Transforming a 3D printer
into wild animation

by TODD STOLARSKI | April 6, 2015

Hmm, those circle looks strangely familiar. — *Hmm, those circle looks strangely familiar.*

So, this is the kind of riveting result that can happen when you bring together the modern magic of 3D printing, a camera, a talented design team and, well, fingernail art. Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Iizuka used a 3D System's ProJet 660 Pro to produce exactly 521 artificial fingernails. Frame by frame, the animated stop-motion video was rendered in Dragonframe software without using any computer graphics.

Below, the 'Making of...' video gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the modeling, printing, and filming process used to produce the final cut.

Full details and credits are available here.