Kevin De Rug VoxEdit Contest

The Sandbox
4 min readAug 1, 2024

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Take your creativity to the next level. Unleash your amazing voxel skills in this fantastic VoxEdit contest partnered with Kevin de Rug of Pixelmon fame.

Download VoxEdit HERE to get started !

Theme: Recreate Kevin de Rug, going on an adventure somewhere in the world.
Kevin was left behind by his Pixelmon friends and now he’s off on an adventure to find his friends and make new ones along the way.

Whether they are sipping coffee outside the Eiffel tower or making new friends on safari,there are so many possibilities for a Kevin adventure.

Animations : With all our VoxEdit contests, animations are needed. This one however you are free to be a little more expressive with these animations. You can create more scene like videos. Do keep all assets created and scenes within our general guidelines for face and node count.

Why should you participate in VoxEdit Contests?

  • Exciting prizes: Win SAND prizes, the ability to mint and sell your assets, NFT prizes and other prizes from IPs (minting and selling is only on selected contests so make sure you read to see if those contests are eligible)
  • Exposure: VoxEdit Contests are a brilliant way for you to develop and show off your asset creating skills. Where would games be if not for all the fantastic assets inside of them. Take part and we’ll showcase your work
  • Skill Enhancement: Refine your Voxel art skills. Explore new ideas and methods and create outside of your usual comfort zone with interesting themes.
  • Community Spirit: Take part in a fun and vibrant community of fellow creators and artists, where you can share your progress, exchange ideas, collab with others and learn tips and tricks.

🏆Prizes🏆

17,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries in the following ways :

  • 1st place: 6,000 SAND
  • 2nd place: 3,500 SAND
  • 3rd place: 2000 SAND
  • 4th to 10th place : Each receives 500 SAND.
  • Participation prize: 20 SAND**

*SAND prizes will now be sent on Polygon network.
** Participation reward is limited to the first 100 valid submissions outside of the top 10.

IMPORTANT: KYC is needed to place in the top 3 or you need to be a verified creator. 4th — 10th place can earn rewards without KYC.

How to be a verified creator?

  • Have a studio linked with a GMF account. or
  • Have participated in 5 contests and placed top 10 during one of those times.

🗓️ Important dates!

  • Submissions open : August 1st.
  • Submission deadline: August 23rd, 11:59PM UTC.
  • Results announced : September 7th-8th

✅How To Submit Your Entry

⚠️Important Entry Guidelines

  • Low quality entries or spammed entries with no effort put into their creation will be disqualified at The Sandbox’s discretion. The same goes for attempting to claim other people’s creations as your own — we’ll know.
  • Entries containing elements of any kind of discriminatory or overly sexualised nature will be disqualified from the contest. Keep it family friendly.
  • Your submission must be original, made entirely by you. You cannot make an ASSET of a character that belongs to someone else (ie, Marvel, Disney, Sega etc).
  • Your entry must be made in The Sandbox’s free VoxEdit software (click here), available on Windows and Mac.
  • Make sure you have read and understood the VoxEdit Contest Guidelines.
  • Assets should not exceed more than 5000 faces.
  • Assets should not exceed a max of 175 nodes.
  • The maximum size of an asset is 512 voxels tall (16 meters). Floor print should not exceed 512 x 512 x 512. Including animation.
  • You can submit more than one entry.
  • Voting will be conducted internally by The Sandbox team.
  • By participating you agree Sandbox can use your entry artwork for promotional purposes.

💯Judging Criteria

Your asset will be judged based on the 5 criteria below. Each criterion follows a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being “very poor” and 5 being “very good”.
Level of complexity has a score scale of 1–2.

  • Creativity (How creative was the asset based on the theme?)
  • Optimisation (Does this asset look optimised in Sandbox Game? Low face and node count is more optimised, ).
  • Aesthetics (Geometry, shape / Proportion / Colour Palette / Texture / Level of detail).
  • Quality of Animation (Was new animations added? Flow of the animation).
  • Level of Complexity (How difficult is the asset to make)

This contest will not include usability due to the nature of the contest.

🧐New to VoxEdit Or Need Assistance?

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