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The 10 Most Popular 3D Printing Articles of 2023

Though the additive manufacturing (AM) industry experienced a number of shakeups and developments over the course of the past year, many of our readers have been most taken by what’s…

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,…

3D Printing Bring Disney’s “Elemental” to Life for Film’s Premier

As Disney and Pixar’s latest animated feature Elemental debuts today, the field of movie premieres experiences a technological transformation. Remarkably, the film’s characters have already made appearances at some of…

Robotics Firm Makes Lookalike Avatars for Concept Video Game with 3D Scanning

Back in the 1990s when I was growing up, fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter were all the rage, and I, like my peers, enjoyed playing them. However,…

3D Printing News Briefs: December 27, 2017

Just because Christmas was two days ago doesn’t mean that the 3D printing industry has been taking a break. In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll be covering the latest…

3D Printing News Briefs: October 17, 2017

We’re covering 3D printing files, 3D printers, business, projects, and programs today in 3D Printing News Briefs. MyMiniFactory now supports the 3MF file format, and an interior design company created…

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…

3D Design for Everyone, Everywhere: Morphi for Windows Released

3D printing is challenging, but not nearly as much as it was just a few short years ago. Plug-and-play 3D printers with features like auto-leveling, filament monitoring, remote printing and…

The Foundry Team Honored at Scientific and Technical Awards for MARI Painting Application; Behind Launch of New Show, ‘It’s Not Rocket Science’

Recently, I was detailing my weekend afternoon plans with a friend who has been an art director for years. I mentioned a few hot new movies that were playing and…

This 3D Printed Zoetrope Project is Modernizing a Two Century Old Invention

While there are historical records from China of devices similar in description dating back over 2,000 years, generally the first zoetrope was considered to have been created in the 1830s….

3D Printing, Modeling & Animation Culminate in Noelia Perrelli’s Fascinating Video

The fields of 3D art, 3D graphics, 3D animation, and 3D printing all have a certain degree of overlap. Those within the 3D animation business certainly will have an easier…

Unique Characters 3D Printed for Stop Motion Animation by Studio Zazac called ‘Deer Flower’

There’s a new stop motion short film to be released in 2016, enigmatically titled ‘Deer Flower.’ Its creators, Kangmin Kim and Seulhwa Eum, are the founders of Studio Zazac, the…

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….

Studying the Fossil Record Using 3D Technologies and Reality Computing

If you lived in Scotland over 410 million years ago, you might have seen a creature called a trigonotarbid, a member of a now extinct group of arachnids. Assuming, however,…

Shapeways Announces ‘3D Animation to 3D Print’ Contest

If you have been toying around with the idea of creating a series of figurines to accompany the series of Saturday morning ready cartoons that you have kicking around in…