3d printed stop motion
Del Toro’s Pinocchio Achieves Stop-Motion First with Metal 3D Printed Metal Puppets
Did you know that the stop-motion puppetry featured in Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 film Pinocchio was accomplished through the use of metal 3D printing? Our story begins in the year…
Engineer’s 3D Printed Stop-Motion Videos Capture Internet Audiences
Microelectronic engineer Yuksel Temiz has found a unique application for his 3D printer: stop-motion animation. Utilizing multiple prints of figures in various poses, hundreds of photographs, and custom designed props,…
LAIKA’s Brian McLean Talks About 3D Printed Faces for Studio’s New Stop Motion Animation Film
While attending SOLIDWORKS World 2019 in Dallas recently, I learned during my interview with Stratasys that the company’s multi-material J750 3D printer, which offers over 500,000 different color combinations, was the only 3D printer…
3DPrint.com’s Visit to LAIKA Studios: Stratasys J750 3D Printer Put to Work for New Stop Motion Animation Film
Not too long ago, I made the trip down to Dallas, Texas to attend SOLIDWORKS World 2019. I had the opportunity to speak with several 3D printing companies while I…
Stratasys Sponsors Retrospective Museum Exhibit on LAIKA’s Use of 3D Printing in Stop Motion Animation
Feature film animation studio LAIKA, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is no stranger to using 3D printing technology in its award-winning animated films, including stop motion features…
A Must Listen & A Must Watch: 3D Printing & Stop-Motion Mesmerize in Sultan’s ‘Magnetic’ Music Video
Recently I realized that all of the music on my digital playlist has grown stale. From daily entertainment to the gym list, and even upon asking my friends to lend…
Laika Used 3D Printing to Create a 16-Foot-Tall Skeleton Puppet for Stop Motion Film ‘Kubo and The Two Strings’
Portland, Oregon-based animation studio Laika has made some of the most critically acclaimed stop motion animated films in the last few years. Their first film, Coraline, was one of the…
Uruguay: No Te Va Gustar Features First 3D Printed Stop Motion Music Video
With their name translating in English to an edgy, catchy ‘You Won’t Like It,’ Uruguayan rock group No Te Va Gustar has been around since 1994. The nine-piece band got…
3D Printed Spacemen and Neanderthals Take on Evil Robots in This New Stop Motion Video
Those pesky evil, caveperson-obsessed robots from the future are at it again in a new stop motion video from 3D printed toy maker Hauke Scheer. If you’ve never seen any…
Stratasys 3D Printers Helped Lenovo Stop Motion Commercial Come to Life
If ever there was a storytelling medium that was more ideally suited for 3D printing technology than stop motion animation then I have yet to learn about it. Traditionally, dozens…
Academy Awards Honor Laika for Pioneering the Use of 3D Printing in Stop-Motion Animation
Having seen a lot of horror movies, and read a lot of ghost stories, I don’t scare as easily as I used to. In fact, I have tremendous respect for…
3D Printed GoLapse Timelapse Trolley Makes Videography Easier
NYU student Joe Fabiani makes time lapse videos in his spare time, a pastime he began indulging in five years ago. He discovered fairly quickly that his chosen hobby was…
Watch 3D Printed Actions Figures Battle in This Awesome Stop Motion Video
Toy designer Hauke Scheer had been creating his own line of custom designed action figures and toys the traditional way for years until he discovered 3D printing in 2013. Since…
3D Printing a World for Minions
The minions, first introduced in Despicable Me and its sequel before getting their own film, are not the most complex of creatures. Speaking nonsense that vaguely resembles Spanish, with a variety of…
House of Monsters – Stop-Motion Series With 3D Printed Goblins, Starring Christopher Lloyd, Debuts July 28
Back in September of last year, we reported on an upcoming stop-motion animated web series, called House of Monsters, which turned to Kickstarter in order to raise funding for its…
Greg Barth’s ‘Hello Play’ Commercial Takes 3D Printing and Stop Motion to the Next Level
Over the past year, we have seen many designers and artists come up with new methods of creating stop motion videos using 3D printing technology. 3D printing is such a…
3D Printed Bears Come Off the Stairs and Dance in DBLG’s Latest Stop-Motion Animation
I’ve been enthralled with stop-motion animation since I saw my first Wallace and Gromit cartoon in the early ’90s. More recently, the 3D printing world has also fallen in love with stop-motion animation….
Incredible 3D Printed Faces For the Upcoming Stop Motion Film ‘House of Monsters’
A couple months ago we covered a company called Laika that was using 3D printing to create their stop motion characters for their latest film, The BoxTrolls. This was a major step…
Laika Uses 3D Printing to Create the Stop Motion Characters For Their Latest Film ‘The BoxTrolls’
Stop motion animation is only as new as film. However, it has changed dramatically since its first days. The 1897 film The Humpty Dumpty Circus featured a toy circus made…
