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
Nice to see another challenge! Now, do I join or not... looks at old Challenger half done...
Good luck to everyone who challenges themselves! Work hard and learn lots!
silentheart00 You could see it as revenge for your Challenger and model a more kick-arse vehicle and totally finish it! 😉
silentheart00 Of course you should enter. We don't grow when we set our own pace.
dostovel That's a fair point. I would really like to complete these projects I do have open, though. Guess I should set a better pace.
silentheart00 That's the problem, your brain can break it's own rules, hop over any boundaries you set and time can be limitless. We all know that we can tweak things until the heat death of the universe. We need to have limitations and terms that weren't set by ourselves. Take up the challenge.
dostovel I appreciate you motivating me, but it's not about endlessly tweaking something for me, it's more I don't complete projects. So, I would like to complete something for once. I'll give it 24 hours and see how I feel.
Oh man I was going to work on vehicles for my own portfolio in July, how did you know? I was planning on creating a few vehicles from the various vehicle courses we offer here. So I may hone in on one and spend the 21 days on it.
silentheart00 Sometimes it’s good to ditch all the stuff that is dragging you down and start fresh. Just leave the ‘anchor’ of unfinished work at the bottom of the sea, start a brand new project and go for it! You can’t change the past, but you can control what you do with the present 😊
jgonzalez we are all psychic 😉 love to see what you can do so you should definitely join the fun! And start a polybook or WIP thread so we can give you feedback along the way 😎👍🏻I’m planning on joining in and modeling a vehicle too, it will be my first 😬
Vehicles you say? All types, does that include future sci-fi thingalings aswell? :)
louhikarme Yes it does!! It also includes game ready as well as high poly, whichever you prefer. I know what you will choose 😉
ssmurfmier1985 Hehe,
well for this i might go for just highpoly. that said. if I can finish the highpoly concept in first week, then the game ready asset i could finish aswell. will see. i need to make brief with limitations, otherwise it will end up never be finished.
Awesome! After completing the hard surface modeling plane, I was thinking about making a small narrow gauge railway locomotive in the same style. The challenge should get me working on that.
Yeap! I am in! Even if I am using Autodesk Maya 2019 at this moment, I can still do this challenge :)
The most important thing is about the final work or WIP in rendering, both Maya and Blender are 3D software at all :)
I will keep you update
Looking forward to seeing everyone's' entries. This should be a good subject.
Would love to enter myself, but the time I can devote to Blender is really limited. As such, I am never able to enter anything with a time limit unfortunately.
Hello there. How much can we take inspiration from paintings references, or comics?
otowa Using reference is important, so use as much reference images for inspiration as needed :) you can even use a concept/blueprint and reproduce that in 3D, but be sure to check if you can use it (check the license) and be sure to credit the person who made it when the license tells you to. Good luck!
