Artist Accolades II

Renderosity wishes to acknowledge and congratulate the following artists on their personal accomplishments. This is in no way a complete listing of all the wonderful things accomplished by artists on the Renderosity site. This is simply a list of things that have been discovered about the activities of some of our members that we wanted to share with the entire community. Images on this site are copyright and cannot be reproduced, copied, or printed without written permission from the artist.

David A. Hardy On April 2, 2005, David A. Hardy, and co-author Sir Patrick Moore, were honored with a Sir Arthur Clarke Award, which was presented at the 7th Annual Conference of The British Rocketry Oral History Programme , for their book: FUTURES: 50 Years In Space, The Challenge Of The Stars. Additional Great News ... Their book was also nominated for A Hugo Award (Best Related Book category)! The Hugo Awards will be presented on August 7, 2005, by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). David ... everyone on Renderosity will be rooting for you :) We invite you to visit David on Renderosity.

Mike Mitchell [mmitchell_houston] Mike recently published his book Gutshot. Additional interior illustrations can be viewed on his Renderosity Gallery. Gutshot-Streetfighters [an image from the book], was selected by Runtime DNA as an Image of the Week [Dec. 18, 2004].

Wanda Burns Wanda's artwork titled To The Stars, was featured in Issue 11 of The Nth Degree Magazine. The Nth Degree is a familiar magazine to sci-fi convention goers as it is freely distributed at all the larger conventions. Also, Wanda's image Temporal Intersectionis being featured as cover art for the Sci-Fi Weekly Newsletter on the Sci-Fi Channel website.

David Ho [davidho] David was awarded "first place" in the 2005 Macworld Expo Digital Art competition. Additional information on the 2005 competition can be found on the Silicon Valley Art Museum. Also, be sure to visit David's web site to view additional images.

Jos Leys [josleys] The image shown below was featured within the December 24, 2004, Issue of Science Magazine, to accompany an article on Hyperbolic Geometry and related subject matter.

David Sankey [Cada] Several of David's images appeared as featured artwork in Computer Arts Magazine Issue 102.

Daniel Cardle [Cardle] Daniel won a contract, with his image The Well of Machines, to create the front cover for ibook's publication of Science Fiction; the Best of 2004.

Our hats go off to all the artists that have worked so hard and achieved so much! If you have an accomplishment that you would like to share with the rest of the community, please send an e-mail to Dee-Marie [deemarie@renderosity.com] with all the details, links, and supporting images. We would like to feature you in our next set of accolades! April 18, 2005