Autodesk 3ds Max Design Hero Competition - DEADLINE ON FRIDAY!

Posted by Jeff Mottle 27 November 2012 12:01 pm

So You Want To Be a Hero?

DEADLINE IS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2012!

Here’s your chance! Submit an image(s) you’ve created using Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 or Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software, or later, and you could win $5,000 cash and prizes from BOXX and NVIDIA valued at over $18,000! (see rules for additional details)

Not only will the winning submissions be seen by thousands, the first place winner will also receive a 3DBOXX 4050 XTREME Workstation, plus US$5,000 in cash. The second Place winner will win a BOXX Technologies desk side renderPRO solution and three honorable mentions will receive an NVIDIA® Quadro® K5000.

Autodesk is looking for creative and innovative imagery in three categories: Buildings, Transportation and Product Design. Entries will be judged on originality and design sensibility.

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30 Comments

Alpha Tomasowa

said 1 October 2012 10:33 am

Wow. You have got to love the fact this brief says 2013 or later, gwahahaha.

Anyways. All the best to those competing -here's to a good showing.

Jeff Mottle

said 1 October 2012 10:42 am

2012 actually. That was a typo.

Alpha Tomasowa

said 1 October 2012 10:45 am

I see -I actually thought 2014 was in the pipeline, despite what I've been hearing about Autodesk and their reluctance towards Windows 8.

I am new to this, so may I ask whether all questions should be directed to the email in the Brief, or can some be posted in the Comments here?

Thank you beforehand.

Jeff Mottle

said 1 October 2012 10:49 am

Autodesk has to be very careful about speaking about new versions before the are released. Because they are a publicly traded company SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) rules dictate that if they make any announcement of a new product they have to declare revenues differently which could drastically affect their bottom line and thus share prices. It's a major deal. People get fired over screwing up this sort of thing.

Regarding questions about the competition, feel free to post them here or email to 3dsmaxhero@cgarchitect.com

Alpha Tomasowa

said 1 October 2012 10:56 am

That makes sense.

My question is regarding the definition of post production software mentioned in article 2 of the Brief, in the General section. Does that include 3rd party render engines, or is this by definition of the product per se a competition of 3dsmax with either its proprietary render engine or the mentalray that it's bought and distributed?

Jeff Mottle

said 1 October 2012 11:11 am

You can use any 3rd party renderer that works with 3ds Max.

Alpha Tomasowa

said 1 October 2012 11:12 am

I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

Jeff Mottle

said 1 October 2012 7:51 pm

Andrew you should read the rules for this year.

Mazen Samir

said 2 October 2012 1:14 am

Architecture doesnt include interiors ?

Jeff Mottle

said 2 October 2012 1:15 am

@Mazen, no interiors are still considered architecture. Was there a rule or something you read that made you think otherwise?

Mazen Samir

said 2 October 2012 3:21 am

No I just thought it would be mentioned seperate than architecture, thanks for the clarification.

kazem ghari

said 8 October 2012 3:38 am

where can i see the rules?

Jeff Mottle

said 8 October 2012 12:26 pm

@Kazem, go to the competition website and click on the Rules link.

Peter Ramirez

said 30 November 2012 8:07 am

Hi jeff can we see the works of the participants? thanks

Jeff Mottle

said 30 November 2012 10:20 am

Not until well after the winners are selected and announced.

Osewa Femi

said 30 November 2012 1:22 pm

Hi Jeff,

please what time is it over there? My render still has about 6 hours to go on this one. I'm in London and it's 8:20 local time.

Thanks

Jeff Mottle

said 30 November 2012 1:36 pm

deadline is in 5.5 hours approx.

Kirt Haymore

said 30 November 2012 2:17 pm

Hi Jeff, is there a link for any future competitions? I will not be able to make the deadline for this one

Jeff Mottle

said 2 December 2012 11:08 pm

When they come up there will be more posted. I'm currently running another one here at the moment: http://www.infrastructure-excellence.com/

Kirt Haymore

said 3 December 2012 9:22 am

Perfect, thank you Jeff

akram kasravi

said 15 December 2012 1:23 am

Hi
when we can see the works of the participants?

Ramon Meza

said 18 December 2012 11:11 am

Hi Jeff:
When we can see the finals results? It will be posted in this web page or another?
Congratulations for this web page, it is a really nice way to learn.