As someone who worked on the 787 concept design (7E7) I think you are doing a pretty good job.
Keep up the good work.
Chris Holtorf
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Vray and Maya had a really good workflow for rendering not sure how well it works in Rhino but it had tons of options
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Iray
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These designs are great. Reminds me of the first images of the Dreamliner interior many years ago. They looked really special and calming. I love the night sky effect!
As for AI, it makes sense to place mostly soulless and cold modern designs through an equally soulless and cold rendering process. When we have most cars sat on some dull iteration of cultureless, globalised, generic architecture with no notable features or character; it makes little sense to waste time and resources rendering it.
When I started learning bella renderer, I thought the goal was to have outstanding renders; which remains a lot of it. But actually, even in the digital world, the people you speak with and process are what makes rendering worth the time and effort. However, I have the advantage in that I don’t deliver anything of value.
Taking away the ability to learn the process, gain experience, and share your learning with others somewhat undermines the entire foundation of artistic expression in design.
I doubt I will be inspired by the collected works Nvidia RTX A6000 Serial Number 764437 or AMD Threadripper 7000 as much as I have been by Leonardo Fioravanti or Battista Farina. But again, I don’t have pressure to deliver renders.
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That’s awesome to hear. Thank you. Oh man how I would pick your brain until the end of time on that. Massive fan of the 787 
Thank you! Yeah these are good thoughts. I mean things are changing so fast and so many processes are becoming so automated, it’s going to be hard to predict where design and visualization are going next.
The one constant we can say is it’s always driven by money. “Give me more content, better, faster, cheaper”. AI seems to be this shiney new toy that’s answering those dreams for them.
As for creativity and appreciation of the learning process, we might be a dying breed.
I worked on a small team that had the job of creating a new 41 section look for future Boeing designs. We did the lofting, layout and integration of that part of the plane. Basically, we were the general contractors and worked with quite a few different groups and companies to develop our final concept. About 6 or so months working a lot of overtime cycling thru a boatload of changes and options.
We then turned all our work to the people who finalized the design. I moved on to other concept work. Pretty fun job.
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Fantastic work!
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AI wont be part of my design package. As for it taking over or replacing…the bubble is already starting to deflate.
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I remember when it was called machine learning then media got hold of it and all of a sudden “AI” everywhere
I have always seen it as overvalued and overhyped
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interesting article. I mean there are some clear benefits we’ve seen in different design studios, I think it’ll be a matter of how the A.I. tool landscape will look once the dust settles. It’s so overhyped and so overfunded right now, most of what I’ve tried and seen is novelty. Maybe of every 100, it feels like 2-5 actually have something good to offer the design industry as assistive tools. Never to replace human creativity.
thanks Mike!
Oh man, I can imagine how fun that must have been. Especially at that level of design and need for perfection.
Very fun, challenging and frustrating. Perfection was never the goal, though I imagine the engineers would say otherwise. 
The goal is always to balance safety, producibility, and operating economics. It’s why it takes a lot of people many years to work up a design that will eventually be manufactured.
I’m really impressed by what you have created. Keep up the good work.
Chris
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Thanks Chris looking forward to seeing your work!
Beautiful work, conceptualization and execution.
Hat’s off…
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Hi, Lee, nice work, that is a lot
I am a semi-retired industrial designer
I worked on the 787 differentiated exterior features, nose (section 41), flight deck windows, wing, tail tips etc.
On the engine nacelles, there appears to be sculpted shapes leading into the scallops, or are those graphics? They look cool
For rendering, you might try Daz Studio, it is free
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Wow. Would you care to elaborate some more on that? It’s defintely one of my favorite planes of all time (next to the 757) and to get stories would be awesome. How does one even get into industrial design for aeronautical like that?
If you’re refering to the sculpted wedge shape on the bottom trailing edge, yeah that’s a sculpted piece inspired by the 787’s pod/nacelle. If it wasn’t that, it might just be graphic. I didn’t venture outside too much of what the 787 design was to keep it near to the today’s story of things.
Since the engine is bigger on mine than an actual 787, the pylon was designed further up the wing and the engine placed somewhat higher. But again, not pretending to be an engineer on this, so it was all best guess.
Thanks for the suggestion on Das Studio. i’ll have to try it out.
thank you!
