The 5th Peugeot Design Contest has been finished just now. The theme of the contest was “IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROW”. The projects should bear Peugeot’s stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency. Many talented 3D artists took part in it and coped with the task. But only three were chosen as the bestest. If you’d like to look at the works of other 29 finalists, follow the link “The 29 Finalists of the 5th Peugeot Design Contest Announced!”

Here are the winners. Please, take our congratulations!

Lou Ke from China with the work OXO took the third place.

“OXO” by Lou Ke.

The second place winner is Emre Yazici from Turkey.

“Ego” by Emre Yazici.

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As we have already mentioned in our previous article “Peugeot 3D Models Design Contest“, PEUGEOT AUTOMOBILES has been organizing a competition between 20 April and 20 July 2008 called the “Peugeot Design Competition 2008 (number 5)”.

All people who wished to take part in this contest had plenty of time to submit their works. And PEUGEOT has already selected 29 designs amongst the entries received. The general rules of the competition were as follows: Entrants must design their project in accordance with the following theme: “IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROW”. The participants should take into consideration Peugeot’s stylistic codes and their projects must contain the following four aspects: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency. So, everyone had a chance to try himself and appear as an automobile engineer using all his creative imagination.

The selection process and procedures are rather complicated and consist of several stages until the winner is selected. The second and third place competition winners will also be announced. Now the voting is at its height. If you take part in voting and guess which project will win the Design Contest, you have a chance to win one of the 20 Xbox 360! At the end of the competition, PEUGEOT will build a full size model of the winning vehicle, which will be exhibited at the Shanghai Motor Show in April 2009.

And now the most interesting part… The 29 finalists with their concept car designs are presented below.

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Title: SVP
Author: Mickael Soubabère
Location: France

The main advantages of this car are speed, comfort and space. The feeling of freedom, this is what you feel while driving this vehicle. But ecology is the main matter of concern. So, this car runs on solar energy.

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Title: Module
Author: Cristian Fabio Di Filippo
Location: Argentina

We can’t imagine our life without transport. But for glut on the roads, we should think about flexible forms of vehicles that can be adapted to modern conditions. And this stylish car presented by Cristian Fabio Di Filippo from Argentina combines all these aspects.

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During the last years the world of 3D modeling was following a very interesting design contest from a well known French car manufacturer Peugeot. The contest is also active now, it’s called “Peugeot Design Contest - 5th edition” by the way and 3D artists can submit their works for it. But first things first. In this post we will review the award winning 3D Models as well as the ones we consider the most interesting from the contests of previous years. And let’s start from the beginning:

2000-2001: “2020″ - a concept car for the year 2020

The winner of the 2000-2001 competition was “Moonster” by 23-year-old student at the university of applied art in Belgrade - Marko Lukovic. His proposal was that the Peugeot of 2020 should be an original vehicle, inspired by aeronautics, incorporating a two-seater passenger compartment in the center.

Here is a couple of screenshots of a digital 3D Model:

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Hi folks! I guess all of you remember our 3D Robots reviews. We have received a lot of positive comments from you and that is why decided to make something presumably outstanding again. This time we have focused our attention on extraordinary and high quality vehicle 3D models.

The whole other story is about the famous Peugeot Design Contest that gathers top 3D Models of concept cars, this a subject for a separate post (see our “Peugeot 3D Models Design Contest Overview“).

Anyways, we have been surfing the Internet for many days looking for interesting works just for you. No more words - enjoy!

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Title: HARD TRUCKS
Author: Lemon GT
Soft: 3ds max 8, V-Ray 1.5 RC, Photoshop CS2
Location: Russian Federation

Very insolent and courageous vehicle with huge massive wheels. Personally I wouldn’t mind getting to work in a car like this every morning due to NY traffic jams

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Title: Night Searching
Author: yidong li
Location: Beijing, China
Soft: Maya, Photoshop
Portfolio here

This vehicle may first seem funny to you as it looks like a frog, but when you find out that this tank is now in the real Chinese armory, your impression will change But to be serious lighting and texturing of tank model and surroundings make this work awesome. Great color, great light, great scene. And an award-winning work by the way.

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