On this Challenge Page you'll find everything you need to know about this Community Challenge. Feel free to use this forum thread to ask questions, seek advice, look for feedback, or to just hang out and talk about Blender and cookies. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation! 😃
Showing work in progress (WIP) is highly encouraged! We would love to see what you're working on. Also, receiving (and giving) peer feedback is one of the best ways to improve your skills!
Create your very own WIP thread on the forum, post your WIP in your Polybooks or share your work here in the comments below. I’ll be around this month to answer questions and to give feedback for those who want it 😊.
On social media use #cgcookiechallenge so we can check out what awesome things you guys are up to!
This beautiful cover art is made by Vehicle Wizard 
dostovel ❤️
THE CHALLENGE
You guys voted and the winning topic is vehicles. We challenge you to create the most awesome vehicle you can! (examples a bit further down below)
WHY SHOULD YOU ENTER THIS CHALLENGE?
It's a great way to practice and hone your CG skills, fill up your portfolio, learn something new, hang out with like minded people, and most importantly to have some good ol' fun!! 😄 oh and let's not forget the XP and eternal bragging rights if you win 😉
STICK TO THE RULES AND YOU'LL DO JUST FINE AROUND HERE
✅ Create an awesome vehicle! And we mean vehicle in the broadest sense of the word (you can model a car, motorcycle, spaceship, train, tank, bicycle with training wheels, and so on).
✅ Render your vehicle with either Cycles or Eevee, the choice is yours.
✅ Use Blender for modeling, since it's a Blender kinda challenge 😉 add-ons are allowed, they are for Blender after all!
✅ You can use whatever software you want for texturing & shading (like Blender, Substance or Photoshop) and you can use whatever textures you would like to use.
✅ Using an image or HDRI as a background is allowed.
✅ Post processing with the compositor is 100% an awesome idea! It's part of Blender so go wild 😎 As for other software (like Photoshop, Gimp, or Krita), it's allowed if kept to a minimum. Some firefly removal, sharpening or basic color correction is okay. No drastic changes though, your render should still look like what you made with Blender.
✅ Whether you are just starting out or you're an experienced Blender-head, all skill levels are welcome! We're all in it to improve our CG skills 😄 Everyone with a CG Cookie account can enter this challenge (grab a membership or get a free account if you don't have one yet).
✅ One entry only. And it has to be a still render, no animations for this one. Give it your one best shot 👊😎
❌ No old work or 3D models created by other people. Your scene should be brand new and made by you. It's a challenge after all, let's get those creative juices flowing and start stretching your CG muscles. You got this! 👍
HOW TO ENTER
There's a separate Challenge Submissions Page. Just drop at least one WIP picture and your finished image in the comments of that forum thread before the deadline hits.
LIVE CRITIQUE
Participants of this Community Challenge, listen up! We believe in sharing WIP and we are convinced that feedback is one of the best ways to improve your CG Skills! So with that in mind we’ve organized a Live Critique Stream to help you improve your Challenge Entry 😄
The stream will be held on Tuesday July 23rd by the amazing Jonathan Lampel and Jonathan Williamson! Please keep in mind, we can do about 12-15 critiques in the two-hour stream slot. If we get many more than that, we may pick submissions that have the most widely applicable feedback.
How to enter your work for Live Critique:
Post an image of your Vehicle Project in this forum thread with the title Live Critique Submission.
Optionally, if you have multiple images, create a project on your gallery page and then post a link to it here.
IMPORTANT: Please provide context for the project with a description that gives us an idea of what you're trying to achieve.
"I'm going for realism but something feels off and but I don't know what..."
"I'd like to match the style of ______. What should I do to get there?"
The deadline for submitting is Sunday July 21st.
MEET YOUR JUDGES
SOME COOKIE TIPS
🍪 New to hard surface modeling? Check out the Mesh Modeling Bootcamp and Introduction to Hard Surface Modeling courses to get your fundamental skill set up to speed in no time. We also recommend watching the first live-stream of the 2018 Vehicle Class (hard surface primer), which is a great place to brush up on you hard surface modeling skills!
🍪 Are you an Intermediate / Advanced Blender-head looking for some more in-depth courses? You’ll probably enjoy the Modeling a Post Apocalyptic Vehicle and Modeling a Motorcycle courses.
🍪 Are you more into modeling for games? Great! Because games need vehicles too 😎 this super fun Creating Mini Tanks for a Mobile Game course might be right up your alley.
🍪 Still can’t get enough of vehicles? Then be sure to watch the Vehicle Exterior Modeling and Vehicle Interior Modeling live-streams. And if Eevee is your render engine of choice, or if you want to learn more about vehicle presentation, then you might also want to check out the Vehicle Shading & Lighting with Eevee live-stream.
🍪 All types of vehicles are welcome, but if you're unsure about something just ask your questions in the comments below.
COOKIE GALLERY GOODNESS
The CG Cookie gallery is a great place to find inspiration, there's amazing art to be found! Here are some vehicle artworks for you to enjoy:
Toyota Vitz Repair Bay by dostovel
Concept Car Render by dostovel
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 10 by ppavka
The Lunar Jungle by cclayton95
Emgrand 7 facelift concept by ppilot
Ford Mustang 1964 by jjamesobrien
For what time zone is the "8pm"of the livestream?
Is there a way to see a replay of it afterwards?
otowa it’s shown in your own time zone. And yes, there’s a past events button on the event page
Livre critique submission
After some hesitation, I decided to go to a "realistic" luxury "Hover-car". I did the biggest mistake of all and didn't use enough reference image for starting (well...none to be fair), and that resulted in a lot of trouble for size and proportions of basically everything.
The other problem is that, having started maybe even by directly copying an actual luxury car would have helped be increasing the level detail on the front of the car, which is pretty bland in the end...
Another issue is the detail level : I did areation grids with way too small details that can't be seen in the final render.
It's still WIP, and needs some extra modeling. Namely the door interior and polishing the global interior.
I'm not very happy with it, but I'm still proud that my first project after following the first part of hard surface modeling tutorial went out pretty decent. (I would have never been able to get even close to that a few weeks ago).
As for the scene, I went for a simple car reveal showroom.
Link to the gallery: https://cgcookie.com/u/otowa/projects/hover-car-for-vehicle-contest
Critique for live submission
i'll have more pics in the wip thread coming https://cgcookie.com/t/2031-wip-cgc-challenge-2-vehicles-kaj-suominen , but this is going to be the money shot hopefully. i have scene built in ue4 so i can change things quite drastically even. also this is lacking rigging. so all the things still in their default places.
basically idea is to show this futuristic rescue helicopter landing on some god forsaken place near some tents.
what i'm aiming is believeability, realism sure, but more that when you see, you go "oh yeah, i can buy that".
Live Critique Submission
Still a WIP. The legs need to be rigged, so that I can pose them The wings need to be more rounded to better fit with the rest.
What I mostly (but not only) would like to know is if the composition is okay.
I know there are still a lot of modelling problems, but I won't be able to fix everything, so I would like it if you could tell me what you think that needs to be changed, because I've been looking at it too long, so I can't really judge what is most important;)
The overall design can't be changed anymore, but feel free to comment on that as well. (Small changes might even still be possible...)
I was thinking of the moth shuttle from the late 90's sci-fi series 'LEXX' (couldn't find any halfway decent pictures of it to show here, sorry), but then a bee and not organic, but mechanical.
Here is my WIP thread if needed: https://cgcookie.com/t/2028-cgc-challenge-juli-2019-vehicle-wip
Thanks in advance Jonathan & Jonathan!
Live Critique Submission
Hope this isn't too late, but despite my scene still needing a lot of work I thought I'd give it a shot.
Got the main scene and composition done. Been working on the textures as you can see but a lot of it still isn't finished, along with stuff like particle effects and motion blur. Going for a slightly stylized look and hoping I'm going in the right direction. Mostly looking for critiques on my materials/shaders/textures and the general composition but anything you feel you think will improve what's going on would be very much appreciated. Been doing Blender for about a year and a half now and I feel this could be gearing up to be my best scene yet, at least I hope so, but I'll let you all be the judge of that. Thanks in advance!
I'm also currently rendering a couple more scenes related to this and I'll update this post with a link to my polybook if you'd like some more things to go on.
UPDATE: Renders are finished, here's the link.
Live Critique Submission
Hoping I'm not late, but here it is.
My original idea was to have it be a series of tests the dummy was going to do on the hot rod wheel chair. At some point in the process I ended up making it at a park. The main thing I'm not sure what to do is how to make it look like a dummy, or if I want it to be a dummy.
I don't know if I'll make it to the live stream. I haven't had a lot of time recently. I'm surprised I got as far as I did on this. Please forgive the noise, I didn't have time to get it denoised.
@cgcookiedough If you want it to look like a dummy, you should texture it like a dummy I guess.
@cgcookiedough A quick scour of google images suggests that it needs to be yellow , have a spring for a neck , that black and yellow circular logo and eyes and eyebrows but absolutely no facial expression that would show the sheer horror it is experiencing when you strap it onto that chair of yours.....
otowa whoah looks allot better then I thought when I was watching the stream on my DS. Sorry for any bad vibes.
Question:
When the rules say 'one entry only', does that mean only one final render? Or are different renders (of the same vehicle of course) allowed?
spikeyxxx all the renders and angles and WIP you want, just one model per person. One post counts as one entry, whether it has 2 pictures or 20 of your model :)
otowa I was watching the live stream on my gameboy and I was laughing at how bad the hover car looked but on my computer it looks great!
otowa let’s please keep the main discussion over in this thread to not clutter the submissions page :)
The judging process took about a week and a half last time, so somewhere next week is my prediction.
Can’t be 100% sure though, depends on how quick the judges are.
