www.entertainmentengineering.com: One of the more interesting projects the company has been involved with recently was producing models used to make the molds for vacuum forming a number of car bodies. The bodies are for remote control cars that play the starring roles in a new children’s TV series. Each car contains animatronic eyes used to express the characters personality. Each car also has a logo that, combined with its individual colors, further help make its character unique and easily identifiable. The entire show is done in camera without any computer graphics so it’s a model maker’s dream come true!
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This article speaks to my interest in 3D modeling, and CAD. I love the idea of a kids show where the actors are rc cars and there isn't computer generated graphics every where. The router that they used to make the cars sounds very nice, what was really cool is that even thought they have nice tools like that what really counts is the experiences that they have. Knowing how to remove that seem lines by gluing the parts together on the CNC bed so that the computer could clean the edge is a great idea. I would love to see more of this sort of prop making happening in the theatre world. I know that we have a laser cutter, a CNC router, and a CNC mill here at CMU so maybe that will start to become a common tool set for making props for the stage not just the screen.
This article is also very intrigued in terms of 3D modeling. Nowadays, the technology is so well developed that most of films or TV series can have be done in computer graphics. However, this article is interesting because it tries to create an object through modeling, so that the show can solely depends on camera, which means a greater difficulties and challenges. I also loved the way they think in order to hide the seamlines that can prevent more reality of the object while recording. I think by doing this way, people can experience in trial and error, which will make them more creative and accurate in the end. I love how nowadays, people can apply modeling software and router to plan and make a 3D model that I definitely want to try in the near future.
I think this is particularly cool because it falls right into my interests. I am an engineer at heart (so I like to think) and rp, modeling, and robotics are the things I like to do, and hope to make a career out of in theatre. Technology is so amendable to theatre, and everything else really, it's a shame more people don't take advantage of it.
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