Meet MAT, Paint MAT contest results: The 2017 Substance 3D Painting Contest!

We finally have the list of the Meet MAT Contest, Paint MAT: The 2017 Substance 3D Painting Contest Winners!  This contest, of which we were one of the sponsors, consisted of customizing MAT, a sort of digital DIY toy using software developed by Allegorithmic, the Number 1 brand!

Quick contest stats:

• 30 winners from 16 countries
• 1,200 entries, nearly 400 from students
• 4,500 MAT model downloads
• 19,000 material downloads from Substance Source
• 53,000 views on the Allegorithmic website

Now let's see the Winners!

1st - Gabriel D’Orazio with “Mat by Vincent” (São Paulo, Brazil)

2nd - Liu Zinan with “Antique MAT” (Vancouver, Canada)

 

3rd - Andrii Mykhailov with “Material Ball Vending Machine” (Kyiv, Ukraine)

 

4th - Rogelio Olguin with “El Muerto” (Los Angeles, United States of America)

5th - Rikki-Lynn Vitello with “Shotty” (Los Angeles, United States of America)

6th - Cheung Chi Chung with “Antique from the East”

 

7th - Tomás Svojsa with “Mad MAT” (Prague, Czech Republic)

 

8th - Patrick Walsh with “Meet Mat Spray Paint” (Toronto, Canada)

 

9th - Jonas Ronnegard with “Angry/Cute Mecha” (Osaka, Japan)

 

10th - Pavel Vlasov with “Clock MAT” (Moscow, Russia)

 11th - Benoit Stordeur with “Flesh & Chrome” (Paris, France)

 12th - Raimundo Jean Cavalcante Silva Junior with “Mat Touché” (Paris, France)

 

13th - Bartek Nowak with “Mat Watney - The Martian” (Rzeszow, Poland)

 

14th - Ernesto Ordoñez with “MATCHOL” (Monterrey, Mexico)

 15th - Peter Sanderman with “This suits too tight!” (Melbourne, Australia)

 

16th - Rafal Brozyniak with “Urban Mat” (Bydgoszcz, Poland)

 

17th - Laurent Boucher with “The Mayan Mat” (Annecy, France)

18th - Sonia Fornasari with “Mat Jordan 1 Retro” (Vancouver, Canada)

 

19th - Wang Chen with “Monkey King”  TianJin, China

 

20th - Josef Bodnár with “Football Mat” (Prague, Czech Republic)

Les Étudiants ont aussi joué le jeu et nous ont concocté de magnifiques customs:

1st - Guillaume Hecht with “The Substance Sherif” (Nîmes, France)

 

2nd - Elouan Harmand with “Wooly Mat” (London, United Kingdom)

3rd - Etienne Strauss with “Pendulum Clock” Stuttgart, Germany

4th - János Weyhknecht with “Juicy Orange” Frankfurt am Main, Germany

5th - Felipe Sanin with “Black Forest & Ice Cream MAT” (San Francisco, United States of America)

6th - Michaelis Robyn with “Game Girl” Rochester, United States of America

7th - Dominik Hildner with “Dark Lord” (Salzburg, Austria)

8th - Luca Eliseo with “Meet Matpool” (Liège, Belgium)

 9th - Romain Pommier with “Gangsta MAT”  Valenciennes, France

10th - Julia Talaj with “Sakura 23”

You can also visit Allegorithmic website, you will there all teh winning visuals with more details and close ups and an introduction of the Jury. Artoyz is really proud to partner with this contest and we hope that will happen again next year! Thanks to Allegorithmic and all the artists!