3D printing is a technology that seems to have gotten a little ahead of itself—we have more 3D printers than we know what to do with, yet they often serve little purpose beyond making sad versions of model dinosaurs and pizza wedges. But the tactile art seems to have found an unlikely home in movie special effects, even amid all of the CGI.
In a piece at LiveScience, Andrew Clement of Creative Character Engineering describes how 3D printers have filled in when creating models by hand would have been too time-consuming. Clement told LiveScience that using 3D printers is “an extremely fast way of sculpting and doing concepts.”
via Ars Techica
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