There were certainly many more that should have been featured again as winners of the Render of the Year Awards 2018. As you read the about the select few winners,
please be mindful that other candidates for this award weren't necessarily a lesser artist than this year's final winners. Their works, however, are good reminders
of what Blender can do for top notch studios and freelancers.
1. Best Blender Render
Seahorse in Corals
by Nika Maisuradze
Are you sure this is a CG render--and a Blender render--not a photo? Check out the following link.
Convincing concept arts often come from the artist's specialized knowledge in some trade. It's no coincidence the artist behind the above work had been an architect.
Real-time arch-viz, utilizing game engines, is a hot issue for arch-viz artists. Evee--Blender 2.8's new real-time render engine--is already being noted for such uses.
However, no other game engines or 3D packages are capable of this! With built-in capabilities such as camera tracking and compositing, Blender is the only single tool
capable of realizing arch-viz projects such as above.
