Depending on who you ask, talking about car companies making clay models during the designing process will elicit either an "I'm sorry, what?" or "Well of course." Sculpting facsimiles of in-progress ...

As pajama-bottomed prisoners of Zoom will attest, the digital takeover of the physical world feels nearly complete. From CGI Marvels and NFT artists to automated gearboxes and autonomous cars, the old ...

The automotive industry moves fast. It wasn't all that long ago that diesel was being peddled as the next big thing. Then, just a few short years ago, deadlines were being set for the demise of ...

Despite the dominance of digital tools in modern engineering, leading automakers continue to craft full-scale clay models for new vehicle designs. This labor-intensive tradition, still prevalent in ...

The 3D printing revolution has transformed a lot of industries, but according to [Insider Business] the car industry still uses clay modeling to make life-sized replicas of new cars. The video below ...

A lot of people are obsessed with scale-model restoration projects but also enjoy watching crash tests of vehicles, but what happens if you combine a painstaking creation process with destruction? A ...

3D models are the standard for video games. But what happens if you want to make a game but lack the industry-standard digital crafting abilities? Well, you could spend years learning how to ...

John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...