The D2 Challenge #1 winners are announced!
On Friday the winners were announced during the 2:45 minutes judging YouTube Livestream. The judges had their work cut out to filter nearly 200 entries down to the top 25, to debate and reduce to the best 5. These were then scored by the judges to reveal the winners.

SiNi is thrilled to sponsor the competition and support our community. We are forever inspired by the incredible talent submitted by the community, no matter what the subject matter of the challenge is. We’re glad we’re not having to compete against these 3D artist Olympians! 

Check out the YouTube show here; https://youtu.be/fkeGZCSdQxA

First place - Atelier Crilo

Multi-award-winning Atelier Crilo are architects and Ph. D. design duo, Cristian Farinella and Lorena Greco - partners in work and in life - committed to creating high-end CG imagery and artistic illustrations of architecture. They work with the same first-day enthusiasm on every project, with a strong passion for drawing and visual arts. Their professional activity connects academic research, teaching and lecturing in universities, masterclasses, schools, and academies. As a plus, they love their studio supervising cat, Giulia, a Scottish Fold breed that they’re obsessed with!

About Atelier Crilo’s winning entry:

‘What we love about Ferriss’s work, which we studied in-depth, is the charcoal’s dirt, the marks left by the pencil, the white that burns parts of the drawing, and the 

recurrent lighting from below.

We worked on six frames to create a comics narrative strip starring the Dark Knight. Not surprisingly, the designs of “Cities of Tomorrow” inspired Bob Kane for Gotham, many other comics cities, and much of the modern science fiction movies we love.’

Contact Details

info@ateliercrio.com
http://www.ateliercrilo.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ateliercrilo/

Winning Prize - ALL SiNi Plugins!

Atelier Crilo is a C4D studio and has generously nominated contestant Lisa Della Dora as the recipient of their 3ds Max SiNi plugins prize.

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.delladora

Second place - Erika Ruiz

Erika is a freelance 3D artist from Sicily, Italy.

As an Italian architect and construction engineer, Erika discovered archviz during a postgraduation course in Digital Architecture which helped her to combine her passion for architecture with her love for photography. She is fascinated by the use of light in street photography and tries to apply the same approach when working on her CG images. She loves to travel as a way to open her mind and is always looking for inspiration coming from traditional and concept art, photography, movies or simply daily life.

About Erika’s D2 Challenge entry:  

“What I like in Ferriss’s work is the way he uses light to enhance the architecture. I’ve tried to replicate this and tell a visual story centred around the girl in the gown.”

Contact Details

erikaruiz@virgilio.it   
https://www.behance. net/3rikaR
https://www.facebook.com/erika.ruiz.1466126

Third place - Vito Summa

Vito is an Italian architect and 3D visualiser who worked as a designer before moving into archviz.

He remains curious about everything he encounters. Digital tech gives him the means to represent his world and filtered through his eyes.

About Vito’s D2 Challenge entry:

“I became fascinated by Ferriss’s work. Whilst looking through his jobs I found this extract from his book The metropolis of tomorrow. ‘GOING DOWN INTO THE STREETS of a modern city must seem to the newcomer, at least, a little like Dante’s descent into Hades.’ 

Those words generated in me the idea to tell the story of the newcomer, and I tried to replicate his style in CGI.”

Contact Details

vitosumm@yahoo.it   

https://www.behance.net/vito_summa

https://www.facebook.com/vito.summa.a

About D2 Conferences and the D2 Challenge

D2 Conferences is a brand of BüroWHAT! born with the intention of creating connections among professionals, with a special interest in architectural visualisation (archviz), and architecture.

The conference is the largest annual gathering of archviz professionals in the world. The D2 Challenges are fast becoming the showcase for the industry’s talent as a whole, with breathtaking submissions from some of the most creative and enthusiastic CGI artists from around the world.

The Hugh Ferriss + Droquis challenge received more than 190 submissions, who were tasked with creating a CG image, inspired by the influential 20th C architect and illustrator, Hugh Ferriss.

Thank you to the D2 Challenge #1 Judges;

Mike Golden, Mengyi Fan, Jason Bergeron and Fabio Palvelli.

Contact Details
office@burowhat.com
https://vienna.d2conferences.com/d2challenge/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1003219363195104/

About SiNi Software

SiNi Software is a developer of 3D plugins that minimise your time doing the tedious and boring stuff allowing you to focus on the creative work you enjoy. Current brand products include 13 plugins for Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Epic Games Unreal Engine.