3D Gallery Hallowen Contest: Fiendish and Fanciful

Okay artists, it's that time of year again! The time of ghosts, vampires and gelatenous ghouls. Halloween is upon us. Muhahaha!!!



Here's your challenge to survive the night:
Show us a trick and create a halloween-themed 3D artwork, submit it to our contest gallery by Midnight on All Hallows Eve (11.59pm, 31 October 2011) and you could win a wonderful treat!

Submission
Please submit your entries to the 3D contest gallery! Let me know if you are having trouble submitting.

Prizes:
First Prize
Any DeviantArt print worth $25 USD and a feature in next month's gallery bulletin

Second Prize
700 DA points and your winning entry featured in next month's gallery bulletin

Third Prize
350 DA points and your winning entry featured in next month's gallery bulletin

Criteria:
You will be judged on the following criteria, so make sure you think carefully about each of them while creating your masterpiece:
How well your submission relates to the theme
The overall technical difficulty of your creation
General aesthetics (How nice it looks as a whole)
Creativity and originality

Rules:
All entries must be submitted to the 3D contest gallery in the community relations group
Submissions close on 31 October 2011 11.59pm GMT. The timestamp from the group gallery submission (link) will be taken as the submission time, NOT the time your item is uploaded to DeviantArt
The main feature of your work must be in 3D and the overall piece must not be painted over (some post effects and tweaks are OK but you must be able to provide a wireframe and the original render on request)
Your deviation description must have a link back to this journal.
You may submit up to 2 entries to this contest.
All entries must have been submitted to DeviantArt after the 4th of October 2011 (inclusive).