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title: "Pupple"
date: "2008-01-19"
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_Pupple_ is a concept car I designed when I was 14, winning the Outstanding Design Award in the [2008 Michelin Challenge Design](http://web.archive.org/web/20080220024248/www.michelinchallengedesign.com/MCD_2008/Site/mcd_gallery_2008/mcd_2008_gallery_d14.asp). It was selected out of hundreds of international entrants to be displayed at the North American International Auto Show.
The theme of the contest was safety. To achieve this, the _Pupple_ suspends passengers inside a gimballed sphere which rotates so that external forces are least likely to cause injury. Information about the outside world is relayed through a system of cameras and screens.

The 3D model was created in Autodesk 3DS Max.

![Two Pupples, rear side view in the foreground and front side view in the background.](https://i.dllu.net/1_d61781f9319b4e4d.jpg)
![Two Pupples in two-tone paintjob, front side view in the foreground and rear side view in the background.](https://i.dllu.net/5_6e48822563ae6e29.jpg)

![Screenshot of the original MCD page in case the archive.org link is too annoying to load.](https://i.dllu.net/pupple-screenshot_56234aef5d57862d.webp)

![Michelin Challenge Design jury. You can see my Pupple poster in the background.](https://i.dllu.net/michelin_mcd_jury_2008_5a3d62185b4915d2.jpg)

# Original 3DS Max model

## First version

I made this in 3DS Max and then rendered it in Mental Ray and made a background in Photoshop.

![Technology](https://i.dllu.net/Features_d7fa1cfc16d79a1d.jpg)

![Gallery](https://i.dllu.net/Gallery_0ff77d271144627c.jpg)

![Zoom!!!](https://i.dllu.net/Gallery2_2cadeaa7009ff78b.jpg)

![Left view](https://i.dllu.net/side_b88f14dfb5f18a8d.jpg)

## Second version

![Infographic showing the gimballed "freely rotating cabin"](https://i.dllu.net/1_f3880225821a008f.jpg)

![Multiple views showing amazing features](https://i.dllu.net/2_9ab38b992aea40b5.jpg)

![Two pupples](https://i.dllu.net/3_1dfc28b934971389.jpg)

![Orthographic projection](https://i.dllu.net/4_8dec2131e134d89a.jpg)

# Second 3DS Max model

The second version has a notably different door but the rest is roughly the same.

The first two images in this blog post also show the second version, and here are two more infographics I prepared.

![Intro to the Pupple](https://i.dllu.net/Intro_61088f74375c84e5.jpg)

![Technology](https://i.dllu.net/Technology_52ed6d44bab3bd66.jpg)