The winners of this year’ Quest3D awards are announced. Just as every year, the Quest3D community is proving that Quest3D is a tool which can deliver stunning visuals and/or useful and mature applications. Below the list of the winners (more info here).

Congratulations to all of you!

Winners

First place: “The Monastery of Dordrecht” by Paladin Studios

The polished look and feel, the excellent use of lighting and surprisingly simple user interface made the jury decide to make this presentation this year’s best entry.

Second place: “Office Designer 1.6″ by 3D-Scapes

The application is very compact and contains a wide set of user friendly features that turn designing offices into childsplay. Grid snap, saving, loading and camera control all work very well. Because of the good execution of this project and usefulness the jury decided to give this entry the second place. Without a doubt this application shows how 3D tools can make difficult tasks easy and we have nou doubt the idea behind this application can be applied in thousands of other areas.

Third place: “The Plunge” by Ali Rahimi

All together this results in a unique cinamatic graphical style. Because of the technical effort and vision and the unique visuals the jury decided to hand out the third place to this entry.

Honorable mentions

“Moebius house design” by 3D Capacity

There is a nice start up screen for selecting resolutions, the loading screen is unique and  some of the shaders hit the exact sweet spot of realism. The user can watch the presentation through a pre recorded camera or  navigate freely through the environment.

“Avalon” by Yorick van Vliet and Lukas Hoenderdos

Avalon is a environment creation tool that allows the user to paint land an vegitation. Using simple tools the user can modify the topology and texture of the landscape. With other tools the user can add trees or other types of vegitation. Why wait for a lanscape painter inside Quest3D if you can build it yourself seems to be the motto.