Submit Artwork

In order to submit artwork for consideration, all submitting parties must carefully read the eligibility requirements. Each piece of art must be submitted individually. Please select one of the available categories that best fits the type of artwork being submitted (see below for full category descriptions). Please complete all fields on the following form and when complete, click “SUBMIT ARTWORK” to upload your submission. Each artwork submission is $25 and will be processed separately. In the case of financial hardship, a fee waiver may be requested. Please contact the AIAS at info@gamemakerssketchbook.com in order to inquire.

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@gamemakerssketchbook.com.

Character Art

Explorations, 2D compositions and/or 3D modeling focusing on any elements that go into designing the visual elements of character. Illustrations often include components central to character action/interaction within a game – model sheets, expression, physical movement, wardrobe and styling, etc

Submissions Open

Environmental Art

All the visuals that encompass the world that characters inhabit, including 3D and 2D art that functions as the basis for constructing a physical game world, including landscapes, architecture, planets, vessels and other set pieces.

Submissions Open

Impact

An iconic, singular image that captures the game’s visual language, character and/or narrative, including, but not limited to, key art or concept art.

Submissions Open

Iconography

Graphic design and iconographic elements meant to engross the player in the identity of the game world, including but not limited to UI, HUDs, dialogue trees and boxes, inventory, primary brand logo or in-game fictional logos, custom typography, symbology and repeated visual elements intended to function as signifiers.

Submissions Open

Storyboards

Illustrations, diagrams and/or drawn sequences used to visualize a cutscene, narrative, or gameplay scene; demonstrating the flow of animation and scene direction. This can apply to either a game or trailer.

Submissions Open

Curiosities

This is the category for anything that doesn’t quite qualify for the other more succinctly focused categories, including but not limited to, props, schematics, technical diagrams, and other trinkets not clearly defined as environment or character art.

Submissions Open

Archives

SUBMIT ARTWORK

Explorations, 2D compositions and/or 3D modeling focusing on any elements that go into designing the visual elements of character. Illustrations often include components central to character action/interaction within a game – model sheets, expression, physical movement, wardrobe and styling, etc

All the visuals that encompass the world that characters inhabit, including 3D and 2D art that functions as the basis for constructing a physical game world, including landscapes, architecture, planets, vessels and other set pieces.

An iconic, singular image that captures the game’s visual language, character and/or narrative, including, but not limited to, key art or concept art.

Illustrations, diagrams and/or drawn sequences used to visualize a cutscene, narrative, or gameplay scene; demonstrating the flow of animation and scene direction. This can apply to either a game or trailer.

This is the category for anything that doesn’t quite qualify for the other more succinctly focused categories, including but not limited to, props, schematics, technical diagrams, and other trinkets not clearly defined as environment or character art.