- [Instructor] What is a Class A surface?
A Class A surface is the physical manifestation
of a stylist's idea in the real world.
Technically speaking, it's surfaces
that are highly stylized with very clean transitions
from one to the next patch, as well as
engineering considerations taken into place.
There's a lot going on with a Class A surface.
You'll find them all over a car,
basically anything you see, you touch,
you come in contact with, all over your house,
in airplanes, and all sorts of products all around you.
They represent the artistic nature of an item.
It is the ideas, the emotions of the stylist,
put into the real world.
The stylist comes up with the concept
and a digital designer takes that concept
and puts in surfaces to meet those requirements,
whether it's something big and bulky to represent strength
or if it's something small, soft to represent tenderness,
something that looks like it's going really fast
while it's sitting still or something that looks like
it's impossible to break.
Those are the artistic and realistic manifestations
of what a Class A surface is.