DAILY WINNERS

2025 Daily Art Challenge

Welcome to the MARDINI Daily Art Challenge where artists have the chance to compete for cool prizes by creating images or animations using Houdini! With a different challenge every day during the month of March, they have 31 chances to enter and win. It is not too late to enter. One great entry could win you the top image or top animation prize. Check out the rules.

FINAL LEADERBOARD

Congratulations to everyone who entered and to Maxi Neumayr [gou] for winning Best Collection. Now judges will go over all of the top entries for each day and choose the Best Image and Best Animation for the whole month. 

Stay Tuned!

Ironheart winners should go to the Forum and submit your Contact Sheet with all 31 of your entries!

Place

Artist

#Points

1

    WINNER BEST COLLECTION!  

gou

72

2

PierrickOpitz

68

3

sarahstjean

63

4

Hoggerhead

58

5

playhead

51

6

dweyel

47

7

Furuya Takami

46

7

LeePetrl

46

9

zakkatara

43

10

luijee

40

10

TomMinor

40

12

SoloLera

39

13

Hingane

37

13

kingofthecassels

37

15

cpr3dadmin

35

15

Khaorte

35

15

leviathanbadger

35

15

mattthis

35

15

pirate sheep

35

20

DASD

34

20

plasmo310

34

20

XpL0iT

34

IMAGES


WEEK 5 | RENDER: LOPS

DAY 31

UNDERWATER

ANIMATIONS


WEEK 5 | RENDER: LOPS

DAY 31

UNDERWATER

DAY 30

MOONLIGHT

DAY 29

SUNSET

IMAGES


WEEK 4 | VFX: DOPS

DAY 27

SNOW


gou

DAY 25

FLOOD


gou

DAY 24

CRASH


gou

DAY 23

COLLAPSE


gou

DAY 22

EXPLODE


ZO

IMAGES


WEEK 3 | MOTION: KineFX

DAY 20

SLITHER


gou

DAY 18

ROLL


gou

DAY 17

DANCE

ANIMATIONS


WEEK 3 | MOTION: KineFX

IMAGES


WEEK 2 | TEXTURE: COPS

DAY 14

GRAFFITI


gou

DAY 12

GRUNGE


gou

DAY 11

FABRIC


gou

DAY 10

METAL


ZO

ANIMATIONS


WEEK 2 | TEXTURE: COPS

DAY 14

GRAFFITI

DAY 12

GRUNGE

DAY 11

FABRIC

DAY 10

METAL

IMAGES


WEEK 1 | MODEL: SOPS

DAY 7

CREATURE

DAY 5

ENVIRONMENT


gou

DAY 3

ARCHITECTURE

DAY 2

FURNITURE

ANIMATIONS


WEEK 1 | MODEL: SOPS

DAY 6

CHARACTER

DAY 5

ENVIRONMENT

DAY 3

ARCHITECTURE

DAY 2

FURNITURE