Get ready to unleash your creativity and groove to the beats of BLOND:ISH, as we present an exciting contest like no other. We are thrilled to announce the BLOND:ISH VoxEdit Contest, where you can showcase your talent and win SAND!

🏝️ Contest Theme: ABRA Summer Party 🏝️

Unleash your imagination and design a stunning voxel NFT that will transport music enthusiasts to the vibrant locations where the sensational BLOND:ISH will be performing. From the bustling streets of Paris, the vibrant scenes of London, the pulsating energy of NYC, the star-studded atmosphere of LA, and the rich historical wonders of Egypt, your design has the power to transport them there!🗺️

Create a mind-blowing voxel NFT that captures the essence of BLOND:ISH’s unique style as well as the locations where the artist will be performing. Whether it’s a mesmerizing beachfront stage, an enchanting party venue, or even a mind-bending DJ booth, let your imagination run wild and bring your vision to life in vibrant voxel form!

Prizes

15,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries the following ways:

• 1st place: 6,000 SAND
• 2nd place: 3,500 SAND
• 3rd place: 2,000 SAND
• 4th to 10th place: each receives 500 SAND.

IMPORTANT: The top 10 winning assets submitted for this contest might be used in BLOND:ISH Sandbox game experiences in the future. As a reward, top 10 winners will have the privilege to mint and sell their asset on The Sandbox Marketplace, with its rarity being determined by your score. Please note that by participating, you give consent for your asset to be utilized in BLOND:ISH experiences within The Sandbox.

Important Dates

• Submissions open: June 12th
• Submissions close: June 30th, at 11:59pm UTC
• Results announcement: Between July 15th to July 22nd

🎵 Get your beats ready, unleash your voxel magic, and let’s create voxel art that resonates with the spirit of BLOND:ISH! 🎵

How To Submit Your Entry

• Create a GIF of your fully animated asset. (We recommend using Gyazo).
• Tweet your asset’s GIF mentioning @VoxEdit, @TheSandboxGame on Twitter. Make sure to include #VoxEditWeekly hashtags in your Tweet.
• To finalize your submission, please fill out the following Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsF6tRmNg9lxiETA0q2PdOwKQ-4CexHFe1dQhAsOepJUYIGw/viewform

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 with sexual, homophobic, racist, and other NSFW or inappropriate references will be disqualified. 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).
• If a contest is in partnership with an external brand, you are allowed to use their logo but cannot upload your asset on the marketplace.
• 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.
• You can submit more than one entry.
• Voting will be conducted internally by The Sandbox team and the Blond:ish team.

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”.

• Creativity (How creative was the asset based on the theme?).
• Usability (How usable is this asset in other games?). → Woth double points*
• Optimisation (Does this asset look optimised in The Sandbox Game?).
• Level of detail (The detailing on the asset).
• Quality of Animation (Was new animations added? How good are the animations?).

*Usability will be worth double points due to the fact that the winning assets will be minted and sold on our Marketplace.

IMPORTANT: As much as we enjoy seeing your lovely scenes, please remember these contests are usually to encourage you to create something usable within The Sandbox, so keep that in mind when creating. 😉

New to VoxEdit Or Need Assistance?

• Check out our new VoxEdit Academy knowledge base.
• Join our Discord community to chat with other artists.

Good luck to all participants!

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