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Seventh annual Hum3D competition for the best Car render. It’s the largest awards event for the car 3d modeling and visualization industry.
What you need to do: create a car 3d model, put it into 3D environment and make a beautiful render. There are no limits for your creative ideas: you can choose any automobile you like whether it is racing or imaginary vehicle. We invite all 3D artists to participate.
Don’t forget to read the rules of the contest.
We will pay attention to the visual component of your works, but this is not all that you need to win. The idea of the work is also very important for jury, as well as its presentation, complicacy (both of the model and of the scene) and quality of performance.
The contest is supported by the best companies of the 3D world, and so the prizes for the first places look amazing. Also, everyone has an opportunity to receive an additional prizes. Read conditions at the bottom of the page.
We’re waiting for your works from September 16 to December 08.
Good luck and happy rendering!
Share your art and chat with other artists - we are sure that creative and friendly atmosphere of the competition will help the growth of each participant. See previous challenges >
We receive your works from September 16 to December 8 (inclusive). Submissions end at 15:00 (GMT). For your convenience we have set the timer on the page, but don't forget to update it. The competition has one general category.
Create a car 3D model, add 3D environment (you can create more than one car in the scene), textures. Then create a beautiful 3D rendering of it (or them). Think creative. We will accept also pickups, vans and small trucks. Tanks, huge trucks, buses, motorcycles as "main character" are not accepted.
Your entry must be a 3d rendered image. Environment should be made in 3D; we permit the use of HDRi for sky. No texture/polycount limit.
Renders with solid background (one color: black, white etc), test renders, not completed pixelated renders, screenshots and models laid on wallpapers or on photos will not be admitted to take part in the competition. As well as works with adult content: not allowed works with blood, violence, erotic and political topics.
The work must not have been previously published anywhere, neither online or offline. It must be original art created by you specifically for the challenge (no existing projects, stock models or concepts made by other artists).
You have to submit a link to the "Work in process" to prove the authorship. Please show in the WIP main steps of car 3d modeling or render of un-smoothed car model. You are free to make WIP on any CG website: ArtStation, CgSociety, Polycount, Behance etc (please don't use temporary storages, such as Dropbox, Google Drive etc and social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram etc). Works without WIP will not be accepted.
You can submit only one work.
To win the competition the quality and idea of the work are important. You need to think about the story behind the image. Make sure everything supports your message - composition, lighting, colors etc. Make a greater emotional impact.
Please, provide your work with a short story, describe the image.
Add the link to the competition or name of the competition in one of the image corners.
Attach one wireframe or clay render at your choice to your work - we will place it below your work.
The render should be at least 1500 pixels wide if the work is horizontal.
Render size should not exceed 2 mb and should be in .jpg format.
Work can be in any style you like (low-poly, cartoon, futuristic etc), with using post production.
The work can be updated during the competition. The only condition - you can not change the idea of the work, or modify it drastically. Only reasonable changes allowed.
You can correct the description and the list of tools after the work was submitted - just contact us.
After your work is published on the competition page, you are free to share your work on other websites and social networks.
You can see previous competitions here and "Hall of fame" here.
After sending the work via the contact form you will receive within one business day a confirmation letter with a link to a page in the competition gallery. If you don't receive the letter, please contact us.
Within one week after the competition ends the jury will determine the winners and we will publish the results. We will estimate the idea of your work, visual component, atmosphere and total amount of the work done.
Waiting eagerly for your work!
Eduard Danilov
Owner of Exlevel and GrowFX main developerRalph Huchtemann
Owner of RebusFarm GmbHYurii Lebediev
Technical Artist and bloggerTom Grimes
Marketing Specialist, Corona RendererJim Thacker
Editor, CG ChannelArseniy Korablev
3D Artist, creator and ownerJonathan Holmes
Quixel Community ManagerMarco Traverso
CarBodyDesign Founder and Director / Freelance DesignerKenny Zou
GM of Fox RenderfarmKirill Tokarev
Editor in Chief of 80.lvRoman Tsapik
Editor in Chief Render.ruMark Doeden
Co-founder, MarmosetZacharias Reinhardt
Founder and Lead Instructor at CGBoost.comMaciej Ptaszynski
Staff Visualization Specialist at TeslaGleb Alexandrov
The founder of the Creative Shrimp websitePierre Maheut
Product Manager for Industrial Design & Architecture at AllegorithmicGuilherme Henrique
Art director at textures.comIan Failes
Editor, beforesandafters.comCalvin Bacon
Product Specialist at InstaLODStephanie Schenck
Artistic and Technical at NevercenterFabio Allamandri
Founder & Admin at Treddi.com. The first Italian community about CGAlessandro Maniscalco
Co-Founder of C4Dzone.com and 3D GeneralistJacob Norris
President and Creative Director at Sierra Division / Owner at PurePolygonsMaverick team
Jonas Ronnegard
Founder, JROTools.comAndrew Averkin
3d Environment Artist, Co-founder of Digital Hunky, Founder of Utopia Syndrome3DModels team
Lead 3D artists3-years OctaneRender Enterprise All Access license + 500 RNDR (Render Token)
1-year V-Ray license
One year of Substance Indie (includes access to the latest releases of all Substance software)
License of InstaLOD
3DCoat Professional license
1 years of Corona FairSaas + 3 Nodes license
License of KeyShot HD
Indigo Renderer 4 licence
6-month Megascans 'Personal' 8K subscription (including access to Bridge and Mixer)
Marvelous Designer Personal Annual License
$200 Gift Card to Marmoset Shop
LightWave 2019, ChronoSculpt and NevronMotion licenses
12 months of Fstorm license
Maverick Studio perpetual License
License of TopoGun
12 months subscription to The Gnomon Workshop training library
Silo 2.x Professional licenese
GrowFX (Individual License)
600 RenderPoints for RebusFarm
License of Unwrella from 3d-io
Motion Design Bundle from Videocopilot
Single license of Pulldownit Pro
One year subscription with 2500 credits per month for textures.com
PixPlant license (Windows or Mac)
Artstation Pro annual account
License of Teya Conceptor
US$500 render credits from Fox Renderfarm
World Creator Professional license
2-years OctaneRender Enterprise All Access license + 500 RNDR (Render Token)
6-month V-Ray license
One year of Substance Indie (includes access to the latest releases of all Substance software)
3DCoat Professional license
6-month of free Corona FairSaaS 1WS + 3 Nodes license
Indigo Renderer RT 4 licence
6-month Megascans 'Personal' 8K subscription (including access to Bridge and Mixer)
Marvelous Designer Personal Annual License
$100 Gift Card to Marmoset Shop
LightWave 2019 full suite
Knald Freelancer and Lys Freelancer
6 months of Fstorm license
Maverick Studio annual license
License of TopoGun
6 months subscription to The Gnomon Workshop training library
Silo 2.x Professional licenese
GrowFX (Individual License)
400 RenderPoints for RebusFarm
License of Flatiron from 3d-io
3D Light Bundle from Videocopilot
MadCar and Citytraffic
Car 3d models from Hum3D
Single license of Pulldownit Pro
One year subscription with 1000 credits per month for textures.com
PixPlant license (Windows or Mac)
Artstation Pro annual account
License of Teya Conceptor
US$300 render credits from Fox Renderfarm
World Creator Professional license
1-year OctaneRender Enterprise All Access license + 500 RNDR (Render Token)
6-month V-Ray license
One year of Substance Indie (includes access to the latest releases of all Substance software)
3DCoat Professional license
3-month of free Corona FairSaaS 1WS + 3 Nodes license
6-month Megascans 'Personal' 8K subscription (including access to Bridge and Mixer)
Marvelous Designer Personal Annual License
$50 Gift Card to Marmoset Shop
LightWave 2019 License
Knald Freelancer
3 months of Fstorm license
Maverick Indie Annual License
License of TopoGun
3 months subscription to The Gnomon Workshop training library
Silo 2.x Professional licenese
GrowFX (Individual License)
200 RenderPoints for RebusFarm
Pro 3D Bundle from Videocopilot
Credit pack with 1000 credits for textures.com
PixPlant license (Windows or Mac)
Artstation Pro annual account
License of Teya Conceptor
US$200 render credits from Fox Renderfarm
World Creator Professional license
Author of the best render that made with using OctaneRender will get 3-year OctaneRender Enterprise All Access Upgrade + 1000 RNDR (Render Tokens).
$200 for Fox Renderfarm for the best render with sports car. Winner will be chosen by the Fox Renderfarm.
Best entry that uses Silo in the creation process will get the Nevercenter Creative Suite: Silo 2.x Professional, CameraBag 2020 Pro, and Pixelmash 2020.
Author of the best render that made with using Corona will get a special prize: 3 month FairSaas license (1 WS + 3 Nodes).
The fine folks at Marmoset (makers of Toolbag and Hexels) will pick one winner who best displays their Hum3D entry in Marmoset Toolbag (still renders and/or Marmoset Viewer file). The well deserved winner will get $50 Marmoset Shop Gift Card!
Special prize for the best use of materials is a one year subscription with 1000 credits / month on textures.com.
The best work that made with using V-Ray will get 100 Chaos Cloud credits for Chaos Cloud rendering service and a 1-year license for VRscans material library.
Most detailed model will get the license of InstaLOD (award winning software used by the biggest players in 3D to automate their workflows).
100 RenderPoints for the work chosen by RebusFarm team.
The author of the best image made with Maverick will have an annual Studio license. You can use Maverick Gradient lights that are ideal for lighting cars.
Exlevel team offers GrowFX license for the best environment. Use of plants is encouraged, but not necessary, the main thing is to achieve a very realistic environment.
The most unusual design of a car will get a version of Teya Conceptor.
Best entry that uses Marvelous Designer in the creation process will get personal annual license.
Author of the best work made with using 3D-Coat will get a professional license.