Factory Five design contest thread

Looks sweet, NXXN! Good luck!

great proportions and very clean overall. i suspect a weekly winner.

i spy a rally pig

Hi guys, This is my "revised" FFR 818 design. Any thoughts?

In reply to Krozn: AWESOME! It looks like a modern muscle car! I like it!

In reply to NXXN: Soooooo cool! The roof line has an Audi TT vibe... Nice car!

Very cool NXXN! I would own that car in a heartbeat.

I want to see a slide show of all the designs posted..

In reply to mekeys:

Good idea, but very impractical. There are a LOT of entries. They're also in a huge variety of layouts and resolutions.

I was thinking of trying to make a collage of them all, but there's a lot to do with only a week or so remaining in the contest.

We do have a gallery of the weekly winners; they represent some (but not all) of the best entries we've seen so far. There's been a flood of really good stuff this past week, and I'm sure there are more awesome designs coming.

Check out the weekly winners gallery here: Clicky clicky...

In reply to Tom Heath: Tom, will all the submissions be posted once the contest is over? The ones posted have been amazing, I imagine there have been many great designs submitted that haven't been posted.

In reply to D2W:

I don't see us posting ALL the designs. There are hundreds of designs of varying quality, in different formats and resolutions. Making them all fit a screen on the web would be very impractical.

Could you do something ugly and stupid like dump them to a Flickr account? It would take the resolution bit out of the equation. It'd be ugly for the viewer but should be fairly easy for you.

Only question would be on privacy - you'd have to edit off the contact info that submitters included in the image. Guessing that'd be a real pain.

edit - I'm not saying I want to look at 10,000 submissions, but for those desperate to see them all, maybe this is an idea...

Hello everyone, it's been a while since we posted something here. We are almost ready to send our final submitions and I have started 2 other projects. Overally I will send 3 concepts and Konstantinos will send 1. Here is my second concept:

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Here is my third and last concept. Personally, I like it more than the previous one:

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HIRYU, stunning, and perfect. So far, one of the best Id say!

Cause i'm working on my own project, i don't have really the time to finish it (not really happy with the side, the rear need a lot of refinement too), but the global shape is ready So just to share the last wip

Tom Heath wrote: In reply to D2W: I don't see us posting ALL the designs. There are hundreds of designs of varying quality, in different formats and resolutions. Making them all fit a screen on the web would be very impractical.

Tom over at www.designerspace.com for the months of March,April and May they show a total of 570 design sketches.On their website you can access over 34,000 designs.I don't have a clue how they do it.They sure make it look easy. Mel Keys

Tom Heath wrote: In reply to D2W: I don't see us posting ALL the designs. There are hundreds of designs of varying quality, in different formats and resolutions. Making them all fit a screen on the web would be very impractical.

In reply to SETHalpine:Love your front end treatment

Another approach, probably wont appeal to every one...

NXXN wrote: Another approach, probably wont appeal to every one...

A bit too much nose, and not enough fender flare...

SETHalpine wrote: Cause i'm working on my own project, i don't have really the time to finish it (not really happy with the side, the rear need a lot of refinement too), but the global shape is ready So just to share the last wip

I've been watching your design since the beginning, and it's easily at the top of my favorites list--I think even the sides and rear are great.

4cylndrfury wrote: HIRYU, stunning, and perfect. So far, one of the best Id say!

Thanks so much--it means a lot! I'm really proud of how it turned out; I'm also happy that other people are liking it.

Mike

Wow!

Many great entries, and the quality of some of the 3d-renderings is amazing!

I once had a dream to become a car designer, and even studied industrial design for some years, but faith would have it so that I got another dream job as a car jouralist. I am a subscriber of Grassroots Motorsport Magazine, and tough I get the magazine a little bit later then the US-citizens, since I live in the cold outpost of Norway (the norther tip of Europe) I just had to enter the competition! For me it has been like discovering my self again. My rendering teqnique is a little rusty, but I think it will be sufficient to show what direction I would like the Factory Five Project 818 to take.

Design details worth mentioning is central head lights, front mounted radiator, side mounted intercooler (to get rid of the "interwarmer" effect on the WRX), and some scoops and stuff. This is my take on a modern version of the Porsche 914, with some inspiration from the John Player Special Formula 1-car that Mario Andretti and Ronnie Petterson drove in the 1970`s.

It has been very exiting to watc this tread and see all the great enteries, and the competition has been a great inspiration to get back into drawing cars - so I am already a winner in this respect. Good luck to all of you!

Best regards

Ole-Martin Lundefaret

Norway

This is the design rendering. The sketch shows what kind of car I would like the 818 to be.

The second image is a litle bit of a technical study, to see if the design would be compatible with the chassis, and I like to think it will;)

In reply to NXXN:

Absolutely love it, and tought about going that route my self. Not a lot of time left, but what if you shorten especially the rear over hang, and make it a roadster? Think that would look great:)

Updated sketch with 07- lights and glass. I didn't think it was possible to make this car uglier but...

Here is the front 3/4 perspective of my entry to the competition...