TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY TO THE ATOMHAWK ART COMPETITION
This competition is operated by Atomhawk Design Ltd, a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 06968171 and registered office address Unit 32 Jessops Riverside, Brightside Lane, Sheffield, England, S9 2RX.
1. How to participate
a. In order to enter this competition, please use the Submission Form (hosted by Typeform) available through the Atomhawk website.
b. b. All entries must include your name and email address. Postal addresses (including postcode), and telephone numbers will be collected from the winners via email. Please see our privacy policy at https://atomhawk.com/privacy-policy for confirmation of how we will treat your personal information. In addition, we may also share your personal information internally with our recruitment team, to notify you of the timings of next years Atomhawk art competition and to allow the sponsors to send to the winners their prizes. The winners full name with their winning submission will be published on this webpage (https://atomhawk.com/resources/art-competition-2022-winners/) for three years. If you do not want your name included on the list of winners or object to your personal information being used for any of the purposes stated above or in the Atomhawk privacy policy, you must notify Atomhawk a reasonable period of time before the closing date of the competition.
c. Entries that do not comply with these terms and conditions will be disqualified and will not be entered into this competition.
d. Entry is free and the competition is open to everyone of all skill levels in all locations.
e. You may only submit one entry to this competition. Any additional entries will be void and will not be entered into this competition.
f. The competition is open to individuals (not groups) and, by submitting an entry, you are confirming that the entry is your own, original work and created entirely by you alone.
2. Deadline
Entries may not be submitted before 11:59pm on 6th July 2022 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm on 7th August 2022 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Entries received by Atomhawk after this time will be void and will not be entered into this competition.
3. Winners announcement
Winners will be announced and posted on this webpage on the 23rd August 2022 at 10am BST. If you are a winner, you will also receive a confirmation email. You can review our previous years’ winner announcements here: 2021, 2020, 2019.
There will be six winners in total, across a number of categories.
4. Prize
The prizes are as follows:
1 x GRAND WINNER PRIZE:
- XBOX Series S (thanks to Sumo Digital)
- Choice of Portfolio Review or Paintover by Atomhawk Lead Artist
- £100 3dtotal store voucher (thanks to 3dtotal)
- $100 Proko store discount (thanks to Proko)
- 1 Year ArtStation Pro subscription (thanks to ArtStation)
- $100 Photobash.co store voucher (thanks to Photobash)
- Art of Atomhawk Volume 3 book, & Atomhawk Goodie Bag
CATEGORY WINNERS (1 x Character winner, 1 x Environment winner & 1 x Key Moment winner)
- Choice of Portfolio Review or Paintover by Atomhawk Senior Artist
- £50 3dtotal store voucher (thanks to 3dtotal)
- $50 Proko store discount (thanks to Proko)
- 1 Year ArtStation Pro subscription (thanks to ArtStation)
- $50 Photobash.co store voucher (thanks to Photobash)
- Art of Atomhawk Volume 3 book & Atomhawk Goodie Bag
1 x RISING STAR MENTORSHIP WINNER – please see section 9 below for further details on this prize
- 4 x 1 hour mentorship sessions with Senior Atomhawk Artist
- Wacom Cintiq 22 (thanks to Wacom and Escape Technology)
- £50 3dtotal store voucher (thanks to 3dtotal)
- $50 Proko store discount (thanks to Proko)
- 1 Year ArtStation Pro (thanks to ArtStation)
- Art of Atomhawk Volume 3 book & Atomhawk Goodie Bag
1 x HAWK’S CHOICE (as voted on by Atomhawk artists)
- Choice of Portfolio Review or Paintover by an Atomhawk Senior Artist
- 1 Year ArtStation Pro subscription (thanks to ArtStation)
- Art of Atomhawk Volume 3 book
There are no alternative prizes and the winner will receive their prizes on or before September 30th 2022.
5. Tools
Entries submitted must be predominantly 2D and 3D images. Software can be used to support the artwork process when creating your entry.
6. Original work
Entries must be entirely original, created solely by you and not be based on any intellectual property that does not either belong solely to you or for which you have a suitable licence to use for these purposes.
7. Judging
Entries will be assessed by a panel of senior members of the Atomhawk team and an independent judge and their group judgement will be final. The name of the judges are available on request.
8. Shipping
Our competition sponsors will deliver prizes directly to the winners, usually within 30 days of the closing date for the competition. Atomhawk are not responsible for any customs charges or import taxes arising from shipping of the winners’ prizes, which will be payable by the recipient.
9. Rising star mentorship
Based on the winner of this prize’s specialty (to be discussed with the winner), a Senior Atomhawk artist will be assigned to the winner as a mentor and will provide four, one hour mentoring sessions, to be arranged with the mentor. An intermediary at Atomhawk will assist in organising the date and times for each meeting, which will take place on Zoom and the mentee must make every effort to attend. 24 hours’ notice is required if the mentee cannot attend otherwise the session will be lost. Due to the short time of the meetings, the mentor will assign homework between each meeting which the mentee should make every effort to complete in order to get the most out of the mentoring.
10. Terms of publicity
The entrant grants Atomhawk and the competition’s sponsors rights to use all entered materials in any media for sales, marketing and merchandising material provided full and correct credit for the entrant clearly appears within the said materials.
Entrants retain copyright of all entered materials and are free to use said materials for personal promotion.
Entrants are encouraged to share their entry progress in social media networks throughout the competition with the #atomhawkcreation hashtag.
11. Disqualification
Any image that is deemed to contain content that is considered inflammatory or inappropriate will be disqualified, this includes material that is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and/or ableist. Interpretation of what is, and is not, appropriate material is at the sole discretion of Atomhawk.
12. General
While nothing in these terms and conditions will limit Atomhawk’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud, Atomhawk will not be legally responsible to entrants or winners for any losses that were not foreseeable to Atomhawk or to the entrant at the time of entry to the competition or which are caused by a third party.
The laws of England and Wales apply to these terms and conditions, although if you are resident elsewhere you will retain the benefit of any mandatory protections given to you by the laws of that country.
Any disputes will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
