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      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!
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      Terms & Conditions

      1. Individual entrants only.
      2. Entrants must be 18 years or older.
      3. Entrants are not permitted to enter works on behalf of any other individual or entity.
      4. All entrants must be registered with CG Cars and agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions as described here.
      5. Entries should remain unpublished outside of CG Cars prior to the close of the challenge.
      6. The 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe model is provided by Chrysler LLC. All entrants also agree to abide the CGI Zone Educational Toolkit License Agreement and Terms of Use (http://www.thecgizone.com/default.as...ler/termsofuse).
      7. Images must conform to nominal decency guidelines. Any image deemed to contain content that depicts violence, racial, political, religious, and sexual or any other inflammatory material in an inappropriate manner will be disqualified and removed.
      8. Neither CG Cars nor its sponsor will be held responsible for late entries for any reason whatsoever. It is the sole responsibility of the entrants to make reasonable allowances for upload times and to plan accordingly
      9. Entries will be judged on artistic and technical merit within the scope of the competition theme. The interpretation of these rules, the theme, artistic or technical merit of the work and any other consideration made by the judges is at the sole discretion of the judges.
      10. Judges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
      11. To be eligible for prizes, all winning entrants must provide accurate and reliable contact details. CG Cars will make all reasonable efforts to contact winners for a period of 7 calendar days after the completion of Judging. If a winner cannot be contacted within this period then they can be disqualified.
      12. Any import taxes or duties on prizes must be paid by the prize winner. It is neither practically possible nor ethically reasonable for CG Cars or any of the sponsors to pay duties and taxes on behalf of a winner. CG Cars and sponsors will not make false valuation claims to assist winners from illegally evading any applicable duties and taxes.
      13. The entrant grants CG Cars rights to use all entered works, in any media for sales, marketing and merchandising, provided full and correct credit for the artist clearly appears with said materials.
      14. The entrant grants the sponsor rights to use all entered works on sponsors websites in the form of free public galleries, in any form of media, including, but not limited to, web galleries, physical galleries, downloadable form, wallpaper collections and screensavers, provided full and correct credit for the artist clearly appears with said materials.
      15. The entrant grants CG Cars and sponsor rights to use the entrants name, imprimatur and likeness in conjunction with the use of their entered works in any media.
      16. The entrant grants CG Cars and sponsor first right to publish their submitted work in any media.
      17. Entrants commit to notify CG Cars in writing at least one week prior to the publication of their work in any media.
      18. Other than the rights assigned in the preceding clauses entrants retain copyright of all entered materials and are free to use said materials for personal promotions.
      19. The entrant indemnifies CG Cars and sponsor against any claims or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages from any party that may arise from any use, including but not limited to, publication of entry materials submitted as a part of, or in association with the competition.
      20. All artwork that is entered by the deadline is final; it cannot be removed or changed after this point. CG Cars will not return any material submitted or alter any entry.
      21. The judges have sole discretion in the interpretation and enforcement of rules, including but not limited to suspension of categories and entrants.
      22. It is the entrant's responsibility to ensure compliance with all rules. Disqualification of any entrant is not reflected in any public change of status or alteration of their entry.
      23. There is no agreement or contract between the artist and CG Cars. The artist assumes all responsibility and costs for delivering images and other required information to the Publisher for consideration in the competition.
      24. CG Cars does not require any payment for entry of images nor does CG Cars offer any form of payment, actual or implied, to any entrants.
      25. There is no chance component in the selection of winning entries. Winning entries will be chosen solely on the skill exhibited by the entrants as determined by the judges.
      26. Moderators or relatives of CG Cars staff, sponsors and judges cannot compete in the competition.
      27. CG Cars reserves the right to suspend, shorten, modify or cancel the competition at its sole discretion.
      28. This list of terms and conditions constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the terms and conditions and supersedes any prior terms and conditions, oral or written, and any other communications relating to these terms and conditions.


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      Comments 22 Comments
      1. GE0's Avatar
        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
      1. rya's Avatar
        Congrats to contest winner. Mr. Pix.Amant. Your Presentation is Awsome. What softwares did u use to do this?.
      1. GE0's Avatar
        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....
      1. mynameisoscarjo's Avatar
        Well deserved pix.amant, you did great. Congrats to EquiNOX and Pan3sar, too, nicely done. Oh, and I think GE0 is jealous.
      1. EquiNOX's Avatar
        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.
      1. GE0's Avatar
        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..........
      1. s1dK's Avatar
        Good contest, good work to winners and everyone.
      1. Qualt's Avatar
        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
      1. Helicase's Avatar
        Quote Originally Posted by GE0 View Post
        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.
      1. GE0's Avatar
        Kiss my rear end please
      1. nas's Avatar
        Quote Originally Posted by GE0 View Post
        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...
      1. GE0's Avatar
        Quote Originally Posted by nas View Post
        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
      1. abc king's Avatar
        Congratulations to the winners! It was a nice competition

        Best regards
      1. Minde's Avatar
        @abc king: If the users where voting my vote would go to you
      1. pix.amant's Avatar
        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
      1. tibi fazekas's Avatar
        Congrats, well deserved, guys!
      1. Helicase's Avatar
        Quote Originally Posted by GE0 View Post
        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
      1. eswallace's Avatar
        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

      1. abc king's Avatar
        @Minde: Thank you! Maybe it works the next time
      1. PBenjamim's Avatar
        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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