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Hi there!

Not sure if it’s the right place for that kind of question — will give it a try anyway ...

Let’s assume a big car company (like Ford for instance) is about to release a new model. To be able to promote that coming car, they give order to their favorite 3D-Company to produce some nice 3D renderings for them.

All right – I guess this is the usual background of any high-quality car rendering to be used for advertising.

What I’d like to know here is what kind of data will Ford in this case give to those 3D freaks? Is it the exact same data they use for constructing the real car? Or will it rather be some converted data format instead — either, because they may not want to disclose their confidential source data or because that source data is not compatible with any 3D software on the market.

Anybody here who knows about how this is done normally?

Thanks for any clues!


And sorry for my humble English ...