Tested: Darrell's latest project involves the modeling and printing of a custom Wonder Woman Tiara for cosplay! Darrell walks us through his process adapting the model with some unique design elements and the trials and tribulations of smoothing out and finishing the 3D print to meet his satisfaction.
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Modeling and clothes making has slowly been working its way into the 3D printing industry slowly over the past couple years. Recently, there was a 3D printing associated with fashion at Carnegie Mellon which made headlines in Pittsburgh. At a recent lecture by costume designer, Ruth Carter, she explained the process she took to 3D print some of the headpieces used in the “Black Panther” movie. Up until very recently, the primary issue with 3D printing clothes was the sturdiness of the material and its ability to be flexibly worn on the human body, but it seems that material scientists have been making slow progress on this issue. I think 3D printed clothing is very advantageous in some aspects such as the Wonder Woman headpiece but disadvantageous in other ways such as making a dress or shirts which, in a way, are already 3D printed on looms and mass produced.
This video does Avery good job in showing one a of the various ways we can use the current level of 3D printing technology is the process of fabrication for the arts. Currently I see 3D printing best used for smaller props or for peices for costumes, basically any thing that we reliably fit into the package of a bread box. This is due to the fact that it is extremely repeatable in fabrication which means more I feel when it comes to movie and TV sets than it does in theater because often we won’t work with and object long enough that have multiples becomes a large advantage. But for something like this if I was thinking that the production might end up possibly going through multiples it just makes the labor time associated with the overall projects go down dramatically and those let you focus on fine tuning other projects of yours in the same linear time. This video was cool and makes me want to use the printer more
This video was so much fun to watch and so informative, as I had no idea how many designing, planning, and engineering steps went into printing 3D objects. Darrell does an amazing job of simply explaining this very complicated process, and how useful 3D printing can be for highly specialized, detailed projects. In theatre, this helps us a great deal in that most of our costs are spent on labor. However, if a person began a 3D printing project, they could go away and work on 24 hours of another project while it was being made. There is, of course, time after the printing where the specific design/treatment of the object will need to be done by hand, but at least the structure itself would have been taken care of already. This also makes prototyping pieces very easy to do, especially if a designer is out of town and needs to send their work ahead of them for the Director or Producer to look at. While the machine itself is very expensive, the process of creating a 3D printed object and the labor time and effort you are saving (reallocating) will be worth it.
As someone who only did costumes in high school, I think that this video was really interesting because I have never used modeling and 3D printing for costumes. I think that it is so cool to see the process as I've never known the amount of work that goes into 3D printing. I always thought is was super easy to just create and print the item, not as complicated and intricate as it was. I also did not realive that you needed support material when you 3D print, but it makes sense or it would fall. Also it takes so much more time to print something than I thought. When he said 24 hours I thought that was insane, but I looked into it and it really does take such a long time to get the printed item. There is so much more time and effort that goes into cosplay and 3D printing than I thought and it was super cool to get to see the process.
I too really enjoyed watching this video. It was not only fun to watch, but also very helpful at explain the process. It really is an exciting time to be alive, and I am constantly amazed at the different kinds of technology that crop up. I know that cost here seems like a prohibitive initial issue, but wonder if after a number of projects and the flexibility of the machine will makeup for it. I also like the flexibility of the printer--that you can walk away and work on something else while it is working is important. To me, this makes sense for film and tv, but I do see that it could also have a home in theatre and live performing arts. I also really enjoyed that this video allowed us to see Darrell's "trials and tribulations" of working with this technology. It was refreshing to see a video that was able to explain something to me, and also show that even experts encounter bumps along the way. The final product produced by the end of this video is really amazing, and I bet that designers and creators everywhere could present great work by using this printer. Cosplay cons are a huge industry, and this seems right at home here in 2018.
3D printing has always been something that has interested me for a while. I’ve made my fair share of props and costumes over the last two years, only working with materials like foam or thermoplastics, but I’ve always wondered what it would be like to model the components in a program and print them instead. I did a little bit of 3D modeling/printing in high school with my previous TD, and even doing something as small as a little cup can take a lot to be able to get it ready for printing, so the process of making something that much more intricate must take so much more time and work. The video here is very informative on how to go about printing a model, talking about weak points in the model and how he went about fixing the support so it wouldn’t break further. I really love watching people create things, run into unexpected problems, and figure out how to fix them. For one, it shows me how that even on a more professional scale, people will make mistakes and things don’t go according to plan. Secondly, it gives me more information on tools and materials that I can use to figure out my own projects and how I want to go about them. I don’t see myself ever really wanting to use 3D printing in my projects in the future, since I enjoy building things up by hand much more than sitting at a computer with files, but I think if it comes to the point where I need multiple of the same exact thing I could indulge.
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