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Batmobile Design Competition: WINNER!
Congratulations to Paul Denton for winning the Batmobile Design Competition! Paul's rendering, seen above, captures that "bad ass" feel of the Dark Knight: it's moody, menacing, and full of drama. ...
CDF's Batmobile Design Contest
CarDesignFetish knows that you like cool cars. We also know that you like to sketch cool cars. What happens when you put the two together? A really cool design contest, that's what!
We're...
Dwayne Vance: Design and Render Vehicles Online Course...
Superstar Designer/Artist (and friend of CDF) Dwayne Vance is hosting an online class for rendering vehicles in Photoshop and Painter. This Thursday, March 3rd at 2PM EST (11PST) Dwayne will be hosting...
Sketch P*rn: February Edition
February is over, and that means more awesome sketches were released in the month. Point your eyeballs here for great digital work from Volkswagen, pencil sketches from Renault, sketches over photos...
How to Make Cute Cars
Cars that share the general traits of a baby’s face trigger the ‘Isn’t it cute’ response in consumers.
The Fiat 500 is the latest in a long line of "cute cars." So what is it about cars...
Category : Competitions
The team at Car Design Fetish would like to thank everyone for the entries to our competition! It has truly been overwhelming at how many we received! If we haven’t replied to you yet to thank you, we will soon.
The deadline has now passed, and we are looking over all of the submissions. We will post two more sets of images today for your viewing pleasure and to give thanks to everyone that entered. We will choose a winner shortly.
Best Regards,
CDF Team
We’ve been getting entries for the contest daily now, so we felt it perfect time to showcase some of them! Here’s the first set… We’ll upload more as they come in.
All images are copyright their respective owners.
Category : Competitions, Crit, Fetishing
CarDesignFetish knows that you like cool cars. We also know that you like to sketch cool cars. What happens when you put the two together? A really cool design contest, that’s what!
We’re hosting our first ever sketch contest on CDF, and it centers around a classic vehicle: the Batmobile. Gotham’s masked detective has one of most iconic rides around, filled with gadgets, weapons, and style. The goal is for you to create/sketch a Batmobile concept, but to do so in 2 hours or less and send them over to us. Pencil sketches, Photoshop, Painter… whatever you want to use to create it is up to you. We just want to see a great idea (or two).
The focus is to be creative, but not over-render an image. Just an hour or two will suffice to get a cool sketch or rendering out there.
We’ll feature each concept on our site and select a winner. The winner will get copies of pivotal Batman graphic novels Cacophany penned by Kevin Smith and Year One by Frank Miller. The contest begins TODAY, March 4th, and lasts until Monday, March 14th. We’re lucky to have Dwayne Vance be a guest judge, as well as Team CDF, as we select the best from the bunch. Submit as many as you’d like (per the rules below).
Each entry will be evaluated on merits of cool design and sketching basics, so perspective and proportion will be important. Will it be a classic 60′s Batmobile, a newer Tumbler-style? Will you take a crack at Tim Burton’s Batmobile, or something completely different?
Good Luck, and have fun!
It’s post-New Year and pre-graduation, which means that the yearly metric ton of car design competitions is upon us. We’ve compiled an extensive list of some of the best ones below, so have a look and enter them all if you can! There are some great prizes, exposure, and experience to be had!
Factory Five has just announced that it will host a design competition for its next vehicle, co-sponsored by SolidWorks and Grassroots Motorsports Magazine. The vehicle, based on a Subaru WRX motor and a Factory 5 space frame, will be a two-seater, mid-engined roadster weighing under 2000 lbs. The competition will go live on March 1st, with full rules being revealed then.
Head on over to their website for more details. [LINK]
Local Motors has teamed up with INTERSECTION Magazine to host a special 10th Anniversary Design Competition!
If you, like us, is still in awe that the venerable mag has been around for that long, feast your eyes on the competition’s prize: There’s a chance to see the winning car design prototyped and built!
It’s a terrific way to get some publicity for any Designer, and even better when you factor in the prizes.
More info below!
Visit Local Motors for the competition page.
Category : Competitions, Design, Events, Fetishing, Sketch P*rn
This year flew by and it is time to take submissions to be included in this years calendar! This is the 3rd year of the calendar and sales keep growing as do the Hot Wheels we donate to the Detroit Children’s Hospital from the profits generated. If you would like to be a part of this years calendar send us your entries by November 13th to be in the running. The 13 best will be included in the calendar. So get those pencils going and bring out the hotness!!
More details after the jump….
Local Motors is at it again with another great car design competition! This time, the comp is a little different, but just as much fun.
Founded in 2007, the team at LM thought it might be a fun idea to see what LM vehicles would look like in the past. That’s right: this is a retro design competition!
Category : Competitions
We are always looking to share automotive design competitions with our readers, so when we came across this list from The Street of current competitions, we were flabbergasted. SO. MANY.
We don’t need to explain what it is that you need to do: If you’re hankering for some possible car contest coin, now’s your chance to enter! Everything from Local Motors, to Audi, to Michelin make the list.
Now to find those Copic markers I have sitting around here somewhere…
(Thanks, Ari!)
Category : Competitions, News
Our friends at Local Motors have just announced the winners of their recent Pacific Northwest competition. The comp, aimed at designing a vehicle for the “beautiful extremes” found in the region — earth, wind, water, fire — with the principle idea of thriving in the elements, received over 75 unique concepts.
The winning entry, Pierre Gimbergues’ “GAIA” concept, is a four-seat roadster dedicated to letting the wind flow through our hair as we traverse the trails heading to our mountain-bike starting points. The vehicle’s high ride height are further accentuated by the definitive shoulder-to-body break, in which the upper portion of the vehicle’s bodyside is defined by an elemental color (green, red, blue, brown) and the lower by a darker, textured material capable of surviving the pounding of the terrain.
Recently, the quickly-growing LM has noted that any of the concepts that win a competition have the ability to become a future vehicle, should there be enough desire and feedback to do so. Time will tell if the GAIA will be seen on the road, but it’s a promising start.
Other winners included Olivier Poulet’s “PANGEA” in 2nd Place and Marc Senger’s “Pacific Motors Rove” in third.
More images and full press release below.