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QA Graphics’ Dual Tank Whiskey Flask Named Best Promotional Videofor 3D Animation in the 40th Annual Telly Awards

June 17, 2019

(ANKENY, IOWA)— QA Graphics announced today its Dual Tank Whiskey Flask video (http://bit.ly/2tZY9CN) has been named Best Promotional Video in use of 3D Animation in the 40th Annual Telly Awards. The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies, and including Vice, Vimeo, Hearst Digital Media, BuzzFeed and A&E Networks.

“QA Graphics is pushing the boundaries for video and television innovation and creativity at a time when the industry is rapidly changing,” said Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly Awards.

QA Graphics, a full-service digital design company, has over a decade of experience in 3D design and animation. By working with QA Graphics, their client, Discommon Goods gained a custom video to use as a marketing tool to showcase their unique product design.

“Awards like this for us is about showcasing the level of work an Iowa company is capable of giving clients,” says Dan McCarty, Owner of QA Graphics. “Competitions like the Telly who honor the video and television industry receive thousands of submissions from across the globe. With big companies such as Condé Nast, Netflix, Refinery29, RadicalMedia, T Brand Studio, and Ogilvy & Mather competing, to be grouped as a winner with brands such as these is an honor.”

The full list of the 40th Annual Telly Awards winners can be found at

https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/2019/promotional-video/craft-use-of-3d-animation

About QA Graphics—QA Graphics is a leader in the building automation and green building industries. The company specializes in HVAC graphic development services, system graphics, floor plan graphics, and Energy Efficiency Education Dashboards™ (EEEDs). The company also provides custom marketing solutions such as interactive applications, 3D design and animation, UX design, web development, videos, and more. Visit Here.

About The Telly Awards—The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multiscreen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include IFP, NAB, StudioDaily, Stash Magazine, StudioDaily, Storyhunter, ProductionHub, The Wrap Pro, the VR/AR Association and Digiday.

Find The Telly Awards Online Here

Interactive 3D Floor Plans

June 16, 2019

QA Graphics has become a fixture in the commercial building industry from start to finish. QA Graphics was founded on providing graphics for building automation systems. Over the last ten years, QA has created diverse options to serve their clients’ needs in all areas of the building process. Providing customers with professional, premium floor plans is one of the many areas that QA Graphics excels in. Now, taking their floor plans to the next level to bring a client’s vision to life by providing interactive 3D Floor Plans. This new offering allows clients to be able to click on an image from a 3D graphical interactive tour.

This option gives clients the opportunity to upgrade their ordinary floor plans. Allowing customers to interact and see what an area may look like instead of asking them to imagine it,” said Hayley Nugent, Project Manager and Drafter.

Bringing your building to life allows you to stay ahead of the competition with tailored, premium floor plans. Other services in this area offered are:

-Site Maps

-3D Site Renderings

-Interior Renderings

-Exterior Renderings

-Floor plan navigation graphics

To learn more on the Interactive 3D Floor Plans and see what other floor plan options QA Graphics offers, visit: https://www.qagraphics.com/floor-plans/

To see this press release online at PRweb click HERE.

Service Highlight: Commercial Real Estate – 3D Graphics & Floor Plan

June 5, 2019

Service Highlight: Commercial Real Estate – 3D Graphics & Floor Plan

Graphics have become a key player in the commercial building industry, replacing blueprints and hand sketches with 3D graphic designs. Customers have been utilizing the company’s award-winning services to help sell real estate property by giving buyers photo-realistic renderings of the space. These services include detailed floor plans, site maps, fly-through videos, exterior renderings, and virtual building on open ground or tear downs. All their work is completed in-house, and each service is catered to the client’s specific needs.

Commercial real estate teams operate the same way they did five years ago, only now they have more technology at their disposal and higher demands to meet. There’s more pressure to gain and retain tenants in this market quickly, so why not create something that saves you and your team time and money? You can give your clients results before a brick is even laid on site. That’s where our graphics come in. We produce high-quality renders that are cheaper than the alternative with faster turnaround times. Your clients will see the difference, and they’ll have accurate visuals of the site right there at their fingertips.”

— Dan McCarty, QA Graphics owner

QA Graphics has worked on countless commercial projects including the 647 Ocean Avenue condos (approximately 2,100 square feet per resident), Cushman & Wakefield’s retrofitted apartment buildings (ranging from 700–1,500 square feet), Hubbell’s Gray’s Station in Des Moines, which includes apartment buildings and a duplex community, various retail and office spaces, etc., but their biggest project to date is the collaboration with D.R.A. Properties to develop Prairie Trail’s “The District.”

Prairie Trail in Ankeny is the first community in the state of Iowa to embrace the concept of New Urbanism, which aims to cultivate diverse and distinct homes, neighborhood stores, offices, schools, and parks. At 1,031 acres, this planned community is built in the center of one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S.

QA Graphics provided a full design solution for D.R.A., turning an abstract thought into a concrete visual. The company worked closely with D.R.A. and their architectural firm to create photo-realistic, 3D exterior renderings of over 120,000 square feet of prime retail space. This gave the sitemap a realistic look and feel—just as if you were viewing Prairie Trail in person. QA Graphics also created fly-through videos to market and sell the site to future tenants.

Abstract visuals, poorly-designed floor plans, and ineffective marketing tools are just a few obstacles that real estate developers can run into when trying to sell their commercial space or idea. Therefore, a high-quality design is the first step in turning one’s vision into a reality. For more information, please visit www.qagraphics.com

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Download the Service Spotlight PDF version HERE for more information and pictures.

3D Digital Modeling vs Traditional 2D Drawings

May 29, 2019

Don’t settle for traditional 2D drawings and renderings. Instead, let us provide you with the tools you need. Our 3D digital modeling allows consumers to visualize products through virtual interactions, offering a richer and more personal experience.

SPEED

~Faster product design (roughly 45% faster on average) allows you to beat your competition to market~

Architects and engineers spend less time looking for issues
Allows more visualization of ‘what-if’ scenarios during the design process

REDUCED LEAD TIME

~3D print prototypes allow everyone to participate in the process~

Easily incorporate late design changes
Test your design in the real world before moving to production

COST SAVINGS

~Test and validate your designs to reduce costs from quality problems or errors~

Virtual prototypes reduce the need and cost of physical prototypes
Helps you ask and answer complex and important engineering questions earlier

SCENARIO VISUALIZATION

~The ability to create renderings and animations for design proposals or reviews~

More effective internal design reviews
Create effective sales and marketing content

3D modeling shortens design cycles, streamlines manufacturing processes, and accelerates product introductions by improving the flow of product design information and communication throughout an organization, its suppliers, and customers. For your business this means faster time-to-market and higher quality products, which translates into increased revenue, while reducing design costs which will provide larger profit margins.

Click Here To Get Started On Your 3D Digital Modeling Needs

Interactive Virtual Dorm Room or Apartment Tours

May 21, 2019

Place them there…

Student Looking For Housing

with interactive virtual tours and building walk-throughs. Entice students and help them (and their parents) learn the layout of their dorm room or campus before ever stepping on the grounds.

Virtual Tours

Give students a close-up and personal virtual tour of their room, the lounge, fitness area – make them feel at home before they even get there with interactive tours.

*To display 3D content in real-time please make sure you have your WebGL enabled on Chrome/Safari/Firefox.

Dorm Room Floor Plans

Showcase the different layout options within each dorm room or apartment with realistic floor plans.

Don’t Ask Them to Imagine…Show Them!

QA Graphic’s team can create realistic floor plan graphics and interactive virtual tours that will entice and help the students place themselves on campus before the first day.

Go beyond typical rendering and stand out from the crowd

We use the latest technology to produce professional interactive virtual tours and building walk-through animations that allow students to have a virtual experience with your building that photos can not accomplish.

Being able to click on an image from a 3D graphical interactive tour will help make the campus and their room come to life.