2022 Summer Best of Term Winners Announced
We are excited to announce our Summer 2022 Best of Term winners!
The BOT competition highlights the incredible work our students create throughout Gnomon’s full-time programs and individual courses. We've been hosting this contest for over 15 years and are always filled with both pride and awe to see students share such polished, well-executed art projects. Students are encouraged to submit work they created in our online and on-campus courses.
"It's always rewarding to see so much fantastic work coming from the students," Gnomon Director of Education, Max Dayan, said. "The only tricky part is that the judging gets more and more challenging every term because the work continues to impress us."
Congrats to our Grand Prize winner Sebastian Mora! Sebastian, who is on track to graduate from our Certificate in Digital Production program this year, won for "Character - Realism" based on a concept by Vyoum Kushwaha.
"The portrait that won this term is just stunning," Dayan said. Seeing that much emotion and storytelling in a still brings this work to a whole other level."
This term, we showcased 24 category winners in a variety of disciplines including live-action effects, look development, creature animation, storyboarding, game environment, and much more. Kudos to our winners and thank you to everyone who submitted! Keep that passion going and be sure to enter next term. As Max Dayan, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Scott say "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take (i.e. "If you don't enter, you definitely won't win the contest.")!
The full list of winners is shown below, and you can see all our Summer '22 BOT winners' artwork here!
Grand Prize Winner
Sebastian Mora – Character Realism
Animation Winners
Michelle Lumowa – Animation – Creature
Marah Wessendorf – Animation – Dialogue
Alex White – Animation – Games
Sam Spicher – Animation Mechanics
Berkeley Braun & Bavly Hanna – Animation – SceneCharacter Winners
Roman Schmelzer – Character – Games
Lincoln Lee – Character – Hardsurface
Connor Lee – Character – Scene
Rain Rouhani & Sasha Honcharova – Character – StylizedEffects Winners
Ahmed Mohamed – Effects – Fluids
Dakota Smith – Effects – Live Action
Dakota Smith – Effects – Look Development
Josh Karlin – Effects – Pyro
You Jin Chung – Effects – WaterEnvironment Winners
Jillian Ubando – Environment – Exterior
John Chung – Environment – Games
David Eisenstadt – Environment – StylizedGrooming Winner
Alena Mealy – Grooming
Hard Surface Modeling Winner
Rongbing Cao – Hardsurface Modeling
Lighting & Rendering Winner
Megan Strazisar – Lighting & Rendering
Look Development Winner
Ethan Clark – Look Development
Storyboarding Winner
Sonya Chelombieva – Storyboarding
Texturing & Shading Winner
Elizaveta Gaevaya – Texturing & Shading