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One of the drawbacks to freelancing as a "rendering guy" or a "CAD guy" is that you don't get to see the entire design process. What happens to your expertly detailed drawing once you've uploaded it to the client's FTP?

Designophy expounds on Wired's recent look at frog design to explain, with pictures, several steps of the design process that most of us "specialist" (a/k/a one-trick-pony) freelancers never get exposed to. From modelmaking to mechanical engineering to the down-and-dirty CNC, take a look at how the other half works.