General rules:

• 1)

  Create a 3D model of a car, add 3D environment and textures (you can create more than one car in the scene). Then create a beautiful 3D rendering of it (or them). Think creatively. We also accept pickups, vans and small trucks. Military tanks/fighting vehicles, large trucks (semi-trucks), buses, motorcycles as "main character" are not accepted.

• 2)

  Your scene can contain any number of vehicles, characters, buildings, be outdoor or indoor on your choice.

• 3)

  Your entry must be a 3D rendered image. Environment should be made in 3D; we permit the use of HDRi for sky and some small parts of landscape. No texture/polycount limit.

• 4)

  Renders with a single color background (black, white, etc.), test renders, unfinished, pixelated and low quality renders, screenshots and models placed on wallpaper or photos will not be accepted. As well as works with adult content: not allowed works with blood, violence, erotic and political topics.

• 5)

  Using of third-party assets such as vegetation, street elements is allowed. Car models should be made by you in 3D modeling software.

• 6)

  Enhancing your render in post is allowed - this includes things like color adjustments, compositing render layers/passes, and adding effects like smoke, fire, particles, etc. Adding photographic elements (such as cut-out characters or vegetation) or doing paintovers or photobashing is not allowed.

• 7)

  The work must be made for the challenge and not have been previously published anywhere (no existing projects, stock/free car models).

• 8)

  You must submit a link to the "Work in process" to prove authorship of the car model. The WIP must contain the main steps of the car modeling or screenshots with unsmoothed version of the model. You are free to post your WIP on any CG site: ArtStation, CgSociety, Polycount, Behance etc (please don't use temporary storage like Dropbox, Google Drive etc and social networks like Facebook, Instagram etc). Entries without WIP will not be accepted.

• 9)

  You can submit only one work: one final render and one clay/wire render of the scene.

• 10)

  Please include a short story about your work and a description of the image (it will be published in the gallery).

• 11)

  Attach one wireframe or clay render of a full scene to your work.

• 12)

  Add the name or URL of the competition in one of the image corners. You can add your name and title of the work as well. Emails, logos, phone numbers are not allowed.

Demands for your render:

• 1)

  The render should be at least 1500 pixels wide if the work is horizontal.

• 2)

  Render size should not exceed 5MB and should be in .JPG format.

• 3)

  Work can be in any style you like (low-poly, cartoon, futuristic, etc.) with the use of post-production.

Other:

• 1)

  How to submit: Use the submission form and the "Add work" button to submit your entry before the deadline.

• 2)

  How the jury works: Each member of the jury selects the top five works. Each place in top-five gives special amount of points: first place - five points, fifth place - one point. All points/votes are added up. You can see an example of the voting table here (year 2022).

• 3)

  The work can be updated during the contest. The only condition - you cannot change the idea of the work or modify it drastically. Only reasonable changes are allowed.

• 4)

  You can correct the description and the list of tools after the work was submitted - just contact us.

• 5)

  After your work is published on the contest page, you are free to share your work on other websites and social networks. Don't forget to tag us (@3dmodels_hub on Instagram and @3dmodelsteam on Linkedin) so we can like and share it.

• 5)

  You can see previous competitions here and "Hall of fame" here.