Ahead of the Curve Student Competition

We’re Pleased To Announce the Winners...

The Ahead of the Curve competition for students challenged young artists to show us their skills and powers of imagination using Autodesk® Maya® or Autodesk® 3ds Max®. The response was tremendous--all of the entries earned top marks! Seeing this wealth of talent made us feel like Aladdin in his cave of wonders. It’s too bad that we didn’t have a genie to help us choose the winners. It was a big challenge and, without a magic lamp in sight, our diligent judges took to their task.

It’s our pleasure to congratulate the winners:

Overall Grand Prize Winner:

Mayec Rancel and José Soto
School: CICE, Madrid, Spain
Name of work: "Substantia"

Category Winners:

Film and video: Tomás Cejudo Morin
School: CICE, Madrid, Spain
Name of work: "Maha Hrit"

Games: Indranil Mukherjee
School: Former student at the Raisina Bengali Senior Secondary School
Name of work: "The Last Journey to Earth"

Visualization: Roshan Martin
School: PROCOM: ERACOM - Ecole Romande d'arts et Communication, Lausanne, Switzerland
Name of work: "Longines Watch"

3D illustration/graphic design: Ruben Dario Karamañites Arango
School: Former student of the Image Campus Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Name of work: "Last Ride of the Cyborg Elves"

Prizes

Overall Grand Prize

• One top-of-the-line workstation, courtesy of HP
• One Xbox, courtesy of ATI

Category Prize

• A graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA

Our appreciation and thanks go to our diligent judges and our generous sponsors, and most of all to those who entered the competition. We are pleased to know that Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software allow so many students to express their creativity. Well done--and thanks again to everyone.