Thank to all of you who entered. It was a very close race (only a couple of points between the entries). While some users submitted multiple renders of their scene I have chosen one from each. Click the images for a larger view.

4th Place: BLawson
(wins an Autodesk USB thumbdrive, see below)



3rd place: Mario (it's the iPod that's rendered, the background is a photo)
(wins an Autodesk USB thumbdrive)



2nd Place: John T
(unfortunaley, John the contest is only open to those in US and Canada so BLawson is going to get the extra USB thumbdrive. If you're ever in the US I'll buy you dinner.)



1st Place: David P
(wins a conference pass to Autodesk University 2006)



Congrats to all of the winners and thank you to the judges (Quinn, Charles & Garin) and Autodesk.

Winners, please PM me your addresses and I'll get the prizes out in the next week or two.

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Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
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Nice work, guys. I really like the rolodex .

David, is the drawing on the desk from an IDW? I had so much trouble getting one to work as a background that I ditched it and used a generic.

I'd love to figure out how to get a render to look like the one about halfway down this page: http://www.nextcraft.com/berkut01.html where he combines three views with the render of the model. I believe he's using carrera studio.

-b

Everything was created in Inventor 11. There is a trick to getting realistic and reliable decals for things such as the IDW, phone screen, and sprite label. What I did was place the picture I wanted to use in a word doc. and then place the word doc as the decal. Works 10x better than using the picture by itself.

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David P.

Wow! Good Job guys!

David thanks for the tip! I gave up last week working on high quality decals and decided to enter late with what I had!

I'll have to give this tip a shot and re-submit the rendering here!

...oh did you model the sprite bottle, or just apply the decal?

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Steve Robbins
Inventor Design Solutions & Innovations
"I believe in being an innovator " - Walt Disney
@_iDSi

I modeled the Sprite bottle and applied the label as a decal. Found a great pic on Coke's website.

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David P.

Good job everyone.
David, what about the phone screen picture? Did you get that of the internet too?

I'm gona try that on my iPod model. Everything you see on the screen was Emboss functions

No, the screen was a picture of my actual phone.

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David P.

Great job guys, they all look awsome. Congrads to all the winners.

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Ed Wiebe
www.convey-all.com

Congratulations to all of you, excellent work!!

Thanks, Sean (mcadforums/RND) and sponsors for holding/supporting the contest!

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Bill Bogan
B2 Design
http://www.b2-design.biz
I'm thinkin' about it....

GNARLY!

Great effort on the desk. Should have placed first. Even got used tape on the folder. Only thing missing is dust. I like your fancy air conditioning system/paper shredder/hair styling machine.