CATIA Design visualization Contest | 2009
We would like to thank all participants for the amazing visuals we received. After reviewing all the candidates’ entries and the quality of the visuals, we have decided to relaunch the experience next year and to create a best-of video.
CATIA Design Viz Contest entries | 2009
In the actual competitive consumer market everyone needs to have appealing products and to make faster decisions. More than ever Creative Designers must have a realistic visualization of their design, make rapid decisions on their product and communicate and sell their Ideas quicky. Design Visualization on virtual prototypes has become an essential and Strategic tool for designers to reduce the validation cycle time and allow better decision making with accurate virtual visualization.
CATIA offers both, Advance Realtime Visualization for styling and Design Study, and also Advanced Photorealistic Rendering with CATIA PhotoStudio based on Mental ray.
With the talent of Designers and Digital Artists combined with CATIA Technology you can live and communicate Virtual product experiences.
CATIA Design Viz Demo Reel | 2009
Congratulation to the winners for the quality of the rendering !
2009 | Winner
Jason Busschaert | Project Industrial Designer | DEWALT, PORTER-CABLE , DELTA
2009 | Award for 2nd Place
Dominik Wolm
2009 | Award for 3rd Place
Luca Bordin
Focus on the winner,
Jason Busschaert | Project Industrial Designer | DEWALT, PORTER-CABLE
We had the chance to talk to Jason, the winner of the CATIA Design Visualization Contest | 2009 to know more about him and his use of CATIA and the importance of Visualization.
Hi Jason,
Can you tell us who you are and the reason you use CATIA?
My name is Jason Busschaert; I am a senior project industrial designer, working for BLACK&DECKER. I am currently working for the DEWALT brand; I have category responsibility for Corded and Cordless DEWALT saws. Our core product development team for DEWALT is located @ Black & Decker’s World Wide Headquarters here in Towson, Maryland. In addition, we have various satellite design centers across the globe. Black & Decker’s various project development teams use Catia as our primary CAD platform. CATIA’s advance surfacing capabilities allow our Industrial Design teams achieves best-in-class ergonomics, and working in the same CAD solution with engineering, create marketing leading power tools.
We would like to discover what is the story of the product you created with CATIA?
Launched in 2008, the DEWALT DW717 10-inch Double-Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw features best-in-class cross cut capacity and an exclusive bevel detent system for incredibly accurate cuts and amazing versatility. Designed and developed exclusively in Catia, this was one of my first projects as part of the DEWALT industrial design team. Working under Stuart Wright the lead designer on the project, I was involved in the final phases. These included working with Marketing and Sales to utilize the final CAD data to generate renderings for sales meetings, internal and external communication of the final design and features of the saw. All this was done in CATIA’s Photostudio rendering workbench.
From your point of view, what are the main benefits you are getting from CATIA visualization tools usage?
There are several key benefits of photorealistic images in the design progress. High impact visuals allow design teams to make design development decisions prior to generating expensive prototypes. This also allows design teams communicate with marketing and sales and can benefit sales and marketing at the end of a project.
Which CATIA product do you use to create your visuals, and why did you decided to use it ?
CATIA Photostudio workbench allows our Industrial Design Group creates stunning visuals within our core development CAD platform. Having rendering capability within the design platform avoids complex exportation of data and allows us to generate new images after complex design changes.
What is the approximate amount of CATIA rendering images you are creating every year?
As a design team, we produce 100’s of CATIA Photostudio renderings per year to support internal design communication between our iD team, engineering, marketing and sales.
Thanks you very much jason and congratulation.
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Luca Bordin from Venezia
Can you tell us who you are and the reason you use CATIA?
I’m 28 years old and I work for Safilo company in Padua (Italy) as render maker of glasses; I started to use CATIA since a couple of years, as this software is used in the production deptm.
Thanks to the release 19 the form PHS has improved a lot and allowed me to realize that render I sent you.
We would like to discover what is the story of the product you created with CATIA?
The idea of “Long Siege” born from the need to rebuild the workstation I have at home, so I wanted to highlight the captivating hardware with a bit of design and creativity; the fusion of a skeleton boat and the ergonomic position are the bases of this project that I am realizing at home during my leisure time (I am sending you herewith attached the pictures of the working progress: as you can see it is not in plexiglass because I don’t have the correct equipment to make it).
From your point of view, what are the main benefits you are getting from CATIA visualization tools usage?
The benefit of using 3D software and rendering is to see what you have inside your head projected into the monitor of your PC and allows you to make the other people better understand your idea.
To create this virtual project I have used forms of CATIA GSD for Surfacing, the MD2 GSO for Global Deformation and the render modules CATIA PhotoStudio.
What is the approximate amount of CATIA rendering images you are creating every year?
Thanks to the variety of glasses and colors available I can make around 2500/3000 images every year. I hope to improve myself and I’d like to get to the extreme realism, to say: is this a render or a real image?…..
thank you Luca.
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