Engineering Animations - Explaining Industrial Accidents for Litigation

Developing complex products or processes is supported greatly by the use of computer generated imagery (CGI) to create engineering animations during the design, test and marketing phases. Complex products and processes can be explained using engineering animations to re-create disasters, industrial accidents, airline crashes, etc. for television and news programming.

Complex structures can also be created in 3D, and the resulting engineering animations used to evaluate or investigate mechanical engineering failures or to explain an accident or disaster to jurors in a courtroom. The creation of any kind of mechanical animations or technical animations in CGI requires the use of mathematical, logical sequences to program, which allows products or processes to be built exactly to scale. 3D artist can create exact models while at the same time adding lots of realistic, visually interesting details, which helps viewers remain engaged in the presentation. This can eliminate errors in design, and reduce costs later on in the prototyping stage. 3D artists can also model object and animate processes and scenes that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or that cannot be videotaped, such as molecular activity, medical devices inside the body, for example.

Information heavy stories for television involving mechanical failures that have caused disasters or accidents can be enhanced with 3D graphics such as these because it helps viewers understand what happened quickly and clearly. When conducting accidents or disasters these 3D animations can also be used for engineering failure analysis. Engineering animations are create using special software, which builds exact replicas of structures or machines and then can be used to look at complex issues such as load distribution or stress evaluations.

Engineering animations covers a broad spectrum, from product and conceptual animations to process animations, training animations, medical devices and processes and architectural and design. Conceptual animation can be used to design, test and pitch product ideas to investors or research and development teams. The costs of developing and manufacturing can be significantly reduced if errors in design are discovered in the 3D development and if everyone involved in the process understands the product in detail.

These types of animations can also be used when marketing a new product, explaining product benefits quickly and clearly and by helping to create more exciting, visual sales presentations. Complex information is easier to explain using visual aids and studies have shown that viewers retain more, especially when 3D animation is used in television shows, training series or when presenting information to a jury.