Its always a nice surprise when a customer sends in some examples of their recent work. When ID Group does this, we get particularly excited because they are always pushing the limits of our products. It’s no surprise that their latest work sets a standard for what is possible with Bunkspeed.
We asked them a few questions about their workflow so that the rest of the world can peer into their magic.
About this Project:
The Slimplus seat is a modular aircraft seat designed to provide a more pleasant flying experience for the passenger and a more versatile and efficient seat program for the manufacturer. For the passenger, the seat provides comfort, enhanced ergonomic features and appealing aesthetics. For the manufacturer, the seat meets stringent space, weight, cost, manufacturing and serviceability requirements.
3D visualization of the product was vital in the decision making process. Having the ability to visualize multiple design directions quickly and photo-realistically was invaluable for us. Animating a short clip of the Slimplus helped tremendously in marketing the product. Bunkspeed was instrumental in visualizing our ideas throughout the design process and even into production and marketing.
What is one aspect of the Slimplus project that you love?
A big part of our design focus was the modularity aspect of the seat system. With dozens of options and hundreds of cross-combinations, it was difficult to come up with an elegant solution to accommodate all of the possibilities. In the end, we designed a shroud system that can be easily removed from the frame. This innovation accounts for engineering demands and opens up possibilities for beautiful aesthetics. Bunkspeed was a vital tool for us to communicate these ideas to our clients. Visualizing the hundreds of iterations was made easy by their direct and intuitive UI. We used their configuration tool to its utmost during these phases.
What is one aspect of the pro suite that you love?
Bunkspeed Pro Suite is a powerful renderer with an emphasis on user experience. The guys at Bunkspeed have put a lot of focus on the GUI and how it relates to a broad range of workflow from different industries. Setting up a scene in the Pro Suite has never been easier; and they are continuing to improve. The iRay 2 render engine produces amazingly accurate lighting calculations; which leads to photo-realistic results. Bunkspeed Pro Suite is powerful enough to render complicated scenes without a lot of work-arounds; yet it is intuitive enough to allow people with little rendering experience to set up.
Were you able to accomplish anything that just simply couldn’t be done before?
Bunkspeed was one of the earliest companies to utilize a GPU-capable rendering engine. With this new technology, ID Group was able to render at incredible speeds; so we can now render out animations cost-efficiently. This certainly opened new marketing / design opportunities for us and for our clients.
Could you think of a cost and time savings that were introduced by using our solutions?
If we compare CPU to GPU rendering solutions based on performance and cost, there is no argument that GPU-based renderers are more cost-efficient. For the same investment, we can gain a lot more rendering performance with GPU-based renderers vs the old school CPU-based renderers. With such a jump in rendering speeds, rendering time is no longer the bottleneck in our workflow for most projects.
What was your client’s reaction to this project?
Our clients love the quality of our renderings. Sometimes they mistake it for a photograph; they sometimes even prefer our renderings over photographs. In addition, they were very impressed with the animated sequences.
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