Bring your dream creation to life.

PROTOTYPING & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Deep Experience with Automotive and Furniture Industry Prototyping

With Kermit Labs you can:

  • Prototype new products, visualizing them before they are built

  • Photograph prototypes in a wide variety of locations, without leaving your desk

  • Pre-sell newly developed products before their real-world equivalents

 

Bring napkin sketches to reality.

BRING ANYTHING TO LIFE

Prototyping with Kermit Labs allows napkin sketches and early vision of products to turn into 4K images in a matter of weeks. When combined with a fully built-out materials library, you can showcase a prototype in every finish option before production even begins. This is how we are ushering in a new era of Product Development.

Do you really need to wait for a prototype to finish production to begin selling it? Historically the answer has always been yes, but we are using 3D technology to challenge that paradigm. Our industry-leading photorealism facilitates pre-selling of prototyped products in ways only dreamed about before. Our imagery helps clients make informed production and inventory-related investments by providing priceless sales data in the lead up to a new production run.

These are the types of real-world problems regularly solved by Kermit Labs’ prototyping and product development practice.

 

Reveal your creation in endless variations

Once you have prototyped and approved your final version, Kermit Labs renders the product with your Custom Material Library.

World-Class Prototyping
When you make the choice to work with Kermit Labs, you are making a commitment to quality at the highest level. We take the time to get the small details right. This requires partnering with clients who also share an ethos of quality above all else. Our past work speaks for itself, and we look forward to creating beautiful images for many more brands to come.

 

From clay model to reality
We work hand-in-hand with your team to create factory-level details to create something ready to go to market.

HOW WE WORK

Utilizing existing and emerging 3D technologies, Kermit Labs is a full-service 3D specialist designed to plug into your organization. We work alongside your existing Product Development and Marketing teams to turn vision into reality. Whether you simple have early concepts or a fully flushed-out idea, we are able to ask the key questions that bring a new idea to life. Our 3D artists will take all available information into account when making a prototype model. From there, our high-resolution renderings allow you to see your design before it goes into production, tweaking and iterating with rounds of revisions.

Due to the inherent nature of prototyping, all work done in this practice is billed on an hourly basis. We will provide a estimate that encompasses the work required to create the initial model and product imagery. At that point in time, there will be revisions required. For non-prototyping projects, we include three rounds of revisions, but have found the ultimate number of revisions impossible to predict in prototyping settings. For that reason, our initial estimate will act as a project deposit with all subsequent rounds of revisions billed on an hourly basis. We find that this is not only the best way to capture costs on our end, but also incentivizes our clients to provide a higher level of detail in ideation process, which ultimately leads to better final results and smoother project management.

Limitless Possibilities

With our rendering pipeline automations we are able to set up 10 cameras in your custom studio. In addition to traditional render views like 360 spin, we can capture unorthodox, artistic angles of your products for additional digital content.

PRICING

1+1+1=3D pricing

  1. Modeling - creation of the geometric digital twin

  2. Materials - creation of leathers, fabrics, metals, etc. specific to your brand

  3. Rendering - creation of the actual images

The specifics of your unique project and how it impacts the pricing levers listed above will be the biggest driving factors in the answer to “How Much?”

Creation of the underlying 3D model is the most important step in our process. We are able to work with any number of existing 3D model file types (and upscale to our standards) or we can start from scratch. For prototyping and product development use cases, modeling will likely be the largest cost associated with a project. If your company has a large number of leather options, or leathers with heavy distressing like those used in our automotive interior renderings, the materials creation costs will be higher. Lastly, for projects like sectionals shown in 360 spin, the number of images required can easily get into the hundreds of thousands. In these cases, rendering costs would be higher.

Due to the realities of pricing 3D projects, we handle most pricing discussions on a project-by-project basis. Even in situations where we work on a retainer and bill hourly, estimates and final hour totals vary widely based on project needs.

We are happy to provide proposals based on project details whenever you are ready to explore working with Kermit Labs.

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