Blender F1 Challenge Winner Announced!

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syn-f1.jpgCongratulations to the winner of the 2007 Blender F1 Challenge! Out of no less than 55 contestants, the voters have voted Joel Hewitt the winner of this year’s F1 Challenge.

The top 10 turned out like this:

  1. Joel Hewett
  2. Clean3D
  3. Robert Tiess
  4. Jesse Nelson
  5. Kyle Dell’Aquila
  6. Mariusz Rut
  7. Michael Schnorbach
  8. Martin Lubich
  9. Thomas G
  10. Yoeri Laret

Go to the F1 Challenge website to see the artwork.

The 1st prize is a Blender Logo T-Shirt, an Animusic 2 DVD and the popular “Introducing Character Animation with Blender” book by Tony Mullen with a Sybex logo T-shirt. Congratulations!

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    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Yeah, well deserved winner! Congratulations Joel Hewett!

      My personal favourite was Clean3D’s so it’s good to see him at second. The entries were really good this year, and it was a tough choice to vote.

    • JiriH

      Congratulation to all who made it to the first ten.

      Surprisingly the results are nearly in compliance with my vote :-)

    • Tony

      Congratulations to the top ten, and congratulations to Joel for taking the top spot! Hope you enjoy the book, Joel.

    • Martinvdk

      Many great results this year, congratulations to the top 10!

    • http://thinningpictures.googlepges.com LoMac

      my personal favorite was Robert Tiess

    • http://konrad-haenel.de konrad_ha

      It was hard to choose between the first 5, they were all so good.

    • Cloudsk!pper

      My favorite is also Robert Tiess. :)

    • SummerRider

      I liked Jesse Nelson’s the best, but that’s why it’s a voting system.

    • masternave

      They were all so excellent… I think I’ll have to put in a miserable entry for next year, just for the pleasure of seeing my horrible model next to so many good ones! Good job everybody.

    • http://www.excellentWhale.com Joeri

      Great stuff. Very well done. Congrats around.

    • http://www.virtualmatter.org KevinW

      All Right! Way to Go Joel! This is the first time my favorite actually won!
      The other ones I really liked were Jesse Nelson’s and Robert Tiess’.

      Great Job everyone!

      –
      Kevin

    • aether

      I like Robert Tiess’s the best; the way he showed the vehicle in action, and it pulled it off very well; I love the way the first driver is looking over his shoulder to try to catch the guy behind him. His was the only entry to really capture the full dynamic of the car and the race.

      Hewitt won mostly based on his excellent bump-mapping. The car design and modeling was nothing special, and the picture didn’t have anything going on, but the materials were of a very high quality.

    • claas

      lol, the 8th grade work is funny.

      I love this one:

      http://www.room49.com/blender/f1_contest/pictures/F-1%20Racer/scartdone.jpg

      you clearly see what the kid likes.

      Mark, nice work, glad to see those kids get introduced to 3D so early.

    • http://www.alumnos.utfsm.cl/~pablo.barria/ differentSmoke

      Cool, Kudos to Joel, one of my three choices.

      Tiess and Dell’Aquila were my other votes.

      Why do you vote for three candidates? It just struck me that the first prize might just be everyone’s “third favorite”.

    • http://www.seesystems.com CurtisS

      The Blender F1 Challenge has always had people vote for their favorite three (with the exception being the very first Challenge). The reason is because it will discourage “vote stuffing” since you have to vote for other entries as well as yourself. It has worked so far.

      Ciao for now!

      CurtisS

    • http://drumsofwar.110mb.com/ Felix_Kütt

      voted for:

      # Joel Hewett
      # Jesse Nelson
      # Clean3D

      Robert T. came close, but as he didnt seem to have any color/spec etc. maps then, i decided to go with the three i all ready listed :) though robert’s modeling and scene setup were great too! :)

    • Solhex

      sweeeeet!

    • blendercross

      Great pictures! Good work – i like it!!!

    • fudje

      I wasn’t really expecting the dustbuster to win, but hey. It does have good textures. I nearly voted for it.

      I wonder if anyone was thinking of voting for me, but then didn’t. Or if anyone was thinking of not voting for me, but then did (How many votes did the vast majority of people who got 23rd actually receive?)