The Results: Mini Challenge #2

Congratulations Abhisek Biswas - the winner of the second Mini Challenge! His thoughtful process video impressed the judges, showing the steps from the early concept through to the final result. And we love how immersive the scene is, check it out in the interactive web player above.

The Judges

Thank you to our fantastic judges, Veronica Lawlor and Austin Kase, for reviewing all of the “Behind-the-Scenes” submissions. They were impressed by everyone’s creativity in sharing informative and compelling process videos. Learn more about the judges:

Veronica Lawlor

Veronica is an Artist, Illustrator, Educator and one of the early Mental Canvas users. Veronica has worked with Mental Canvas to transform her beautiful illustrations into immersive scenes. Her work with Mental Canvas has been featured in the Times, House Beautiful Magazine and more.

Austin Kase

Austin in a award-winning writer, director, and editor of short and feature films, music videos, and commercials. He has worked with Mental Canvas to film and edit short features about the software - his most recent collaboration being the announcement video for the $100K Challenge.

More to Explore

Shout-out to everyone who participated! There will be many more opportunities in the upcoming mini challenges - stay tuned and be sure to register for up-to-date info. Here are a some more incredible scenes from Mini Challenge 2:
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Shelter

Ambareesh Haridas

It's All in Your Head

Woo_84

Moon Silhouettes

Dr Akshaykumar

Newcastle

Shaun Lee

The Brief: Behind the Scenes

This mini challenge has now closed. Here was the original brief:

This week, we're asking you to show everyone the "secret sauce" that goes into a newly drawn Mental Canvas creation. This can include turning on and off the visibility of canvases and layers, or navigating within the viewer to show your canvases from where they are not intended to be seen, or how you cycled the visibility of canvases along your timeline. If you want, you can try showing your entire process from blank canvas to museum piece in less than 1 minute. In other words, show everyone a "behind the scenes tour" so we can learn from each other and inspire new Mental Canvas Draw creators.

The mini challenge begins on Wednesday, August 4, 12pm EDT and closes Wednesday, Aug 11, 11:59pm EST.

How to enter:
1. Film yourself using Mental Canvas Draw: interacting with your scene or breaking down how you made a cool effect. Feel free to show your final result as well, but the emphasis here is on training new padawans.
2. Post your video on Instagram, TikTok or Twitter. Tag us @mental_canvas and include 2 hashtags: #ReimagineDrawingChallenge and #MiniChallenge2. Make sure it's on a public profile so we can see it. You must be registered to be eligible for both the $100K Challenge and mini challenges. (You only need to register once for all challenges). If you're posting the final video export in addition to the behind-the-scenes video, please include the watermark.

Submit as many entries as you'd like!

The winner will be announced on August 16th and receive $250 USD.

All rules and eligibility requirements of the $100K Reimagine Drawing Challenge apply. Go to the FAQ page to learn more. We can’t wait to see what you create!

The Mental Canvas Challenge