Tag: automotive design


  • A gritty background, dark pavement with the word ROBOTO written in futuristic yellow type. Three two-wheeled vehicles, painted white with red and black trim. In the metal of the centre bike, the reflection of a human figure.

    Design what’s in your head: Christian Grajewski on Alias as career software

    It’s easy, these days, to be drawn to the latest software programs, the newer and more simplified versions of some of the programs you cut your design teeth on. Not for Christian Grajewski. This Alias veteran, from Hannover, Germany, has an intriguing career that reinforces both a “creativity first” and a “know the right tools”…


  • The biggest disruption of the last century: Car Design Dialogue panel

    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…


  • Behind the scenes with Mike Turner series 02 teaser: Taking vehicle design off highway

    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…


  • Alias and Create VR 2022.2 releases

    The 2022.2 release of Alias is now available for download to all subscribers. In this point release, we introduced several new enhancements to Alias. These improvements include: A new Dynamo Toolbox and scripts History Visualizer improvements Enhancements to Locators Reference manager updates SubD workflow enhancements and Several other modeling tool updates You can see details…


  • Behind the scenes with Mike Turner series 01, episode 01: VRED meets UK bespoke automotive

    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…


  • Coming soon: Behind the scenes with automotive and transportation designer Mike Turner

    We’re delighted to share with you this teaser from Mike Turner, Senior Designer with DGDesign. An industrial designer with 24 years’ experience working primarily in automotive and non-automotive design sectors—passenger rail vehicle, motorcycle, construction machinery, off-road vehicle, to name just a few. A self-described “Alias Pilot for the past 23 years,” Mike is relatively new…


  • Taking Alias to the next level – a webinar

    On July 21st, the Alias team hosted a webinar to share some tips on using a few Alias tools: Working in a team environment and working with Engineering information via Reference Manager Exploring the Surface Continuity Locator improvements Reviewing enhancements to the Align Tool Check out this replay, complete with demos, below. Stay tuned for…


  • Alias 2021 Deep Dive: Camera-based selection

    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…


  • AIF 2021: ShotGrid keynote

    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. …


  • AIF 2021: VRED keynote

    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…


  • VRED Deep Dive — Series 1

    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…


  • Agile Design Studio: Workflow demo

    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…


  • AIF 2021: Alias keynote

    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…


  • AIF 2021: Agile Design Studio keynote

    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…


  • Tutorial series: Learning Python with Autodesk VRED

    Python scripting is a very powerful tool to extend VRED`s standard capabilities, customize it towards your needs and integrate it into your existing systems and pipeline. To enable more people to work with Python and VRED, learn about its potential and specialities we have worked with Christopher Gebhardt to create a series of Python tutorials…