Comment by twoquestions
3 years ago
Why should Ferrari move on to something other than clay and carving knives? I really can't see a render on a computer screen of any size giving you the same visceral understanding of how a car looks walking up to it and moving around it, which is absolutely critical for a premium product like that. Maybe a VR rig might be useful in prototyping, I don't know.
That comment makes him look even more like a short-sighted asshat.
It does, or ignorant at the least. All the auto manufacturers use clay, not just for Italian sportscars.
Automotive technical surfacing in CAD is stupid hard, and is a waste of time for the design staff. The clay models are easier to work with in every sense - easier to change, easier to refine, easier to show and discuss, etc. Designers can apply reflective film to the clay which shows reflections much as the finished product would, and can even be painted. The final surfaces are reverse-engineered from scans taken from those clay models.
.. and it loses any Unity Ferrari business.
Is there positivity somewhere in this kind of talk, like will it somehow win Unity more business? I am not seeing it.