Voltide

This was my entry for the 2025 Secret Santa Contest.

My first original or I must say my first original that I've actually managed to release. The idea I had in my mind was of a Rally-styled hatchback with the spoilers acting as ear puff since the theme of the event was Wintery/Christmasy and the ends of the spoilers will be acting as a cover for the rear wheels. The skin also had to be rushed due to time constraints, I had a totally different skin in my mind.

As much as I wanted to work on it, the more I got consumed in personal work and despite completing the whole mesh and mapping in Dec itself, I nearly missed this event. It already happened with the Multi Class Bash Contest. Till date I haven't finished what could've been my entry for that event. (It is an original too).

And what might surprise many is that this is something I modelled totally in ZModeler1.07b...yes, ZModeler is 2025. That was the first modelling tool I came across from a tutorial posted long ago by I believe MOH or Adamodell I couldn't exactly remember. So I always wanted to give it a try and create something in it. Used Blender for mapping and other stuffs but whole mesh was modelled in ZM.

I would like to thank Burner for supporting me throughout the Contest. Without his support I would've missed this Contest too.

I know there's a lot missing and a lot that needs fixing in this car and this could be the reason for it to end last in the Contest but as they say you either win or you learn!

I enjoyed the process and will try to improve in my future original designs. A lot learned and will surely fix this car at some point of time.

Preview pic taken on Chilled To The Bone by Skitch.