I Am 8-Bit Annual Art Contest Winners

IGN announced the winners of the I Am 8-Bit Annual Art Contest.

IGN earlier invited the aspiring artists reading IGN to create a piece of art inspired by the 8-bit era of videogaming. You needed to send a picture of your videogame-themed work of art before April 7th to get considered for inclusion in the I Am 8-Bit Contest. Now they announced the winners. The winner was Roland Tamayo, who was picked almost unanimously by the panel of judges.

The contest winners have a chance of getting their artwork creation shown at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight at the 2006 I AM 8-BIT exhibition, starting April 18th in Los Angles (and lots of prizes too).

Last year’s I AM 8-BIT exhibition, co-curated by Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight during the E3 Expo (and beyond) showcased some of the best videogame-related art ever committed to canvas and clay and was compiled into a book titled I AM 8-BIT: Art Inspired by Classic Videogames of the 80’s written by Jon M. Gibson. [Found via Waxy.org links]