After the deadline, all qualified entrants will be judged by our panel of industry experts.

Judging will be based on three requirements:

• Success in portraying the contest theme.
• Quality of the finished artwork. We're looking for a 3D model with great form and terrific detail.
• Displayed ZBrush skill, especially with sculpting, SubTools, TransPose, and TransPose Master.

These judges will focus on the technical aspects of your work: Does the character look believable? Is the pose dramatic, while also displaying solid form and clean lines of movement? Is ZBrush used to good effect? After judging, the contest will be narrowed to ten finalists.

The ZBC community will then have the opportunity to vote for the winning characters (one vote per member). The ongoing vote tallies will not be made available to the community or participants. The final vote count will only be disclosed at the conclusion of the contest.

Honorable Mention is a special prize awarded for quality of community participation during the challenge. To qualify for Honorable Mention the artist must:

• Complete his or her personal entry.
• Show a high level of quality participation in his or her entry's thread.
• Show a high level of quality participation in the threads of other entrants.

The Honorable Mention winner may be selected from any of the entrants who meet the above criteria, even if that artist's entry is not selected by the judging panel as a finalist. "Quality participation" includes detailed explanations of work done on the entry, as well as a positive and helpful attitude toward other participants. This will be judged solely by the Pixologic staff. All decisions are final.

All winners except Runners Up and Honorable Mention will be required to write tutorial articles for the creation of their characters, accompanied with high resolution work-in-progress stills within two weeks of contest end. These tutorials will then be featured at ZBrushCentral and on the Pixologic website.