Q & A - Skinning Competition

**Ross Balfour** · #1 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

RaceDepartment Skinning Competition - Amendments in Red

This will be a theme based competition, held as a 3-weekly event using Race 07/GTR Evolution/STCC.
Each week a theme will be chosen by the week’s previous winner, Cars will be chossen at random unless stated.

1. The skin must conform to the rules below and apply to the theme chosen.

2. All entry details must by laid out in this fashion:
Form:

Car:"Car Brand"
Theme of the week:"Theme"
Additional info:

3. Each week's competition will be based on a theme, and that theme must be the most prominent part of the whole design.

4. The theme cannot be a single brand name, it must be a generic product type/market sector.
eg.
"Heineken" is not acceptable
"Beer" is acceptable
This is to encourage mutliple interpretations, multiple products and plenty of varied colour palettes.

5. The Skin must be made from scratch, and completed within a 2 week production window, which will be followed by a 1 week voting window.

6. The skin must be of your own design.

7. You cannot use the same base design for more than 2 weeks in a row.

8. Each skin will be put into a public poll allowing the members of RD to vote on the overall winner.

9. Renders can be produced in the entry thread, but at least 1 in-game shot must be produced, and that is the shot that will be used on the voting thread. If more than one in-game shot is produced, please mark the shot you wish to be used for the voting thread. All in-game screenshots must be unedited apart from cropping to save bandwidth.

10. The winner of the week will choose the car and the theme for the following week. The cars are now divided up into categories, and you cannot choose the same category as the previous 2 week's competition.
The categories are:
GT - GT Club, GT Sport, GT Pro
Touring cars - WTCC, STCC
Open Wheel - F3000, FBMW, Caterham 200/260/320
Other Cars - Radical SR3, SR4, Mini, Camaro
Other - Helmet type1, Helmet type 2, Driving suit

So, last week's entry of Mosler would mean that the GT category would not be available for choice.

11. The RaceDepartment logo must be used as one of the cars sponsors and must be veiwable in the in-game shot used on the voting thread.

12. Have Fun!

**Bram Hengeveld** · #2 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Cool stuff guys

**Cam Wedgwood** · #3 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Excellent idea! There is so much talent here and this is a brilliant way for the skinners to stretch their legs. (If only I had an eighth of their talent!)

Matthew Parr · #4 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Brilliant Idea just a shame i cant skin

Id love to see all the skinners here enter a competition-Maybe we could base it on a theme each month/week! e.g one week have electronic theme on the cars or only having the manufacturers logos on the car because althouh this is difficult it would bring out the best in them! BRILL idea

**Ross Balfour** · #5 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Matt enter anyway! This is a good place to learn and to have fun!

Matthew Parr · #6 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

I have some reasons why i cant:
I dont have photoshop
I Dont know the frst thing about skinning!

lol so im stuffed lol

**Ross Balfour** · #7 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Get GIMP. Its free. Thats all I know about it. Get one of the expets advice like Jarrod or Yves.

**Jarrod Crossley** · #8 (**permalink**) 28th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross Balfour

Get GIMP. Its free. Thats all I know about it. Get one of the expets advice like Jarrod or Yves.

Theres an expert on RD called "Jarrod" dam I'll have to search for him ...

Lee Downham · #9 (**permalink**) 29th August 2008

Sounds like something to improve the quality of ones currently meagre, but hopefully improving work

Amusingly ... I was just thinking that since I finished my Welde Honda skin earlier this week, it might be time to start something less garish

... and was just on RD looking for inspiration when I spotted this thread ... problem is, I have to wait another week ... oh well, time to practise

**Ross Balfour** · #10 (**permalink**) 29th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jarrod Crossley

Theres an expert on RD called "Jarrod" dam I'll have to search for him ...

lol, you dont need to look very far

**Yves Larose** · #11 (**permalink**) 30th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross Balfour

Get GIMP. Its free. Thats all I know about it. Get one of the expets advice like Jarrod or Yves.

an expert ??? where, who, when can somebody point me to him cause i need some skin done

**Yves Larose** · #12 (**permalink**) 30th August 2008

ok now when are we starting, can't wait to get my ass kicked by Jarrod

**Ross Balfour** · #13 (**permalink**) 30th August 2008

You'll see

Francis Barker · #14 (**permalink**) 30th August 2008

This sounds like a good idea, yet again good work all.

Francis Barker · #15 (**permalink**) 30th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yves Larose

an expert ??? where, who, when can somebody point me to him cause i need some skin done

oh Yves, you crack me up sometimes.

Sol Leung · #16 (**permalink**) 1st September 2008

Nice idea, i will give it a shot. Although i know i'm still a newbie on skinning the car.
Hopefully i can get better with some more practice.

Jai Spencer · #17 (**permalink**) 16th September 2008

Can anyone enter?

I have dabbled in skinning in the past, mainly for gtr2.

Ta!

Winston.

**Jarrod Crossley** · #18 (**permalink**) 16th September 2008

Yes Anyone can enter

**Andrew Evans** · #19 (**permalink**) 25th September 2008

oi oi...

i'm having a little stab at this weeks skinning competition... i've been trying to take a few shots from in-game so i can decide whether to just give up at this point

(and don't have the patience to do it the jarrod way!)

i've been running half a lap in game and then using the replay to take the shot... obviously you can pause it and do all the spinny zoomy stuff with the default camera controls... however, i tried to use the free roam camera to get a specific angle that the default controls won't give me...

problem is that the keys for it unpause the replay... so i re-assigned them.. and that made it worse, now they move the replay forwards, backwards and super-fast forwards...

has anyone had any success with the free roam? any idea what i'm doing wrong?

Kris Leeten · #20 (**permalink**) 25th September 2008

I try to set the free camera aimed at where I want to take the photo, when the car passes I pause & take the shot.
I have the same problems with assigning the correct buttons for this. Creating a different controller-profile for replays is a must. Just remember to activate it before starting the replay file & deactivate when...

Lee Downham · #21 (**permalink**) 25th September 2008

... i got fed up with em and haven't touched them since starting skinning TBH.
Do all my screenshots from the default cameras (using alt + print screen then drop em into photoshop to edit) 'cos like you I can't be bothered (yet) with the funky external renders with 3dmax etc ... besides my kids like to see me once in a while

**Andrew Evans** · #22 (**permalink**) 25th September 2008

thanks guys - i'll stick with alt+print, photoshop then

Daniel Monteiro · #23 (**permalink**) 13th October 2008

hey, i have a little issue:

i have a friend that actually did this week's skinning competition, but he doesn't speak a word of english and isn't registered.

is it possible for me to post it for him? i'll be something like a messenger, that's all (that's the one who did my bmw e46, check "dani's garage")

let me know about it

cheers

**Andrew Evans** · #24 (**permalink**) 13th October 2008

i'd have thought not, mate... the competition is, after all, for members of the community...

get your mate to register!

Kevin Ascher · #25 (**permalink**) 13th October 2008

Tell him to register and let him simply use google translator all the time