If your name is on the list, but you have not received a message informing you of your prize, it’s probably because your email address or phone number has changed since you entered the competition. If so, contact us on this address to let us know your new details. While we can’t guarantee that the prize will still be available, we’ll do our best to help.Issue 80
Copies of Vue 6 Infinite
Landscape category
Jan Walter Schliep, Germany
Architectural cateogry
Maurizio Sole, Barcelona, Spain
Animation category
Vladimir Chopine, Russia
Issue 79
Architectural Visualisation supplement survey
In association with the CGarchitect.com 2006 Architectural Visualisation Industry Survey
First prize
Miguel Kabantsov, Vancouver, Canada
Second prizes
Duncan Howdin, Queensland, Australia
Michael Przybyla, Concord, Massachusetts, US
Third prizes
Andrew Goodeve, London, UK
Emilio López, El Dorado, Panama
Ravindra Yasassri Mendis, Madinat Quaboos, Sultanate of Oman
Alejandro Ogata, Kansas City, Missouri, US
Larry Rose, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Issue 79
Three copies of Brazil r/s 2
Andrey Yamkovoy, Ukraine
Shora Farahani, San Francisco, US
Andrea Bertaccini, Forli, Italy
Issue 78
Pixar tickets giveaway
Adrian Bibby, Barlborough, UK
Aidan Walsh, London, UK
Aisha Ahmad, Coulsdon, UK
Alan Kerr, Bidford-on-Avon, UK
Alexander Thomas, Sutton, UK
Alison Gazzard, St Albans, UK
Andrew Savage, London, UK
Anita Clipston, Manchester, UK
Cassandra de Caestecker, London, UK
Ceri Herbert, Pontypridd, UK
Charlotte Sharrock, London, UK
Charmaine Brown, Leigh on Sea, UK
Chris Sampson, London, UK
Christopher Speed, Wolverhampton, UK
Claire Woods, Norwich, UK
Colin Perrett, Kettering, UK
Darren Linington, Portsmouth, UK
Digby Rogers, London, UK
Dirk Kriete, Colne, UK
Donny Hammell, Edinburgh, UK
Garry Holtom, Studley Green, UK
Gemma Thomson, Chelmsford, UK
Guy Cotton, Saffron Walden, UK
Hazel Haskayne, Market Drayton, UK
Ian Nourse, Maidenhead, UK
James Stone, West London, UK
Jamie Scott, Skipton, UK
Jeremy Spencer, London, UK
Jo Mackmurdie, Sandhurst, UK
Justin Brown, Bicester, UK
Laura A. Heffernan, London, UK
Lisa Purnell, Adlington, UK
Martyn Bonner, Sandown, UK
Melanie Halliday, Port Isaac, UK
Mohammed Hatiq, Aylesbury, UK
Patrick Matthews, Huddersfield, UK
Philip Wong, Liverpool, UK
S Ottaway, Ashford, UK
Sarah Harrison, Hexham, UK
Sarah Murphy, Birmingham, UK
Scott Byrne-Fraser, Twickenham, UK
Sean Macauley, Hatfield, UK
Simon Holton, Rothwell, UK
Sonja Bakkes, Wimbledon, UK
Sophia Avgousti, London, UK
T Starr, Reading, UK
Thirza Hunkin, Callington, UK
Tilak Gurung, Wembley, UK
Vineet Chander, Wolverhampton, UK
Wendy Gregory, Colchester, UK
Issue 77
Fmx/06 tickets giveaway
Attila Nagy, Dublin, Ireland
Bruno Tachelet, Genk, Belgium
Fadi Chehade, Doha, Qatar
Gunther Swerts, Meerhout, Belgium
Hans Dekker, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Kristel Boogaerts, Beverlo, Belgium
Markus Boos, Berlin, Germany
Pia Jensen, Odense NV, Denmark
Rok Nemet, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Torsti Laine, Turku, Finland
Issue 77
Total mocap system from Animazoo and Autodesk
Winner
Miguel Angel Hernandez Salinas, Mexico City, Mexico
Runners-up
Sobolev Max, Kazakhstan
Joe Phillips, USA
Issue 76
3D printing from www.3dmodelprinting.com
First prize
Greg Petchkovsky, Sydney, Australia
Runners-up
Adam Scott, Carlsbad, USA
Paul Chettle, UK
Issue 75
Remote rendering with ResPower
Winners
1. Will Keetell, San Antonio, USA
2. Alexander Lawrence, Bryan, USA
3. Nihad Khalil, Alexandria, Egypt
Honourable mentions
David Tousek, Czechoslovakia
Tsung-Ching Chiu, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Issue 74
Two copies of RealFlow 3
Answer
RealFlow was not used on Ben Hur [You amaze me - Ed.]
Tie-breaker
‘If I owned a copy of RealFlow 3, I would use it to create…’
Winners
1. Neil Slater, High Wycombe, UK
’An ocean of flaming chili vodka, filled with asbestos penguins.’
2. Michael Vokes, Gravesend, UK
’A storm in a teacup.’
Issue 73
Three copies of RenderMan for Maya
Answer
All of the characters listed were rendered with RenderMan
Tiebreaker
Which RenderMan feature is most important to you and why?
Winners
1. John Troiani, Windang, Australia
'The ability to render hair and fur with beautiful quality. On other renderers, this turns out to be a hairy proposition at best.'
2. Andrew Larking, UK
'The speed, as I am currently rendering many fat people and of course they have more volume to calculate.'
3. Andrew Cadey, Westgate-on-Sea, UK
'I don't think there is one feature alone – fast motion blur, Deep Shadows, rendering all particles in software: genius!'
Issue 72
Five Total Textures collections
1. Andrew Bilewycz, Polperro, UK
2. Dan Holmes, Leeds, UK
3. Egon Lucic, Melbourne, Australia
4. Kevin Snoad, Cambridge, UK
5. Paul McErlean, Lodi, USA
Issue 71
Four copies of ZBrush 2
Answer
ZBrush was first announced at Siggraph 1999
Tiebreaker
‘If I won ZBrush 2, I would create…’
Winners
1. Jay Snooks, London, UK
‘A gang of overweight pinatas that will feature in my Latin hip-hop music video as backing singers.’
2. Craig Denford, Ash Vale, UK
‘I would create. Full stop.’
3. Amanda Jane Heard, Ipswich, UK
‘Something to show to my boyfriend that proves that women are just as good at this 3D lark as men.’
4. Andy Edwards, Norwich, UK
‘The world in less than seven days.’
Issue 70
3Dconnexion hardware
Answers
1. The SpacePilot can move through the X, Y and Z axes
2. It could improve productivity by up to 30 per cent
Tiebreaker
'If I won 3Dconnexion’s SpacePilot and had 30 per cent more time for fun, I would spend it doing…'
Winners
1. Mick McHugh, Newcastle, UK
‘Handstands in the garden with my children’
2. Steve Hartley, Grimsby, UK
‘Oh, definitely 30 per cent more work. (The boss is hovering around!)’
3. Marc Mann, Flitwick, UK
‘Juggling in the office: I need to crack four balls at once. I’ve got three down to a tee.’
Issue 69
Autodesk/ATI competition
1. Benjamin Leitgeb, Italy
2. Adrian Tiba, Romania
3. Andrea Bertaccini, Italy
4. Ian Cumming, UK
5. Vial Rouat, France
6. Hung Long Nguyen, Vietnam
7. Anton Persson & Nicholas Cort, Sweden
8. Geoff Packer, UK
10. Thomas Klischies, Via email
Issue 68
RM PCI-E Xeon workstation
Answer
The workstation is ideal for high-bandwidth applications such as digital video editing and CAD.
Tie-breaker
‘The one feature I’d add to this workstation is…’
Winner
Michael Prasinov, Adelaide, Australia
‘A screen (can’t do much without that!) – and a chocolate cake.’
Issue 67
PURE rendering card
Answer
The PURE PCIx card has 16 AR350 processors.
Tiebreaker
‘If I won the PURE card, I’d use it to render…’
Winner
Kemal Ljumanovic, Zagreb, Croatia
‘The stuff I wanted to render anyway - only 35 times faster than usual!’
Issue 66
Sybex Maya training books
Answer
Dariush Derakhshani did not work on Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Tiebreaker
‘If I won a copy of one of the books, I would use it to…’
Winners
1. Peter Brown, Peterborough, UK
‘Write a song entitled 'More than NURBS' that I can sing when I conquer the 3D world.’
2. Dean Cook, Tamworth, UK
‘Create an online egg and spoon race for the masses.’
3. Joseph Foreman, Athens, USA
‘Create mind-bending visual FX to be used as backdrops for the Olivia Tremor Control's upcoming live shows, of which I'm the director.’
4. Claire Martin, London, UK
‘Give me a head start in a career in CG animation and produce my first story for London's International Animation Festival.’
5. Gideon Henwick, Windlesham, UK
‘Help free my lost soul from the sea of drop-down menus.’
6. Jan Caers, Turnhout, Belgium
‘Use it to slam my kids away from my computer so I can get into 3D.’
7. David Little, York, UK
‘Sort out my life and get out of this one horse town.’
8. Ian Malcolm, Glasgow, UK
‘Learn to use Maya. Duh.’
9. Joanna Glover, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Save me from my conveyor-belt-off-load job.’
10. Alex Stabinski, Clifton Heights, USA
‘Prove to the local white supremacists that books are for more than burning.’
11. Alan Barber, Flintshire, UK
‘Coax Geoff Capes back out of retirement so he can be the world’s strongest man once again.’ [Well come on, then – Ed.]
12. David Seymour, Oxford, UK
‘Prove that creativity is not the preserve of the under 30s.’
13. rthomp8564, Manchester, UK
‘Master Maya, because Dariush Derakhshani, I want your job!’
14. Pete Clark, Belper, UK
‘Hold back all the ladies that lust after my metaballs.’
15. Stephen Irvine, Wellingborough, UK
‘Bring peace to humanity and prevent death and destruction... okay, I’d read it and learn something new.’
16. Graeme Blackwood, Kent, UK
‘Finally cut a big hole through the 15" steel wall that seems to be stopping me mastering 3D!'
17. Alan Harland, Scarborough, UK
‘Design an adult Viking game in which the characters indulge in a lot of fighting, looting and lechery.’
18. Kirsteen Black, Ross-Shire, UK
‘Make a mini animated film featuring my dysfunctional family.’
19. Paul Brierley, Durham, UK
‘Try and get the job on Harry Potter Dariush missed out on.’
20. Karim Turay, London, UK
‘Help me construct the The Bocksten Bog Man - or even worse, my mother-in-law!'
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