Blender F1 Challenge Winner Announced!

Published by MathiasPedersen on June 6th, 2007 in Contests

Congratulations 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:

Joel Hewett
Clean3D
Robert Tiess
Jesse Nelson
Kyle Dell'Aquila
Mariusz Rut
Michael Schnorbach
Martin Lubich
Thomas G
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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19 Responses to “Blender F1 Challenge Winner Announced!”

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1 Cuby Jun 6th, 2007 at 6:55 am

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.
2 JiriH Jun 6th, 2007 at 6:56 am

Congratulation to all who made it to the first ten.

Surprisingly the results are nearly in compliance with my vote :-)
3 Tony Jun 6th, 2007 at 7:11 am

Congratulations to the top ten, and congratulations to Joel for taking the top spot! Hope you enjoy the book, Joel.
4 Martinvdk Jun 6th, 2007 at 7:42 am

Many great results this year, congratulations to the top 10!
5 LoMac Jun 6th, 2007 at 8:51 am

my personal favorite was Robert Tiess
6 konrad_ha Jun 6th, 2007 at 9:06 am

It was hard to choose between the first 5, they were all so good.
7 Cloudsk!pper Jun 6th, 2007 at 10:43 am

My favorite is also Robert Tiess. :)
8 SummerRider Jun 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

I liked Jesse Nelson's the best, but that's why it's a voting system.
9 masternave Jun 6th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

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.
10 Joeri Jun 6th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

Great stuff. Very well done. Congrats around.
11 KevinW Jun 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

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
12 aether Jun 6th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

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.
13 claas Jun 6th, 2007 at 9:08 pm

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.
14 differentSmoke Jun 7th, 2007 at 1:43 am

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".
15 CurtisS Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:36 am

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
16 Felix_Kütt Jun 8th, 2007 at 3:38 am

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! :)
17 Solhex Jun 8th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

sweeeeet!
18 blendercross Jun 8th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

Great pictures! Good work - i like it!!!
19 fudje Jun 10th, 2007 at 8:56 am

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?)