CGTalk just opened it's 18th 3D/2D Challenge, called "Spectacular".
If you enjoy painting, photoshoping or doing 3D, you might find interesting. The challenge is big, 3 months long, and the prizes are great (a boxx workstation, both to 3D and 2D first places).
The theme is to make something that would be spectacular, amusing yet scary, something that would be marked forever on the History.
You can join the Challenge here:
http://features.cgsociety.org/challe...ular/enter.php
My entry is here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...9&page=1&pp=15
Best of luck to whoever is on the Challenge.