Hey, Blendermaniacs ! It’s time for our new Weekly Challenge !
Theme : “Villain’s Vehicles”
Accepting entries : Starts at 2025-05-12T07:00:00Z ; ends at 2025-05-19T07:00:00Z
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Sweet theme!
We need gru’s car
For those not familiar with ( Sean Connery ) James Bond this is the bad guy " Goldfinger’s " car. He would melt down 18k gold into the body panels of the car to smuggle. I figured I would do something along the lines of a matchbox/hotwheels car hence the " BANANA WHEELS " text.
how’d you get the compositing to work that well???
I could never make shi this realistic
@DefaultCube The HDRI does most of it, I only have two other area lights in the scene. Believe it or not the color management is set to “standard” and “look” to none, exposure is set to 0. I have a depth of field set along with using a focal length of 65 on the camera. And the scene scaled to proper size as well which helps with the camera settings. A standard “matchbox/hot wheels” car is about 3 inches or about 76mm. Congrats on the HoP win as well.
Voting will end at 2025-05-20T07:00:00Z
(might be extended in the event of a tie)
I remember and loved all the James Bond films. Thanks for the vintage nod!
Congratulations to @flyingbanana for winning the WC #254 “Villain’s Vehicles” with this awesome render !
( Coupon prizes for participants and winner updated )
@Flying Banana: Gets the GoldFinger Award!
@jemyinjoy LOL guess next attempt I might try for a goldbanana. 
Well done Steve
Thanks, I also posted to to blenderartists site and it got a weekly feature on blendernation. Surprised me compared to what I normally see there.
