How 3D printing technology has improved Oscar-winning films

In recent years, we have repeatedly reported on the use of 3D printing in filmmaking. One of the most famous players in this field is the Leica Film Studio Stratasys 3D printer and Autodesk bastard–software Used to create stop motion movies.

Stopping motion is a labor-intensive process. The artists manually animate the characters and the film in small, small increments at 24 odd frames per second. A well-known film studio for this technique is LAIKA. At the Portland location, the studio has over 150 stages and sets. Founded in 2005, Leica has released five Academy Award-nominated and award-winning films. Her first film, Coraline, based on the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman, brought her mainstream studio attention. Since then, the ParaNorman team, BoxtrolsAnd Kubo and the two threads And Missing link released.

One of the biggest advances in technology Stop Motion has seen is the adoption of 3D printing for facial animation. In the past, facial animation was mainly created by hand modeling. However, 3D printing can animate thousands of different facial expressions. In the production of many characters is also Fraunhofer IGD Cuttlefish 3D printer driver in use.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has released a short documentary on developments in film 3D printing technology, which is available on YouTube:

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