HDR maps are good for making very realistic renderings using rendering programs such as Yafray. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Imaging. The following are a list of places on the internet where you Read More …
This is an Alias Studio article about setting a chrome shader. It is a very basic tutorial for making chrome material shader within Autodesk Studio or Alias StudioTools. Firstly, we need to create something for the chrome material to reflect. Read More …
Alibre Express is a free but lite version of a Parametric Solid 3D CAD program. Despite being free, it is powerful enough for designing products with a small number of parts. It is similar in concept to other mechanical and Read More …
Inkscape is a 2D drawing tool that is freely available as an open source program. For industrial design, it can be used to create 2D illustrations of product concepts. Because it is vector-based, the images created are resolution independent. This Read More …
Computer Aided Industrial Design (CAID) modeling differs from general 3D modeling in that the files created must be good enough for usage as the base for eventual tool making and product parts mass production. As such, it needs to be Read More …
Caligari recently released Truespace 7+ for free. Truespace is a powerful 3D application with a very pretty interface. It can produce quite attractive rendering and animation. It also sports NURBS tools which are useful for product modelling. Unfortunately, the free Read More …
From July 2000 to March 2008, I had been a Full-time Design Lecturer with Temasek Polytechnic’s Product and Industrial Design Course. Over the years, I have been intensively involved in the coaching of students as well as in the shaping Read More …
This is a Product Design project that was done in the late 1990s. The project calls for the redesign of an existing kettle. Some of the internal elements were to be retained while the outer form needed a new look Read More …
Yafray is a free but high quality rendering program. It sports the following features: Full Global Ilumination Skydome Ilumination HDRI Ilumination Depth of field render Caustics Below is an example of Yafray DOF ((Depth of field) and Caustics. I use Read More …