CGarchitect and Autodesk, with the support of BOXX and Nvidia, are hosting the Autodesk 3ds Max Design Hero Competition — calling architects, designers and visualization specialists to submit a scene or design created using 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design, for a chance to have it become the next 3ds Max Design hero image, and featured on the box cover and splash screen . In addition, the winning designer will receive a 3DBOXX 8550 XTREME workstation and US 5,000 in cash. Second and third prize winners will receive a NVIDIA Quadro 5000 GPU.

1st place

Name: Piotr Truszczynski
Company: Motionfront
Location: Warsaw, Poland

2nd place

Name: Arkin Esref
Location: United Kingdom

3rd place

Name: Jacques Pena
Company: FireHoseGame
Location: Cambridge, MA, United States