Counter-Strike Global Offensive developer Valve announces a new competition for all the fans. It is rumored to be the biggest art competition ever in gaming, with a prize of $1 million. All the winners will have their amazing artwork live in the game. Dreams and nightmares; quite an interesting theme for a million-dollar art competition, right? The contest is based on the theme of designing some really fun weapons of Counter-Strike Global Offensive. Valve also launched a brand new site to give some hints or ideas about what exactly the studio is looking for. There will be 10 winners.
The new site has a lot of examples of all the themes and fun flavors the studio’s keen to see. Not only this but there are some handy links as well to help all the participants. These handy links will help you make your own original weapon. The studio wants original elements in all the submissions and encourages participants to include ”concept arts, mood boards and multiple images from which you’ve pulled inspiration”. This will show the actual process and details of every single thing. This will also ensure that your work is original and there is no cheating involved.
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Counter-Strike Global Offensive announced this new art million-dollar competition from their official Twitter handle.
Today we are announcing the CS:GO Dreams & Nightmares Workshop contest; a $1M CS:GO art contest looking for 10 original dream or nightmare-themed weapon finishes to be shipped in an upcoming case. More information here: https://t.co/mdmInLmUJk pic.twitter.com/y8KgyV46Q1
— CS:GO (@CSGO) July 21, 2021
Official guide for creating weapons
The entries for this contest are now open and the last date of submission is October 21, 2021. Valve will contact all the winners of this contest personally by November 21, 2021. For all the rules and terms you can visit the site here. Participants can find an official guide for all the processes of making weapons on that site and can take full advantage of all the guides and tutorials available there. All the submitted weapons will be displayed on the site for community feedback. Participants can also create their own unique design via CS: GO workshop workbench. For this, you will need to have a ”non-limited steam account in good handling”
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While submitting your ultimate weapon, make sure that you insert screenshots from all the angles. This includes in hand as well as a side view. Participants can also share their workshop entries with the entire world by using the hashtag #CSGOdreams.
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