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Discover the AliasDesign Community

28Feb08

alias design community

I received a few weeks ago an email from autodesk to let me know me about the ‘all-new AliasDesign Community’.

It has been more than a year since Alias was acquired by Autodesk this new website was highly expected.
The website interface clear, and clean!

Nothing really ‘fresh’ or new in the tutorials section but now users can contribute and add stuff themselves, which is a good way to build a ‘community’.

Here are some tutorials that retained my attention:

Curvature Continuity In Surface Modeling
Car Styling: Sketching
Mobile phone (from the book ‘Learning Design with Alias StudioTools’)

…and if you didn’t already know him…run to see the Daniel Simon story and his amazing ‘cosmic motors’ universe. (Some more amazing renderings and very detail modelings on his website: futuristics vehicules)

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Aliasstudio Hairdryer by Andrew Kletskov

01Nov07

hairdryer I found this Russian tutorial called:
‘Xtreme on Alias StudioTools number 2′ and ‘asked’ google to translate this tut for us… It comes out quiet well!

Here is the translated version.

The original tutorial is extracted from the 3D russian forum 3dcenter.ru (translated thread here)

This won’t be a school tutorial, many shape aren’t done with accuracy, but it’s a nice effort to share and a good way to see how a AliasStudio user approach the object.

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Alias Studiotools - shaders official package

13Sep07

You can download here an ‘AliasStudio shaders official package’ (101 shaders / 1.21MB).
There no custom shaders in this zip file, only the ‘officials’ shaders available at the autodesk website… But it will avoid you downloading and classifying them one by one!

I initially download this package from…a website!…but I don’t remember which one. I’ve been looking around for the source link …But I’ve been unable to localize it: I’m sorry being unable to give credits for the one who did this small package.

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Autodesk AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition (free Trial)

21Aug07

A free AliasStudio 2008 trial is available on the Autodesk website.
Autodesk AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition (PLE) (free Trial) :)

2007-09-03 update: With this PLE version you will have watemark in you’re render, and you will also be unable to import the PLE files to the full AliasStudio version!!! :(

Autodesk announced today the latest version of its AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition software. The Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a special version of Autodesk AliasStudio 2008 software that provides free* access to the products for non-commercial use. The AliasStudio 2008 PLE provides a custom interface and learning resources that allow industrial designers to learn the basic tools and techniques of AliasStudio and help them become productive quickly.

Autodesk AliasStudio PLE includes a full set of tutorials that provides designers with a typical concept design workflow. These tutorials introduce the powerful tools and interactive features of Autodesk AliasStudio 2008 and demonstrate how to effectively accomplish concept design with detailed step-by-step instructions and videos. Additional learning materials include an AliasStudio to Rhino transition guide, design workflow videos and printable references on essential model and rendering basics

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Gnomon workshop dvd: lighting and rendering in Alias StudioTools

15Aug07

After I found the Dustin Brown’s IdBoost Blog (read more about his blog…), I found out that he released this dvd about lighting and rendering in Alias StudioTools.

This is dvd contains 7 commented videos about 1 hour each.
For a good description of the content check at the Gnomon work shop’s website

I learn a lot, especially about the shaders:
The way to use multiple shaders in ‘layer-shader’ to get multiple effects applied to one surface, becoming more used to all the shaders’s parameters, the way to preview the shaders directly in the selector by setting up an environment…Many stuffs that I even don’t know they were existing!

I might also say that I liked the way Dustin is instructing, commenting each of his action. He also don’t get embarrassed to move a light about 8 times: I like this part because it shows the beginners, as I am, that there’s nothing ‘magic’, it’s work!

These video have also another interest: Just watching someone working with Alias StudioTools, his setup, his marking menu, etc…

I wasn’t oriented to learn about renderings in StudioTools, because reading the forums about 3d, I find out that most of the people are using V-ray, Brazil… To keep my focus on learning StudioTools modeling technics, I choose to render in Alias ImageReady (Wich by the way is using V-ray) because of it’s simplicity.
However it’s good to know what are the possibilities of a software that you want to work with.

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Studiotools practice: Modeling an Audi S5 spoke #2

06Aug07

So here are the result of the practice that I proposed in this post: Studiotools practice - Modeling an Audi S5 spoke. Nobody join me in this modeling :( I had a good time anyway!

So as I wished, I spend some time (2 days) on exploring the renderings ways. I did them in imagestudio which appears to me not to be a good rendering software, I hate the aleatory way to place the lights, but that have the advantage to be quiet simple and have a clean interface.
I did, ‘for fun’, a little bit post production in photoshop (modifying the background and inserting the logo)

I’m posting the screen shots of the modeling. I start a thread about this mag on the www.cg-car.com’s forum. There are some interesting and constructive comments about the errors in the modeling. However, as this was only a step of the Audi S5’s modeling, I won’t spend more time on correcting these errors…I should have…
The screen shot are not commented, but just to let you know, the major problem I encountered was (as often it seems in AliasStudio) filleting with the round tool. I finally have to do some part by ‘hands’: the fillets joining the ‘ring (thumbnail #9 down here).

As usual, comments, questions, are welcome!

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Studiotools practice: Modeling an Audi S5 spoke

24Jul07

I’m starting a new automotive oriented Studiotools modeling exercise: An audi S5 spoke
(I have in the idea to model the car later on, but let’s start with some nicely done spokes!)
If you’re looking for something to model, it could be a nice way to compare the way we are approaching the object.
Here is the background image I used.

Audi S5 spoke

The basic set up of the .wire file (Studiotools) is available here for download.

Above, a preview of the file
- The file isn’t set up with units!
- Here are some more exterior references pictures of the Audi S5 coupe.

So if you’re filling to model this Audi spoke and talk about it drop me a line.
As you may know I’m not an advanced user of the software, I’m learning it.

This time I would like to put emphasis on the renderings, a time consuming exercise but that gives a nice felling of satisfaction.
I’ll be posting later on the evolution of my work…

27-07-2007 update
To give a little more visibility to this ‘invitation to model the Audi S5 spoke’, I posted this thread:
Audi S5 rim: AliasStudio (StudioTools) modeling on the www.cg-cars.com’s forum
…yes…my screen name is chupicho!

06/08/2007 update.
…10 days later…I finally achieve this exercise! See the work in this post.

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IDBoost: Dustin Brown’s blog

23Jul07

Today I ‘googled’ the Dustin Brown’s blog: IDBoost ‘Tips and tricks for industrial designers’

IDBoost is my own experiment to try to catalog some of the skills-based learning resources for designers I have found online. I’ll post bits of info as I find or remember them. For more info on me, my design work, or my Gnomon Workshop DVD, visit www.speckofdustin.com.
- Dustin Brown

Dustin is a senior industrial designer inDallas, Texas.
He launched an instructional DVD with The Gnomon Workshop that covered lighting and rendering in Alias StudioTools (Autodesk AliasStudio).

Read in this post my review of this dvd

A nice initiative from an experimented designer!

Let’s keep an eye on it.

Long life to the IDBoost blog.

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Studiotools Video tutorials at www.pietrapaniacreativestudio.com

23Jul07

Alessandro Mariani from www.pietrapaniacreativestudio.com has done a video tutorial, modeling the Armani’s ‘Vincent Parfum’ bottle.

The tutorial is divided in four parts available on Alessandro’s website:
Part #1: Sketching | Part #2: Modeling | Part #3: Shape’s details | Part #4: Trim, fillet 9.0

Some audio comments on the videos would have be nice. It still a good way to see somebody else running the software.

PS: Required Divx Codec to see these videos

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StudioTools tutorial: Techniques | Art to Part (#2): A Ferrari Iron!

04Jul07

As i explain earlier in the StudioTools tutorial: Techniques | Art to Part: An Iron! post, I encountered problem during this tutorial, so I restarted it from scratch. I changed a little bit the design and take much more care about the way I built the surfaces.
The result…A Ferrari Iron! (we have fun the way we can…)

To avoid any surface problems, I focused on every curves I Drawn (mostly G3 blend curves) using every single time the diagnostic tool: Curve curvature. It succeed quiet well: Automatic tools (fillet, round, tube) worked very well after then on these surfaces done with care. So here’s how I proceed (the alternate way in the tutorial). It’s not of course a truth, but the best I can do right now with my knowledge.