Audi A7: Independent design focus

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Audi A7: Independent design focus

Gabriel Rabhi, an independent designer, let his inspiration flow and created his vision of the Audi A7. Nice!

Rabhi originally began his A7 modeling in order to learn complex surface modeling with high curvature control. From start to finish, he completed this entire project in approximately twelve days. Technically, it permits Gabriel to evaluate the process of modeling curved surfaces commonly used in automotive industry, described as polynomial NURBS curves with high degree - from 5 to 9. In CGI, this is the only way to achieve perfect continuity between surfaces.

This interpretation of Audi’s upcoming A7 is the result of an intuitive work without any pretentions, but a high rendering quality. Rabhi performed most of the design directly in three dimensions, on the basis of few roughly defined ideas. With the absence of a real-world design to base off of, Gabriel admits that while the design shows some good ideas, the design retains some awkward elements, “the language is not clear, the curves and volumes are not perfectly balanced, and numerous details are not realistic.”