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The Crucial Part of Automotive Design that Still Uses Centuries-Old Hand Tools
Very interesting article given that I'm with 24 other designers finishing a summer workshop on automotive design, and as product design students most of us were in contact with clay and tape for the first time, not being able to rely on our dear Alias/Rhino. It's is a very palpable experience, that requires a lot of time and dedication to perfect but is way more useful than a cad model imo.
Both have different uses, both are needed nowadays, but I agree in general
I clay modeled for Ford at one point in my life. Not the most exciting job I have had. It's a good skill to know, absolutely do design involved in being a modeler however, just do what you are told, like being a sheep.
Modeller by the way .. Baaaaaarr
I have read about the clay model process but to see the techniques, tools, and materials in video is very cool. Even if it isn't an earth-shattering design -- the average car customer is not looking for earth-shattering design -- it's still quite attractive, as a model.
Alucinante
Such advanced methods for such poor designs...
imagine how bad they would be if they only let them use computers... :)
An industrial design teacher mentioned that actually happened once, and the result was the Pontiac Aztek.
That would be the Tesla Model S, kinda ok work IMO