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BMW — Surface Styling
Improve surface modeling and automotive styling skills in CATIA using a real-world reference vehicle.
Automotive body surfaces demand class-A quality — smooth, continuous curvature with no visible surface breaks — which is difficult to achieve without disciplined surfacing technique.
Using engineering blueprints, I traced reference images with CATIA's Freestyle tools and developed smooth, continuous surfaces for the exterior body, then applied materials and rendered the final model.
Full exterior body surface model built in CATIA Freestyle from traced blueprint geometry.
Prioritized surface continuity (curvature-continuous transitions) over shortcutting with simpler tangent-only surfaces, to achieve a more convincing automotive-grade finish.
Automotive paint and glass materials applied for the final render.
Achieving class-A, curvature-continuous surface quality from traced blueprint references.
Produced a blueprint-accurate exterior surface model with a realistic automotive-grade finish.
Built real fluency in class-A style surfacing — directly relevant to any exterior styling or aerodynamic fairing work.