{"id":12341,"date":"2007-05-07T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/3d-printing-goes-to-our-heads.html"},"modified":"2007-05-07T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T13:04:23","slug":"3d_printing_goes_to_our_heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/3d_printing_goes_to_our_heads\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing goes to our heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Brown has a certain Jobsian knack for not only seeing interesting possibilities, but for getting folks to jump in on his crazy little journeys.  A few months back, Photoshop 3D engineer Pete Falco and I accompanied Russell on a field trip to Monterey, CA-based Cyberware<\/a>.  There Steve Addleman was most hospitable as he scanned our domes (pix here<\/a>), turning them into digital files compatible with Photoshop CS3 Extended (quick clip of Russell’s gourd spinning in PS<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ah, but why stop there when you can look fantastic in plastic, thanks to a 3D printing machine?  Russell persuaded Steve Chapman of Gentle Giant Studios<\/a> to then render our busts, leading to quite possibly the vainest objects in my entire life<\/a>.  I kept trotting out the damn things at our recent housewarming ("Honey, they’re conversation pieces<\/em>; they need a spotlight"), only to get them firmly shooed back into an obscure bookcase. <\/p>\n

And yet that’s not the half of it: Russell re-teamed with these guys at last month’s ADIM conference<\/a>, scanning the attendees and turning them into action figures<\/a>–some 130 full color, custom made heads in all.  Right on!  The only question: How can they top it for next year? <\/p>\n

Tangentially related at best: <\/p>\n