Are you a winner with Sly Cooper?

Sanzaru Games unveils the first batch of winners in the search for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time treasures.

With work well under way on Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time on PlayStation 3, we asked you to design a treasure to ultimately appear in the globetrotting adventure.

Now that you've downed pencils and imagined the sorts of rarities a master thief like Sly Cooper might discover, the team at the helm of the light-fingered raccoon's latest daring heist have cast their eyes over your entries and picked the first batch of winners.

The response has been incredible and, given the high quality of the artwork that came flooding in, the task facing developer Sanzaru Games was far from simple. With designs covering everything from ornate cuckoo clocks to haunted golden cups to enchanted harps, the breadth of ideas has been staggering.

You can see all of the entries selected by Sanzaru Games in the picture gallery, while the full list of winners can be found at playstation.co.nz/competitions on PC. Each talented artist wins a PlayStation Vita system for their efforts.

That's not all, however. All of the winning designs will go through to a second round of judging, where Sanzaru Games will pick eight of the best creations. These final choices will then be brought to life in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time on PS3.

Make sure you stay tuned to playstation.co.nz and PlayStation.Blog for news of the overall winners. Congratulations to all of our shortlisted entrants, and good luck for the next round of the competition.