The 2021 Building Utopia ("Official Rules")

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The 2021 BUILDING UTOPIA (the "Contest") is sponsored by Lenovo, CGArchitect, Chaos Group, KitBash3D, and NVIDIA Corporation, on behalf of itself and its affiliates (“NVIDIA”) (collectively, the “Sponsors”).

Submission Deadlines / Important Dates

Eligibility

• The competition is open to residents of all countries except those countries embargoed by The United States and Canada at the time of competition completion. Participants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to be eligible to participate in this Contest. This Contest is open to individuals only. No team entries and no corporate or institutional entries are permitted in this Contest. Employees of Sponsor, its affiliates, and their respective contractors, service providers and professional advisors connected with this Contest, as well as members of their immediate families and/or households, are NOT eligible to enter.

General Rules

• By submitting you agree that the Sponsors may use your submission(s), fully credited, for promotional purposes on their websites and/or marketing collateral. You will retain all copyrights to your work.
• As a condition of awarding a Prize, winners grant to the Sponsors the right to use his/her full name (first and last), image and likeness, voice, and comments for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes without territorial, time or use limitations, including without limitation online announcements, without additional compensation or notice, unless prohibited by law.
• Submissions must be rendered with Chaos Vantage using KitBash3D assets provided. Post processing such as color adjustments, editing, and sound design are allowed. The content of the animation must be based on the provided assets. You can supplement the scene with the additional the assets provided to you. You can also include your own geometry and textures if desired. But your creation should be limited to the center island of the city. The contestant can create the animation based on animating the camera, adjusting the lighting of the scene, as well as some as well as other animation that is possible inside of Vantage. For more on what is possible, please refer to our introduction video.
• By submitting to the 2021 Building Utopia Contest, you warrant that you have obtained permission to submit the works for public display.
• By entering this Contest, entrants agree to abide by these Official Rules. The decisions of the Sponsors and their appointed judges with respect to all aspects of the Contest are final and binding.
• By entering the Contest, entrants thereby release the Sponsors, their parent and affiliated companies, their advertising and promotional agencies, and their employees, representatives, agents, partners, shareholders, officers and directors (the “Releasees”) from all liability including responsibility for any loss, damage or injury, caused by participating or their attempt to participate in the Contest or resulting from acceptance of the Prize or participation in the Event.
• The Releasees assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Releasees are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received by the Sponsors on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, or any combination thereof, including any damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer and other property relating to or resulting from participation in this Contest or from downloading any materials in this Contest.
• CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS. RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Any attempt to circumvent any of the competition rules or voting systems will result in you and your company being disqualified and permanently banned from all future contests.
• The Sponsors reserve the right at all times at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest, in whole or in part, in the event of any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Sponsor that interferes with the proper conduct of the Contest as contemplated by the Official Rules, including, without limitation, any error, technical problem, computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure, or any other cause including the cancelation or postponement of the Event.
• The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who (i) tampers with, or attempts to tamper with, the entry process; (ii) enters the Contest or tries to do so by any means contrary to these Official Rules or which would be unfair to the other entrants; or (iii) violates any of these Official Rules.
• By entering this Contest, each entrant consents to the collection, use, and disclosure, by the Sponsors, of the following personal information: full name (first and last), submitted entry information, and contact information (telephone number, address, and email address) for the administration of this Contest including, but not limited to, the announcement of winners and awarding and delivery of a Prize. No commercial or other communications unrelated to the Contest will be sent to entrants, unless they have otherwise agreed to receive such communications.
• This Contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations and void where prohibited. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Official Rules or the rights and obligations as between the entrant and the Sponsors in connection with the Contest will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Alberta, including procedural provisions, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other jurisdiction’s laws. If a section of the Official Rules is declared illegal, unenforceable or invalid by a competent court, that section shall be considered invalid, but all unaffected sections will be applied within the limits of the law.
• By submitting to the 2021 BUILDING UTOPIA Contest you agree to create a "Making Of" article for the Sponsors if requested.
• The winner of this Contest is solely responsible for any and all applicable taxes and government charges that result from his/her receipt and/or use of the prize. Sponsor reserves the right to withhold and deduct such taxes and charges from the prize if and to the extent required by law.
• By entering this promotion you expressly consent to the Sponsors collection, processing and use of your personal information that you provide in connection with this promotion (including, but not limited to, disclosure of your name and state of residence on a winners list and making such list available to the public) and under the terms of CGArchitect’s privacy policy, which can be accessed at https://shop.cgarchitect.com/privacy-policy/.

How to enter and be eligible for a prize

• To enter the Contest and be eligible for a Prize you must have a CGarchitect account and submit a 30-60 second animation in QuickTime MOV or MP4 format. The minimum resolution should be 4K resolution (3840 x 2160). If your footage was not rendered in HD, we will accept it, however during the judging HD resolution entries may be given preference. Participants are limited to one submission each.
• Submissions must be rendered with Chaos Vantage using KitBash3D assets provided. Post processing such as color adjustments, editing, and sound design are allowed. The content of the animation must be based on the provided assets. You can supplement the scene with the additional the assets provided to you. You can also include your own geometry and textures if desired. But your creation should be limited to the center island of the city. The contestant can create the animation based on animating the camera, adjusting the lighting of the scene, as well as some as well as other animation that is possible inside of Vantage. For more on what is possible, please refer to our introduction video.
• Competition judges or their respective companies may submit to the competition, however, they will not be able to vote on their own submissions. In the event that a judge's submission is selected as a category nominee, all of their competition votes for that category will be removed from consideration. In the event that more than three judges' submissions are selected as a category nominee, replacement judges may be selected to vote in their place.
• All submissions must be received no later than March 1 (12:00 PM Eastern Time / UTC-5).
• In the event of technical issues during the submission process, CGarchitect at its sole discretion may accept submissions up to 24 hours past the submission deadline. Once submissions have been released to the judges, all incomplete submissions are disqualified from consideration.

Prizes

• The prizes awarded to each winner, nominee and participant are detailed on our prizes page. In some cases prize values are listed as the cumulative total and not the individual prize total for any given category or winner. Prize values are approximate.
• Prizes must be accepted as awarded, are not transferable or convertible to cash. The Sponsor reserves the right at any time to substitute a Prize or a component thereof for any reason with a Prize or a prize component of equal or greater value, or the value of the Prize in cash as indicated in these Official Rules.
• Due to embargoes and import rules, some prizes may not be shipped to the winner's country of residence. You will be notified if you reside in an embargoed country. In such an event, there will be no cash or alternate prize awarded.
• Some physically shipped prizes may incur taxes or import duties depending upon the winner's country of residence. The winner is responsible for all such fees and duties. Should the winner elect not to pay those fees, the prize will not be shipped and no cash or equivalent prize will be awarded.
• Some prizes are awarded randomly as indicated on the prizes page.

Winner selection

• Winners are selected based on scoring and short listing performed by the panel of expert judges and the Sponsors. Their decision is final and binding.
• The first round of judging will be based solely on the submitted animation. Criteria includes use of lighting, cinematography, overall originality, and narrative. Shortlisted submissions will be judged based on the quality of content, complexity and detail of the scene, general interactivity, and the innovative use of Chaos Group’s Vantage.

Winner notification

Sponsor will attempt to contact each selected winner by email in March 2021.

Any winner found not in compliance with these Official Rules; will be disqualified and will forfeit the Prize and, at the Sponsor’s sole discretion, an alternate entrant may be selected until the selected entrant meets all the qualifications outlined in these Official Rules and can be declared a winner. The Sponsors will not be responsible for failed attempts to contact a selected entrant. Any prize not collected by June 2021, will be considered forfeited.