Feb 8 - ASCON, Lightworks Announce Rendering Contest Results

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ASCON, Lightworks Announce Rendering Contest Results

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb 8, 2012 - ASCON Group, developer and integrator of professional CAD/AEC/PLM, and Lightworks, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions, are pleased to announce the results of a competition organized for users of the professional MCAD solution, KOMPAS-3D, with its Artisan Rendering system.

The photorealistic contest is a brand new event for both the organizers and for KOMPAS-3D users. Many of the participants were trying rendering for the first time, the projects were created by designers, engineers, students of institutes and even schools. Artisan Rendering allows users, even beginners, to create photorealistic images from KOMPAS-3D data very fast and easily.

The Contest’s expert Judging Panel included specialists from ASCON and Lightworks as well as independent experts. The Panel’s choice of winner was unanimous and the best project was named “Summer House” by Leonid Platonov. He received a super-prize – a digital reflex camera.

The winning project: “Summer House” by Leonid Platonov

"Summer House" is compositionally well-designed with good placement of furnishings, said Slava Kashirsky, International Product Manager at ASCON. The jury concluded that were was an excellent choice of camera characteristics and perspective, as well as good use of light sources. The designer’s skillful usage of all of these components led us to our choice of winner."

David Forrester, Managing Director at Lightworks agreed, adding "This image has good lighting, properly selected materials and demonstrated excellent photo montage.".

The finalists of the photorealistic contest were: "Compressor" by Alexander Kulbashnogo, "Steam" by Mary Shepelenko and "Room" by Alexander Voytyuk.

Compressor

Steam

Room

About ASCON

ASCON - CAD/AEC/PLM software developer and supplier, founded in 1989. ASCON solutions address key issues of industrial design, engineering, preparation and release of drawing documentation, product lifecycle management. ASCON software to be successfully applied across various industries, machinery, automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace and defense, architecture, civil engineering, electronics and many others.

Award-winning Mechanical Computer-Aided Design solution from ASCON - KOMPAS, provides Professional Parametric 3D Modeling, full-scale 2D Design, special add-ons for photo rendering, motion simulation, kinematic and dynamic analysis. ASCON offers easy learning solutions, with up-to-date professional functionality at reasonable prices.

ASCON Partners' program gets together high-class value-added resellers, leading software and hardware producers, as well as service companies, professional developers and consultants in order to bring our customers full-functioning, powerful, software and hardware compatible high-class solutions at a reasonable prices. Download full-functional 30 days trial version KOMPAS-3D at www.ascon.net

About Lightworks

Lightworks is the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software. Now in its 22nd year, Lightworks continues to develop products to provide customers with innovative and market-focused solutions for the creation of powerful and easy-to-use rendering applications. Renowned for providing physically accurate visualization of real-world objects and environments, Lightworks is the ideal choice for companies wanting to target the Architectural, Interior and Mechanical Design markets. Lightworks gives customers fast and efficient access to leading-edge rendering technology, resulting in shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market for new products, and lower software development costs.

Lightworks technology is embedded in over 80 software applications and used by more than 3 million users worldwide.

More information at www.lightworkdesign.com.

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