Almost every major industry that is manufacturing sophisticated physical products uses computer aided styling (CAS) or design (CAD) in at least some steps of its development. Living in the digital age, one could assume that using this engineering output to create media products shouldn’t pose too much of a challenge. Sadly, that is only true if you know your way around some common pitfalls and peculiarities of the engineering universe.
InstaLOD automates the 3D workflow, including the tedious steps that no artist likes, such as UV unwrapping, manual retopo or baking. But how does it work?