The Next Great Starship is a competition to create (conceptualize, design, model, animate, and rig) a starship that will be in the final Star Citizen game. The prizes are impressive:
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GRAND PRIZE:
$30,000 in cash for the team members. Your Great Starship is included in Star Citizen and each member of your team receives the first production models off the press! As well as; Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite, Maya Premium and one high-end AMD based system with Radeon R9 290X (for each team member).
SECOND PLACE:
$10,000 in cash for the team members. Alienware laptop, Autodesk Maya 2014, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member).
THIRD PLACE:
$5,000 in cash for the team members. Autodesk Maya LT, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member).
SPECIALTY PRIZE :
(to the most valuable player out of the remaining contestants among the final three teams voted on by the judging panel): One Cintiq Companion, the new Windows 8 “Make the World your Studio” tablet from Wacom.
FINALIST TEAMS 4 THROUGH 16
$250 in RSI Credits for each teammate (non-transferable/non-refundable)
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The competition is being made into a weekly webcast show. It starts this Friday, January 31st at 4 PM Mountain time. There will be a new show every Friday until the 1st week of June.
For entry into the contest, teams (maximum 3 people) were asked to create a weapon for the game.
Here is the teaser trailer for the show which includes many of these weapon designs:
The type of ship created was left up to the community. These were the results of the poll:
