Valve has announced a collaboration with Polycount for a new contest for fans of DOTA 2 that involves creating new high quality items to implement into the game. Contestants will create item sets that the studio's art team will then judge. Winners will have their items added into the game's store and receive special "Polycount" versions of their items.
Just as it is with previous user-submitted items, those who win the contest will be able to earn profits from the sales of their items.
Here's the rules:
You don’t need to own Dota 2 to participate! The downloadable spectator client has all the tools needed to upload submissions to the Dota 2 workshop. (We don’t let ‘limited’ users upload to the workshop, so you’ll need to have bought something on Steam at some point in the past. You can buy early access to Dota 2 here, but this isn’t required if you own anything else on Steam.)
During the contest, you’ll need to track the progress of your project on a public thread on the Polycount website in their Contests & Challenges forum. Update your thread with concepts, work in progress images, and discuss ideas with the Polycount community.
Submissions should be uploaded to the Dota 2 workshop via the game client and tagged with the ‘Polycount Contest Entry’ checkbox.
The deadline for entries is November 19th, 2012 @ 11:59PM EST, so fire up your copy of 3D Coat (or your favorite modeling package) and get started!
If you're interested in participating just head on over to the contest page. p>