Faculty Member(s) / Advisors
- Kevin Williams, Props Manager for TFT
Graduate or Undergraduate
- Undergraduate
Students
- Various
Challenges met
With this project we were enlisted to help 3D scan some actors' heads, for use as a prop in the production of Trojan Barbie. The idea was to scan the actors busts and then print them out, attaching the prints to a statue to essentially create a 'marble' statue of the actors for the stage.
The scans came out really nice, but a 1:1 print was not feasible, given the size limitations of our 3D printers.FortunatelyKevin had the resources and knowledge to trim the busts tosize,so that they would fit within our build volumes. The prints were hugely successful, and the props department did a bit of post-processing to mount the heads onto the 'statues.'
The Lux Lab (and our employees) were given proper billing on the playbill for the production. (I'm still waiting to get my hands on a copy!)
The project was so successful that Kevin and I will work towards making this recurring partnership, to help TFT students learn how to work with 3D scanning and printing technologies.
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