Lightworks has announced the winner of their latest photorealistic image competition, Hans Zijffers. He’s a long-time user of caligari Truespace, which made use of the Lightworks rendering technology, and submitted the image above.
After my experiments with Lightworks renderings, I introduced the use of 3D because it has so much more to offer then just making design drawings by hand alone. And being a fast render engine it turned out to be a great tool for producing images, for example, while a customer is sitting next to me he can watch the wireframe model unfolding into a full colour image. When we upgraded to the next version of trueSpace, the built in Lightworks render engine had also been updated and the new version had a major update on shader and lighting technology which made it possible to boost the render quality further. Image Based Lighting (IBL), Area Lights, Goniometric Lights and HDRI were also added to the Lightworks toolbox, enough to produce great looking images to convince your customers. Rendering with Lightworks is as easy as using a point and shoot camera, but with the quality of an expensive DSLR camera.”
For his effort, he gets a sniffy 16GB iPad. See the other entries on the competition results page.
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