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How 3D printed cars were created to spare the original while filming Skyfall
- Gibbon 14y agoBlogspam. Original english article with photos: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20121107-voxeljet-builds-aston-martin-models-for-james-bond-film-skyfall.html http://www.3ders.org/articles/20121107-voxeljet-builds-aston... Sourced from original german article: http://www.voxeljet.de/news-und-events/news/james-bond-skyfall/ http://www.voxeljet.de/news-und-events/news/james-bond-skyfa...
- cyanbane 14y agoThanks for posting. Wasn't my blogspam, just first place I saw it.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoKind of makes you sad for the artists who could take the bits from 20 or 30 Marvell plastic models and turn them into an Imperial Star Destroyer.
- jlgreco 14y agoOh, I don't know. The impressive part of things like that I think (and by impressive, I mean the part that I can't see myself being capable of, no matter the training or practice), is the artistic design. Instead of spending their time gluing small plastic things together those artists can now use CAD and have a 3d printer to do grunt work. Less glamorous I suppose, but I think that 3d printers represent a far more modest change to them than CGI (how many physical models were created for the 3 most recent Star Wars films?).
- blrgeek 14y agoFor the lost 'tough innovation opportunity' - yes, too bad. But those same artists can now create a hundred or thousand individually different Wookies or Tie Fighters or many fully animated Na'avi [or Gungan]. The creativity is not lost - it's now massively leveraged.
- Groxx 14y agoSo apparently you wouldn't print a car, but movie producers would. Oh, the irony.
- noonespecial 14y agoThey made 3 copies of the car and used them for purposes that would clearly consume said car. That's 3 lost sales. So did they pay royalties or were those pirated cars?
- InclinedPlane 14y agoIt's not irony, it's hypocrisy. As it always has been. IP isn't about money per se so much as it's about power.
- forrestthewoods 14y agoDon't do that. It isn't clever and doesn't belong here. They 3d printed pieces to assemble 3 non-functioning 1:3 scale models to be shot and blown up. That's awesome and exciting. Your irrational arguments on a completely unrelated topic have no place in this thread.
- tsahyt 14y agoI wonder when "real-object-warez" becomes an actual reality. The technology is slowly getting there.