Jim's comment that it might be a student project is also interesting. Last year a student in Australia posted a CGI of a "new" drum design, asking how it would work; he had been inspired by a photo in a popular drum book. Before I saw it several people had already commented that it looked very much like my "Spacer" drums, and would sound very like them too. I told him that his image looked fantastic, but there was no way it could be made as a one-piece cast metal structure without having an incredibly complicated Precision Investment Casting die made, which would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Likewise for making it in carbon fibre or such like. Mine is made of t least 30 structural components all bolted together. It is SO easy to "design" a product in CGI, but to make it real is FAR more difficult.
Even top engineering companies put too much faith in computer design: in the video 21st Century Jet, Boeing and General Electric designed the 777 and one of its engine supplies on computers, and intended for going straight to certification without flight testing. One engineer insisted on testing, and because cameras were there he was eventually allowed to have his way. A 777 engine was duly fitted to a 767 and flight tested, with only a test crew and instruments on board. The pilot banked slightly after take, resulting in an explosive compressor stall in the new engine. The plane landed safely and all were OK, but the reason for engine failure: when the plane banked the engine casing leaned downhill slighlty, so the turbine hit it and disintegrated. The engineers had forgotten to add Gravity to the design parameters, gravity being quite an important consideration for aeroplanes and anyone beneath them!