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Profile of an Autodesk Master
Autodesk recognizes exceptional people through its Masters program. They are from all walks of life—digital artists, designers, visual storytellers, and scientists. They produce work that reshapes and redefines the boundaries of technology, art, digital entertainment and visualization using Autodesk 3D software. Their spirit and imagination drives them to find new ways of doing things and to see the world through a different lens. They are inspired and inspiring.

Autodesk Masters Nominees, 2011 Honors
During the past year, people in the 3D computer graphics community have nominated the artists named below to receive an Autodesk Masters Award for their innovative work with Autodesk® Maya , 3ds Max®, Softimage®, Mudbox® and for their contribution to the 3D computer graphics industry.

Voting is now ended. Winners will be annouced at our 3December event on December 8th.


Kenichi Nishida

A 10-year veteran of the CG industry, Kenichi began his path at the Takushoku University as a [more...]


Kolby Jukes

A 3D artist specializing in character and creature creation; With 7 years’ experience in the [more...]


Neil Blevins

Neil Blevins started off painting and drawing traditionally, and then got into 3d graphics [more...]


Peter Shipkov

Peter Shipkov"s interest in computer graphics started many years ago. He spent his first two [more...]


Ron Bublitz

Ron Bublitz is a Canadian, working in Vancouver. His background includes studies in design [more...]


Sebastien Laban

Sebastien LABAN is a young 3D artist who has created numerous 3D short-films on his own, [more...]


Krishnamurti M. Costa

Recently hired as Senior Digital Artist at Industrial Light + Magic (ILM), in San Francisco, [more...]


Eric Mootz

Eric was born in North Germany and grew up in South France. His passion for computers and [more...]


Helge Mathee

Helge Mathee started developing Softimage plugins before graduating university. In the early [more...]


Holger Schönberger

Holger Schönberger has collected numerous years of experience in computer animation and has [more...]


Laurent M. Abecassis

Laurent M. Abecassis is an Emmy® Award-winning visual effects supervisor and CG character [more...]


Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy is an accomplished 3D artist and trainer from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [more...]


Ryan Lim

Ryan has been working as modeler for the game and movie industry for 7 years, he loves a [more...]


Stanislav Orekhov

Stanislav Orekhov started his career a decade ago; first working with Autocad, he then moved [more...]

Profile of an Autodesk Junior Master
Autodesk recognizes exceptional students through its Junior Master’s program. The nominees are students who are being celebrated for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries of computer graphics using Autodesk 3D software. Their passion for the industry, along with their enthusiasm and imagination shows through in projects they have completed.

Autodesk Junior Masters Nominees, 2011 Honors
During the past year, the following students, named below, have been nominated to receive an Autodesk Junior Masters for the talent they have shown using Autodesk® 3D software.

Kevin Huynh

I am a currently studying in my fifth year in 3D animation, three years at Bois-de-Boulogne [more...]

Nico Bauerschaefer

I"m a student at the University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Lemgo, Germany and [more...]

Maxime Masse

3D enthusiast since the age of 13 (on 3D Studio MAX 3 at the time), Maxime is a big fan of the [more...]

Jonathan Gorr

I am a student artist, currently attending the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, [more...]

Ravihara Weerathunge

I"m Ravihara Weerathunge from Sri Lanka and I was born in 1990. My Interest in 3D Started at a [more...]

Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith grew up in Montreal he then moved to Cobourg where an animation class offered in [more...]