And finally, because it couldn’t have been easy, a big thank you to our wonderful and talented judging panel!

Adam Badowski currently works as an Art Director at CD Projekt RED, which garnered more than 90 awards – including numerous Game of the Year and RPG of the Year awards – for its debut PC role-playing game, The Witcher. You might have problems spelling the name of his home city Łódź, so let’s try another word: Yach – it stands for Polish Music Video Awards, where Adam managed to snag some recognition of his own. His lifetime dedication to animation, especially music related, seems to be widely recognized as well. Oh, and he also happens to know everything about every cartoon on the planet… just try him.

Tomasz Baginski, born in 1976. Draftsman, cartoonist, and director. He is a self-taught artist. He gave up studying architecture for making films. His first student film, “Rain”, won several local prizes in 1998 and became a pass to Platige Image. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked on and off on his serious debut, entitled “The Cathedral”. In 2002 the film won the main prize, “Best Animated Short” at the biggest animation and special effects festival, SIGGRAPH. A year later, it received an Oscar nomination in the category Short Film (Animated). He is also the critically acclaimed director of the intro to “The Witcher: Enhanced Edition”.

John Kauderer currently works as an Art Director for Atari, which develops, publishes, and distributes games released on all major video game consoles and is currently one of the largest third-party publishers of video games in the United States.

In 2004, Casey Schreiner was on the original team behind G4’s “Attack of the Show” – the live, daily, hour-long show about video games, internet, tech issues, and pretty much everything else nerds are into. Casey is now the Senior Writer on the show’s staff, responsible for much of the memorable sketch comedy that comes out of the program. In addition to that, since 2007 Casey has been the host and co-writer of The MMO Report with Casey Schreiner, a humorous weekly video podcast about the news and developments in the world of Massively Multiplayer games on G4TV. The podcast is regularly in the iTunes Top Downloads, and has scored several exclusive interviews with A-list tabletop and video game developers.

And our final judge, Blair Herter decided at an early age that in lieu of physical contact with women he would devote his entire life to video games and comic books. So that’s what he has done for the past 28 years: play video games, collect comic books, and not touch people of the opposite sex. Blair’s proudest achievement is that he has spent more hours playing video games than he has sleeping and he hasn’t missed a new comic book day since the late 80’s. Professionally, Blair spent 6 years working various jobs at MTV, including but not limited to: hosting, producing, writing, rabblerousing, intravenously feeding Sumner Redstone the blood of interns, and wasting time on the company dime. While there Blair also covered the video game industry and decided that upon leaving MTV that he wanted to focus on that full time. So Blair begged and pleaded and called in every favor he had to get hired on as a producer/talent at X-Play. And that’s where he spends most of his days. Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool. Just shooting’ some b-ball outside of the school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good started makin’ trouble in his neighborhood….

deviantART, CD Projekt RED and Atari would like to thank the deviantART community for the many gorgeous and truly original pieces of fan art that were submitted into this contest. With over 1,100 entries, the above-mentioned three winners stood out in bringing the darkly complex world of The Witcher to life and we are proud to present the winning entries!

Great job deviants!!