Today I wake up into a great news that I have got the 1st prize in Arch-Factory’s Product Rendering Competition:
Doing The Assembly Line Work. 
http://www.arch-factory.com/doing-the-assembly-line-work-winners-announced/
The competition goal was to make photo-realistic product shot renders. My Decode Lamp renders made the 1st place. I feel very happy to hear this as the first thing of the day and I would like to thank  Arch-Factory site and the jury for giving me this chance.

My Rosso scene is published on the latest issue (no 35) of the 3D Artist magazine. I feel very happy and honored  to take part with great artists from all over the world. You can buy the latest issue or take a look at in the older issues of the magazine from the website.
http://www.3dartistonline.com/

My week starts with a  happy news : My Rosso scene has been selected Image Of the Week on 3DArtist magazine online :

http://www.3dartistonline.com/show_image.php?imageID=8656

I got one happy news now that my latest scene Rosso has been awarded with “3D Excellence Award”.

http://www.3dtotal.com/pages/3dcommunity/members/index.php

I feel very happy and great honor to receive the award.

The project is scheduled to go up on 3D Total site on Sunday, 09 October 2011 00:00GMT.

Today is really very special and there are many surprised for me. After hearing the news that two of my tutorials published  ( you can find them under the tutorial category ) now I have got the news that  Rosso scene has been chosen for the CGWorkshop Choice Gallery.

Thank you CGWorkshop for this award!

http://cgworkshop.org/forum2/showthread.php?428-Rosso

Today my scene Rosso has been on Forum Spotlight in Ronen Bekerman Arch-Vis Forum. I must say that he made a great mosaic collage of my images as a poster. Thank you Ronen for this nice work.
is the link :
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/rosso-by-alfa-smyrna-pixela/#lf_comment=5616328

Something happy happened today and I found that my I appear on the front page of the official Autodesk Area Site as a featured Artist. This is great honor for me to to be featured on the main page of  the developers of 3DSMax and to share the front page with  great talents and great innovations in CG World.

Unfortunately there is a restriction on the quantity of images to be displayed in portfolio so I had to remove some older works for the news ones to appear.

Autodesk Area Front Page

My renders has been featured on the official online help documentation of 3DSMax Design 2012 at Autodesk Site.

If you are using 3ds Max 2012 Design, now you can see my works when you click the Tutorials link on the Help Menu of your  interface, this link will take you to the online help files introduction page, where you can see one of my renders.

Here is the official 3dsMax 2012 Online Help page where you can see my works:
http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmaxdesign-tutorials-2012-enu

You can also see more of my scenes at the “Where To Find Tutorials” and “Showcase” sections under Contents.

Autodesk 3DSMax 2012 Online Help Introduction

Autodesk 3DSMax 2012 Online Help Tutorials