Worth1000 is a fun place to visit and also to participate in. They hold contests every day for photo manipulations, photography, writing, and animation / multimedia. Other than the coporate contests, the only prize is “points” which you can use to enter more contests, but winning is also a bit of an ego boost. I must admit, I thought it was pretty cool when I got first place once — and that was just in one of their Training Ground competition, which are essentially for beginners. (Have to start somewhere.)
At any rate, I figured that every now and then I’d post a link to one of my entries there. I was originally going to upload all my entries to this site, but then I figured that they’re already up at Worth1000, so why use up my own bandwidth? (I plan on linking to the site, not hotlinking directly to my images there, by the way, if that’s what you’re thinking.)
But first, I thought I’d share an image that I created for Worth1000 but that was never submitted because I missed the deadline. By two minutes. A shame, ’cause I think it might’ve won…or at least scored well. The contest was to take the given picture of a plastic doll and manipulate it however we wanted. (The picture, not the doll.) I actually did get one entry in to the same contest, but it didn’t do as well as I think my late entry would’ve. Oh well.
The image is called Real Boy, and just to warn you — it’s kind of creepy. Think Pinocchio, mid-transformation.
