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Renaissance
Live Forever: Remix Contest
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: SEPTEMBER 17, 2006
In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export -- youth and beauty. In this world of stark contrasts and rigid laws the populace is kept in line and accounted for.
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SYNOPSIS
Cut off from the world for its own protection, the city has nonetheless
continued to expand. Now, 21st century skyscrapers overlay centuries-old
architectural masterpieces. And below street level, a sophisticated network
of streamlined plazas push up against the city's ancient, deteriorating
tunnel systems.
In 2054 Paris, the Metro is still running, the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur
are still standing, but new layers of architecture have been grafted onto the
city's ancient edifice. Bridges have been altered, and a glass-like floor now
covers a subterranean commercial center at the base of Notre Dame Cathedral.
Equally imposing is the Avalon Corporation. Everywhere in the city, talking
billboards soothe the populace with an interrupted message selling ageless
beauty. Ageing and physical corruption has increasingly become an obsession.
The people of Paris want youth and Avalon wants to sell it to them.
When 22-year-old Ilona, one of Avalon's most promising scientists, is abruptly
kidnapped, Avalon calls on Barthelemy Karas, a Paris cop with a hard-fought
reputation for finding anyone, no matter what sacrifices he has to make along
the way. As the trail gets hot, Karas senses he's not the only one looking
for the beautiful enigma, and every witness he digs up seems to turn up dead.
Ilona and her sister, Bislane, were orphans rescued from the brutal, war-torn
Caucasia region so that the prodigal younger sister would eventually work at
Avalon, where she was mentored by the great geneticist Jonas Muller. The
sisters separated as Ilona became deeply immersed in her work: Bislane fell
into a life in the underworld, and Muller gave up his brilliant career to
open a clinic for the city's poor.
If Avalon vice president Paul Delienbach knows anything about the mysterious
project Ilona may have been involved in - something called the Renaissance
Protocol - he isn't talking.
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge
deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and
genetic research where the truth imprisons whomever finds it first and
miracles can either save the world, or end it.
CONTEST INFORMATION
In the streets of Paris in 2054 a story is being shaped; sweeping like a dark cloud it affects everyone and everything it touches. With the stage set and startling events now in motion, it's up to the deviantART community to capture these and surrounding scenes as they unfold in the world of Renaissance. Follow the characters as their story develops, or show the changing world from another perspective, another story from deep within the Parisian underground. Miramax has charged you with this task, and you will be rewarded.
Movie Poster - Using the still images supplied by Miramax from the film, directly or as inspiration, create a promotional poster for the film.
Submit to: Community Projects > Contests > Miramax: Renaissance > Movie Poster
Short Story - Use the Renaissance setting as the backdrop for your own story. Develop the characters found in the film or
create your own. Spin-off from the storyline or add to it.
Max Length - 2000 words.
Submit to: Community Projects > Contests > Miramax: Renaissance > Short Story
Comic Strip - Using the still images Miramax have supplied from the film, directly or as inspiration, create your own digital comic strip that tells a story
using the Renaissance style, backdrops and theme.
Submit to: Community Projects > Contests > Miramax: Renaissance > Comic Strip
CREATIVE SOURCES
Use these sources to help your creative process.
PRIZES
There will be a Grand Prize and a Runner-Up prize for the three categories: Movie Poster, Short Story and Comic Strip. One of the Grand Prize winners will be featured on the official Renaissance website.
Grand Prize
- High Quality Renaissance Figurine
- Offical Renaissance Movie Poster
- deviantART One Year Subscription
- deviantART Print Account (or one year subscription)
- One deviantWEAR shirt of your choice from Series 6
Runner-Up Prizes
- Offical Renaissance Movie Poster
- deviantART One Year Subscription
- 20 deviantDOLLARS
DEADLINE
The closing is noon PST, Sunday September 17th .
JUDGES
Entries will be judged by Toni Kay,
Richard Hartley,
Todd Keisling,
Spot,
Ian Cosh,
Stanley Sy,
George Smith and
Nichol Norman
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Cleaning up
I just spent four hours striping the fat from my favourites (cut 300+ items), then churning through a whopping 1600+ pending deviantWATCH list. I've been neglecting my account a tad, as of late.
While climbing through my favourites , I noticed patterns. Strings of items where I'd obviously discovered a new artist, and enjoying their work, went on a fav orgy. As expected, that resulted in some items not quite holding up to my "wow" standard. Not bad pieces, mind you; simply not fav worthy. I wonder how different the DA landscape would look if favs had a cost. Say, you got a certain number of fav "points" each day, or for taking other actions.
Napalm!
We've launched to the public. Kinda! :P
deviantART Never Before Seen Footage of the Truth
https://comments.deviantart.com/5/14959691/559586524
Announcement
For anyone who has been interested in what we have been working on for the past year, you can check out our announcement here:
http://news.deviantart.com/article/35386/ (please heart the article for me) :)
We are also looking to expand our team. We're in need of coders and CSS/JS people among others. If you or someone you know are interested, please send me a note here or an email to spot@napalmriot.com.
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woah, these comments were from a long time ago. FIRST COMMENT IN 8 YEARS!