Sheffield,
U.K. - Lightworks, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions
for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, today
announced the results of the latest Lightworks Image Competition.
Entries again came from across the globe and the standard was as ever,
very high, resulting in the judging committee on this occasion deciding
upon 2 joint winners: Alex Bonner and Marius Louw.
Alex is a design engineer, working for JCB in England and his 4WD Teletruk image was created using Siemens PLM’s NX software. He used HDR lighting and ray tracing to add greater realism to his image entry.
Marius is based in South Africa and he uses Caddie software from ACS for modeling alongside the Caddie Vio plug-in which incorporates Lightworks rendering technology.
On hearing the news that he had won, Alex Bonner comments: "Rendering using the Lightworks package in-built in Siemens NX allows me to quickly visualize existing and new designs to a high degree, traditionally where 'screen grabs' might have sufficed. The reduction in render times for high quality images allows the tools to be used daily rather than occasionally."
Marius adds: “Caddie Vio, the Lightworks based photorealistic rendering application for Caddie, has enabled me to take my renderings to a whole new level, creating images so convincing they often get mistaken for photographs. By using the extensive archive of life-like materials and textures that Lightworks provides, along with the subtle and realistic lighting effects for both internal and external settings, I’m able to create renders that have a very natural and authentic quality to them. For me, Caddie Vio with its Lightworks technology brought the whole 3D picture together, allowing me to bring my renders to life without the need for any postprocessing.”
To view the winning images and the shortlisted entries, click here to go to the Competition Web page: http://www.beemd.co.uk/email/link.php?M=10253&N=109&L=86&F=H
David Forrester, managing director at Lightworks, comments: “We continue to be delighted by the high quality of images which users enter into our competition. The range of subjects, applications used and the geography of these users Illustrates just how varied our user base really is and how widely spread the use of Lightworks technology is within the computer graphics sector.”
Entry to the next quarter of the competition is already open and Lightworks users are encouraged to send in their entries before the closing date of 31st December 2009.