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Heyo, here is challenge no. 2.
The topic of this challenge is to model and render a vehicle. Nothing more nothing less.
Everything which fits the definition / imagination of a vehicle will be valid.

Best start by thinking how many wheels you want your vehicle to have, or should it use wheels at all?!
Why not putting some fancy anti-grav engines beneath it? Huh, you're saying that you don't need any of this, because you love cruising over the water? Well, it is your choice!

Now, go ahead and surprise us with your very own vehicle of any type.

Hint: Please, don't use any pre-made objects / renders. It just wouldn't be fair.
Hint: This thread is for entries only! Every other post may be deleted without prior warnings.

DEADLINE: Wednesday 16. June 2010 at 12:00PM (noon) GMT.
(I have extended the deadline by one week upon request)

Here !

A cooper !




These are the colors of the Hockey team based here in Montreal.


PS : I started working on that car about 2 days before the challenge officially started so I'd like to disqualify myself. That's gonna learn them there's alway some chance to win no matter how it looks.

Now let's see who's gonna win between Xchosen and Unrealbeing

I ended up not making more changes because they stuck out like eyesores so i though it would be better without the handles and all. Anyways this was more then just making a car to me. This is the start of me working on making video game ready models. My texturing needs a lot of work but this was my first attempt at real uv texturing so please forgive that.

Stats:
1381 Verts
2866 Edges
1495 Faces
And one huge 1280x1280 UV image. I know its large but I couldn't get Blender to use more then 1 UV image like I wanted but i wanted to try and keep the same quality as if it was. Could easily be scaled down if I ever need it.




and because the mesh was very important to my entry I will show it as well.

Jetpacks was yes!



I don't consider this under consideration for the competition, as it's wildly incomplete, but I wanted to include it here since this is what inspired it. I'm really new to Blender, less than a month, so I just didn't have time to skill ratio required to do what I wanted in time. This is, outside of tutorials, my first model/render.

As you can probably tell there's a lot of detail missing. There's a bunch of stuff I didn't get around to modeling. Nothing is textured or (appropriately) uv mapped. There's some weirdness going on in a couple of places that needs to be cleaned up. Lots of stuff yet to do, but for my first model I'm happy with the direction it's going.

So voting has just started. Go on!

Okay folks. Winner is Goliath with his beautiful mini cooper.
Congratz!

Wooohhoooo.