
Last year, we watched DGDesign Senior Designer Mike Turner explore backplates, data import, and specialized backgrounds. This year, we’re moving off highway for insight into design work supporting large, off-highway vehicle design. Episode 01 goes behind the scenes at DGDesign to hear about a small range of bulldozers, a battery electric vehicle concept, and a…
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Changing Demands, New Technologies and How Transportation Design is Meeting the Challenge Moderated by Car Design News’s Abel Sampson, this February 2022 Panel engaged one of the biggest questions the vehicle design industry is facing: how to navigate the most fundamental disruption of the last century. Customer demands are changing as disruptive technologies become more…
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Putting passion first. This German designer has built an intriguing career that reinforces a “creativity first” mindset. With an education in product and conceptual design, experience with Alias, and an internship (September 2007-February 2008) at the Volkswagen Group Future Center Europe GmbH, Christian believed he was set for the life of a permanent interior designer.…
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In 2021, we went behind the scenes with Senior Designer Mike Turner to hear about some of his work with VRED. These videos offer tips and processes for extending VRED’s value and experimenting with views and environments, the basics of data set-up and file import; artwork techniques to make your design pop; VRED environments, HDRIs…
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In this bonus episode of his first VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner walks through how he created a “retro wave” aesthetic to show off a performance-ready DeLorean model. (Mike’s already talked us through getting into VRED for bespoke automotive design, importing data from Alias, working with backplates and other rendering approaches.) Mike starts…
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In episode three of his VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner talked about creating backplates that really make your car design pop. Mike picks up on the backplate conversation in episode four, sharing some other render approaches he’s exploring on his own. Like the “spot-lit” effect that you can create using VRED’s sky light…
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” ‘We’re a group of passionate people with decades of experience in automotive design…. We’re in position to provide best-in-class tools for the automotive design studio and our customers in that space to get the latest and greatest designs on the market.’ ” Thomas Heermann, VP Automotive, Conceptual Design and XR Raconteur spoke to our…
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In the third episode of his VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner talks backplates: flexible, clean auto artworks to make your car design pop. This “straightforward” technique opens the door to all kinds of exploration. And once your backplate is in place, you can pan around the car with just the standard lighting environment. You’ll…
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Over the course of two weeks, more than 100,000 attendees representing 175 countries attended sessions in seven languages. If you joined us, we hope you had a fantastic experience. And if you didn’t, we hope you’ll consider it for next year. We know the value of time these days, so we wanted to share with…
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In the second episode of his VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner walks you through the basics of data import and file set-up. Drawing on his own usage of VRED throughout the model development process, Mike highlights when – and why – to apply addition effort in optimizing the scene as the concept data…
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In our first conversation with the APMA’s Colin Dhillon, Ananda Arasu and I talked about Society 5.0 and its implications for technology and design. We had the chance to talk with Colin again about smart cities, the future of mobility, and how we can get closer to a more sustainable, ethical future with (not despite)…
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In the first of his VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner takes us through a bespoke automotive case study with UK Fifteen Eleven Design agency. Some of the highlights: Extending VRED value: how it fits within overall development, building confidence in design Transferring Alias data into VRED + initial organization and testing Collaborating with…
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It’s that time of year! We’re excited to post this info / logistics piece on Autodesk University 2021 piece to ensure that your participation in this year’s AU is seamless. We’re virtual again and look forward to connecting with our AU community and sharing what’s new and exciting. Getting Started Head over to our AU…
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Do you know the difference between CPU and GPU rendering? How each can improve render time? What data automation can do for your design process? If you’re interested in leveraging the full power of our visualization tools, join Autodesk VRED Experts and our partner, Silverdraft, for a one-hour webinar on VRED Core. You will learn how to: Access renderings anywhere on…
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Being in contact with our customers and supporting them as they work are our top priorities on the VRED Product team. We wanted to take the time to share some of these resources and communities. NEW: If you’re new to Autodesk VRED and are curious about what it does, you can find a good high-level overview and learn more on our Product Page. …
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