Following up on last year's huge success, CGarchitect.com is hosting the 2nd annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year's SIGGRAPH Event in August. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2004/2005.

This year's awards will be divided into two categories: Still Imagery and Animation. From the submitted entries our group of expert judges will select the top five in each category. The winner of each category will be awarded the exclusive CGarchitect.com 3D AWARDS trophy at the SIGGRAPH Event.

Winner of the 2005 Architectural 3D Awards - Still Image Category (Neoscape): Magnus Lindqvist (VisMasters), Lon Grohs (Neoscape), Jeff Mottle (CGarchitect.com)

CATEGORIES

Still Imagery: Awarded to the individual or company for outstanding achievement in an architectural visualization project.


2005 Nominees and Winners

	Kum Fei Wong Digital Mirage PL. Signapore		WINNER - Neoscape USA

	Yang Mingjie VDTC China		BHAA China

	Dimitar Karanikolov and Tsvetan Toshkov Meshroom Ltd. United Kingdom

Animation: Awarded to the individual or company for outstanding achievement in an architectural visualization animation project.


2005 Nominees and Winners

	BHAA China

	Smoothe United Kingdom

	Luis Rivero Urbansimulations Spain

	WINNER- Neoscape USA

	Visualisation One United Kingdom

Who are the Judges?

This year our expert panel of judges are 5 of the top competitors in our 2005 Architectural Visualization Competition!

CHEN QINGFENG (cqfcqf) Location: China Design of Architect Design of Interior Architectural Rendering Architectural Animation Environment Rendering Website: http://www.chen3d.com

EYAL SHMUEL (zion3d) Location: Israel Born in Israel in 1971, graduated as an Architect from the Architecture School of Tel-Aviv (Israel). Moved to the Netherlands in 1997, worked in an architecture office in Amsterdam, and for the past 3 years I have been working in an Architectural presentation office in Amsterdam (CIIID).

MARC GRUBER-LAUX (kunstraum.tv) Location: Germany - 31 years old - studied Architecture in Berlin, Germany - founder of the architectural firm "kunstraum.tv" - specialized in designs and visualizations for architecture, interiors especially for commercials and movies - apart the design, lighting, materials, moods and rendering are the main topics of my work Website: http://www.kunstraum.tv

TIM NELSON (Tim Nelson) Location: USA Introduced to the world of 3D while attending an Autocad modeling class, Tim Nelson has been passionate about rendering ever since.  His early professional experience included an apprenticeship in cabinetmaking in which his careful attention to detail carried over to his drafting work and later his rendering work.  Not formally trained in the art of rendering, Tim has learned everything he knows through job experience, trial & error, and advice from friends and colleagues at the cgarchitect.com forums.  Based in Phoenix Arizona, Tim started his one-man rendering business, Urban Illustration Inc., in late 2003 and continually seeks new methods and technologies to improve the quality of his work and provide his clients with the very best.  Website: http://www.urbanillustration.com

NICHOLAS MOSHENKO (moshenko) Location: Canada I studied Architecture at the University of Waterloo (Canada) before working with a small visualization firm in 1997. I founded DesignStor.com - a design visualization studio in Toronto, Canada - in 2000. Currently, we work with prominent Canadian architects, developers and property owners on a wide range of projects, and are expanding our client base into other regions. When I'm not working on a deadline or playing with my 11 month old daughter, I can be found on some local singletrack on my mountain bike or in the boulder cave at my climbing gym. Website: www.designstor.com