Engineering data to CGI –what could possibly go wrong?

Almost every major industry that is manufacturing sophisticated physical products uses computer aided styling (CAS) or design (CAD) in at least some steps of its development. Living in the digital age, one could assume that using this engineering output to create media products shouldn’t pose too much of a challenge. Sadly, that is only true if you know your way around some common pitfalls and peculiarities of the engineering universe.

by Jonathan Braun (Head of Data), David Schaefer (CEO), Dmitry Glazyrin (CEO) and Zhanna Travkina (Creative Producer) Creative CGI studio Mondlicht Studios invites you to take a closer look at how to get things from the drawing table to your framebuffer without breaking your pipeline. Step 1: Getting engineering data The work starts right after the client contacts you about the project, because the first step is to ask questions or otherwise you might end up burning the midnight oil in misery. It is pretty obvious that you need to ask about the scope and that creating one nice still image is easier than setting up a pixel streaming configurator, but besides that, you really need to know what kind of data the client is offering as an input – and what quality the data is providing. Let’s talk about CAD-files first.

If you are dealing with a small company, you probably can get in touch directly with the person who creates the CAD-files, which is always a good idea, because they can make ...


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