Ever wanted a 3D object based on your design. Heres' an awesome contest to join:

Shapeways, a leading global community for 3D co-creation production is having a contest for all 3D artists. Its inviting all 3D artists to submit their hottest object designs and have it be produced into physical tangible products by Shapeways.com and showcased at SIGGRAPH 2008. The submissions will be accepted from July 29th 2008 to August 7th 2008. The top 10 finalists will be announced on August 11th. The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on August 15th, 2008. The grand prize is a $500.00 Shapeways Product Certificate.

To submit just sign up for the site on Shapeways.com/beta. Register as a BETA user and use the BETA code: ContestSiggraph From there follow these 3 steps:

1. upload your object design (STL, Collada, X3D)
2. Upload a rendering representing the finalized object
3. Enter the tag “SIGGRAPHContest.”
Best of Luck!

the contest concludes on Thursday August 7th so definitely send in those submissions if you havent already.

theres additional info on the contest up on the Shapeways blog: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/52-The-Shapeways-3D-design-challenge!.html#extended [shapeways.com]

The top 10 finalists for the Shapeways Challenge have just been announced. The winner will be announced @ Siggraph this Thursday.

Here are the finalists.

“Fire Husky” submitted by madebybard
“GasGuy” submitted by frigi
“Little Lieutenant” submitted by BrodyB
“Moebius Ants” submitted by andre.bois
“Nerd Glasses” submitted by Wildsketch
“Sailboat” submitted by Heofz
“Sophia Big” submitted by David Smit
“Sphere Keeper” submitted by Wildsketch
“Stickman balance toy” submitted by benstabler
“The Birth of an Idea” submitted by jongold

You can check out the finalists’ designs @ http://www.shapeways.com/contestgallery [shapeways.com]
To vote for the winner just register on the community @ www.shapeways.com [shapeways.com]