New 3D printing service

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  • March 24, 2009 at 5:33 pm #81769
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    Wow, 3D printing sure has come a long way in the last few years!

    This website is offering custom, hand-painted, 8" statues from 3d models for $300. That's about the same price as some limited-edition statues go for and the quality is just as good.
    http://www.ownage.com/official/wiki/Autoprinting/

    I would love to use this service to get one of Tigersan's characters made into a statue, but he would have to agree to it of course.

    March 26, 2009 at 8:24 am #81770
    Cowprobe
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    This looks to be an amazing opportunity.

    Pricing must be mind blowing but I guess the expense is balanced by the actual physical item.

    If played right a model might be rendered in its composite parts as a prototype to be later resin cast for home kit replication.

    Making a set of 'base' figurines that could be altered to suit through sculpted 'green-stuff' wouldn't be a bad way to start.

    Thanks for the sweet update Reason.

    March 28, 2009 at 6:03 am #81771
    10-4
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    This is a cool find. Nice to have this kind of service on hand. Thanks for posting the link.

    April 12, 2009 at 10:43 am #81772
    Neocene
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    A good example of 3D printers can be seen with this image that was originally created by Comic artist Mark Brooks. His 2D Drawing was modeled in ZBrush by a fan and got taken to a 3D printer service. Here is a link:
    http://diablo2003.deviantart.com/art/Mary-Jane-statue-94487383
    After which it was hand painted by another artist to create the final image. A lot of conceptual artists/sculpture have been using this to make some really nice mock up for their work.

    April 13, 2009 at 9:47 am #81773
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    Yeah, that's a fine example Neocene. I would say that more and more commercial statue and action figure masters would be produced in this fashion as well. I look forward to the day when DeviantArt has a "Buy 3D Print" option for 3D artwork. Or better yet, when we all have 2D/3D printers on our desktops and we can print anything we want.

    April 14, 2009 at 11:09 pm #81774
    Fett
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    This is VERY interesting…

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