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SIGGRAPH 2008 Shapeways interview

  Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on August 24th, 2008 in 3D News

Shapeways is an online 3D printing company, you may have read about Bart's past involvement with them. In this interview, they show off some of the objects that were made by contestants using Blender and their 3D printer for their SIGGRAPH contest. I also managed to get Sacha to pose with his "Man in Man" statue which I think you'll enjoy.



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15 Responses to “SIGGRAPH 2008 Shapeways interview”  

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  1. 1 Occulus Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 6:37 am

    This is very cool! I just sent them a signup request; I have a couple objects modeled in Blender that I'd just love to have printed as a 3D object.

    I wonder what printer they use? They don't seem to have a color 3D printer.

  2. 2 BlenderLovingSquirrel Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    very cool yes I'd like to try also

  3. 3 LoMAc Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Sacha should submit his Ton Roosendaal action figure to shapeways and get that in to production.

  4. 4 GustavTheMushroom Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    LOL.

    I'm with LoMAc on this one…

    I WANT A TON ACTION FIGURE!

  5. 5 leFaquin Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    @LoMac : Excellent idea ! I'm buying.

  6. 6 Hectichermit Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    hmm maybe i could make a custom warhammer piece…

  7. 7 JoOngle Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    Wao… I´d love a printed 3d version of my own 3D characters in Blender.

    Problem is… I´m not a millionaire…

  8. 8 Benjamin Bailey Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    maybe mine would have won if I had submitted a viable model entry. ;D Oh well, there is always next time. ;P God bless!

  9. 9 felix Edit Link Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    3d printed Ton Roosendaal action figure, that would be great! :)

  10. 10 ysvry Edit Link Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    I know youre a shareholder in this company bart, how much more plugs are we gonna have to endure? :P
    a full color ton action figure would be great , with build in voice saying the blender in hollywood frase.

  11. 11 dyf Edit Link Aug 25th, 2008 at 3:04 am

    can you apply shaders and raytracing too? :P

  12. 12 Bart Edit Link Aug 25th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    @ysvry: I'm not a shareholder, I just do freelance work for them. And as lots of Blender artists participated in their contest, we thought it would be fun to share this!

  13. 13 shul Edit Link Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    @Bart: Yeah!! It's not like YOU BUILT THIS SITE or anything, so please stop giving us a chance to see NEW STUFF BEING MADE IN BLENDER and in sigraph,no less. JUST STOP IT, we are not interested in NEW AND EXCITING WAYS of doing stuff, even if you were only freelancing for them.

    @ysvry: if you don't like the content, shut up. I find some of the things here not interesting me so I simply flip on to the next story, the editors here are doing GREAT JOB on finding them for you, so stop whining.

    :-)

  14. 14 redbyte Edit Link Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    @ysvry: Just because you're not interested doesn't mean the rest of us aren't. I for one find these 3d printing articles some of the best, as I am looking into it myself.

  15. 15 Bart Edit Link Aug 26th, 2008 at 7:02 am

    Relax, everyone. Ysvry has a point that we should not have too many Shapeways related posts here and we won't - don't worry. BlenderNation will still only carry Blender-related news so *if* there's something new about Shapeways that's interesting to Blender users then, well, I think it's perfectly ok to post it here.

    Cheers,

    Bart

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