We have the results in for the New Dawn Poster Design Contest. Up for grabs is a Wacom tablet, a Logitech G9 laser mouse, subscriptions to ‘Wired’ magazine, loads of marketplaces credit and 1-year memberships to Psdtuts+. We had a whole lot of artists enter the contest, and well over 250 entries. I hope everyone had a lot of fun! Learn all about the winning entries at the jump!
About the Contest
We looked at overall artistic quality, technical execution, originality, and thematic execution in judging these entries! Thanks to everyone who entered. Now let’s give it up to the winners. A round of applause please!
First Place Winner
The first place winner is Horizon Fire. The story submitted with this entry is: “Who knows what the mysterious force is that has taken hold of this city, but clearly it has left no-one to keep up with the gardening.”
Congratulations, and your prizes are:
- Wacom Intuos3 4 x 6 Wide Format Graphics Tablet or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- 5 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- $100 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
Second Place Winner
The second place winner is Etagon. The story submitted with this entry is: “Some strange spheres made of an unknown metal fall down from the sky everywhere in the world waiting to a sign to make their move. You can hear this disturbing noise coming from the sphere, a sound of chaos, fear and death…But for some people this cannot be the end.”
Congratulations, and your prizes are:
- Logitech G9 Laser Mouse or USD $50 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- 3 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- $75 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
Third Place Winner
The third place winner is simoncpage. The story submitted with this entry is: “The Earth is an awful state and we are facing worldwide drought many millions of people have died and the story follows 4 survivors as they search for water. They are unaware of how many have died and that they are mans last hope of escaping extinction.” The story and images can be found on the artist’s blog.
Congratulations, and your prizes are:
- 1-year subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- 2 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- ‘Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature‘ by Matt Kloskowski or USD $25 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- $50 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
Psdtuts+! New Dawn Poster Design Contest!
Congratulations to our winners! Great job to everyone that participated in the contest. I’ll be contacting the winners shortly to assist them with collecting their prizes. The winners should keep an eye on the Flickr email boxes for the next couple days.
Some More Great Entries
There were quite a few entries that came very close to winning. Also, there are certainly more good entries submitted into the contest that are in the Psdtuts+ Flickr Group. Here are just a handful more that really captured our attention. Also, feel free to submit a tutorial concept for your contest entry designs. Many of the posters I saw would make great Photoshop tutorials.
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Congrats to the Winners
Some great ones in there!
Personally I like the 3rd Place Winner, sky looks so nice!
I think we should have more frequent competitions, maybe some smaller scale ones so you guys don’t loose all your monies.
Some sweet ones in there. Congrats to the winners. I like the last poster a lot, kudos to you iamlowpop!
I like 3rd place.
Clean, but great!
Wow… they were pretty good. Kind of upset I didn’t send one it.
GD that must have been a hard decision they are all pretty good… great job all!!!
Midi
Great posters guys…was just glad to take part in a really cool contest that enabled me to flex my photoshop skills!!
well… It’s not a ” i should have win ” thing or else, really not. I’m not that kind of guy. But i think the winners are far, very far from being the best entries… It’s just MY opinion, i’m not judging anybody or else, but… I don’t know, for example, the second entry really suffers of a lack of finition, and many things don’t work in this image… The third one : WHERE THE HELL IS THE POST APOCALYPTIC CITY from the contest guideline ? ” In this movie the setting is a post-apocalyptic cityscape.” it’s psdtuts words… And… How could i say that properly.. none of the three posters would be accepted as a poster movie for a hollywood blockbuster… i’m kinda mad about that, because people, including me spend hours & hours to produce high end images , with real concepts and real ideas, and when i see the three winners, i’m sick. And, as i already said, it’s not because i’m sad i lost the contest. Just because it’s obvious something is turning wrong about it. Thanks reading me.
Wow! truly inspiring! I want to be this good! maybe one day eh?
OMG the winner job is very nice
I wish to be good, like them ;p
http://afrix99.deviantart.com/
Really please with my less than obvious design, lacking an actual cityscape, winning 3rd spot.
I think a shout out to rasterboy for his design which it appears didn’t get a mention and actually I rate quite high: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3113618115/
@Bed Reid – agreed awesome colours I managed there thanks
Thanks again to PSDTUTS – bring on the next competition.
Congratulations guys!
See you next time!
Grats to all who participated. Great designs by everyone!
There awesome, im really liking the design of the first one in the runners up.
gj all great contest!
Some great entries, number 1 definitely deserves it
good job guys!
I had lots of fun partecipating as well!
my fav anyway is the one of the gas mask, a pity that wasn’t among winners, very cool!
Congrats to all the winners!!, voting must have been tough!!, some great entries for this contest
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Congratulations to all the winners
The competition was very interesting…. to the next challenge friends! ;D
Some very nice posters! I’m really sad that I completely missed this due to moving and Christmas. I’m looking forward to hopefully another contest soon!
good work!! i really like it…..
alteredclone – I loved this one as well as the gasmask poster….
But great work all together, some varied results
Congratulations to all the winners. I really enjoyed the contest; can’t wait to see what’s next!
Wow these are all really fantastic! Congratulations Horizon Fire!
Congratulations to all. The winner deserved it. Nice decision making PSDTUTS.
These were… pretty amazing.
lots of very nice compositions there! congratulations!
Deserved winner. A well done dramatic and cinematic scene, with an awesome light & color setting.
I think my favourites were the first one and the last one – they were way better that some actual movie posters.
great artwork but some of these need help in the typography department. terrible kerning on some.
Very nice designs. Though I have to say some of the typography isn’t that great. Congrats to the winners!
@lolpop – have to agree that the 2nd entry wasn’t in my top 5 but your design is far from perfection – the light sources are all over the place, and to be honest the composition doesn’t grab me and have any intriguing value to sell it to me (my eye is initially drawn to the fully sun lit building which isn’t damaged?) – as with your opinion this is just mine.
I also agree that I don’t think the three including mine are that great as hollywood blockbuster type posters but I don’t think they were purely judging on which would be best to sell the film. I did other designs (popular one with a gas mask) which I felt were stronger in terms of actually being used as posters for a movie.
Congratulations to the winners and well done to the runners up.
Thought all the entries were fantastic & loved the competition!
Congratulations to winners!
I won’t talk about “deserve or not”, see you in next contest!
Happy New Year!
p.s. sorry for my bad english, I’m still learning it.
I think the bio hazard earth one was cool.
Some good photoshops in here, but about 90% of the typography is hideous
i agree a bit with lowpop – it does seem like the guidelines for the contest as well as the terms and conditions were thrown out and not really even considered. I thought “an apocalyptic city” was a requirement? And all images had to be royalty free with proper usage rights — unless the producers of Day After Tomorrow licensed that image that was used — and linked to in the submission, which many were not.
I absolutely love the design with the pyramid but not sure how it relates to the contest theme.
anyway – congrats to everyone. I think a few of the runners-up were more deserving but oh well. next time…
Very cool competition, awesome entries.
I’m guessing spelling counted in this contest too? It says “Extintion” :p http://psdtutsarticles.s3.amazonaws.com/contest_2009_01_01/n.jpg
It’s been great following this competition – thx PSDTUTS
The guidelines said that the world could be unrecognizable “so far in the future that the world is unrecognizable?”. So as long as it displays some part of a world that is fine in my books man. I love the fact in the 3rd place one makes you think, unlike the others which are blatant.
My favourite was actually another design done but the designer of the 3rd place winner (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52128710@N00/3139227091/).
There were also some designs that I think should of been displayed in the runner-ups that weren’t.
All in all a great competition and next time I’ll get round to entering!
Where does it say it HAS TO BE a post apocalyptic cityscape? Nowhere. It says it MAY BE like that, but in the end it also says, and I quote: “You call the shots.”
“Will it be a gritty cyberpunk fight-fest or set so far in the future that the world is unrecognizable? Is it animated or live action? You call the shots.”
http://psdtuts.com/articles/contests/psdtuts-new-dawn-movie-poster-design-contest/
I just wanted to add the fact that the movie “The Matrix” also takes palce in a post apocalyptic environment, but the poster shows nothing like that.
I guess the question is about interpretation. The guidelines, as I now noticed, indeed talk also about where the movie would be taking place, but does that neccessarily mean the poster should look like that? Well, maybe to some people, maybe not to some people.
I guess the only thing we can reccommend to the ones holding the next contest, is simply to turn more attention to the guidelines and rules.
The ones right now are apparently too arguable.
It says “In this movie the setting is a post-apocalyptic cityscape.” In my mind that doesn’t say “but if you want to completely disregard that it’s totally fine” even though they don’t have “HAS TO BE” in all caps. Why have any guidelines at all then? They also took the trouble to link to the tut with the city being destroyed so that was another hint.
And yes Sova if this were a real poster for a real movie then — totally, no need to have a city. I’m just talking within the confines of a competition is all.
Wow… this was a great little contest! Too bad I haven’t checked my RSS feeds in ages
MARK ALL AS READ
Starting over and following PSDtuts like a religion now 
Best.
@ Chris: As others have pointed out, the information in the description was to inspire your concept, but there were no ‘must haves’ in the poster.
WOW, some really awesome ones up there!!!!
Don’t really get the one with Triple H with vampire teeth though, it’s rather funny.
Congrats to the winners. Thanks everyone who participated. And Skellie mentions above that the description was to inspire and for you to have fun creating your own concept. I hope everyone enjoyed the contest. I appreciate all the feedback as well. Thx.
I definitely feel that many of the runner-ups were more successful overall in terms of technique, polish and concept than the winners. Design is a client facing discipline and the most important aspect of the profession is to meet goals and expectations. This being a “design” contest I would imagine the suggested themes and its interpretation as well as the technical execution of the concept would be key factors in determining the winner.
The winning group seems to be a randomly selected mix of entries without much thought to the actual “design” or execution imo. A prime example would be simoncpage’s winning entry – although a polished and well executed piece I feel that his other entries were much more successful (as mentioned by himself) in reaching the assumed goals of this contest. It almost seems like the contest should have been “who can come up with the best fictional story while tossing in a poster.”
Anyways, not to sound bitter mind you – I just wanted to point out questionable aspects as mentioned prior to my own comment as I see a lot of entries in the runners-up that deserve more shine than the first or second place winners (no offense to these winning designs.)
That being said, great job to everyone involved and congratulations to the winners. Long live psdtuts.
@PeterJ – thanks, that one was my favourite too and got the most pink stars on flickr (not that I was counting lol)
@rasterboy – your right I think it all depends on how you interpret the guidelines, a couple of my designs were way off the mark which, I knew, I just went with the inspiration I was getting – which I think is what they were looking for but not everyone realised – look forward to seeing your awesome designs for the next competition! Is there one lined up?
wow, what a great picture…
How come???
Share your knowledge please, cos im a newbie in photoshop and i wanna know more about it..
thx a lot
Next time the winner should be decided by public vote. Period