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AIF 2024 Day 2 sessions
HX50: Premium Auto at 1,500 ft — Henry Moorshead
Day 2 of the 2024 Automotive Innovation Forum took supercar design to 1,500 feet.
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Henry Moorshead from Hill Helicopter demonstrated how they brought automotive interior and exterior styling techniques into the design of their luxury HX50 recreational helicopter.
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As an Alias user since 1999, Henry showed us how luxury automotive design concepts — which had to adapt to the design and safety constraints of aerospace — were used to create a luxurious, personal flying experience.
RealNum 3d & VR: ‘Dark Star’ — The inside story of how Alias helped make Top Gun Maverick a flyaway success
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Staying in the air but moving at Mach 10, RealNum 3D’s Frédéric Gasson and Joffery Louis talked about how they created the Darkstar from Top Gun: Maverick.
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Frédéric Gasson walked us through how he modelled the Darkstar. Also a seasoned Alias user, he explained the power and efficiency he found with the new Alias puck released in Alias 2025. (Frédéric was a beta tester in the Alias 2025 development cycle.)
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Joffery Louis showcased how he used new VRED volume rendering techniques to bring the Darkstar model to flight.
Day 2 also included sessions from nVIZ, Mercedes Benz and FAW.
In the afternoon, we dove deep into Alias and VRED with the 90-minute Alias and VRED Deep Dive sessions by Barry Kimbell and Pascal Seifert.
AIF 2024 Exhibition
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All through AIF, our exhibition featured engaging and educational booths for Autodesk partners, event sponsors, and our Design Studio products: Alias, VRED, and Flow Production Tracker (formerly known as ShotGrid).
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We were able to record interviews with partners and exhibitors like ZeroLight, Lenovo, Wacom, Autodesk Platform Services, Centoo, ItalDesign, and many more.
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Stay tuned to the Design Studio Blog over the coming weeks when these will be made available.