• Upcoming Car Design News webinar on Alias 2024: More than just a new coat of paint

    Please join us on Car Design News for a look at Alias 2024! Alias Product Manager Phil Botley will cover numerous topics and new features of the latest version of Alias, including: To register: head over to CarDesignNews.com Phil Botley is the Alias Product Manager and has been working in the Auto Surfacing and Visualization…

    PRODUCT NEWS

  • Design Studio solution: Finding help in Alias, VRED, and ShotGrid

    Alongside our 2024 releases of Alias and VRED, we’ve refreshed the Alias Help system. Autodesk Help Systems are tailored to make using the software easier and more intuitive. Read on for details about the new Alias user experience, as well as the Alias, VRED, and ShotGrid Help systems, to support your learning journey. New Alias…

    Essential SKILLS

  • Women in tech: A conversation with Silverdraft CEO Amy Gile

    Amy Gile’s natural curiosity has made for an interesting – and sometimes unexpected – career. Working in the entertainment industry as an actor and producer, Amy began to see a place where she could make a real difference: visual technology. With Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, Amy developed a supercomputer to support the demands of rendering, animation,…

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  • Mike Turner’s Alias 2024 series 01, episode 02: Refining the form

    We asked Mike to do some production testing on Alias 2024 during the development beta cycles to prove the software in production use. As a result, you may notice small variations in User Interface style and layout in the released version of Alias 2024 – tools and icons may look a little different. Alias 2024…

    Advanced SKILLS

  • VRED 2024.1 release

    The new 2024.1 release of VRED is now available for subscribers to download. This first point release continues its focus on creating a great customer experience. Much has been added to this VRED 2024.1 to increase your flexibility, customization and visual quality. Among the enhancements to this release are: The video below goes into these…

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  • AI in automotive design: A conversation with designer Ehab Kaoud

    It’s impossible to be in any field right now and not have AI creep into the conversation. Automotive design is no different. So Ananda Arasu and I had a conversation with designer Ehab Kaoud, one of our AIF presenters, to go deeper into AI and automotive design. You can listen to our conversation here and…

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  • Making space for community: The Digital Design User Group

    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…

    INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Mike Turner’s Alias 2024 series 01, episode 01: Race car sketch modeling

    If you’ve been following our blog (and/or our VRED YouTube channel), you know that Senior Designer Mike Turner has been creating several video series about his work with VRED. About Mike Turner Self-described as an “Alias pilot for the last 23 years,” Mike was relatively new to VRED when he started these series and wanted…

    Advanced SKILLS

  • Welcome to the new user experience: Alias and VRED 2024

    New Alias & VRED UX (user experience) Autodesk is excited to announce its new user experience for Alias and VRED, launching in our 2024 release. This is a solution-wide update to the ways users experience our products, how they learn to use our products, and a major update to the technical foundation of our User…

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  • PAUSE: VRED tips from senior designer Mike Turner

    Our PAUSE series aims to share Design Studio Blog posts you may have missed. It’s a chance for you to pause on a particular subject or series and take it in. PAUSE: Exploring VRED with Mike Turner Mike Turner, Senior Designer with DG Design, is an industrial designer with 24 years’ experience working primarily in…

    PAUSE

  • Alias and VRED 2024 releases

    The new 2024 releases of Autodesk Alias and Autodesk VRED are now available for subscribers to download.  The first thing you will notice with the Alias release is the new look and feel. There has been a major overhaul of the Alias user experience. This new user experience aids in learnability for new users of Alias,…

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  • Student shows, industry shifts, VR: A Conversation with Car Design News, part 2

    Earlier this spring, Ananda Arasu and I spent some time with James McLachlan, Editor for Car Design News (CDN). In Part 1 of that conversation, we discuss sustainability, customer demand, the CDN Review Book, and more. In Part 2, we’re shifting from legacy designers to new grads, a look at the current job market, and…

    INDUSTRY NEWS

  • Performance partner: Genesis Design on its philosophy, process and preferred tools

    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…

    STORIES & INSPIRATION

  • “Time is of the essence”: How Rivian EVs are changing the way we think about utility vehicles

    What happens when world-class design and visualization software are used by a start-up driven to revolutionize SUVs and pick-up trucks? Rivian. A newer OEM with a keen focus on sustainability, Rivian wanted to create something that was entirely new in the EV space. Their R1T pick-up truck and R1S SUV have been designed to offer…

    STORIES & INSPIRATION

  • People, technology, future: AIF 2023 design studio keynote

    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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