Over the last several weeks our team has been busy reviewing entries for the Holiday Spark Challenge. In the short two-week period that the competition ran, thousands of effects were submitted, from creators all over the world competing for their chance to win over 380,000 USD in cash prizes.

As always, selecting the winning effects is challenging, but fun. Our judges looked closely at everything from total points earned, craftsmanship and originality, to creativity and use of the theme to land on our top 20 panel picks. And from this list, today we’re excited to share our top five cash prize winners:

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In addition to our panel picks, approximately 80 creators earned at least 1,000 USD in cash prizes as part of the Holiday Spark Challenge. A big congrats to all of our competition winners!

Also, a special thanks to Jeferson Araujo, Blagovest Dimitrov, and Varun Raikar for hosting our competition workshops. These workshops were attended by more than 2,300 creators worldwide, and in case you missed them, we have the full-length recordings freely available today.

We hope you had fun with the Holiday Spark Challenge, as always, we’re listening to your feedback and working on ways to make competitions even better this year!

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