Diego Báez | Industrial & UX Designer

Case study  ·  Automotive design  ·  2025

Concept Sports Car

A SubD and Class-A surfacing study in Autodesk Alias — inspired by the Peugeot Quasar and Maserati Birdcage, rendered in KeyShot.

Concept sports car staged against a desert backdrop — SubD A-surface model in Autodesk Alias, rendered in Keyshot by industrial designer Diego Báez

Year
2025

Type
Personal project

Discipline
Automotive & industrial design

Software
Autodesk Alias (SubD & NURBS), KeyShot, Photoshop, Seedream 4.0

The brief

This started as a SubD exercise in Alias over a few weekends. No detailed sketches, no clear direction — just experimenting and iterating with the tool to see where it would go. While learning, some inspiration came to me, and a few revisions later it eventually turned into this car.

The design pulls from references I had in mind every time I opened the file: Gérard Welter’s Peugeot Quasar and Proxima, early Mercedes concepts from the 80s and 2000s and, later in the process, the Maserati Birdcage. These influenced the design, though the final result found its own direction.

Technical approach: the body was modeled entirely in SubD in Alias; wheels and lamps were built quickly in NURBS. Rendered in KeyShot with post-production in Photoshop. The desert images were made with AI (Seedream 4.0) for relighting and background changes.