Halloween Product Contest: Winners Announced!

katiemarie · Last edited by katiemarie on Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:07 am; edited 3 times in total

Winners Announced! Check out all the winners in this post

The spookiest time of year...filled with ghosts, goblins....witches and wizards...it's time for Halloween!

For this contest, we want you to shed your typical IMVU persona and create a ghoulish, scary, funny, magical mask! And what Halloween is complete without a ghostly cemetery where you can host the best zombie party this side of the afterlife? But you wanna know the best part of our Halloween contest? Each winning product will be gifted to all users during the weekend before Halloween so everyone can have their own haunted party!

Mesh category: Meshers will create a cemetery/graveyard room derived from one of the IMVUInc base room meshes. It can be creepy, fun, dark, lighthearted---wherever your creativity leads you as long as it represents the spirit of Halloween.

Retexture category: Choose from one of our many meshes and create a mask that will thrill and chill. This accessory product can be for male or female avatars; if yours wins, we may request that you submit another version for the opposite gender if applicable.

Big thanks to our mask meshers for donating their products to our contest: Asente, Miladyk, and PrinceMonstrositys!!

General Guidelines & Selection Criteria

--This contest entry period begins today, September 30th, and will end on October 24.
--All submissions must be your own work; any copyrighted art within products will be automatically disqualified.
--All submissions must be GA; if you have specific questions about a pose or image for your entry, please reach out to me or Varsha.
--Original mesh cemetery must be a room-type product and derived from an IMVUInc room product, such as Example 3D Scene
--Retextured mask must be derived from any of the following PIDs: 2897359; 6869690; 10076084; or 10073047
--All submissions must have been submitted to the catalog September 30th and later. Products previously submitted to the catalog will not be accepted.
--Only one submission per person per product type will be accepted [example: IMVUuser123 can make one mask and one room; they cannot make two masks and 3 rooms etc..].
--We will send all Creators their submission status by Wednesday, October 26th via a homepage message. Winning products will be locked by October 26 and will be gifted by IMVUInc the weekend prior to Halloween.
--All entries will be judged based on the selection criteria noted in this post by members of IMVU staff.

Specific Mesh Evaluation Criteria:

--High quality mesh creation; try to keep your mesh file size light. For room intros and basics, check out our room tutorials
--Good use of lighting to create a creepy but rich environment
--High quality textures; be sure any patterns look smooth and seamless
--Interesting seating/standing nodes: the best IMVU parties are ones where everyone can interact with each other easily. Try to keep this in mind as you place your nodes in your landscape
--Bonus for having dances, animations, hidden rooms, etc.

Specific Retexture Evaluation Criteria:

--Good use of texture manipulation; great shading, detail, etc.
--Original ideas or unique reinterpretations of common masks
**You may add your own mesh to your retextured mask, but the original mask mesh must remain visible and be a significant portion of the final product

Prizes

Each winner will receive the following prizes:

Mesh - Cemetery:
--1st place winner: 150,000 credits; promotion via our IMVU marketing channels; exposure to IMVU users since winning product is granted to all IMVU users
--2nd place winner: 75,000 credits
--Special mentions: up to 3 special mentions can be chosen and awarded 50,000 credits each

Retextured Mask:
--Up to 5 total winners will be chosen and each awarded 50,000 credits, promotion via our IMVU marketing channels, including exposure to IMVU users since winning products are granted to all IMVU users

Now that you know what to create, here’s where to enter:

To submit your product, please fill out our contest form at this link.

Be sure to fill out the “Creator bio” section so we may include it in our future announcements for our winners.

If you have any questions about this contest, please do not hesitate to post them here or send a message to me or Varsha.

Please utilize our Unofficial Create Mode tutorials written by creative experts to help you through your contest entries.

We are very excited about this contest and can't wait to see where your imagination leads you!
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Katie --Creator Community Manager, IMVU Inc.

WaYaSkyEyes · Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1600 Location: USA - KY

.....awesome contest! , I love halloween~
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~waya~

princemonstrositys · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 1222 Location: USA - FL

I cannot wait to see all the Awesome mask this year .I get so excited Halloween is one of my favorite times of year and thanks to imvu I have Halloween all year around good luck to all who join and I cannot wait to see the horrifying entries this year Smile

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Puck · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 12545 Location: USA

good luck every one with your entry's.
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electro57 · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 1721 Location: Canada

OMG another contest !!!! Rolling Eyes

But I have not had time to make a plan to WIN !!!
Shocked

I have desided to use Time travel and Nanotechnology to win this one !!
Watch out aliens that run IMVU I got you now !!!
Confused

Mens

Womens

THE PLAN !
I found a gizmo on the internet (Who would thought you can buy stuff online now days ) that uses the neutrinos from a super nova a few weeks ago to travel faster than light! ! By worping time back to before the contest was anounced and use nanobots to take over the alien ship thats IMVU's new building and place my name in the computers as the winner !!!
Now the only problem may be the mysterious disappearance of Katie for 2 weeks ??? Is imvu on to my briliant plan ?? OMG what is they have sent the replicant Katie north to stop my briliant plan ??
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Gosh long weekend so much to do so little time !! *starts filling giant baloon the size of a house with heavy water *
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Baloon filed hoolahoop placed on top so top is open
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Attaching toaster to my foot and pluging in long extention cord activating the toaster then climbing tree to above baloon !
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Lowering rope into balloon through the hoop , inserting GIZMO into toaster ajusting toaster to dark and slowly climbing down into water filled baloon !
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Check list /nanobots/gizzmo/toaster/cord pluged in / water filled giant baloon/
**dee comes out of house looks at me swinging over baloon from tree / looks at cord pluged into house !!unplugs cord !! looks back at me - then cord - back at me - then cord - back at me plugs cord back into socket goes back in house **
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5pm the 24th !! seconds to time travel!!! just hours to winning contest!! *click goes the gfci plug the cord is pluged into * flips over head first into baloon /baloon busts /KABOOM/ lands on head on the wet ground / toaster pops !!!!/ Curse you IMVU aliens I will get you some day and WIN !!!
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Lucky I have the haloween Video as back up !!
Electro!
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Fefeta · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 300 Location: Iceland

Thinking about actually competing in this contest even thought my credit balance is bad right now ._. (due to credit pend and lack of sales)
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Annleigh · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 247 Location: USA - AR

I will enter if I can come up with any ideas.
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ZaraKaine · Joined: 26 Jun 2011 Posts: 5929 Location: United Kingdom

This sounds like a great contest, good luck everyone !
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MiaKodaGabriella · Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 231 Location: USA

Ive Made Several Masks in the past & Hey Scary Is My Middle Name Smile

So I May Just enter this one ~Happy Halloween all~ Twisted Evil

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WaYaSkyEyes · Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1600 Location: USA - KY

snip..

Retexture category: Choose from one of our many meshes and create a
mask that will thrill and chill. This accessory product can be for male or female avatars; if yours wins, we may request that you submit another version for the opposite gender if applicable.

........ could the retextured mask be made unisex?
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~waya~

DopeRolling_disabled_4271 · Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 24 Location: USA

seems interesting an fun Smile

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Ismeny · Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3742 Location: El Salvador

nice!

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LordRiccardo · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 13706 Location: United Kingdom

Would of entered but IMVU's rendered my opacity layers utterly useless so i'm completely out of the contest.
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FinstererEngel · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 82 Location: Germany

Cool a new Contest Smile

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PRIZTINA · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 60 Location: USA - TX

How exciting!! Can't wait to see what peeps come up with this year!