Alias Announces 'Expose Yourself 2' Winner

Alias announced Joshua Maruska as the grand prize winner of Expose Yourself 2, the online digital creative contest now in its second consecutive year. Maruska's image of hip hop dancer "Girl" stood out from the hundreds of sketches and interpretations submitted by illustrators, designers and artists worldwide using Alias SketchBook Pro software. Joshua Maruska is an industrial designer from Seattle, Washington. Prior to Maruska's contest submission, he had never worked with Alias SketchBook Pro or any other digital sketch application. As an Alias StudioTools user in his profession, Maruska stumbled across Alias SketchBook Pro and the Expose Yourself 2 contest, believing this was an opportunity to learn new software and explore a new medium. With his Wacom Tablet, Maruska created his composition in approximately eight hours. Maruska, as the grand prize winner, has been awarded a Motion Computing Tablet PC and US $5,000. In addition, his character creation will be added to a cast of animated 'hip hop dancers' for Artificial Mind and Movement’s (A2M's) soon to be released urban flavored dance title. Montreal-based game developer A2M specializes in the creation of interactive action and adventure video games.