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It's the fifth chalk art contest scheduled to happen on March 25th at 8:30 am at the Uptown Art Expo. The best show will receive $250 as prize money. The deadline for chalk art applications was on February 28th, so if you have missed it, mark it on y
With every new smartphone generation, one aspect that is bound to get better is the camera. Smartphone cameras these days are pushing the boundaries of image processing and megapixel counts. With megapixel counts over 100, it is easy to pick up a smartphone with image quality and processing to rival a DSLR camera. If you’re having a hard time selecting one, then here are some of the best smartphones available on Amazon for shutterbugs who want the convenience of a highly reliable camera in their pocket.
APPLE IPHONE 12 PRO
It is perhaps the most well...
Photography: Sony World Photography Awards invites photographers across the world to submit their beautiful clicks and win a trip to London along with amazing cash prizes and rewards. It's an open competition and judges will be looking for a stunning set of images from 10 different categories. Each category will have a winner, 10 shortlisted photographers and 40 commended photographers. You can choose to enter any one competition: Professional, Youth or Open Competition. Entry is free for this competition.
The Sony World Photography Awards has four competitions:...
Packaging Design: Calling out to all student and professional package designers from all over the world, who want to create an impression for their packaging designs through a stiff competition. The Recreate Packaging by Stora Enso is a design competition that seeks new packaging ideas and solutions based on renewable materials. The packaging design competition is open till 22nd December 2017 for registrations. Recreate Packaging is widely recognized in the international design community, media and social channels, which provides great opportunities for talented...
The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) has a successful history of six years and now calling for entry from the enthusiastic and energetic photographers to take part in 2017 - 2018 HIPA contest. It is an International Photography award established in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, to encourage the upcoming photographers across the world. Photographers above the age of 18 are eligible to participate in the contest irrespective of their nationality. ‘The Moment’ will be the main theme of the Seventh...
Serif released their fully featured photo editing app Affinity Photo for iPad early in this year. Affinity Photo for iPad features a complete set of retouching tools such as cloning, healing, dodge and burn, and frequency separation capabilities built in. Non-destructive editing can be done with various layer-based adjustments such as curves, white balance, shadows and highlights, hue/saturation/luminance, and more, plus masking abilities to isolate changes.
The new update released for the photo editing app will take on the advantage of the capabilities...
Finland's Animation Festival, Animatricks Fest welcomes all the artsist to submit their short film animation entries before January 31st 2017. This festival focuses only on animation and it starts on April 21st 2017 -April 23rd 2017 at Helsinki, Finland. All animation videos, music videos not exceeding 30 minutes and which have been taken after January 1st 2016 can be submitted. No previous entries from Animatricks will be considered. Atleast 70% of the short film should have animation. Educational and commercial material is not eligible. The selected films will...
Sienna International Photo Awards has become quite popular amongst photographers and judges due to the grandiosity in the photo clicks. Even Though it's in the third year, this year more than 50,000 photos were submitted from 161 countries. Beautiful landscapes, vibrant night life, stunning sea creatures were some of the entries. 2017 SIPA award goes to Randy Olson for his stunning picture of cranes with a backdrop of lightning. According to Randy Olson,"There was a ton of lightning right behind the birds. I put the camera on a tripod and just started pumping...
All About Photo - The Mind's eye is inviting all photographers to submit their images before January 31, 2017. If you have a passion for photography, doesn't matter even if you are a student or a professional, you can enter the competition by paying a nominal fee. A photographer can submit upto 20 images, the more you enter, the better your chances of winning a grand prize of $10,000.
Entry fees:
$30 for 3 images.
$5 for each additional image.
Deadline:
The deadline for entering the competition is January 31st, 2017 - 11:59 P.M. (MT)
The winners will be announced...
Art Contest & Festival : 2018 Toronto Comic art festival welcomes everyone for their annual graphic novel exhibitions and illustrations between May 11th - 13th. The professional development is on May 11th and the main exhibition will be held between May 12th - 133, where more than 100s of comic artists from around the world will be participating and exhibiting their talents. This year, the comic arts festival will be held in Toronto Reference Library, The Marriott Bloor Yorkville, and The Masonic Temple in the Bloor/Yonge. Apart from comic arts, the...
The beneficial life of a consumer electronic product is relatively short and decreasing as there is vast changes in the equipment features and abilities. This leads to a large waste stream of obsolete electronic equipment, electronic waste (e-waste). The conventional method of disposing the e-waste has lot of disadvantages both on economical and environmental grounds. So we need to think of new methods of e-waste management like recycling. Comparatively new method of electronic recycling is yet to have a solid infrastructure in place. A more challenging...
To spread awareness about frogs, Australian Arts organization have joined with the 'Save the frogs' team which was founded by Ecologist Dr. Kerry Kriger in May 2008. Did you know that the international frog's day falls on April 30th? Save the frogs was started as a measure to avert the extinction of our beloved frogs and to spread awareness.
Who can participate?
People of all ages, nationalities, and skill levels are encouraged to enter the contest. According to savethefrogs.com/,"The SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest invites you to create your coolest frog artwork....
Art-competition.net is an international fine art on-line juried competition that is open to all visual artists, 18 years or older. Entries are invited for " Faces Of Humanity" where twenty artist will be selected for an online group exhibit at Gallery25N. One of the five work of art will be chosen from the selected artist. The exhibit and artists will enjoy an extensive marketing worldwide to over 20,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors. The emotion,beauty,love,hope and wisdom as seen in the faces of the people from varied...
Design Contest : The winner of the 2018 Buenos Aires Medal Design goes to Muhamad Farid Husen from Indonesia. The design was chosen from more than 300 entries and it was a dream come true for the 18 year old Muhamad Farid Husen. It's a coincidence that the winner of the medal design and the birth of the youth olympic games are of the same age.
Yog medal design winner by muhamad farid husen
According to Muhamad Farid Husen,"It is really an honour for me to be a little part of Youth Olympic Games. I can't describe how my feeling is…being the designer of...
GoPro reintroduced its Karma Drone to the market on wednesday, roughly three months after recalling all the models it has sold. The camera maker pulled its drone model from shelves in early November, after the Karma first went on sale Oct. 23, because a few of the quadcopters "lost power during operation," the company said at the time. GoPro said the problem was a faulty battery latch that could cause the batteries to lose connection mid-flight.
Pricing remains the same:
The Karma drone will sell for $799 with no camera or $1,099 with a Hero 5 Black in the US....
Animation: Escape- An Animated Short film, shot within a span of four days using VR. VR is still in development mode, since most animators still take the help of 2d animation to build a story line and characters. What is so special about this short animation -Escape is the storyline, animations have all been created within the VR environment. Nick Ladd used both drawing software Quill and the VR animation program Animivr to create a virtual 3D space, which is completed with frame to frame animations.
Escape vr animation by nick ladd
Escape - A Short animation...
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