“The moons have aligned and cast five shadows across the land, signaling each nation to send forth their bravest warriors. Only time will tell who will fill the vacant thrones in this Gauntlet of Gods.”
Welcome to our thirteenth 3D Community Challenge, where you have the month of August to design a 3D character and their animated trading! Use your favorite 3D program, our provided template and our 13 hand-crafted animations to build your submission by August 31st.
After the deadline, everyone can battle with their custom card in the Gauntlet of Gods trading card game, which will adapt to the creative choices you make this month! This game is for the community, by the community, and will always be free to play digitally. We're also printing, packaging and shipping a limited physical run of the top 100 submissions, with all profits being donated to UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity to support creative projects and artists in need around the globe.
Let’s learn, grow, and create something together this month! Good luck and have fun!
Hide the card overlay in your finished 3D scene.
Pick your favorite single frame between frames 60 and 115 that clearly features your Champion. Render that frame.
If your finished 3D animation had any post-processing, add it to your rendered frame now.
Bring your rendered frame (Card Art) into the Card Creator , make a few positional tweaks if necessary.
Download your submission-ready card zip folder straight from the Card Creator.
Each cool card art needs a cooler overlay! Not only does it make your card look the part, but it also shows all the important information. Choose a card color, select your power level, and pick an ability that best represents your creation, so your card plays how you want it to in the card game we'll be making together.
Use our card creator to generate the overlay you want!
This is the best part. Design, create, and animate your champion! There are no limits to what you can do. Jungle-dwelling robot druid? Cyberpunk karate cat? Cool sunglasses-wearing wizard? The sky is the limit!
There is no limit to what software you can use to create your submission. As long as your animation meets our Tech Specs you are good to go. As always, we are disallowing any use of generative AI.
On top of your 3d animation, you'll also need to finalize your 2D card so you can use it on the battlefield. Check out our Card Guide to see how to properly export your submission-ready card.
The resulting card will be in a .zip format, there is no need to open or modify the file. It is ready for submission.
$500 to the “Most Creative Use of Marvelous Designer” + Artist Feature
To win the Marvelous Designer award, artist must agree to organic posts from the Marvelous Designer team such as (organic posting of your winning art on Marvelous Designer channels (website, software pop-ups, social channels), and a feature interview from the Marvelous Designer team.
One lucky creator will win a full set of our industry-leading mocap gear, complete with Studio software.
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Calder Moore
Dominik Mayer
Clint
The Gauntlet of Gods card game is a community-built card battler designed by AJ Brandon, in close collaboration with Create with Clint team. Opponents take turns playing cards in lanes, and initiating battle in order to deal enough damage to their opponent to claim victory. We want to achieve two things with this card game: First, artists must be able to create any character card they want, so they can directly play their creation in the game. And second, we had to build a functional card game that is easy and fun to play.
Each card has a unique ability, color, and power level (power also doubles as health and turn order), that directly affect how your card plays in battle. Limiting each of these attributes ensures the card game actually functions, while also giving artists the creative freedom to create the cards they want this month.
Because this card game is for the community, by the community, the digital version will ALWAYS and forever be free to play. No ads. No BS. You can play the beta version now with temp cards, then shortly after the August 31st deadline, we’ll populate the game with your submissions for the complete experience.
We're teaming up with CREO and we are printing, packaging and shipping a limited physical run of the top 100 submissions, with all profits being donated to UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity to support creative projects and artists in need around the globe.
The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) was started by UNESCO in 2005 as a way to bolster creative and cultural communities in developing countries.
As a community of internationally diverse artists, it was important for us to find a vetted charity (in this case, a fund) that specifically focuses on funding art projects to help artists around the globe. UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity checked all those boxes for us. Here’s what they have to say about themselves, straight from their site:
“The IFCD is one of the few United Nations funds that supports arts and cultural bodies, government institutions and non-governmental organizations in the Global South to develop stronger cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in their countries. It funds innovative projects across the globe within the fields of cinema, performing arts, visual arts, and media arts, as well as design, music, and publishing.
By working together, we are building lasting change so that everyone can express and enjoy diverse cultural expressions. We invest in people who might otherwise not have the chance to upgrade their skills and networks. We also invest in developing and implementing policies that are based on evidence and are inclusive. The goal is to support communities to build thriving cultural and creative industries.”
Shortly after pre-orders close and CREO recoups their printing costs for the card game, the entirety of the profits will be directly donated to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity.
Learn more about the International Fund for Cultural DiversityYou've got questions, we've got answers!
If you're still unsure about anything or have further questions, you can always ask on our Discord.
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