Shortly after Thanksgiving this year, we announced the Create Your Alienware Dream contest.  Talented animation artists from all over the US had a chance to show their stuff and compete for three really great prizes; a $3,000 Area-51 7500 Desktop PC, $1,000, and $500 cash.  Outside of the GUI Champs, this is the single biggest contest (in terms of prize value) we've run.

Last week, the judges voted, and after contacting each of our winners, it's time to let everyone else in on who walked away with which prize.

1st Place - Alienware Area-51 7500 Desktop PC
	UFO by patrick24 UFO was, by far, the number one pick by all the judges, leaving the other entries in the dust.  Probably one of the most impressive things about this dream was its technical execution.  It looked good, had a great loop and used almost no CPU to run.
2nd Place - $1,000 Cash
	Alien Where? by TheMasterBaron Coming in second was this interesting entry by WinCustomize's only Master Dream artist.  Watch as an alien ship slowly searches the terrain of an unknown world.  Good loop, high resolution.  A great entry from our Master Skinner.
3rd Place - $500 Cash
	Alien Core by t2wave This entry was t2wave's first attempt at making a Dream, which is pretty impressive.  Using little touches like taking the "alien language" from a previous Alienware contest, this Dream's attention to detail especially caught the attention of our judges.

Thank you to all of our participants, and to our judges (Island Dog, Fuzzy Logic, Snowman, WOM, Erk, Karma Girl, Snidely Whiplash, and the folks at Alienware), and most of all Alienware for the amazing prizes!

If you weren't able to compete in this Dream contest, remember that we have the 2008 GUI Champs coming this year, and I'll give you a hint... Dreams will be one of the competition categories!