Last year, the author of "The Wheel of Time", Robert Jordan, hosted a fan-art calendar contest for the 2009 Wheel of Time Calendar. He was very sick and wanted the proceeds to go towards research into his disease type, amyloidosis. He had no illusions about outliving this precarious disease, and indeed left us in September...

He is greatly and sorely missed, as is the final book for his series entitled "A Memory of Light", which he left unfinished and has since been taken up by his wife and Brandon Sanderson, a prolific fantasy author and friend.

I have the honor of having been selected by a panel of judges and finally by Mr. Jordan himself, just days before he died. I'm not certain (after all the silliness with the publisher) if I can legally display my winning entry, as I believe they now own that image, but I do know they don't own Maya, or my Maya scene file, or any of my massive texture files, or any of that...!

So I thought I'd share with anyone interested two examples of this scene and how it was heading, prior to finalizing the render for the calendar people...

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If you've seen them already, nevermind me celebrating! The official winners' list came down through Dragonmount a few days ago, and can be seen here:

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Can't wait to see what the other artists came up with!



(Edit) I also just found out they were using my Choedan Kal image from DragonCon's Wheel of Time Booth for the Age of Legends website, ageoflegends.net! A bit of progress, finally...