I bought a 3D scanner and scanned an elephant statue to test it. Here is the sketch of the scanning test. Just click on view full size. You'll find another animation below, I could not post it in title because the gif was too big.
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A crazy idea would be to 3d print a series of elephants where the body limbs were moving in some way. So then you could build an animation from that. Where you took a series of photos switching in the different 3d elephants to build the animation.
Alignment of the different 3d sculptures might be tricky to pull off.
And i realize you could just do this in 3d software directly.
But maybe by using the 3d print objects, and placing them in a real world environment, you could create something that would not be easy or even possible to do in 3d software.
And it wouldn't have to be elephants, it could be something else that shape metamorphosizes over time.
I know that there was some stop motion animated film done fairly recently where they used 3d printing to build up a whole set of different facial expressions for their stop motion characters. So they had a big set of 3d printed lips and eyes that they used with their real world puppets. So maybe that would be another approach. A 3d printed main structure and then various 3d printed parts that worked with it to do stop motion animation.
I've seen some really cool videos where people use a series of printed 2d flat images that are set into a real world scene . So you see this animation happening on a telephone pole or some wall in the real world as people pass by in hyper-speed. So you could try something similar with a series of 3d printed objects.
My other crazy idea is to melt the 3d printed object and film that as an animation.
You could do it for 2 different 3d printed objects, then reverse the second video, and combine them together to watch the 3d object melt and then reform as a new object.
Like the tv show Cosmos, anything based on evolution is for everyone. Not just Darwinists.
But yeah, i hadn't thought through the whole 'transformation' thematic angle on my second crazy idea. You could work that in all kinds of interesting ways by choosing the subject matter of your 3d printed objects appropriately.
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I also printed it in 3D without changing the scan, just to see the quality :
and here the scan source, that I used in another soft to have the animation, just click !
Great Bernard...huge potential for animation!
Thanks Paul, yes you can combine SA with 3D
What I like is the linear aspect, Bernard…it can be typographic as well.
Sure it is easy to do with a font (don't need a scanner for this !), there are many cool graphic font styles.I'll try to put an example
A crazy idea would be to 3d print a series of elephants where the body limbs were moving in some way. So then you could build an animation from that. Where you took a series of photos switching in the different 3d elephants to build the animation.
Alignment of the different 3d sculptures might be tricky to pull off.
And i realize you could just do this in 3d software directly.
But maybe by using the 3d print objects, and placing them in a real world environment, you could create something that would not be easy or even possible to do in 3d software.
And it wouldn't have to be elephants, it could be something else that shape metamorphosizes over time.
I know that there was some stop motion animated film done fairly recently where they used 3d printing to build up a whole set of different facial expressions for their stop motion characters. So they had a big set of 3d printed lips and eyes that they used with their real world puppets. So maybe that would be another approach. A 3d printed main structure and then various 3d printed parts that worked with it to do stop motion animation.
I've seen some really cool videos where people use a series of printed 2d flat images that are set into a real world scene . So you see this animation happening on a telephone pole or some wall in the real world as people pass by in hyper-speed. So you could try something similar with a series of 3d printed objects.
My other crazy idea is to melt the 3d printed object and film that as an animation.
You could do it for 2 different 3d printed objects, then reverse the second video, and combine them together to watch the 3d object melt and then reform as a new object.
I like the last idea John, that as a form of evolution. Only for Darwinists though
Like the tv show Cosmos, anything based on evolution is for everyone. Not just Darwinists.
But yeah, i hadn't thought through the whole 'transformation' thematic angle on my second crazy idea. You could work that in all kinds of interesting ways by choosing the subject matter of your 3d printed objects appropriately.
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