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The CGCars Corporate Identity Challenge is live. To take one home, all you have to do is create one of the top three designs based on our contest model, the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe. This is stacking up to be one of the hottest 3D contests of 2011, so don't miss your chance. Enter now!

Welcome to the CGCars Corporate Identity Challenge, sponsored by EVGA, Moment of Inspiration, and Razer!

It's been a while since our last official contest, so we knew our members would be expecting something special, and we didn't disappoint. This years' challenge introduces one of the hottest prize packages of any community contest to date, including EVGA, MOI, and Razer, and an even hotter theme and content with the fire-breathing 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe.

The theme, CGCars, will challenge participants to create a unique scene and branding in which to capture our contest vehicle. Participants will be provided with a complete 3D model, minus wheels and tires, so you will need to model these items and add the CGCars branding to either the vehicle, or somewhere in the scene. You then need to submit one closeup and one wide shot of the scene, with the CGCars branding in plain sight and easily recognized. Sounds simple enough, huh?

If you've got what it takes to blow our minds, you might just take home one of the most powerful graphics cards on planet Earth, a lifetime seat to MOI's industry-storming NURBS modeler, or a mouse from the company that busted the maze. So what are you waiting for? Get to work and show us what'cha got!

Contest Winner

Thanks to everyone for their participation and hard work, thanks to our membership for their comments and support, and thanks to our sponsors for their confidence and generous contributions. Without you, the CGCars Corporate Identity Challenge would not have been possible.

The three entries that we felt best captured the CGCars brand are listed below. Prize info will be emailed to you shortly. First and third place winners will be notified when their prizes are shipped, and we will make every effort to get your prizes to you as soon as possible. Second place will recieve download links and license information via email. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Shipped items are expected to take 4-6 weeks for delivery, so please wait until after this time before raising any concerns.

Congratualtions, fellas. And if you didn't win this time, we hope you'll be back to try again.

User Profiles & Fullscreen Shots

Winner: pix.amant wide close
Second Place: EquiNOX wide close
Third Place: Pan3sar wide close

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22 Comments

GE0 - 11-06-2011, 05:55 PM

Winner sucks I mean first place: very grainy, environment is just an image (not 3d), CG-cars logo is mapped as a matte shadow material or even in photoshop (color burn), reflection of the car is incorrect, tire bump is too much.... And look in thous headlight optical flares, it's just too much, i mean it's like three ears old child drawing of the sun Color correction of overall image i think is over done too
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rya - 11-06-2011, 06:54 PM

Congrats to contest winner. Mr. Pix.Amant. Your Presentation is Awsome. What softwares did u use to do this?.
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GE0 - 11-06-2011, 07:44 PM

Lets be honest but right, about 15 people was working on this project day and night to finish it on time, 5 days you didn't give us any news, after 5 days you said you will announce winner on 5th, on 5th you again delay announcement, I don't use to this disrespect, and you didn't even apologised.... One of the winners even didn't done what you asked for (1920x2080). And what is your judge? Do they even work on 3d and understand what hard work is to make a 1920x 1280 image? I don't know what to say, shame on you.....

He used just a fascy HDRI....
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mynameisoscarjo - 11-06-2011, 07:54 PM

Well deserved pix.amant, you did great. Congrats to EquiNOX and Pan3sar, too, nicely done. Oh, and I think GE0 is jealous.
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EquiNOX - 11-06-2011, 08:07 PM

Thank you all for your support, Thank you Element and Nallen for taking up this great Contest, and remember EVERYBODY who participate in this contest is a WINNER period. Rather its a bitter one or not, the efforts counts it all.
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GE0 - 11-06-2011, 08:51 PM

mynameisoscarjo, well, may by I'm little jealous, but I'm mad just for 5 days silence and I'm feeling not apresheated here. I work REALLY HARD on this. I will do image like 1st place winner in 1 day, it's just 5 or 6 materials in all image and with no textures (well tires and environment has texture). In my image there was about 50 materials and mannnnnnny textures...... If they said that they need something like yours images..........
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s1dK - 11-06-2011, 08:55 PM

Good contest, good work to winners and everyone.
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Qualt - 11-06-2011, 09:00 PM

Well I'm a bit sad... But anyway...
I just wanted to request you guys if you could be so kind to put the names of the participant below to the image of their entry...
Because we tried our best and all the images doesn't have any reference of who did them...
Just to recognize our effort...
Congratulations guys...

Regards, saludos
Qualt
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Helicase - 11-06-2011, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by GE0

Winner sucks I mean first place: very grainy, environment is just an image (not 3d), CG-cars logo is mapped as a matte shadow material or even in photoshop (color burn), reflection of the car is incorrect, tire bump is too much.... And look in thous headlight optical flares, it's just too much, i mean it's like three ears old child drawing of the sun Color correction of overall image i think is over done too

Cry more please.
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GE0 - 11-07-2011, 09:20 AM

Kiss my rear end please
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nas - 11-07-2011, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by GE0

Kiss my rear end please

Jeez man, sorry you feel that way... Was an awesome contest to see come together.

Sure you didn't win but it's not a reason to be a dick to all the others about it...

The image itself(lighting,texturing, geometry detailing) is awesome but i think your scene would have looked better if your camera was at a slightly lower angle(wide shot). The camera angle is a bit neutral/boring in this shot.

Also seeing as the theme was corporate-id you've missed the point a little. The logo is there in both shots but it's swamped by all the other things around it whereas in the other entries it's clear and simple....

Take this as you like but i think these is the reasons....

ps. As i said this is MY opinion...
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GE0 - 11-07-2011, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by nas

Jeez man, sorry you feel that way... Was an awesome contest to see come together.

Sure you didn't win but it's not a reason to be a dick to all the others about it...

The image itself(lighting,texturing, geometry detailing) is awesome but i think your scene would have looked better if your camera was at a slightly lower angle(wide shot). The camera angle is a bit neutral/boring in this shot.

Also seeing as the theme was corporate-id you've missed the point a little. The logo is there in both shots but it's swamped by all the other things around it whereas in the other entries it's clear and simple....

Take this as you like but i think these is the reasons....

ps. As i said this is MY opinion...

I think you right, and my last comment isn't for everyone, it's for comment above it
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abc king - 11-07-2011, 04:20 PM

Congratulations to the winners! It was a nice competition

Best regards
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Minde - 11-07-2011, 04:53 PM

@abc king: If the users where voting my vote would go to you
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pix.amant - 11-07-2011, 05:42 PM

thank you all!
it was a very good competition and i have learned a lot.
thank you for support and i hope we can compete again

regards pix.Amant
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tibi fazekas - 11-07-2011, 05:42 PM

Congrats, well deserved, guys!
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Helicase - 11-07-2011, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by GE0

I think you right, and my last comment isn't for everyone, it's for comment above it

Deal with it. You lost, stop crying about it. Maybe you need to watch this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
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eswallace - 11-07-2011, 07:38 PM

What I used for my Contest Entry:
Wings3d(Free) to model the Rims Brakes Brake pads and Tires.
UVMapper(Free) to create the UV Map for the Viper Shell.
Daz Studio 3(Free) to set up the scene, Shaders and position the cameras. Also Used Michael 4 (Daz character) to sit in the car.
Reality Plugin Created by Pret-a-3D(Purchased from Daz): this plugin exports all the materials lights and cameras to LuxRender.
LuxRender 0.9: This is what I used to render the full scene. No Postwork done other than adding a flare :P
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abc king - 11-08-2011, 01:02 PM

@Minde: Thank you! Maybe it works the next time
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PBenjamim - 11-09-2011, 06:46 PM

Congrats pix.amant! Your images are superb, i love the simplicity of it aswell as the color scheme! Also EquiNOX was my 2nd favourite

@Geo: sometimes, less is more, and this is the case. Imo, the #1 is well deserved. Your image is too 'dreamy', and your texture is totally off regarding the theme of cg-cars. Might be complex, but it has nothing to do with CG-Cars.
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