Last time I covered our mistakes. Now, where the project stands.
What we delivered
Over a year and a half, Woonsel built more than 200 tutorials for Automotive Virtual Tours (AVT), a US startup whose software turns real-world photography into seamless interactive 3D tours of vehicles. The tutorials teach AVT's partners, people with no special training, to shoot each vehicle type using AVT's patented methodology.
Vans, pickups, sedans and crossovers, trucks, and buses are finished. RVs are in progress. Every video follows the same visual logic, the same standards, and the same structure, so the whole set works as one product.
What people said
The founder's reaction to the first finished results: "That's exactly how I pictured it."
A partner who shot a semi truck by following the tutorials said they were made "for dummies." For an instruction that someone with no preparation will follow on a dealer's lot, that's the review we wanted.
One caveat: AVT is still in its market-entry phase. A real flow of partners hasn't gone through the system at scale yet. That test is still ahead.
The main result isn't the videos
Behind the 200 videos is a system:
- A breakdown of vehicle configurations and the logic for merging them (on vans alone, 112 fragments became 38)
- Filter logic that routes a partner to the right tutorial
- A step-by-step shooting methodology, level by level
- Storyboard templates
- Art guides with a "good / bad" reference for every frame
- Original vehicle designs, which AVT has patented
The videos were the first form this system took. The system is what carries over to whatever comes next.
If knowledge is packaged as a system, changing the delivery format doesn't reset it. If it's packaged as a specific file, it does.
This isn't the end
The project continues: new vehicle types, new tasks, and new ways of delivering the same knowledge to the people who work with it. AVT and I are working on the next stage right now, and I'll write about it separately once there's something to show.
This part closes one chapter of the work, not the work itself.