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I want to start a contest for car models. futuristic or current. any kind of cars. be creative. If I can get enough people interested i'll start the contest.
Ok folks. The contest has officially begun!
The goal is to model a car (duh) in whatever design you can think of. Meaning it could be modern, futuristic, or one of them old timers.
The contest starts today, on April 23, 2005.
The contest will end on May 23, 2005 at 12:00 noon GMT
When you have finished your entry, then please post it in this thread. I'd like it if everyone planning on entering would put a placeholder, so I have an idea of what to expect. Of coarse, placeholders are not required. I will let the voting run for a week, before closing the poll. The winner of the contest, alhtough there is not really supposed to be a prize, I believe I can afford to give a way a model or two of mine, as long as they promise to use them for only educational purposes.
Good luck everyone. Start your computer! On your mouse! Click! Blend!
-Lando( now Lando's Contest)
You may want to wait until after the 2005 Blender F1 Challenge due to start March 6...
http://www.seeystems.com/f1
I'm always up for a car design comp. I can't wait for Curtiss' F1 challenge, so something in the meantime would be cool.
Sonix.
Once two more people join ill start the contest but im gonna have to do it quick
CoreyAvitar
02-Mar-05, 13:17
Join me up man! :o
I want to start a contest for car models. futuristic or current. any kind of cars. be creative. If I can get enough people interested i'll start the contest.
START ME!
SRX :P :D :) ;) [!] :Z
Yeah, I'm up for this too. So when are we doing it?
cancelled(sorry) Why? What's wrong with going ahead with it now? I mean you've kept us hanging on for ages, you might as well run it now.
Sonix.
Maybe I can take over the job. What do I need to do?
-Lando
Maybe I can take over the job. What do I need to do?
-Lando Just give a start date, an end date and criteria.
eg:
Brief: To design and build a futuristic or modern day car.
Start date: Friday 22nd April
End date: Friday 29th April 00:00hrs GMT (UK time)
Entries should be submitted to this thread and a voting thread will be created next Friday. Voting will be for one week from the submission date.
Or something like that.
Sonix.
Ok then. I can do that, but I'm just wondering, what do you guys think on time periods? A month sounds good to me, but I've never finished a car model so I don't know how long it takes.
-Lando
Either 2 weeks or a month should do. Depend how others feel though.
I'm easy however long.
Sonix.
Yeah , Lando take over. Im sorry about making u guys wait so long, i completly forgot about this post because i posted it earlier when i just got my elysiun name. Next time, I wont forget. ;)
Ok folks. The contest has officially begun!
The goal is to model a car (duh) in whatever design you can think of. Meaning it could be modern, futuristic, or one of them old timers.
The contest starts today, on April 23, 2005.
The contest will end on May 23, 2005 at 12:00 noon GMT
When you have finished your entry, then please post it in this thread. I'd like it if everyone planning on entering would put a placeholder, so I have an idea of what to expect. Of coarse, placeholders are not required. I will let the voting run for a week, before closing the poll. The winner of the contest, alhtough there is not really supposed to be a prize, I believe I can afford to give a way a model or two of mine, as long as they promise to use them for only educational purposes.
Good luck everyone. Start your computer! On your mouse! Click! Blend!
-Lando
Placeholder. :D
I'll also put up a prize of a copy of my Sky resource collection, which is not available anywhere yet. I'll send a copy on a CD to the winner after the voting closes. As long as that would be an acceptable prize.
Cerebus, perhaps you could update your first post to include the new dates and prizes etc.
Good luck to everyone else.
Sonix.
I'm not seeing any more placeholders. :( Is anyone intrested? If needed I'll expand the time frame. I forgot I was going to enter.
*placeholder*
-Lando
Brazileiro0
19-May-05, 07:24
*Placeholder*
I will not be useing the car that is on my pic.
So will there be an extention? I've been so busy recently I've had almost no time for blendering at all.
With a new deadline I'd be keen to get back into it.
Yes there is now an extended deadline. When I get all the commited entries, as long as no one objects, I'll start the voting thread. That is unless someone needs for me to set a deadline.
-Lando
This is an oldie, but since I haven't seen a voting thread, does that mean the extended deadline hasn't passed yet? If I still can, I'd like to enter. So:
___---Placeholder---___
Yes it's still running. Good to see some more interest. :D
Sonix.
OK, so when is the deadline? My current project is almost done for a front-render, but I'll be going away for a week, so I can't work on it again until the weekend.
It's up to Lando to be honest. There's just placeholders at the moment and he suggested to wait until the entries came in before he started a voting thread.
Perhaps a month from now for the deadline? Or less? If we need one.
Sonix.
It's up to Lando to be honest. There's just placeholders at the moment and he suggested to wait until the entries came in before he started a voting thread.
Hmm, I guess I got confused about who's "the boss". I looked it up again just now, now I remember :)
Perhaps a month from now for the deadline? Or less? If we need one.
I think a deadline would be preferable, to have a little focus to the contest. "A deadline has a wonderful way of focussing the mind". A month would be OK by me, although I don't think I need a whole month, but some extra time can't hurt. As long as I can post my entry earlier, or else I could forget to do it at all...
I kind of forgot about this. Is it still going? My entry is done. I'll post it when it's posting time, if you haven't already seen it.
Ok, guys, it's still going. Deadline will be in a week. That's the 10th of August. I'd better hurry up and finish up my entry!
Regards,
-Lando
Can everybody who is still in reply? I am.
Oh, and perhaps we should agree not to vote on our own car.
Brazileiro0
11-Aug-05, 07:56
Im in
But I have a question.
The car should be textured, on a nice place and all that or just the model will do?
I realy hope that just the model will do. :|
I hope the model will do as well.
Strictly speaking, the deadline has passed, but since no-one has posted, I think it's OK to post my entry:
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1477/f500016fv.th.png (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f500016fv.png)
Unable to finish in time for the 10th I'm afraid. I'm away over the weekend.
Sorry to withdraw at this late stage.
Sonix.
halfgaar was that renderd with yafray
halfgaar was that renderd with yafray
You obviously don't "read" images :). It's rendered in Blender internal.
Yes I couldn't finish mine either. Too busy. I will shortly post a voting thread with a yes/no question as to whether he should win or not. I suppose that's the only option. Or we could just call halfgaar the winner.
By the way, nice car,
-Lando
I will shortly post a voting thread with a yes/no question as to whether he should win or not. I suppose that's the only option. Or we could just call halfgaar the winner.
Not the kind of victory I was hoping for... Being both first and last is not very much of a performance...
By the way, nice car,
Thanks :)
Well then halfgaar, give me an extra few days, and I'll just finish my car and then you have a better victory with your killing modelling skills! Oh, by the way, could you explain what method you used in modelling it, and do you have any tips? i've never been very good at cars, at least not when I look at the work of the pro's here on elYsiun. I've always had some trouble with anything remotly organic.
-Lando
Well then halfgaar, give me an extra few days
You've got them, if it's up to me. I've never been one for deadlines anyway :)
and I'll just finish my car and then you have a better victory with your killing modelling skills!
When your goal is failure, that's probably what you get... Meaning, give yourself some credit :) I'll bet you're just lowering our expectations to make us gasp at your image...
Oh, by the way, could you explain what method you used in modelling it, and do you have any tips? i've never been very good at cars, at least not when I look at the work of the pro's here on elYsiun. I've always had some trouble with anything remotly organic.
Using boxmodelling would have been faster, but I have yet to learn that skill. I've got this extensive PDF on it, by LionTR. I can upload is somewhere, if you can't find it elsewhere.
What I did was lay out the edge of a bodypanel with edges (using blueprints to find the exact shape) and then extrude from that edgeline in the length of the panel. That's the basic of my technique. It's a very slow way, for me at least :)
Tips, I've got a few.
- Use only quads, as you probaly know.
- Don't start a new (part of the) mesh for seperate body panels. Model the car as one object and cut the seems for the panels in later. This way, you have perfectly lining up of reflections etc. You do, however, have to keep the panels in mind when modelling, so that you can easily add the extra edges and cuts when the time has come.
Well... I know it's not much. But remember, it's my first finished car. I'd like to thank halfgaar and sonix (back in the WIP thread) for their tips and support. I started the remodel after the start date, just in case you weren't sure.
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/9133/bmwcabrio0zv.jpg
The Voting thread will be posted soon.
-Lando
Whoops. I've run into a problem. Only moderators can post new threads here and I need to get a voting thread. What do I do? I've got to get that thread up soon!
Thanks,
-Lando
P.S. Sonix, since everyone everyone's entries were late, I'd say it's fair if you squeeze in an entry before the voting thread is posted.
Hmm, I think I've made a grave error. I failed to read and interpret "the contest will start on..." correctly. The beginnings of my car were already on my harddrive before the startdate. Technicly, this makes my entry invalid. What to do.... :(?
Well I'd just leave your entry. My piece's early begginings (i.e. the backround, parking lot, wheel model) were in existance before the start date. We need at least two entries to make this thing work so I'd say that that's all okay.
But still, we need a voting thread. Unfortunatly I can't even edit the thread to make it a poll, since the person who posted this thread abondoned it.
-Lando
If we have a bit more entries, perhaps we can ask a moderator. So Sonix, finish up your car :)
if you guys want more entries to 'appeal' to a mod, i have a car that i've been working on since last week, and could enter it, it's not completed yet but i don't mind, i'd just be intrested in seeing how many votes it gets
heres the link to the WIP page: http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48868
currently it's yafray, but i'll re render on internal
By al means, enter it. We unfortunatly don't have a deadline you can work towards (or do we? Lando?), but I guess you can enter it once you feel it's complete enough.
No unfortunately we do not have a deadline :( . We did have one, but then the deadline passed so everyone (except halfgaar) is sending in what they've got. So please, if you started making a car after the startdate, and it is at a competable state, please post it. The more entries the better.
-Lando
This BMW is the one I was making but it's a long way off finished. :(
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/_Sonix_/BMW645-19.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/_Sonix_/BMW645-18.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/_Sonix_/BMW645-16.jpg
Sonix.
Oh yeah, I remember. I see you haven't fixed that issue with the door-edge :)
Do you think you can finish it any time soon? If these are you latest images, you haven't made much progress since a few weeks, perhaps months...
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