Tim Stevens

A manual process, it's still taking time.

You still have to do the iterations, but because they can speed that up even more quickly, they can go back and forth, iterate more quickly.

I don't think there's really been a resistance on the case of manufacturers.

They're pretty eager to try these technologies out.

There is still an adherence to the old school ways of sculpting clay models and seeing them in the actual sunlight.

But that has been pushed a little bit further down.

They make fewer clay models than before.

And that's, again, helping them to speed up the process.

Yeah, it is pretty incredible.

And I've seen them kind of coming together in the amount of work that's entailed.

And there's a lot of artistry in that.

And some of that is going away as well.

You know, there are now 3D milling machines where you can basically put in a 3D model and have a full size clay model come out of that.

There's still a lot of hand tuning and tweaking that needs to be done.

A lot of painting still that's done by hand as well to make those things look like real things.

But oftentimes when you see a concept car roll out for the first time on stage, that's actually made of clay.

It's not actually made of metal.

You might be able to roll it around on the stage, but there's no engine in there.

There's no interior in there.

It's basically a big hunk of clay built around a frame.