries if possible. The longer the better. How long was it before the Mona Lisa was considered great? We have no idea, it's been great since before we were born. But virtual worlds are uncertain things, they are a lot more fragile than the world in which we live. Virtual works of art will exist only as long as the companies that host the servers last. Will Linden Labs be running a century from now? One decade from now? Will Linden Labs last until 2012, when the real world is supposed to end according to certain Mayans that were in the know? I feel we can safely give Linden Labs at least until then.

In time, I feel certain that we will have something like a Second Life that is as universally used as the web is used today. There will be many changes between now and then, data file formats, animations and tools, capabilities and effects will all be greatly different over time, and if that future virtual world has a massive population, a larger fraction of the world's population than Second Life has, it will be a large world, both rich and strange.

The virtual artists' palette will undoubtedly be much more expressive and immersive than what we have available to us now, and of a certainty, future virtual worlds will be incompatible with what we are using today, making current virtual art even more ephemeral. Virtual worlds are uncertain things. They and everything in them are transitory. Much more transitory than the lives of the people using them. Virtual worlds have amazing potential, as does virtual art. Whether or not the virtual works of art we are producing today could be called great will depend on how well they endure in the minds of the people who experience them. We've got to grab a lot of mindspace in a short period of time, but with the pervasive nature of the medium of virtual art, perhaps the questionable longevity of virtual worlds will be offset by their ability to transmit a shared experience to millions.

As to the work in this wonderful show, I had the pleasure of being one of the judges. I'd like to particularly single out the work of three artists represented here (in alphabetical order by last name); Igor Ballyhoo, Bryn Oh and Eliza Wierwight. I felt a lot of the art represented in the show was still striving for an expressive means, often that the content of the work seemed to be simply the effect used to produce it; whether that was a particle effect, a texture animations or glow. The works of the three artists I've mentioned seem to go far beyond this. They appear to embody entire worlds in their construction. I looked at their work, and I've been building for a very long time, and while I knew how the works they made were produced, I didn't really know how they had been made. I could lose myself in their pieces and look at them for ages. They have gone beyond experimenting and playing with the medium available to us all, and infused them with their strong and personal visions, and for that I thank you.

Jayjay returned to continue:

Thank you Lumiere, it was truly a privilege to have you here! At the end of all the announcements, we will have the privilege of hearing Mommaluv Skytower singing live, and this will be followed by super Art DJ Eifachfilm Varcirca, who is the definition of a multi-talented artiste having also been part of the UWA 3D Art Challenge across the year as well as MachinimUWA II !


On to the announcements...
First... will be the announcements for MachinimUWA II: Art of the Artists. MachinimUWA II grew almost by accident, out of a desire to honour the wonderful work that the artists of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge had created, and so the theme was, 'create something that will take our breath away'. And the subject matter was the artwork of the Grand Finale or of any of the works featuring in the July and August rounds of the 3D Art Challenge.

When the winners are announced it will be done in 1 minute intervals. We do invite everyone to comment and congratulate the winners, and for the winners to respond before the next announcement (and if they could please use the SHOUT function :). Hopefully we can get pictures of you attending the event. (If anyone took photos of the winners at the event and would like to share them please email them to Jayjay) These will go into the UWA in Second Life Blog, the Metaverse Journal, Prim Perfect Publications, the SL Enquirer, The Australian Trader and a number of other journals and blogs.

I want to thank our judging panel for their sterling work in looking through the incredible array of 45 entries. It was unbelievably hard to separate things, and the panel was put to a great deal of work!

1. Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
2. Dr Carmen Fies (RL) - Second Life Lead: University of Texas San Antonio
3. quadrapop Lane (SL) - Curator of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
4. White Lebed (SL) - the founder of AppliedGameology.com
5. Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Owner of The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator & co-host of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
6. Iono Allen (SL) - Official Machinimatographer of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
7. Cisko Vandeverre (SL) - Reigning UWA MachinimUWA Champion
8. Dr Kim Flintoff (RL) - Lecturer, Instructional Design, Centre for eLearning, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
9. LividEye Yoshikawa (SL) / John Yap (RL) - Senior Media Producer, National University of Singapore
10. Michelle Glaser (RL) - Senior Project Officer, Department of Culture and Arts, Government of Western Australia
11. Ian Booth (RL) - Chief Executive Officer, Screen West, Western Australia
12. Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine, Owner Sanctorum Gallery (SL)
13. Laetitia Wilson (RL) - Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA
14. Aaron Kennedy (RL) - Chairman, WAnimate, Raging Pixel Productions


How the Judging was done:
Each judge listed their top 8 in order of preference. 8 points was allocated for a 1st place vote, 7 points for a 2nd place vote, and so on, with 1 points being allocated for an 8th place vote. The top 3 were taken as a straight aggregate compiling the individual rankings of the 14 judges. The special awards were then selected by discussion among the judges taking into consideration the overall rankings. There was also a special award provided by Aview TV & LaPiscean Liberty.

Honourable Mention Prizes
First of all, and you can see the trouble started here, we have the Honourable Mention Prize. This is a single prize of L$10,000. However, the judges were hopelessly deadlocked. And so it was, that we had a 3-way tie for the Honourable Mention Prize, which becomes L$3,333 each! And so the Honourable Mention Prize for MachinimUWA II, goes to:

spyVspy Aeon's I.Am.Not.A.Robot.

Suzy Yue's Across A Crowded Room

Laslopantomik Yao's , City of Art

The Aview TV Award
Next, we have the special awards, and we start off with The Aview TV Award, with L$10,000 provided by Aview TV & LaPiscean Liberty. The Aview TV Award, goes to:

Fake Jewell's , Song of Medusa

Commenting on this, LaPiscean said, "When identity and prose meet one another, the content is heartfelt. I know, because i was a Medusa in my time. At least thats why I so like the Song of Medusa, as if to say this Machinima was about myself. While a Medusa among Medusas, I shone and now that I'm not among Medusas, remaining one at heart, I still shine!"

Next, the Award for Best Art Visualisation (L$10,000), goes to:
Rysan Fall - MachinimUWA, Art of the Artist

The Award for Best Art Visualization, Single Artwork (L$10,000), goes to:
Ed Vespucciano - Lessons in Democracy

The Award for Best Crossover Impact (L$10,000) goes to:
L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay - CLICK, Immersive & Interactive Virtual Art

The Award for Best Story (L$10,000) goes to:
Yesikita Coppola - Inspiracion

And, the Award for Best Editing & Message (L$10,000) goes to:
Pia Klaar - Art of the Artists, A Closer Look

Now for 3rd, 2nd & 1st Prize in MachinimUWA II: Art of the Artists
Now we come to the top 3 prizes, and we start with 3rd Prize. When all the statistics were done taking into account the judges rankings, this piece finished with 42 points, and 12 of the 14 judges listed this piece in their top 8. A wonderful whimsical story with a sublime message. The L$30,000 3rd Prize, goes to:
Tutsy Navarathna - An Art Form is Born

Next we come to 2nd Prize. Now truly, for 2nd Prize, when I did all the calculations following the judges submissions, I got the shock of my life! I apologize to this person, but I just had to shake my head, I can't believe this was selected for 2nd and so,
the 2nd Prize of L$50,000, goes to:
NOBODY [ed. Nobody seems to have won a lot today ;)]

Yes ladies and gentlemen.... nobody, because incredibly, we have a TIE for FIRST PLACE, on 60 points each. One of the 2 winners appeared on 13 of the 14 judges lists of top 8, while the other had 3 first place votes and 3 second place votes. No other piece had more than TWO 1st place votes and TWO 2nd place votes. So we had to recalibrate the prize, and put the 1st & 2nd Prize together and divide by 2, making that L$55,000 for each of the two 1st Prizes!

JOINT-WINNERS of MACHINIMUWA II: Art of the Artists (L$55,000) are:
Bradley Dorchester - Art of the Artists
this machinima certainly took many breaths away!

Laurina Hawks - No Tomb for the Arts
a film of epic proportions!

We also had an viewer participation event, where we asked SL residents to predict who would be in the top 8, and to rank the order, and and we have 3 winners, 3rd (L$1,000) is Pia Klaar, 2nd (L$1,500) is EdwardIV Beaumont and the winner (L$2,500) of the viewer participation event is Beau Aie !

Grand Finale of UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
And now, we move to the Grand Finale of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge. Before announcing the winners here, there are a few things I do need said.

First please help me thank the curator of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge once again, who has for an entire year, magnificently marshaled the 841 entries that I allowed to come in at all times of the day and night with not a single day break as to when the works were submitted, and not a single day when the gallery was closed across the year. Ladies & gentlemen, quadrapop Lane.

quadrapop Lane - retiring after a year of curating the Imagine Challenge

And sadly, we have to announce that quadrapop will from today be stepping down as the curator of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge, as the Challenge comes to a full stop, and qpop will be able to get the great break she deserves! Thank you quadrapop Lane!

I would also like to thank Taralyn Gravois for her great work in being the Director of the UWA-BOSL Amphitheatre, and looking after events held at the 4-SIM Theatre. Sadly, she is also stepping down today, as a number of other pressures wont allow her to continue in her role. Thank you Taralyn!

FreeWee Ling - new Curator of the UWA 3d Art & Design Challenge (photo by FreeWee)

The Torch passes however. FreeWee Ling will take over as curator at UWA & Chantal Harvey will take over at this theatre! Three cheers for FreeWee & Chantal!

What comes next?
Now, what is there to take over at UWA? Well, I (Jayjay) won't have a notecard to distribute for a few weeks yet, but basically once the curtain comes down today, the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge (L$1,000,000 Prize Pool), which again will run for one year will kick off. This will be a Grand Collaboration among the major art houses of SL, and aside from the top 3 monthly awards, in place of the Honourable Mention Awards, we will have a monthly:
a Pirats Prize (selected by Merlina Rokocoko & Newbab Zsigmond),
an Odyssey Prize (selected by Fau Ferdinand & Lizsolo Mathilde),
an SL Arts Prize (selected by Gleman Jun & Sunset Quinnell),
a Show & Tell Prize (selected by Florenze Kerensky & Barney Boomslang),
a CARP Prize (selected by Josina Burgess & Velazquez Bonetto) and
a BOSL Prize (selected by Frolic Mills & Giela Delpaso).

The rules for this will be simple. The theme is 'Create something that will take our breath away', and the prim limit is 100! As it always has been. So anyway, the receiver for the works is in the same location as before !

Professor Ted Snell, Director of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge whose 5 minute meeting with me 2 days before the very first mini-Launch we had at UWA in August 2009 sparked off these challenges said," It began with a rush but the entries just kept coming, rising from over thirty in the first month to a final total of over one hundred artworks in the final competition. What was most exciting was the obvious increase in the standard of entries, the increasing sophistication of the conceptual basis of the works and the extraordinary skill in rendering them within the virtual world. "

As with the Machinima, I want to thank and acknowledge the judging panel. There were 23 judges in all, however 22 for either the Flagship or Imagine side as one of the judges, only looked at the Flagships, while another only looked at the Art.

JUDGING PANEL for GRAND FINALE of the
UWA 3D ART & DESIGN CHALLENGE
1. Lumiere Noir (SL) - Creator of the Ivory Tower Library of Primitives
2. Sasun Steinbeck (SL) - Founder of the Art Galleries of SL list
3. Lowell Cremorne (SL), Owner of The Metaverse Journal
4. White Lebed (SL) - Founder of AppliedGameology.com
5. Phillip Vought(SL) - Art Philanthropist & Founding Patron of UWA-BOSL Amphitheatre
6. Lanai Jarrico (SL) - CEO SL Enquirer
7. Reslez Steeplechase (SL) - Founder First Call Musicians Co-op (FCMC), CEO Matters of Music Media Group (M3)
8. Mal Burns (SL) - Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
9. Apollo Manga (SL) - examiner.com Writer & Novelist
10. Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine, Owner Sanctorum Gallery
11. Dr Gary Zabel (RL) / Georg Janick (SL) - University of Masachusetts
12. Saffia Widdershins (SL) - Owner and Editor of Prim Perfect Publications
13. Jordan Whitt (SL) - Editor in Chief, ICON Lifestyle Magazine
14. Rowan Derryth (SL) - Art & Design Historian; Writer for Prim Perfect Publications
15. Courtney Linden (SL) - Linden Lab
16. Paisley Beebe (SL) - CEO of Perfect World Productions TV
17. Bohemian Ghost (SL) - Owner of Summerland Estates
18. Jopsy Pendragon (SL) - Founder of the Particle Laboratory Learning Center
19. Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
20. Frank Roberts (RL) - The University Architect, The University of Western Australia
21. Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Owner of The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator & co-host of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
22. Dr Chris Thorne (RL) - Co-Founder of the UWA (SL) & UWA Honourary Research Associate (RL) (judged Flagship only)
23. Frolic Mills (SL) - BOSL & CO CEO (judged the imagine sections only)

The audience at the Grand Finale

People's Choice Awards
First though, the results for the People's Choice Awards. For the people's choice, all of SL could vote for their favourite pieces across the month of September, and had to use a TP HUD (created by quadrapop lane) to visit all the builds rezzed across the grid, as it needed more than 30,000 prims to have everything up. And I need to thanks Caren McCaw & Nyx Breen (Annapurna), Dijodi Dubratt (Toor), quadrapop Lane (Poorlatrice), Kip Yellowjacket (Virtlantis), Lilli Field (Mysten), Phillip Vought (Acquitaine), Cuwynne Deerhunter & Eliza Wierwight (Patron) and the LEA (Linden Endowment for the Arts) for valuable space to rezz the works.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART- NON SCRIPTED
3rd prize goes to (L$3,000):
THE WHITE GODDESS TREE by Soror Nishi

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED
2nd prize goes to (L$5,000):
THE ABYSS by Sharni Azalee

WINNER for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED
(L$8,000) :
MEDUSA'S GAZE by pravda Core

[insert pic of medusa gaze]

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD FOR FLAGSHIP CHALLENGE

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
3rd prize goes to (L$5,000):
NYX BREEN: UWA AXS LAB (August 2010)

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
2nd prize goes to (L$7,000):
NYX BREEN: UWA AXS LAB (July 2010), replaced the destroyed Dec build!

WINNER for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
(L$15,000) is:
DIJODI DUBRATT: UWA Bridge to the Future


PEOPLE'S CHOICE: IMAGINE ART SECTION

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
3rd prize goes to (L$5,000):
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by Lea Supermarine

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
2nd prize goes to (L$7,000):
THE SATIRICAL POLEMICIST by Eliza Wierwight

WINNER for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
(L$15,000) is:
UMBRELLAS by Nish Mip

Juried Grand Finale Prizes for Imagine & Flagship Challenges
And now we come to the crunch. The overall juried Grand Prizes for the UWA 3D Art & Design competition. The results are extremely interesting, and I do need to explain how the Judging was done.

Each judge listed their top 10 in order for IMAGINE & FLAGSHIP & top 5 for the non-scripted. Works receiving a 1st place vote were allocated 6 points, 2nd place 5 points, 3rd 4 points, 4th 3points, 5th 2 points, and 6th - 10th place votes received 1 point each. The winners are taken as a straight aggregate compiling the individual rankings of each member of the judging panel.

No one individual had any greater influence than any other. Every single piece featured in the top 10 of at least 2 judges. Every single piece was also NOT in the top 10 of at least 2 judges. So there was great individual variability, however, when put together, I am staggered by how clearly the results come across.

Non-Scripted Imagine winners
First the Non-Scripted. I will reveal the aggregate points received by the winning pieces, and also of the ones which just missed out. The Prize winners will receive special trophies created by Miso Susanowa who won the Trophy Challenge some months back run by FreeWee Ling and the Residents of Artemesia. There are 3 prizes for the non-scripted. It was very close, between 3rd prize and the works in 4th - 6th.

There was in fact a 3-way tie for 4th place in the non-scripted, these being:
4th (non-scripted) BLACK PEARL by Solkide Auer - 30 points
4th (non-scripted) THE NIGHT ORCHID by soror Nishi - 30 points
4th (non-scripted) BLOOM GLOW by Sledge Roffo - 30 points

IMAGINE ART- NON SCRIPTED 3rd prize,
on 37 points goes to (L$5,000):
CONCENTRIC SHELLS by Ichiko Miles

IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED 2nd prize,
on 73 points goes to (L$10,000):
MEDUSA'S GAZE by pravda Core - 73 points

And the runaway WINNER for the overall IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED,
on an incredible 95 points (L$14,000) is:
THE ABYSS by Sharni Azalee


Flagship Challenge Winners
Now for the Flagship. There are 5 prizes, but I will reveal the relative positions and point allocations for the top 10 so everyone can get a sense of how things shaped up. Again remember, these are not ratings of artworks... these are more similar to how things work when selecting the MVP for a football game or the world footballer of the year.

6th through 10th place from the 23 builds overall fell as follows:
6th FLAGSHIP : HERICK STRAAF: Concept Building for AXS Lab (July 2010) - 30 points
7th FLAGSHIP : ELIZA WIERWIGHT: The Patron Gallery Build - 23 points
7th FLAGSHIP: OWL RAE (MOTH REXEN): Arcapelus Sanctuary - 23 points
9th FLAGSHIP: NYX BREEN: UWA AxS LAB (Feb 2010) - 20 points
10th FLAGSHIP: NYX BREEN: UWA AXS LAB (June 2010) - 18 points

FLAGSHIP Grand Finale, 5th prize,
on 40 points goes to (L$10,000):
HERICK STRAAF: Concept Building for AXS Lab (August 2010)

FLAGSHIP Grand Finale, 4th prize,
goes to (L$12,000) :
NOBODY [ed. there is that Nobody person again!]- as we have a tie for 3rd place on 46 points apiece

FLAGSHIP Grand Finale, we have a JOINT 3rd Prize,
and this goes to (L$13,500):
DIJODI DUBRATT: UWA Bridge to the Future

3rd Prize for the FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
also goes to (L$13,500):
NYX BREEN: UWA AxS LAB (Jan 2010)
I (Jayjay) had told Nyx a couple of times that this was my personal favourite of his many amazing builds!

FLAGSHIP Grand Finale, 2nd prize
on 57 points goes to (L$16,000):
DB BAILEY & PATCH THIBAUD: UWA Cultural Precinct Gallery & Labs

And now for the winner. This build will remain on UWA grounds as long a UWA in Second Life stands, and will be looked as as a foundation for the design of the real Cultural Precinct Flagship build at UWA in a few years time.

The WINNER of the FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
on 63 points goes to (L$75,000):
PATCH THIBAUD: UWA Cultural Precinct Nexus


Imagine Challenge Winners
Finally, to the IMAGINE Grand Finale. Again, there are 5 prizes, and I will reveal the top 10. Things were very close just outside of the prizes, and the gap between 5th place and the 3 way tie for 9th is only 6 points, and here they are:
6th IMAGINE: THE SATIRICAL POLEMICIST by Eliza Wierwight - 23 points
7th IMAGINE: CYBERSHARK by Igor Ballyhoo - 22 points
7th IMAGINE: ATOMIC-GO-ROUND by Atomic Gaffer - 22 points
9th IMAGINE: IMMERSIVE ART: THE MAZE by Alizarin Goldflake - 21 points
9th IMAGINE: 26 TINES by Bryn Oh - 21 points
9th IMAGINE: WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by Lea Supermarine - 21 points

IMAGINE Grand Finale, 5th prize,
on 27 points goes to (L$10,000):
TENDRILS by Glyph Graves

4th Prize for the IMAGINE Grand Finale,
on 38 points, goes to (L$12,000)
WILLOW by Bryn Oh

3rd Prize for the IMAGINE Grand Finale,
on 44 points, goes to (L$15,000)
CHAOS IN ORDER by Igor Ballyhoo
a real favourite especially among the machinimatographers, as it is the most filmed artwork

2nd Prize for the IMAGINE Grand Finale,
on 54 points, goes to (L$16,000)
THE LAST OCEAN by Nish Mip
Now its a stunning result for 1st place, and in fact what happened with this was the reason why I decided to release the point totals of the cumulative judges rankings, and ensure that the prizes extended to the top 5, instead of what is was going to be initially, which was a top 2.

Nish Mip - Grand Champion and winner of Imagine Grande Finale 1st,
Imagine 2nd, & People's Choice Grand Finale Imagine 1st prizes

GRAND CHAMPION of the IMAGINE ART CHALLENGE,
on 61 points (L$75,000) is:
UMBRELLAS by Nish Mip
Its almost unfathomable. To achieve what Nish has, in taking the Top 2 spots from amongst 772 artworks across the year. I cannot begin to calculate the odds against that happening. UMBRELLAS received SIX 1st place votes and only 2 other works received more than ONE 1st place vote being WILLOW & THE LAST OCEAN each of which received THREE.

Congratulations Nish! Anyone wanting the full results, please send jayjay or quadrapop an IM.

The UWA 3D Open Art Challenge (2010-11) is now officially open!


UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge Grand Finale winners

GRAND CHAMPION, IMAGINE ART CHALLENGE,
61 points (L$75,000):
UMBRELLAS by Nish Mip

2nd Prize IMAGINE Grand Finale,
54 points (L$16,000)
THE LAST OCEAN by Nish Mip

3rd Prize IMAGINE Grand Finale,
44 points (L$15,000)
CHAOS IN ORDER by Igor Ballyhoo

4th Prize, IMAGINE Grand Finale,
38 points (L$12,000)
WILLOW by Bryn Oh

5th Prize, IMAGINE Grand Finale,
27 points (L$10,000):
TENDRILS by Glyph Graves

1st Prize, FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
63 points (L$75,000):
PATCH THIBAUD: UWA Cultural Precinct Nexus

2nd Prize, FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
57 points (L$16,000):
DB BAILEY & PATCH THIBAUD: UWA Cultural Precinct Gallery & Labs

Joint 3rd Prize, FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
46 points (L$13,500):
DIJODI DUBRATT: UWA Bridge to the Future
NYX BREEN: UWA AxS LAB (Jan 2010)

5th Prize, FLAGSHIP Grand Finale,
40 points (L$10,000):
HERICK STRAAF: Concept Building for AXS Lab (August 2010)

1st Prize, Overall IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED,
95 points (L$14,000):
THE ABYSS by Sharni Azalee

2nd Prize, Overall IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED,
73 points (L$10,000):
MEDUSA'S GAZE by pravda Core

3rd Prize, Overall IMAGINE ART- NON SCRIPTED,
37 points (L$5,000):
CONCENTRIC SHELLS by Ichiko Miles



PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS

1st Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
(L$15,000):
UMBRELLAS by Nish Mip

2nd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
(L$7,000):
THE SATIRICAL POLEMICIST by Eliza Wierwight

3rd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE
(L$5,000):
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by Lea Supermarine

1st Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
(L$15,000):
DIJODI DUBRATT: UWA Bridge to the Future

2nd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
(L$7,000):
NYX BREEN: UWA AXS LAB (July 2010), replaced the destroyed Dec build!

3rd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, FLAGSHIP
(L$5,000):
NYX BREEN: UWA AXS LAB (August 2010)

1st Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED
(L$8,000):
MEDUSA'S GAZE by pravda Core

2nd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART - NON SCRIPTED
(L$5,000):
THE ABYSS by Sharni Azalee

3rd Prize PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, IMAGINE ART- NON SCRIPTED
(L$3,000):
THE WHITE GODDESS TREE by Soror Nishi

MACHINIMA II: ART OF THE ARTISTS

Joint 1st Prize (L$55,000 each):
BRADLEY DORCHESTER - Art of the Artists



LAURINA HAWKS - No Tomb for the Arts



3rd Prize (L$30,000):
TUTSY NAVARATHNA - An Art Form is Born


The Aview TV Award (L$10,000):
Fake Jewell, Song of Medusa

Best Art Visualisation (L$10,000):
RYSAN FALL - MachinimUWA, Art of the Artist

Best Art Visualization, Single Artwork (L$10,000):
ED VESPUCCIANO - Lessons in Democracy

Best Crossover Impact (L$10,000) :
L1AURA LOIRE - CLICK, Immersive & Interactive Virtual Art

Best Story (L$10,000):
YESIKITA COPPOLA - Inspiracion

Best Editing & Message (L$10,000):
PIA KLAAR - Art of the Artists, A Closer Look

HONOURABLE MENTION PRIZE (3-WAY TIE, L$3,333 each)
SPYVSPY AEON, I Am Not A Robot
SUZY YUE, Across A Crowded Room
LASLOPANTOMIK YAO, City of Art