Saving time and effort are two main reasons to develop a rapid prototyping strategy that combines analog and digital tools to evaluate and alter your design ideas. Learn how to use this approach to model environments, products, or complex systems using software tools, like meshes, 3D scanning, and organic modeling to streamline and refine the ideation process.
If you want to design for automotive, jewelry, toys, soft goods, or medical parts, learning and applying tools like retopology, direct modeling, and digital sculpting will make your task a lot easier. We can show you to use tools like 3D scanning, mesh modeling, sub-d splines, and voxels to transform organic shapes into manufacturable parametric solids or surface models.
Sometimes sketches are not enough to capture the complex detail of real-life objects or spaces. Photogrammetry is a tool that enables you to use images and software to build 3D models and environments. This technique can be used to recreate individual products, buildings, or entire environments and is commonly used in biomedical, archiving, or reverse engineering applications.
One of the biggest challenges in designing clothing or soft goods is reproducing the physical attributes of fabric and textiles that can be folded, creased, or altered by wind, gravity, and surfaces. Using software tools, we can recreate these effects through stretch or deformation algorithms, or convert meshes into 2D fabric patterns used to sew together actual products.
If you want to develop a virtual or augmented reality, experience, you will likely need to build a virtual space. We can guide you on how to create digital assets for you real or imagined worlds, reproducing buildings, landscapes, geographical features, and lighting conditions. You can also add cameras and animation setups that will enable you to navigate around your scenes.
A lot of the amazing visuals and interfaces you see on film or TV are usually made via a combination of camera and digital effects (VFX). We can show you video editing techniques and tools to design and develop virtual prototypes of graphic displays, UX animations or to create instructional or user scenarios videos.