Blenderf1.com
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2007 Blender F1 Challenge Home - Future F1 cars and vehicles design competition for users of the open source application Blender 3D
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The Blender F1 Challenge History
- The Blender F1 Challenge began simply enough with a "challenge". In the spring of 2001, I posted an image on the original Blender community forum (at blender.nl) of a newly rendered F1 concept car touted as "Schummi's New Ride". It was red, and had the famous prancing horse logo on the side. I had been using Blender for 6 or 7 months at the time so I was quite proud of actually finishing a model. That was until another Blender user (who shall remain nameless...) posted a comment that it looked like "80's technology". Looking at the image now his comment was quite accurate (see image at right) in that it resembled a Senna/Prost era McLaren. But at the time I was a bit put-out since I was trying to create a F1 car of the future. So in reply, I challenged the "other" Blender user to create a better F1 future car. He said he didn't have time immediately but could take me on in a month or two (incidently, he has never entered the Blender F1 Challenge so "my challenge" is still open...). Meanwhile, several other Blender users were watching this forum thread and asked if they could join the challenge to create a F1 car of the future. Needless to say, the rest is history as the Blender F1 Challenge, now in it's seventh year, has become the most popular Blender users contest ever. THANK YOU the Blender community for that distinction!
