Hey, Polycount just posted that news on facebook : http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154218
Hey All,
I'm Wyeth Johnson from Epic Games. Earlier this week, we partnered with Ronen Bekerman to sponsor the biggest cash prize pool in ArchVis history, 100% realtime, 100% in UnrealEngine 4. It's called "The Vineyard".
All the tools are out there to make insane things in Unreal, and we wanted to incentivize communities like yours to participate.
The challenge is to design a modern winery setting, entirely in Unreal. The challenge runs for 12 weeks so everyone has plenty of time, and we are accepting individual entrants as well as group entrants.
The prizes, by the way, are awesome. We'll have $25k for the grand group entry, $12.5k for the individual winner, $7500 for the group runner up, and $3500 for the individual Runner up, along with Nvidia TitanX graphics cards for all those categories. (Thanks Nvidia!) We're also awarding $2k for categories like Best Lighting, Best Materials, Best Interactivity, and so on, and Nvidia 980ti cards for each of those categories as well.
We also have some great judges for the contest including Ash Thorp, design guru and director of project 2501, and Kim Libreri; film CG visionary, multiple technical academy award winner and inventor of the bullet time tech in The Matrix.
This challenge is very simply a clean, modern, incredibly realistic realtime environment art competition, something you're all great at, and we'd love it if you all participated. Anyone, working professionals from games, archvis, or hobbyists, are eligible.
To make an official entry, sign up and get started here:
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/challen...ard-challenge/
I will be checking this thread daily from now until the end of the contest in the middle of September to answer any questions you may have, cheer you on, or perhaps feature entrants from Polycount on our twitter feed, unrealengine.com blog, and our twitch stream.
Good luck!
Wyeth