Materials
Articles highlighting the materials and systems used in the entertainment business, including 3D printing materials, ABS, cables, coatings, filaments, leather, nylon, upholstery fibers, thermoplastics, and more.
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Robotic Additive Manufacturing Technology
The sport utility yacht industry is using Large Format Added Manufacturing technology to produce aerodynamic grille vents and elegant structures
Produced by Pershing, one of the seven brands of Ferretti Group (Milano, Italy), the GTX116 sport utility yacht leverages LFAM technology for some of its main superstructures. The air grilles and visor above the windshield of the yacht are produced using the Heron AM additive manufacturing system to achieve aesthetically interesting geometries with reduced weight. >>>
Making WALL-E Look Battered
The real life WALL-E that visits newsrooms, tradeshows, and goes on media junkets had to look like the animated WALL-E from the movie. It appears that, like life, there’s a process that has to be gone through in order to look older.
Because the WALL-E from the movie has been around for a long time, his body had been weather worn and beat up by the work he does – compacting trash and stacking it neatly. Computer animation allowed animators to create the look and feel of a well-worn WALL-E, but transferring that same look and feel to a ‘real’ robot was another story. >>>