🎉 These are the winners of the Best of Blender Artists 2022!

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

IT’S DONE! You have decided on the Best of Blender Artists 2022 and it is now my honor to present you the ‘winners’ of this year.

Huge congratulations to everyone who ended up in the top 5 of their category. Special congratulations to Jörg Grubmüller @joergsla) who made it into the top 5 of THREE different categories, an amazing achievement.

Everyone who made it to the top 5 will receive a ‘Best of Blender Artists 2022’ badge in their account (soon, I spent most of my day working on this ranking and it’s time for other things now first

Just a few notes about the selection process:

• Some works were included in more than one category and ended up in the top 5 in more than one. If this happened, I only kept the highest scoring one and removed it from the other category top 5 to give other artists a chance too.
• Some works received the same number of votes. To cut the tie, I used the number of likes on the original post to cut the tie.

On a final note, I do realize the category list was not exhaustive and will make sure to improve that next year.

Enjoy, and happy new year!

Category: Characters

Grand winner: Paul Atreides

2nd place: Goliath	3rd place: The clemencrab
4th place: Who needs instructions	5th place: Stay strong, Ukraine!

Congratulations @Nazar_Noschenko1, @tomas.kral, @M3deiros, @joergsla and @ShinMinJeong!

Category: Landscapes

Grand winner: Stranded

2nd place: THROUGH THE PINES by ASMU	3rd place: The Core 01-04
4th place: Millbeck Farm - The Lake District	5th place: Snowy Mountain Sunset by GurjasStudios

Congratulations @Akhil_A_B, @thisisasmu, @WK042, @LazloWoodbine and @GurjasStudios!

Category: Plants

Grand winner: Houseplants study

2nd place: Beechwood park	3rd place: Tiny Village
4th place: Snowy creek in central Europe	5th place: The flying flaneur

Congratulations @bureaubruin, @thisisasmu, @ALLO, @Bad_Karma and @Tell!

Category: Intarch

Grand winner: Witch’s study

2nd place: Artist’s Studio	3rd place: Come to the Feast
4th place: Escher’s Relativity	5th place: Cash register

Congratulations @nonconmer, @Reuf_Novalic, @Reuf_Novalic, @dmen and @sempervirent!

Category: Extarch

Grand winner: Singing Doors No. 1 // Stefan Große Halbuer

2nd place: MasterBrews // Stefan Große Halbuer	3rd place: Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella at time of Piranesi
4th place: Water Pool Villa	5th place: Willoughby Way

Congratulations @poco_rocko, @poco_rocko, @crazypainter, @Morteza.Tahmasbi and @janmorek!

Category: Technology

Grand winner: Sony TC-1100

2nd place: Secret Reactor	3rd place: Retired robot
4th place: Biomechanical Pumpkin Walker	5th place: Unplanned rapid disassembly

Congratulations @M8TIR76, @orencloud, @ZKI, @Gebalt3Dee and @Linolafett!

Category: Animals

Grand winner: Coelophysis bauri

2nd place: Its a bee	3rd place: Hermit Crab
4th place: Bubble bath	5th place: Glimpse of the In Between

Congratulations @Joanna_Kobierska, @Asdius, @Zacxophone, @magicwand and @DeGa!

Category: Vehicles

Grand winner: Galleon ship

2nd place: Jet & Car meet on the Super Airport	3rd place: Mobile Attack Vehicle MAV
4th place: The Defender	5th place: “Watch Out, We’re Mad!” (“Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo”)

Congratulations @Panthalonik, @wanoco4D, @BlackCat_Productions, @claytonsjoerdsma and @Maurof98!

Category: NPR

Grand winner: After Thoughts: NPR study

2nd place: Cozy Day. 3d redraw of an Illustration	3rd place: Street Car Charm
4th place: Deejay Unknown - Episode 03 - Not Enough Caffeine - Music Video	5th place: 2022’s ARES

Congratulations @Xeofrios, @omar_faruq, @srchristoph, @Draise and @Maurof98!

Category: Geometry Nodes

Grand winner: Procedural Abandoned House with Geometry Nodes

2nd place: Buildings and streets with some geometry nodes	3rd place: Oceanic Wonder
4th place: Desert Castle and Geometry Nodes workflow	5th place: Forest Path

Congratulations @sozap, @sozap, @celestialmaze, @Gorgious and @Ivan_Roukin!

Category: VFX

Grand winner: Hanami - the cyberpunk ronin

2nd place: \ chic /	3rd place: Stylized tornado
4th place: Contact	a short animation film i made in blender

Congratulations @Maurof98, @KarimJoseph, @celestialmaze, @Daylirium and @orencloud!

Category: Animation

Grand winner: Fértil - Animated Short Film

2nd place: Short film: “La Vida de una Piñata”	3rd place: “I’m a Star” Animation Lighting made with Cycles #animation
4th place: Skating Wolf (Animation Loop)	5th place: Shopping (animation loop)

Congratulations @FelipeDelRio, @ninjatoaster, @homspau, @joergsla and @joergsla!

[bureaubruin (Thijs de Bruin)]

Wow, such an honor to win the catagory plants! Thanks everyone who voted for me and congrats to all the other winners! Best wishes for 2023 to all and hopefully I’ll be back soon with new projects.

[piranha4D (Pir)]

Congratulations to all! I found it quite difficult to choose in nearly all categories.

And thanks to Bart (and behind the scenes helpers) for organizing!

Very best wishes for 2023 to everybody in this community!

[M8TIR76 (Soheil Mahmoudi)]

WOW! I can’t believe that i have won too!
Thanks to everyone who voted me and congrats to all the other winners.

Thanks Bart and all of you guys behind the scene

[omar_faruq]

(╯▽╰ ) Wow! Thank you all. This made me pumped up to do better next year!

[poco_rocko]

Congrats everyone! This is a great honor for me and a great gift for the New Year. Thanks for support to everybody. Thanks a lot to Bart and the whole BlenderArtists team, you guys are doing the impossible for all of us! I wish you all the best in 2023!

xoxo,
poco

[Panthalonik (Piotr Gajda)]

Congratulations everyone
Best wishes for 2023!

[Maurof98 (Mauro Fanti)]

Wooooooowwwwwwwww I’m in the top5 in 3 categories and winner of VFX
Thanks thanks thanks
Thanks @bartv and thanks so much to everyone who supported me

[sempervirent (Ewa Wierbik)]

Thank you all. I’m genuinely shocked.
Let’s dive into 2023!

[Loris_Longari]

Gratz everyone!!! Ispiration!

[Gebalt3Dee (Khôi Phạm)]

poggers, congrats to everyone who won and everyone who got nominated

[kaamura (Hank Kaamura)]

Congratulations to the winners! All the best for 2023!

[Ali.Daood]

@Nazar_Noschenko1 is a great artist, I’m glad he won the characters category

[ARG3d (Ruud Geerards)]

Congrats to all winners above. Great work.

[DeGa (Denis Gauder)]

That’s a great honor for me, it really means a lot. Wandering in the 3d space, not being sure if what I do makes any kind of sense, it’s a huge push forward!
I’ll sure keep doing strange stuff and flood you guys with it

And thanks a lot to the team for spending the time, on new year’s eve, and to contribute to artist’s promotion in one of the most honest and straight forward way I’ve seen. @bartv @josephhansen (those I know best)

[meetdilip]

Congrats all. Do more in 2023

[ALLO]

Congrats to all the winners! So honored to make it to the top five of plants again this year.

[M3deiros (Guilherme Medeiros)]

3rd ??? OMG guys thank you so much! It makes my day very happy! Thank you for everything! Thanks @bartv !!

[sozap]

Thanks a lot to everyone and super honored to be alongside some of the artists and artwork that I really liked through this year !
I wish everyone an great new year full of creativity and wonders !