Autodesk University 2023 kicked off by introducing Autodesk AI. AI is transforming the world, and we are committed to exploring and developing appropriate Artificial Intelligence tools that can elevate our solutions and we are bringing our customers along on this journey. Although we are no stranger to AI, this new era will empower customers to shift…
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Linkage, a leading provider of design resources, solutions and training for industrial designers and digital modeling sculptors, has recently rebooted its Digital Designers User Group with a broader mandate. Linkage’s Digital Design User Group (DDUG) was formed to bring digital designers across the globe together to talk, share, and hang out in an unbiased forum…
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Who is Genesis Design? Genesis Design is an owner-managed and independent full-service design agency. Founded by Rainer Mueller and Dirk Juergens in 2002, Genesis Design helps brands express their value through evocative and emotional design. Genesis works in the automotive and industrial design fields, bringing life and soul into the conceptual and creative process. With…
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The perfect workflow What does the perfect design studio workflow look like? This provocative question by ShotGrid PM Brandon Tasker opened the 2023 AIF Design Studio Keynote. Some prospective answers: agile, freeform, flexible, works effectively, enables collaboration, shares information, captures and organizes data and decisions automatically, ensures access to the best tools, supports the work…
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We’ve been following the Canadian automotive design competition, Project Arrow, since early 2020—covering the winning design from the Carleton University team, as well as the Autodesk Technology Centers and the automotive product team that supported them in refining that design. With the support of the Autodesk Alias product team, students were able to realize their…
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What they are, how they work, who can access What kind of Learning Edition software is Autodesk releasing? Both Alias and VRED are releasing Learning Editions. They’re meant to increase access to our software. This provides users the time to really get to know the programs and finesse their skills. We’ve heard from a lot…
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The Academy of Art University, San Francisco When we first spoke with Antonio Borja, Director of the School of Industrial Design and heard about the Academy of Art University’s unique interdisciplinary program and rich industry collaborations, we wanted to know more. So we asked Antonio and some of his students to talk to us about…
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An exciting new feature of Alias 2022 is the Camera-Based Selection feature. We know that camera-based selection gives Alias users confidence that they will only select the entities that they can see and not accidentally select entities that are hidden by shading. This video will explore how this Camera-Based Selection feature speeds up modeling with…
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What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. ShotGrid PM Brandon Tasker positioned ShotGrid as the “operating system” your studio needs — that can help support a creative studio’s core functions. Its Production/Project Management, Creative Collaboration and Integrated Workflows make it an advantage for your Design Studio. …
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What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. VRED PM Lukas Fäth discussed the three key focuses for VRED over the last year, shared what’s new and explored how to make the most of VRED’s core offerings: Realizing efficiencies in the Design Studio and beyond. How? By…
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With VRED 2022, we are excited to release many new features that continuously provide value to you, our VRED users. We have been hard at work these last few weeks, creating technical deep-dive videos to explain the new main features in detail. We hope you enjoy. Our first two videos go deep on how to bake lightmaps to textures and create…
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What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. Our Tech Sales team explores how as the global context has changed, we’ve seen a higher demand for connected workflows and processes. These enable our customers to deliver more concepts, better quality designs and fewer physical mock-ups, while staying…
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What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. Alias PM Phil Botley highlights some of the game changing features in the latest releases of Alias, including the Feature Library tool. Connecting the various components has meant that Alias is at the center of the Design Studio as…
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What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. Marek Trawny takes a look at how digitization has been changing the design studio process, offering more flexibility and broader, deeper collaboration for design teams. How can you be as efficient as possible, maximizing your available time and resources…
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Discover the solution of choice for the next generation of automotive, transportation, mobility and premium Design Studios. Iterate faster and master the journey of digital transformation with more collaborative and connected workflows and with more agile and automated processes. What’s the future of automotive design? Discover it with us at the Automotive Innovation Forum. Join…
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